[Nick Greiner]

Thanks guys for your help.

Craig, I can appreciate taking a careful, safe approach. However, when you have a producer waiting for you to put the footage on a hard drive, and she is tapping her foot because she has to catch a flight, it is good to be quick. I always make a second copy later onto my own hard drive for safekeeping.

Rick, that is the answer I was looking for. I keep hearing that you need to move the entire BPAV folder intact without changing anything. Here is a another scenario, hypothetical, but it helps me understand. Say I am shooting a football game, and at the end the producer says ” just give me the 5 touchdown plays”. Using XDCAM browser, could I just find those 5 clips and drag them to the lower explorer window into a folder on her hard drive? Would she still get all the necessary “structure” files to be able to open them later in an NLE?

Thanks again

[Nick Greiner]

Thanks Matt,

I don’t think this is a display issue because the DVD is not anamorphic. NTSC monitor setting is correct, and inspector properties seem correct. Using QT conversion and manually setting the dimensions to 853×480 works, but as you noted is not efficient; however, I’m doing that as I have a deadline. Later on I will continue to experiment, and if I come up with anything I’ll post it here.

[Nick Greiner]

Matthew,

I’m having the same problem. Did you ever find a solution? I export>using compressor then use “DVD best quality” settings. I drop that movie into iDVD, but when I burn the disc, it plays back looking like 4×3 (ie not anamophic). This is the DVD playing on a DVD player and NTSC TV set.

In Compressor, Inspector A/V attributes are:

Encoded Bounds: 720×480

Display Bounds: 853×480

Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV (16×9)

Any ideas how I could fix it?

Thanks

Nick

[Nick Greiner]

Thanks Ed,

That does let me save changes in the “logging” section of xdcam transfer but it doesn’t change the “Name” of the Clip in the “Information” section. When I import into FCP the clip shows up with the name from the logging section, so I guess that means it will have one name in FCP and another name on the actual disc. This may lead to confusion down the road.

[Nick Greiner]

I am having the same problem. I am using my camera (PDW-530) as the deck. When I try to save changes, “save” is greyed out – is that because I’m using the pdw-530 as the deck?

[Nick Greiner]

Thanks Andy

“and despite what you may have read it DOES work on non intel Macs”

I take it from your answer you think the PDZK-P1 software (ie “XDCAM transfer) will run on my computer even though it is a G4 1.25ghz

[Nick Greiner]

Thanks Simmie,

The lastest version of XDCam Transfer says it requires a PowerPC G5 2ghz CPU, but I only have a G4 1.25ghz. Do you think I could make it work, perhaps with an older version of XDCam transfer (which seem to be available)

[Nick Greiner]

Thanks Alan,

My camera is SD only and I’m wondering if I can avoid the Sony plug-in if I shoot in dvcam 25 or even imx 50.