[Paul Neumann]

So what you want to do is open Prelude and navigate to your card. Go to the ingest panel and it will show you all the clips on that card. Select whatever clips you want to keep together (thinking just check the box here though you could mark ins and outs if you want) then choose Transfer to new destination. Don’t transcode or rename. Prelude will rebuild a new P2 file structure with just your selects wherever you choose for the destination. It’s a great way to organize jobs scattered across cards. And no transcoding/renaming. You can even check the “verify” box to make sure it’s all cool.

Does this help?

[Paul Neumann]

First off I’m using a Early 2013 Macbook Pro Retina maxed out with 16gig ram/512 SSD updated with Mavericks and a November 2013 iMac i7/24gig with Mavericks. External Thunderbolt storage for both of them. Now that the gear is out of the way let me just say that this new FCPX is a total head scratcher.

on the iMac:
Sees cards (full copies of cards that is) from XF100 just fine and imports selects.
Sees cards from XA10 (AVCHD) fine but renames clips as “Clip #1, Clip #2…”

on the MBP:
Sees cards from XF100 but only imports first clip of however many selects you choose.
Doesn’t even recognize any AVCHD file structures on any number of drives I plug in.

The thing is just earlier this week I was mixing clips from both of these cameras on both of these machines with 10.0.9.

And for the record Prelude sees everything just fine. No problems at all.

[Paul Neumann]

No it’s not AVCHD. And I’ve been using FCPX with these cameras since day one. It’s broken now. Another thing with this is when I go to import selects (which it really won’t) it insists on copying the media to another location but if I import the entire CONTENTS folder it links to it.

I’ll check with Canon and see if there’s a new MXF utility for Mavericks. They had to put one out when X first came out, but eventually I think Apple took over making sure all Canon was supported.

[Paul Neumann]

With 10.1 when I navigate to a footage from my XF100, mark all my takes and hit “import” it brings in one clip. Yep, just one clip. So I’d call that a step backwards.

If I import the entire CONTENTS folder it brings in every clip, but then I have to mark the selects (and reject the ones I don’t want) from inside the Event viewer or whatever the hell it’s called now.

[Paul Neumann]

That’s a weird length for something coming from the XF100. I shoot with those and at the highest quality/frame rate offered and I don’t get spanned clips that short.

[Paul Neumann]

I’ve had Prelude and SpeedGrade crashes like that, but only on my MBPr. Everything is rock solid on the iMac.

[Paul Neumann]

I’ve found it makes no difference.

[Paul Neumann]

Oh no. It’s been rock solid up to yesterday’s update. Though it works fine on the new iMac just not on the macbookpro.

[Paul Neumann]

The US production industry has certainly been FROSTY with regards to X and Apple for a while. Are other markets similar? Or are they more welcoming and therefore increasingly competing with we US editors for market force?

A friend of mine that runs a VFX house tells me he’ll still use his old macs but can no longer commit to any software that is not cross platform. So rather than a new mac pro he’s having custom Windows boxes built and FCP7 was the end of the line for mac based editorial. Not a reflection on FCPX just the reality of now dealing with other shops/artists/clients from all over the world.

[Paul Neumann]

Yeah I shoot mainly with a couple of Canon XF100’s, but I have a client who likes to shoot some things himself with his XA10’s and they shoot AVCHD. So here’s what I do. In Prelude I open the Ingest panel and navigate to the AVCHD location and select “Check All” and hit “Ingest”. Once the audio conforms are finished in the Logging panel I delete all the clips and go back to the Ingest panel and select/mark ins and outs as needed…with audio. I think that’s kind of what you’re getting there Jon.

Aaron you should know that if you select some clips from an AVCHD card and simply “Transfer To A New Destination” without any transcoding Prelude will rebuild the AVCHD structure with just those selected clips. So you needn’t send all the clips when you only want to send a few. It’s actually pretty tidy.

Or in your other case, just ingest everything directly from the camera, choose your selects and transfer them to your chosen location. This will give you your selects in a AVCHD structure and leave all the clips on your camera untouched.