[Richard Grassick]

Thanks Craig. Will check out when I get back to base.

[Richard Grassick]

I’ve started working with a PMW-EX1 in the past few weeks, and can see the problem this thread points to. I am based in a Media Workshop here in Darlington which has G5s, but also work on location and in Germany with Intel Macs. I therefore need to be able to view and copy clips in various places, and potentially rough edit in two countries. This is fine with the Clip Browser – I can copy files to/from any drive, and the integrity of the files remains. But as soon as I hit the G5, I can only import into FCP. Once the files are on that machine, they can only be exported from the FCP timeline, eg as Quicktime files.

So I’m trying to ensure access to an Intel Macbook Pro in both countries, so that files are still moveable once they are off the SxS card. The G5 is not redundant – just the “end of the line” as far as workflow is concerned – unless anyone knows of a G5 compatible clip browser, as opposed to FCP plug-in.

Hope this helps…