Ryan Kavanagh
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I just started using the Sony A7s, which also uses XAVC format. I installed the plugin from Sony (PDZK-LT2_1.2.1) and I started trying to bring the files. I also saw some third party workflow where you convert everything to quicktime using the “Sony XAVC Converter for Mac”, I hated this idea because I don’t want to waste more time and disk space than I have to. I used XDCam for a long time in the past and one of the things you can’t do with XDCam is mess with the folder structure the camera creates on the card. But one of the things I noticed when working with Canon 60D was that when I maintained the card structure FCPX thought that the folder, even when located on a hard drive, was a card in a camera and force itself to make “optimized media”. I’m not a fan of this because like I said I want to save disk space and time. So with the Canon I figured out that if I break the card’s folder structure by renaming the folders “xDICM” instead of “DICM”, nothing fancy, FCPX no longer thinks the folder is a card and I can “leave in place” the files instead of transcoding. I thought I’d give this a try with the card structure of the Sony A7s, and this actually worked great as far as I can tell. The files work fine in FCPX (10.1.3 and 10.1.4), and I don’t have to bother with transcoding anything. On the card there are lots of other folders and files, including an “.XML” file accompanying each “.MP4” file, but I just ignore (but maintain separately) all that and put the video (.MP4) files into a separate folder. I did it on my first project with the Sony A7s and it worked perfectly fine. If anyone knows of any unintended consequences this may cause I’d like to know. Also, does the F55 card have the same folder structure as the Sony A7s, since they are both XAVC? If they do maybe you should try what I’m doing.
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I just started using the Sony A7s, which also uses XAVC format. I installed the plugin from Sony (PDZK-LT2_1.2.1) and I started trying to bring the files. I also saw some third party workflow where you convert everything to quicktime using the “Sony XAVC Converter for Mac”, I hated this idea because I don’t want to waste more time and disk space than I have to. I used XDCam for a long time and one of the things you can’t do with XDCam is mess with the folder structure the camera creates on the card. But one of the things I noticed when working with Canon 60D was that when I maintained the card structure FCPX thought that the folder, even when located on a hard drive, was a card in a camera and force itself to make “optimized media”. I’m not a fan of this because like I said I want to save disk space and time. So with the Canon I figured out that if I break the card structure by renaming the folders “xDICM” instead of “DICM”, nothing fancy, FCPX no longer thinks the folder is a card and I can “leave in place” the files instead of transcoding. I thought I’d give this a try with the card structure of the Sony A7s, and this actually worked great as far as I can tell. The files work fine in FCPX (10.1.3 and 10.1.4), and I don’t have to bother with transcoding anything. On the card there are lots of other folders and files, including an “.XML” file accompanying each “.MP4” file, but I just ignore (but maintain) all that and put the video (.MP4) files into a separate folder. I did it on my first project with the Sony A7s and it worked perfectly fine. If anyone knows of any unintended consequences this may cause I’d like to know. Also, does the F55 card have the same folder structure as the Sony A7s, since they are both XAVC? If they do maybe you should try what I’m doing.
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I ran into a similar problem to this with jpegs in after effects, and it turned out to be the shadow diffusion in the “light options”. I pulled the shadow diffusion down from a few hundred to less than five and that did the trick. Hope this helps anyone else having this issue.
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The media varies, some of it is P2, some is mp4 from dslr. I brought everything into Avid via AMA linking then Transcoded it all to DNxHD in Avid.
Someone mentioned a Resolve workflow to me, but they said I wouldn’t be able to get audio to come through that workflow. Granted video is better than nothing but do you know if it’s possible to get audio through the Davinci workflow. Or is there a workflow in Avid that would allow me to replace all the media in a sequence with AMA linked media, then let me send it to fcp7, then finally to fcpx? -
Dito on this one. I’m convinced that there is more than one Marianna, or she’s the first person to function without sleep.
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Did you try to bring the video in by via “AMA linking” then transcoding the video clips once they are in a bin? That method typically encounters far less errors. By the way, if you do bring the video files in this way it is a good idea to keep the original AMA linked clips in your project in a bin somewhere.