[Steve Traut]

Let me throw one more wrinkle into this thread… Motion project files being used in the FCP project that is being archived.

I’ve found that it won’t copy any of the Motion assets being used by the project, just the .motn file by itself.

So the question is… is there any good (read as automated) way to do this? Or do you have to manually go through every Motion file, open (with the old/original assets online), Save as, and choose collect assets, and click save?

It just feels like someone had to have come up with a solution by now… but I can’t find it if they did.

We are using FCP7 on Leopard.

Thanks for any help or suggestions!
-Steve

[Steve Traut]

We did try the capture now thing and it does work… we just weren’t planning on having to do real-time capture. The speed of the transfer is what brought us to look at this solution.

FWIW we haven’t seen any actual errors pop up… it just thinks it’s done before it is and the clip is much shorter than it should be.

Yes, all of the files are there and we’ve looked at them with MPEG Streamclip to verify it. So for now, we’ve just moved the full folders (of M2T files) over to another FW hard drive and cleared the hvrdr60 for more recording. We’ll either convert them with streamclip, or bring them in on another computer that has Premiere on it. It seems to deal better with the m2t files directly. (not that Premiere is a long-term solution for us, IMHO)

It’s just frustrating/disappointing that between two companies like Apple and Sony, we, the users, are left with this level of interoperability.

[Steve Traut]

Thanks.

I’ll check locally first… I just wanted to see if anyone had more up-to-date info/something easy that I was missing.

-Steve

[Steve Traut]

I don’t have any solutions to offer… but only to add to the list of problems.

Today we taped for 1 hour and 26 minutes… and because the HVRDR60 is formatted in FAT32, it has to chunk that video into 4GB files. None of our sessions that went in over 20 some odd minutes (over the 4GB file size) came in correctly. We either only got the first file’s worth or even less.

Too bad too… We’re looking to purchase a harddrive based pro-ish HD cam and thought we’d found a great solution. I just haven’t had a good experience here and reading around on the web has mostly been more similar stories of grief.

I’m using the Sony Plug-in (v101) for FCP 2 on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.4