import ex-1 footage first to XP, later to FCP at DVinfo.net

David Kuckhermann · July 28th, 2009, 04:39 AM

Hi everyone,

I will record a festival next week, with some long night-concerts.
I have a netbook running XP that I would like to use to import the footage during shooting so I don't run into memory problems. (right now I have 2 16 and 2 32 GB SDHC Cards.)
So here my question:
Is there a way to import the Scandisk cards using the card reader of the netbook, in a way that I will later be able to import the footage into my FCP system on the Mac?

thanks,

David

Craig Seeman · July 28th, 2009, 06:45 AM

You can use the Windows version of Clip Browser to copy the BPAV folders intact. Make sure you don't re-wrap to MXF.

David Kuckhermann · July 28th, 2009, 08:27 AM

cool. After that, how will I get the footage into FCP?

Perrone Ford · July 28th, 2009, 08:33 AM

He shouldn't need clipbrowser for that. The cards should mount as a drive, then just copy the entire contents.

Craig Seeman · July 28th, 2009, 08:55 AM

NEVER do that for copying BPAV. There's no CRC check as done by ClipBrowser (or ShotPut). You can make a bad copy and not know it until the masters are gone.

To get footage into FCP just use XDCAM Transfer Tool or Log and Transfer Plugin in FCP.

If you want to know how to get footage off laptop that depends. Put the laptop on a LAN or hook to Mac via ethernet or copy to an external hard drive (using a method that has CRC checking as mentioned above).

Quote:

Originally Posted by Perrone Ford

He shouldn't need clipbrowser for that. The cards should mount as a drive, then just copy the entire contents.

Perrone Ford · July 28th, 2009, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Craig Seeman

NEVER do that for copying BPAV. There's no CRC check as done by ClipBrowser (or ShotPut). You can make a bad copy and not know it until the masters are gone.

You know what, you're ABSOLUTELY right. Totally forgot about the CRC check in clipbrowser.

David Kuckhermann · July 28th, 2009, 04:30 PM

so I should first copy the clips to the windows netbook using the xp version of clipbrowser, without wrapping them to mxf.
After that I will copy the files to an external hd, hook it up to the macbook and import the folders using XDCam transfer.

Is that correct?

July 28th, 2009, 04:39 AM	#1
David Kuckhermann New Boot Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 12	import ex-1 footage first to XP, later to FCP Hi everyone, I will record a festival next week, with some long night-concerts. I have a netbook running XP that I would like to use to import the footage during shooting so I don't run into memory problems. (right now I have 2 16 and 2 32 GB SDHC Cards.) So here my question: Is there a way to import the Scandisk cards using the card reader of the netbook, in a way that I will later be able to import the footage into my FCP system on the Mac? thanks, David

July 28th, 2009, 08:33 AM	#4
Perrone Ford Inner Circle Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 4,100	He shouldn't need clipbrowser for that. The cards should mount as a drive, then just copy the entire contents. __________________ DVX100, PMW-EX1, Canon 550D, FigRig, Dell Octocore, Avid MC4/5, MB Looks, RedCineX, Matrox MX02 mini, GTech RAID, Edirol R-4, Senn. G2 Evo, Countryman, Moles and Lowels.

July 28th, 2009, 06:45 AM	#2
Craig Seeman Inner Circle Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA Posts: 3,841	You can use the Windows version of Clip Browser to copy the BPAV folders intact. Make sure you don't re-wrap to MXF.

July 28th, 2009, 08:27 AM	#3
David Kuckhermann New Boot Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 12	cool. After that, how will I get the footage into FCP?

July 28th, 2009, 04:30 PM	#7
David Kuckhermann New Boot Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 12	so I should first copy the clips to the windows netbook using the xp version of clipbrowser, without wrapping them to mxf. After that I will copy the files to an external hd, hook it up to the macbook and import the folders using XDCam transfer. Is that correct?