Z280 and SXS-1 and SXS Pro Media advice.

[Anthony McErlean]

Originally Posted by Doug Jensen

Insert a card into reader, locate the icon for the card on your desktop, double click the card, and then just drag drop the XDROOT folder onto an external HDD or SSD to copy all the files. Do the same thing to at least one other drive so you always have two copies.

There are many other ways of doing ingest, but that is the simplest and most fool proof method. No other software or error checking is needed.

OK Thats easy :) Only reason I use Catalyst Browse/Browser, was I thought it was a more secure way of copying my SXS cards.

Thank Doug.

[Anthony McErlean]

Originally Posted by Doug Jensen

Here is a chart from my Z750 book that shows the results of actual testing I did with various cards. The Z280 results would be exactly the same, except the Z280 does not have the excellent XAVC-L200 codec. The Z750 is the only camera in the world to have that codec right now.

I hope this answers your questions. Oops, I just noticed one of the FAIL boxes isn't white. Gotta make a note to fix that in the next edition.

Thank you. :)

[Doug Jensen]

Andrew, are you a hobbyist? Because if you earn a living at video production you should really upgrade immediately. Pennywise and pound foolish. :-) I assure you that whatever arguments you have about software rental are totally misguided. Of course, if you don't care about making money and you don't value your time in that way, then use whatever you want.

[Andrew Smith]

I'm due for a hardware upgrade and that's going to make the biggest 'next thing' difference at this stage. I can always re-evaluate software later.

Andrew