Final Cut Pro with Sony PMW-EX1 HD camera

It is a matter of capturing with FCE and if you are shooting multiple SxS cards during a shoot and copying the BPAV files to a hard drive throughout the day then you would need to copy the BPAV file back to the card and use the camera to play back the SP files sending it via firewire to be captures all in real time. I have never done this and I don't know if it actually works but I would think it does.

So does it absolutely have to be captured straight from the card? I just installed Sony's Log and Transfer Plugin for FCP. Also, from reading other stuff you and others have already written, it sounds like the footage can be backed up somewhere and imported with Sony's Transfer tool, then imported from there. Can FCE do the same thing or must it be directly from the card?

Is this b/c you have to capture using log and capture instead of log and transfer? In the process Apple's FCE converts the footage into their AIC (or whatever that is)?

"Is this b/c you have to capture using log and capture instead of log and transfer? In the process Apple's FCE converts the footage into their AIC (or whatever that is)? "

YES, there is a big difference between capturing and transferring. FCE is a limited program for a consumer level. If you really need to do this why don't you shoot a test recording SP (HDV) and copy the BPAV file over to your system storage and wipe the card clean, then copy the BPAV file back to the card and reinstall it in the camera and see if it plays, then if it does connect a firewire cable to your clients FCE and try to capture the HDV signal. This is one way to let your client play but as I said earlier when you transcode to AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) you won't have the original timecode so it won't help him give you a paper cut or offline edit.

Francois


The XDCAM Transfer application converts XDCAM native files and imports your footage into FCP as Quicktime. Export away using Compressor.