importing footage from camera

Copy to the harddrive.

we can drag and drop files off the camera drive using USB connection. However I have not found a way to get the mac to use the files. The AVCHD format needs to be interpreted by a driver or something which we have not found yet.

Sony provides PMB (a software interface) which we can work with on PC but as yet I can not get the mac version to function

Mk

Copy the whole folder off the camera to your computer, then launch log and transfer and point it at the folder (not the files). What camera, what version of FCP, you may need a plug in from Sony if this doesn't work.

DM

I see that Ben is his typical "useful" self...

here's the workflow for tapeless ingest into FCP. Step 1 is to copy the full structure of the recording. USB works for that

http://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1

I am appreciating the help guys, thanks

I have found that clip wrap will re-badge the footage and make it useable.

trouble is that there seems to be a duration limit to length of clip that can be wrapped by this utility

As yet I have not tried your advice of pointing the FinalCut importer at the whole folder structure of the recording. Just before I found your message I passed the camera on to another post guy. For the next few days I will not have access to that.

My local Sony guru reckons that FinalCutExpress 4.0.2 can do the import but my last hour of searching has not found an update to that version level.

thanks for your inputs

Mk

You probably have the trial version of Clipwrap which has a time limit. Your best bet is to get the camera back and follow Shanes tutorial.

DM

>I have found that clip wrap will re-badge the footage and make it useable.

What does that mean?

>trouble is that there seems to be a duration limit to length of clip that can be wrapped by this utility

Yeah, as David mentioned, you need to BUY Clipwrap2 in order to have a fully functional version with no conversion time limit.

I have a sony i use Brorsoft mts coverter to convert to ProRes 422 takes bit of time but works well.http://www.brorsoft.com/