The joys of XDCAM EX....

Righto here goes....

Our office has taken in some work from another director which is all shot using the sony ex1 and shot in xdcam.

The director brought round a hard drive with the project data on and we installed the sony software required, from sony's website (final cut pro/XDCAM transfer v.2..8.0) but were unable to view the footage as it was all offline.
Upon trying to reconnect media the following pathway was listed:

"RAID ARRAY:users:directorsname:movies:idents"

Am i right in assuming that the media fcp was searching for was located on the directors computer and not on the hard drive with all the other media and project files?

secondly, if i am receiving the media after being ingested and made ready for fcp do i need to install the sxs driver?

hope this post makes sense, thanks for any adivce.....

oh and i'm using os 10.5.5 qt 7.5.5 and fcp 6.05..

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Am i right in assuming that the media fcp was searching for was located on the directors computer and not on the hard drive with all the other media and project files?

Yup...it's in his "Home" directory.

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Try the Log and Transfer Plug In rather than XDCAM transfer. Works a charm for me.

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Just so you know, the FCP plug-in IS the XDCAM Transfer software. Apple just gave you place inside of FCP to invoke it.

Thanks guys all sorted!

Not necessarily so Chuck ...

There's PDZK-LT1, which is Sony's Log and Transfer plug in that allows use of FCP's own Log and Transfer interface to select and import (rewrap) XDCAM EX clips
And then there's PDZK-P1, which is Sony's XDCAM Transfer app (and includes an FCP Import plugin to invokes that app) which allows you to select and import (rewrap) any XDCAM clips (not just XDCAM EX).

Hope it helps
Andy