Re: Sony XDCAM transfer

Hi Craig

My aim is to be able to delete all files relating to a wedding project on my laptop but to be able to re-access them say in a years time when blue-ray is more widespread and Apple produces a blue ray burner and I can buy blue-ray duplicators. In the old tape days, I could print to tape and make a back-up or I could save my FCP files for a project (audio, video, render files, etc.) to an external hard drive should I so wish. The video files could be easily located and copied from the capture scratch folder.

I want to be able to get all my files relating to the wedding backed up to an external hard drive. Some of my video files that are located in the XDCAM transfer file won't copy to external hard drive. I assume that the video files are in XDCAM transfer file as they sure are not in the capture scratch file.

Workflow: filmed with Sony EX1 - transferred SxS cards to laptop via XDCAM transfer - imported files into FCP Studio 2 - edited in HD - downconverted to SD - outputted as SD onto DVStudio Pro 4 for authorisation and creation of DVD.

I'm not using blue ray yet. I just want to be able to gain access to all my files for the wedding project in a year or twos time from my external hard drive. At the moment when I use the external hard drive and seek to reconnect, there are media missing that currently cannot be reconnected.

I'm not sure what else I can add.