Re: Organization Advice Importing BPAV to FCP

You can use the Clip Browser to create new BPAV folders and copy/move the raw clips in between them, keeping metadata intact. Everybody's workflow is different, but maybe this might be handy for you on some level. I've done this to combine BPAV folders for organizational purposes, and I've also used its built-in folder split function to make several DVD-sized BPAV folders from one gigantic one. Maybe you've already done this.

I messed around with the whole idea of renaming clips and/or trying to get comments or notes to stay with the file en route to Final Cut Pro. In some cases it worked; however, as soon as I removed that BPAV folder as an available source from XDCAM Transfer, all the data I put into those clips disappeared. It turns out it was only stored as cached information for the XDCAM Transfer application, and not added to the metadata in the BPAV folder. Boy, was I ever disappointed. If there's one remaining feature I wish Sony would add, that's got to be it right there.

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