Importing EX-3 SxS cards with Sony Vegas Pro 11

Hi, I am importing using the device explorer and it is making another set of files and putting them into the documents folder under "imported media". Is there a way to have all the files imported to the timeline without capturing them? Other than going to each sub folder and manually dragging them onto the timeline one by one. Or is it best to have the files imported before working with them? Atleast that puts them all in one folder...

Thanks

Well thanks but that's a pain because you have to use double the amount of space to import them. I was wondering if there's any technical reason why... The mp4 files in their original form seem to edit fine.

[Sean Lee] "Well thanks but that's a pain because you have to use double the amount of space to import them. I was wondering if there's any technical reason why... The mp4 files in their original form seem to edit fine."

I'm not following you. Where is the 2nd copy? There is one copy on the SxS card which I assume you will want to erase and reuse. After import there will be one copy on your hard drive. Where is the 2nd copy?

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Sean Lee] "Ahh, you nailed it! It's my work flow. I've been backing up the cards and working off of a hard drive, keeping the file structure intact when I should just be importing them"

Yea, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't back that folder up to an external drive once imported so that you have an off-line backup but there is no reason to keep two copies on your editing hard drive.

[Sean Lee] "I was worried that if anyone else did the editing with a different program that they would need the file structure, but I guess not since the files get neatly put into a folder."

Well... if that's a concern, you might want to backup the cards file structure to the external drive so that you could copy it back out and give it to someone else to edit. The people most affected by this would be Final Cut Pro editors because FCP doesn't do well with native formats and likes to ingest everything from the cards and convert them to it's own proprietary ProRes422 format.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com