Tape Name change when doing XDCAM Ingesting
by Michael Cavanagh
on
Sep 14, 2009 at 8:16:43 pm
Hello,
We have just installed a new Mac running Snow Leopard with Final Cut 7. we are about to import a project from a PDW-1500 XDCAM deck via I.link . We will be doing some collaborative editing and need to use EDLs the problem we are having is that we are are unable to rename the tapes. as far as we know non of the tapes have been named during the shoot so they are coming up as unnamed. our attempts to rename the tape via final cut have failed. we keep getting the error message something like:
Unable to rename try using fewer characters or remove punctuation (sorry translated badly from swedish)
even when only using one character
We have read write access to the tape and can import clips. We can rename the source tittle however when viewing the EDL file it specifies source tape as: unnamed
any idea as to how to get around this one... thanks
Re: Tape Name change when doing XDCAM Ingesting by Michael Cavanagh on Sep 15, 2009 at 9:07:40 am
Hi thanks for your feedback.. I have some more information about this problem. we are using XDCAM Transfer 2.10 and i have attempted to rename the tape when it comes up on the desktop by going to info. When i try to rename within Transfer under the information tab the Untitled is grayed out. even though the tape is not write protected. i moved the deeck to another comptuer running lepord 10.5.5 which has a copy of XDCAM Transfer 1.1 installed here i attempted to rename the tape using File - Rename this time it says failed to rename tape.
so to recap i have attempted the following:
using snow leopard and XDCAM Transfer 2.10
tried renaming on the desktop and within the transfer program
Using Leopard and XDCAM Transfer 1.1
Attempted to rename using file - rename
The Disk is not coming up in finder
Re: Tape Name change when doing XDCAM Ingesting by Daniel Wright on Sep 16, 2009 at 8:16:30 pm
I think your issue may be related to the FAM driver, which is part of the XDCAM Transfer package.
I have no information as to whether the FAM driver works on Snow Leopard or not. I haven't seen any posts saying it doesn't, so it may be OK. However, as previously mentioned, the word from Sony is that Snow Leopard is not supported yet, so I would stick with Leopard unless you have a compelling reason not to.
XDCAM Transfer version 1.1 is really old, probably from before the time of the Leopard OS. I Suggest you update XDCAM Transfer on Leopard to ver 2.10 so that you have the latest FAM driver. There is no reason to stick with such an old version when you can download a later one for free.
You should then be able to rename your discs by your preferred method (Finder or via XDCAM Transfer).
By the way, you have checked that your deck is set to the same recording format as the clips on your discs, haven't you? If there is a mismatch, the rec-inhibit light will be on and the deck won't let you write anything at all, not even just to rename the disc.
Re: Tape Name change when doing XDCAM Ingesting by Michael Cavanagh on Sep 16, 2009 at 8:51:55 pm
Hello,
thanks for all you comments, we solved this problem by updating the Firmware on our Sony PDW-1500 from v1.45 to v1.60. we got the hint that it may be the deck becuase we where able to rename on both TDK and Sony type disks but not the Fujifilm. Im not 100% sure it was the firmware setting or just that we reset the deck to factory default during the process. either way we are up and running now.
