This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Copying SxS cards

Friday, May 30, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Copying SxS cards

You need the appropriate drivers installed to see the proper file structure of the cards or discs. Always copy the entire contents of a card. If you have multiple cards, make top level folders and put each cards contents into its own folder (card1, card2, etc... Each containing a BPAV folder). This is especially important for spanned clips.

Be aware that some cameras now will write an XDCAM disc file and folder structure to an SxS card. I don't recall offhand which ones can do that.

Sony Content Browser isn't required, in my experience but it is a good thing to use for testing a copy. If content browser can't recognize a folder as SxS or XDCAM media, then something is missing and the chances are that you wouldn't be able to AMA that material.

On Friday, May 30, 2014, Axel Jansen axeljansen@gmx.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I never use Sony Content Browser and get all the 8 Ch from a PMW200.
I copy the whole SxS card and then AMA/transcode.

Here's the rub: If you are recording 4 mono channels of audio (like say from a Sony PMW320/350 or the like), you will destroy the audio structure and your files will import with one, mixed mono channel of audio if you do not use the Sony Content Browser to move the files.

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