FCP x SDHC card

Hello, I'm a new user for Final Cut Pro and work with SDHC card. But I can't import the images from the card. Can you help me please?

You need the clips that have the MTS or M2TS extension on the end of the filename. They should be in a folder named STREAM which will be inside a folder named BDMV. Technically, you don't need anything else. FCP X was tested with many cameras and their associated file folder structures ... but not all available cameras. You can copy these MTS files from your SD card and into your own video clips folder on your drive then use a utility like ClipWrap to convert them to ProRes, etc then import those files into FCP X. I do this all the time. If FCP X recognized your SD card, you would be able to Import from Camera. You can put the SD card into the computer then select Import from Camera from within FCP X, as BenB suggested. If you see your "camera" name from within this window, you should be able to click on it, then import the files. If you can do that, you would not need to use an application like ClipWrap to convert the files since FCP X will then do it for you. Otherwise you should be able to use Finder, copy them from the BDMV/STREAM folder structure to your computer and convert them then import them into FCP X. Best wishes.
stephen

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Whenever I import AVCHD clips from my SDHC card (connected via a card reader) and then try to eject it I get this message.
Up to now I have simply quitted FCP X to eject it but there must be a quicker and more elegant solution?
How?

Incidentally I have read a suggestion to use the "eject" symbol/button in the camera import window but after using it the card remains stubbornly on the desktop and a further attempt to eject it normally or drag it to the trash brings up the dreaded warning message again.
I've even tried Disk Utility with the same lack of success.
OK, it only takes 20 seconds to relaunch FCP X but it should not be necessary.

Suitable SD and SDHC Cards for Capturing Video for FCP?

Not exactly an FCP topic but this is the only forum that comes anywhere near!
Until a few weeks ago I assumed that all SD and SDHC cards were equal with regard to capture speeds.
Now I know better and have discovered that for trouble-free (consumer) video capture you need a Class 6 card to be safe.
I note that SD cards (by definition 2GB or less) have no speed classes.
I have trawled the internet, including the SD Card website but can't find any mention of the reason for this.
Is this because small SD cards are very fast or simply because nobody would conceivably use them for video?
I am asking because I have a small stock of 2GB cards which, if possible, I would like to use for short videos in the near future.

I've not used FCE so can't add anything there. Perhaps Tom W will drop by. He would know.
Regarding the VHS footage. You really ought to think about using a Time Based Corrector (TBC) between your VTR and the digitizing device. They will help deal with mis-timed frames (the 'tearing' effect) as well as chroma shift.
The Canopus ADVC-300 is the least expensive one I've seen and as an added benefit, it does the Analog/Digital conversion for you as well.
Good luck.
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Can anyone help. I need to reuse my SDHC cards and transfer footage from an ongoing profect to a hard drive. Can i edit from the Hard drive or am I better transferring info striaight from camera to time line

Hi I am using a JVC GY-HM100 camera which is meant to work well with final cut pro. I have an ongoing project but need to save money and resuse the SDHC cards that are currently full of footage.
Would I be better off transferring the footage straight to the time line (as rumour has it you can do this with this camera) or store the footage on a hard drive and edit it later without risk of losing the footage.
Many thanks
Lindabob

Thanks Linda,
Here's some more info for you:
This is my pet checklist for questions regarding FCP X performance - you may have already addressed some of the items but it's worth checking.
Check the spec of your Mac against the system requirements:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/specs/
Check the spec of your graphics card. If it's listed here, it's not suitable:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664
Make sure you're using the latest version of the application - FCP X 10.0.3 runs very well on my 2009 MacPro 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 16 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB. I run it with Lion 10.7.3.
Check that you have at least 20% free space on your system drive.
If you have not already done so, move your Projects and Events to a fast (Firewire 800 or faster) external HD. Make sure the drive's formatted OS Extended (journalling's not required for video). You should always keep at least 20% free space on the Hard Drives that your Media, Projects and Events are on.
If you are getting crashes, there is some conflict on the OS. Create a new (admin) user account on your system. Do NOT import any of the settings etc from the old account - simply use FCP X from there - if it runs a lot better, there's a conflict and a clean install would be recommended - but remember, if you reinstall the system, and then use Migration Assistant (or anything else) to import all your old settings etc etc, you may well be importing the cause of the conflict in the first place.
Keep projects to 20 mins or less (about half that for Multicam). If you have a long project, work on short sections, make them into Compound Clips and then paste these into a final project for export.
If you ever experience dropped frames, I strongly recommend you use ProRes 422 Proxy - it edits and plays back like silk because the files are small but lightly compressed (not much packing and unpacking to do) - but remember to select 'Original or Optimised Media' (FCP X Preferences > Playback) just before you export your movie, otherwise it will be exported at low resolution.
If you have plenty of processor power, for the ultimate editing experience, create Optimised Media - most camera native files are highly compressed and need a great deal of processor power to play back - particularly if you add titles, filters or effects. ProRes 422 takes up much more hard drive space but is very lightly compressed. It edits and plays back superbly.
Hide Audio Waveforms at all times when you don't need them (both in Browser and Storyline / Timeline). They take up a lot of processor power. (Use the switch icon at the bottom-right of your timeline to select a format without waveforms if you don't need them at the moment, then switch back when you do).
Create folders in the Project and Events libraries and put any projects you are not working on currently, in those folders. This will help a lot. There's a great application for this, called Event Manager X - for the tiny cost it's an invaluable application.
http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/EventManagerX/
Unless you cannot edit and playback without it, turn off Background Rendering in Preferences (under Playback) - this will help general performance and you can always render when you need to by selecting the clip (or clips) and pressing Ctrl+R.
The biggest single improvement I saw in performance was when I upgraded the RAM from 8 GB to 16.
Andy

Transferring AVCHD files from SDHC card info on desktop

I have transferred a number of SDHC card data onto my desktop or External Hard Drive. Once opened the folder gives three new folders: DCIM, MISC & PRIVATE. PRIVATE contains the video info and breaks down again to folders AVCHDTN, BDMV & IISVPL.
BMV contains CLIPINF, PLAYLIST and STREAM.
STREAM seems to contain the individual video files (shots) and has the .MTS termination in the file name and are called QuickTime Player documents and of significant size.
How can I read, transfer or convert these files so that I can use them on FCP 6.
When I leave the SD HC card in the camera I can do a log and transfer quite simply. But when the same data is copied onto the desktop or External disk, I cannot access them...
Why is this and what is the solution?
...so that I can free up mu now many SDHC cards
Thanks

thrillcat, yer a star ...as we say in Ireland.
I've already been doing the named folder thing for months in anticipation of a solution, without knowing the mistake I was making in selecting downstream folders rather than the full SD folder contents.
My 1To ext is reaching capacity, so I was about to buy another to relieve the pressure.
I will still do this, but can now erase converted (heavier) files used for edits, now I know I can keep and access the original (lighter) SD folders should the need arise.
The hierarchy view option is excellent. Thanks. I hadn't spotted the folder option.
Will also attempt the erase option because that can be useful to have a tidier choice of clips.
Thanks again for this very useful advice.
Incidentally, one other question: are there (calculation?) files that are created than can be erased once an edit is done? ...again to gain memory space and limit clutter?

FCP importing SDHC media mono in stereo

Hello !
I've got a small issue. When importing files from SDHC card with video and two audio channels MONO, FCP in the monitor window, create a stereo file. I can't split them.
This is annoying as generally I've got an interview on channel 1 and Camera microphone (noisy) on channel 2.
How can I put them back in 2 separate mono channel ?
Of course I can put the mono channel in the timeline and work like that but should have a solution to do it directly into the source window, no ?
Thnaks !

You can put it on the timeline, remove the stereo pairing (Option + L when it is selected on the timeline), delete the channel without audio, then double-click on the clip on the timeline to send it to the Viewer/Visualiseur to put your markers in and delete it from the timeline. Be sure to make a new master clip if you want to leave the project and return to it with the markers.
Easier perhaps - at the end of the edit delete the audio layer with the on camera microphone, then use paste attributes to pan all of the audio channels to center. It would drive me crazy to do it this way because the audio will be messed up while you edit.

Mastering a sdhc card for archive on external hd properly

Just finished watching Shane's video on tapeless workflow and log and capture in FCP. I highly recommend it for those who are interested in this topic.
My question is this. Is there a way to "safely" offload an sdhc card as a master to external hd without purchasing a software such as shotput pro which verifies the transfer among other features.
According to Shane "dragging" file to the new folder location sometimes results in uncopied file content.
Is there a method to safely mastering 16g sd cards without shotput pro?
Message was edited by: magnumip

You can use DISK UTILITY to make a Disk Image...
And thanks for the kind words...
Shane

An SDHC card for storage?

I know this is not a FCP question but you all have been so helpful in the past so... I'm thinking about storing my video footage from my NX5U onto an SDHC card for archiving. Transferring it from my pro SDHC card, which I shoot on, to an inexpensive SDHC card (using only once for archiving). Any thoughts? How long should an SDHC card hold up vs. a mini-dv tape? Anyone doing this?

Don't have an answer for you, but I'm waiting not so patiently for 100 gig class 10 cards that cost the same as a box of good video tape. Shoot, log and transfer, put away the card. Keep a life's work in a shoebox.

SDHC card does nor work on Satellite A200-1J0 with a clean Vista install

Greetings,
When I bought this notebook there was preinstalled Vista 32bit and as usual some Toshiba's drivers and software. As I remeber there was no problems with built in memory card reader, it was reading regular SD cards and also SDHC.
One day I had to reinstall operating system (without using recovery disc) and i've downloaded drivers for my notebook from official site, installed them and the card reader now it's not able to read SDHC cards. Is it just me?
This is what I installed for reader:
-Toshiba Value Added Package where is TOSHIBA Flash Cards inside of it
-Flashmedia Driver
-SD Utilities
I just want to highlight that there's no problem with reading mmc or normal sd cards.
My sdhc card is 100% working properly with other card readers.
Another sdhc card that I have is not working, it's just like I put nothing inside the reader.
Just nothing happens.
Is there anything else that I missed and this is the reason of my problem?
Any fix for Vista or something like that?

Dear Jeffrey,
My problem is solved, thank you so much! :)
This words were very helpful:
"Mostly an installation instruction is placed on the Toshiba European driver page which contains the essential installation order."
So I went on that site and found file where was written:
Contents and Installation order
for Windows Vista
INSTALL ORDER
WINDOWS VISTA
No. Component Name Version
1 Windows Vista RTM
2 Intel ICH7M Chipset Utility native
3 Intel 945GM Display Driver
or
3 nVIDIA G72MV-A3/NB7P-GS Display Driver
4 Realtek ALC861D Audio Driver
5 Realtek 10/100 8101E/ Gigabit 8111B LAN Driver
6 Synaptics Touch Pad Driver (with LuxPad)
7 ALPS Touch Pad Driver
8 TI Multiple Digital Media Card Reader
9 TOSHIBA Software Modem
10 Intel Golan Wireless LAN Driver
11 Intel Kedron Wireless LAN Driver
12 Atheros Wireless LAN Driver
13 Chicony Camera Software
14 Bluetooth Stack for Windows by Toshiba
15 Bluetooth Monitor
16 TOSHIBA Value Added Package
17 TOSHIBA Flash Cards Support Utility
18 TOSHIBA Hardware Setup Utility
19 TOSHIBA Supervisor Password
20 TOSHIBA SD Memory Utilities
21 TOSHIBA ConfigFree
22 TOSHIBA Assist
23 TOSHIBA Speech System
24 TOSHIBA Extended Tiles for Windows Mobility Center V1.01
25 TOSHIBA Fingerprint Utility V5.6.0.3221
Thanks to that file I've found that I haven't installed "TI Multiple Digital Media Card Reader". In toshiba european download site there's nothing like that so nothing weird that I didn't find that before. Here google became a good companion and helped me to find that file. I just simply installed it without deinstaling previously installed drivers (just like is NOT written in install order above) and it's working :)
Thank you once again!
Best regards,
Davit

How can photos be downloaded from a SDHC card to an iPad Air?

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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD822ZM/A/lightning-to-sd-card-camera-reader?f node=3a

How can I convert my music, and CDs to MP3, for use in my vehicle's AM/FM/ Stereo? I have a 16 GB SDHC Card, that I would like to load up with some of my music.

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Well, this question really belongs in the iTunes forum, which is where you will get fast answers.
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This should deal with your CD's.
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Nikon D800 raw files taken with Sandisk extreme plus 32GB SDHC card got corrupted. Able to preview them in Lightroom4.4 Library, but not able to import or transfer the files from card to computer. Any ideas on how to save images from Library Window in Lig

Hi, I have shot few pictures on 31st December night in RAW mode using Nikon D800 and Sandisk extreme plus 32GB SDHC card. It looks like card got some memory errors so not able to transfer the files from Card to computer. However I am able to view the pics thru Lightroom ver 4.4 Library, but when I tried to import them, it gives me an error stating that file can't be read.
Is there a way to save the pics from Library window in lightroom overcoming the card read errors ?
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Hi -
My two cents -
have +the camera+ format the card whenever possible. It will save you many, many headaches later.
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I make it a Standard Operating Procedure - once the media files are off the card, the card gets formatted by the camera before the next use.
MTD

My HP Pavilion Elite m9058n PC's Card-Readers Stop Reading/Recognizing My SDHC Cards

Just about 2 weeks ago my HP Pavilion Elite m9058n PC's card readers stop reading or recognizing my memory cards used to store the pictures I took. They used to be able to read my SDHC cards (Sandisk, Kinston, Panasonic) before. Don't understand why they stop reading, even recognizing all of them. My O/S is Windows 8. The initial symptom was the options for processing the inserted cards seemed to be showing up slower than before and then I had to withdraw the cards and re-insert them so that such option screen appear. Then later on it didn't show up at all. And when I checked "This PC" ("computer" or "my computer" in other Windows versions), I didn't see the DRIVE LETTERS, like G, K, or J, etc. for the memory card readers any more. Now if I connect my camera directly with my PC, I see on the camera model number on "This PC" screen.
Please help me understand what this problem is and kindly provide me with the best solutions you can.
Thank you very much.

Hi,
I understand your card reader is not working as you have previously experienced. Take a look at the following document, Using and Troubleshooting Memory Card Readers (Windows 8), specifically the "Resolving issues with memory cards" section. Hopefully there will be something in there that is useful for you. Best of luck. Have a wonderful day.
Ryan1216
I work on behalf of HP
The advice and opinions given here are my own and not those of HP

Satellite Pro A200 Windows XP, 4Gb SDHC Card does not work.

Hi,
I have had a Satellite Pro A200 installed with Windows XP, SP2 for some time - No problems there, a great piece of kit. However I recently have bought a new camera and splashed out on a Kingston 4Gb SDHC card. The manual for my A200 seemes to indicate that it my laptop is compatible with SDHC cards to 4Gb however when I push the card in the LED flashes blue briefly and then nothing happens. My SDHC card does not appear to be recognised by the system.
I see no errors in my OS event log and I have checked the slots operation by trying an older 512Mb SD card and that works fine.
Can anybody offer any help please?
For reference this laptop is a Model PSAE4E A200.
Many Thanks in advance
Simon

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[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923293] .
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