Log and transfer files from sd card?

Is it possible to utilize log and transfer form the SD card shot on a Canon DSLR in FCP to transcode to ProRes 422? Is there a plug in plug in?

I downloaded the canon software and it works like a charm on the MacBook Pro but I seem to be having an installation issue with the plug in into FCP on the Power Mac G5 ... it doesn't show up as an option when in Preferences in the log and transfer window. I am using a usb card reader and the card is mounting on the desktop and there are no photo images on the card ... Are there issues with the G5 - OSX 4.11- FCS 6.06 or an external usb sd card reader?

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Naming files Log and Transfer'd from a card

I'm still experimenting with workflow after starting to capture on an AVHCD card instead of tape.
I'm getting the shots into FCP ok, and have worked out how to assemble them so it's like working off tape rather than wading endlessy through scores of files.
But this requires renaming the files - which I'd have wanted to do anyway.
For back-up I'm then copying the raw contents of the card to a small drive before deleting to make room for new shots. So these files still have those strange numbered names that the camera makes.
At some point I will also empty the FCP scratch discs, at which time the card copy on the small drive will become my only source. So if I ever have to rebuild the project I'll need to relink to these.
In the old days we just redigitised the tapes and all was well, but I'm not sure what will happen when I try to re-transfer the AVCHD data from the small drive - as the file names now will be different. I presume I'll have to relink manually, which could be quite a pain and could invlolve a lot of trial and error.
I assume FCD can't reference some code which remains unchanged when you rename by any chance?
Is there something I should be doing that I'm not?
(Thinking now I should have been more careful to create uniqle 'reel' names - oh well)
Thanks
Tom

Spectacular fail.
As I feared, when I try to relink the offline media, FCP is looking for the names I created in the browser - which in the old days would have been the names I created in the Log and Capture window when digitising from tape (EG London GVs) and therefore consistent, whereas the names on the card back-up disc are still the names that the camera created (EG M2000127).
I've tried finding the first and last clips and linking, but still FCP tellls me that the attributes don't match, so I've plainly got the wrong ones.
I reckon that if I still had the camera names in the browser it would find them ok, but I don't.
What does everyone else do? The only thing I can think of is to copy all the files after Transferring them in, and then renaming the dupes, but this would double the data storage, and I'm not even sure it would work.
I have the raw footage on disc and it will play just fine. And I have a healthy FCP project. Shurely they will want to dance?

CANNOT LOG AND TRANSFER FILES FROM PANASONIC P2 CARD

I rented a Panasonic Ag-hpx170 to shoot footage for my son's high school today. After filling two p2 cards with video, I transferred the content to my hard drive (exactly as described in Tom Wolsky's book, and as coached by the video rental company). I have two folders on my drive from the two p2 files, but when I try to bring them into FInal Cut Express (4.0.1) , I get the message:
"HUNTER INTERVIEWS CARD 1" contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media.
There's a whole day of footage in there, and I'm panicked that I've lost it (and that the next two days' shooting will be ruined, as well).
The footage was shot in 720x25. I set the "easy settings" on FCE to the Apple Intermediate codec format, using HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 720p25.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm starting to really worry I'm going to disappoint a lot of kids!

Well, this may not be the same for you, but I think I had a similar problem with my Canon FS200. It was a hassle, but I was able to get the footage. I bought an Apple Product, it was called something along the lines of Quicktime Converter Mpeg-2, it's an upgrade for final cut and it works automatically. But in addition to that, I downloaded a free software from the internet called Mpeg Streamclip. You then open the file with that software, and hit "Export to quicktime". That SHOULD work for you, it did for me.

HT1379 Summary: how to transfer files from SD card when the system (Mac OS X v 10.7.5) will NOT recognize SD cards.

How to transfer files from SD card when the system (Mac OS X v 10.7.5) will NOT recognize SD cards?
Insert the SD card.
System opens iPhoto with SD contents.
Want to transfer files from SD card to system drive. iPhoto closes
SD card directory removed from the Finder window and is not available again.
I don't want to have to reboot the system every time I want to perform this option.
What's wrong here.
The support columns show this isn't an isolated incident with all sorts of solutions possible.
This is a simple task - there should be a simple method for the system to recognize SD cards.
What's the answer?
I've reviewed a recommendation to reset the SMC.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18500187#18500187
and
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
and another thread that says, basically, you must buy extra hardware to perform this simple task,
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16911326#16911326
another one that has the same problem with OS Mountian Lion,
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21919740#21919740
another one with the problem that says SD cards can't be read by Apple unless the card is formatted specifically for Apple, ie. that Apple is not compatible with other cards, but the problem maybe something else that requires Apple service - (bad SD card reader?).
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18711818#18711818
there are probably more discussions, but I dont' want to spend my entire sunny in Seattle day working this.
thanks for the help!

Bucky Fullmeister wrote:
When I plug in an SD card, the finder window shows it under the DEVICES section. At this point, I can drag the contents to the hard drive. However, when I screw up and click the character on the right side of the name - it apparently closes the SD card and I can't find any command to reload or re-recognize the card. I have to remove and reinsert the card and then sometimes it recognizes the card. Other times I reboot and it will recognize it.
What does that character on the right side of the SD card name do? Is it an eject function - with no way to subsequently reread the drive?
It ejects or unmounts the card. When the SD card mounts click on it once to highlight it and then drag the files shown within it to the new folder.
Pete

Final Cut Express Log and Transfer files not playing audio on another mac

I recently purchased a new Mac Pro for video editing for work, and am having some issues with it. Previously i was working on a MacBook Pro running OS 10.4.11, on Final Cut Express 4.
I used Log & Transfer to get the AVCHD videos from my Canon HF 11 onto my mac, and had no issues. Where my problems started was when I moved my video files to my new Mac Pro running OS 10.5.6. Now when I open those video files in either Quicktime or FCE, the VIDEO plays but _not the audio_. I thought maybe the video files were bad, but when I tried the original files on the new Mac, they still didn't work. I don't know if there's some codec that isn't on the new mac or if there's some other problem... I just know that my new amazing machine cannot play the files that my 3 year old one can. I'm not new to computers, but I'm not an Apple guru. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Well I can try trashing the files, but I can't log and transfer the files again, as it's months of footage that aren't on the camera anymore. But i did find something else out. The files that were recorded with the camera's built-in mic recording is fine and with sound, but the files that I used my wireless mic setup had no sound. I don't know why that is, because they worked fine on the MacBook Pro. I tried log and transferring a new clip on the Mac Pro wit;h footage using the wireless mic, and still no sound.

AVCHD log and transfer - Only from a camera?

I am thinking about upgrading my camera to a AVCHD camera. I saw on a post that you can only log and transfer AVCHD footage from the camera and not just the card attached via card reader. Can someone shed some light on this. I want to be able to shoot, transfer/backup onto an external HDD and then Log and Transfer from the drive. I want to keep the camera busy out in the field and not tied up on my desk.
Thanks community!
Brian

You may fing this helpful:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/video -tutorial
When using card readers make sure it supports the larger capacity cards or at least the size card you are using.
Al

Log and transfer footage from Panasonic GH1 into FCE

I have already read the few threads discussing importing AVCHD video from the Panasonic GH1 camera into FCE. I was expecting that the 1080x24 (wrapped in 60i) would import OK but the 720x60p would not. However, so far, I have had both formats import using the log and transfer just fine. These have been only short clips roughly a minute or less in length but no sign of FCE crashing when importing the 60p footage.
So, is this considered normal or has something in the most recent OSX updates fixed this FCE capability?

The program is usually able to ingest 24p and 60p footage fine, but upon exporting it will be conformed to the frame rate of your sequence. Since FCE doesn't support custom sequences all exported movies are either in 29.97fps or 25fps. Problems also sometimes arise where the program interprets your footage as 29.97fps instead of what it actually is, causing the audio to drift a bit as well.
Better to stick to what the program supports: 50i/25p and 60i/30p. If you need the functionality of 24p or 60p you should upgrade to Final Cut Pro.

FCE log and transfer goes from avchd to prores which then requires rendering down to AIC -- what's with that??

Someone gave me a Sony camera (HDR-CX160) to try to get some footage out of...
Log and Transfer worked fine, but the resulting files in Capture Scratch are ProRes. When I add them to the timeline, it requires rendering (Lengthy rendering), presumably to convert to AIC.
How can I get Log and Tranfer to go straight to AIC??

Do you have FCS or FCP-X installed on the same computer? Also, the HDR-CX160 is capable of shooting 60p which is not Log and Tansfer, or FCE compatible. You need to make sure the camera is recording 1080i60.
Anyway, try this:
Open Log and Transfer, and click on the gear in the upper/center portion of the pane to select preferences:
When the preference open, navigate to AVCHD Plugin and choose Apple Intermediate Codec.
Then try importing your files.
MtD

Log and Transfer File Naming

When AVCHD files are imported with log and transfer, it designates a file name number sequence that includes the "#" sign both in the browser and on the external hard drive that it copies to. How can I eliminate this "#" sign and have it still assign a different number for each file?
Thanks in advance to any and all help

The clip number us assigned in the camera. You would have to manually remove the # mark in the log and transfer window before the shot was transcoded.

APIs for accessing the ESS log and output files from UCM

Hi,
As I understand, the output and log files of an ESS job will be uploaded to UCM.
We have a requirement where in we are building a simple error handling framework, which gets triggered after a series of ESS jobs are run. In the error handling framework based on some processing logic we need to e-mail the error or log files to the users. I am not able to find any information related to retrieving the log and output files for and ESS job from UCM. Any inputs on this will be appreciated.
Thanks for your help,
Thiru

For accessing content in UCM you can use the RIDC APIs or UCM Web Services. Note that the UCM also provides features for workflow etc. that could potentially be used for notifications refer to the developer guide for details. For UCM related questions you may want to use this forum instead
Jani Rautiainen
Fusion Applications Developer Relations
https://blogs.oracle.com/fadevrel/

Canon T2i log and transfer, file size HUGE

Hi everyone. I need help understanding why my canon t2i files are so large in fcp 7. i've downloaded and modified the script for canon os plugin for tcp, so i can use the log and transfer feature. i have the preferences set to apple 422

This is a question for the Final Cut Studio forum. Your clips are being transcoded to ProRes, which are much larger than the original H.264.

Clean install Snow Leopard and transfer files from Time Machine?

Hello,
I have a computer that is getting s fresh clean install of Snow Leopard. I know how to go about doing this. However, I want to be able to transfer the files back using Time Machine. The Time Capsule has backups from 3 computers. How do I select the right computer files from the backup? The Mac Pro also has a second hard drive intsalled. Is it best to wipe it clean and then load the data from the Time Machine?
Thanks!

If you have a second HD with nothing on it, why not do the fresh install on that, then use Setup Assistant to bring over all the files from the HD you've been backing up to TM rather than TM itself? That way, you have the most direct transfer and a backup of the original too.

Can FCP log and transfer footage from the Panasonic full HD 1080p camcorder

Hi, my subject heading says it all. But I have read a review of the current consumer HD camcorders from Panasonic that says they have their own codec, and that it cannot be edited on any software but their own, which is not available in a Mac version... the review was a few months old, though, so hopefully Apple have now put in place updates so that we can ingest footage from this camera...
Does anyone know about this? If not, any idea where I can find out?
Thanks very much for any light on this situation!

Sorry if you didn't know about this, but the review says that when recording at 1080/50p Panasonic uses a proprietory codec... I assumed that would be any model they produce that records at 50p.
The review of the Panasonic HDC-TM700 states "The camcorder uses traditional AVCHD compression for every shooting mode other than the 1080/50p setting. (my emphasis)<
If the reviewer doesn't know, how would we? We're FCP geeks, not universal camera knowledge base wonks.
Research the codec specifically and the camera model you are likely to find some kind of hack or workaround. I have two Panasonic hdx170s and we have absolutely no issues bringing in full 1080 from the P2 cards but most of our stuff is shot 720.
bogiesan

Log and Transfer won't recognize card

I'm having issues on both Mac Pro Desktop and MacBook Pros with FCP 6.0.6 not recognizing video on my Compact Flash card. The card DOES show up on the computer's desktop. We're shooting on Sony 270u cameras. The video on the card is in .avi. It was working before, but lately has stopped. I've re-installed the Sony Recording Unit plug-in and it has SOMETIMES corrected the issue. The cards are reformatted every time they are use(we were told to do this from a consultant at Apple). I'm at a loss. There's no time for issues like this at a News Station. Any help would be appreciated.

If it isn't software based, then why would the exact same card, card reader & laptop not work one day, then work the next morning? Everything was exactly the same. No new footage shot, no settings changed. The only thing I had him do was re-install the Sony Recording Unit plug-in. Of course, that didn't work for him when he tried out in the field. When I got the laptop the next morning it worked as soon as I powered it up.
And if the icon for the card shows up on the desktop, wouldn't that take out the physical part?
Sorry, but I'm just really frustrated that this keeps happening and I haven't figured out a way to fix it.
Thanks for your input. If you can think of anything else, I would greatly appreciate it.
david

Unknown Error when I Logging and Transfer P2 Card files in FCP 6.0.6

I have been trying for the past two week to Log and Transfer P2 files to my external hardrive using FCP 6.0.6 unsuccessfully.
Originally I tried to Log and Transfer directly from the Panasonic HPX-170 in between my shooting. The first time it was a success but from then on I always get the same Unknown Error when attempting to transfer. When I encountered the Unknown Error during the second transfer I went on to create folders with the P2 contents on my external Hard Drive.
When I drag any of the P2 folder content on the Log and Transfer window I can see all the clips. I can successfully transfer small B-roll clips I have but any big size file (all my interviews) return an Unknown Error symbol at the end of the transfer. I believe this is probably why I didn't encounter any issues during my first time.
I tried deleting the preferences in FCP and then Logging and Transfer and it works if the systems settings are set for the Mac Pro but not for the external HD. The problem is I don't have enough space on my Mac. I have cleared 45GB of space but my P2 files total 54GB. I tried the same process with a Mac Power Book with FCP 5.1.4 and again in encounter the same problem.
The external HD is a 1TB Western Digital that I have used before with FCP for editing but never before with P2 files. Its in good working order and has 79GB free space remaining. Both the camera and the P2 cards (16GB and 4GB) are also performing as expected.
I would appreciate any suggestions.

#36 - One or More P2 files failed to import.
Shane's Stock Answer #36 - "One or more clips failed to import..."
Very often in the field with this camera the camera operator will delete clips from the P2 card that they just don't like. That is the beauty of this camera. But, the still for that video file (located in the CLIP folder in the CONTENTS folder)...the still that you see when you are in the P2 Import window...is not deleted. So you will see the image, and the name, but the video file would have been deleted.
What you can do it compare the file names in the VIDEO folder and CLIP folder and see if anything is missing. If something is, then you know what the problem is. You can then just import the rest a few at time, skipping that one.
ALSO...in the P2 Import window...in the P2 Browser, there is a little sprocket drop down menu. Click on that and choose PREFERENCES. Uncheck REMOVE PULLDOWN and then try importing again.
ALSO...make sure your file names aren't too long. Try shortening them and see if that works.
ALSO make sure that the folders that contain the CONTENTS folder doesn't have any odd characters like /!@#$%^&*()?.
Shane

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