Why won't Express find my camera in the Log and Transfer window??

I plug my Sony DCR45 Hard Disk Drive camera in. I switch it to USB connect mode, and then I enter the Log and Transfer window. I wait a good 15 to 20 minutes each time and it just won't locate my camera! How can I fix this?

Well, your camcorder is not AVCHD, HDV or DV, so Final Cut Express is not going to 'see' your camcorder.
Sony's specs on this camcorder leave something to be desired, but it does say the camera records MPEG2-PS. If this is the case, you will need to convert the video to DV or Apple Intermediate Codec before importing it into FCE.
For most purposes, MPEG Streamclip can do the conversion however with MPEG2 material it needs the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component ($20) which you can buy & download from the Apple Store.

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-Snowconedxx39

Shooted videos directly saved to the SD memory card is no problem, the log and transfer window immediately recognizes the sd card and I was able to convert the videos. I will check later today if this were 25p, 50i or 50p footages.
Strangely enough is that transferring the .mts files from the internal memory to the sd card (using the Mac finder, I don't know if it is possible within the camera itself) won’t help, the log and transfer window doesn't the recognizes the transferred files, strange!
I hope that this problem will not occur using Final Cut Pro X, which I will start using soon.
I'm curious what the exact problem will be.

AVCHD cam connected. Log and Transfer open, nothing happening.`

Sorry but this is my first adventure into HD and AVCHD. I read the manual and searched the threads. Camera's connected to the USB, got my scratch disk set, got the audio set to plain stereo. Everything's just sitting here doing nothing.
What did happen was the iPhoto window opened but each scene did show a movie camera. I just closed it and opened the log and transfer window.
What else do I need to do?
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Hi Tom
Thanks! I'm sorry but I'm still learning everything here. You've helped me tremendously with FCE and I appreciate it but now with this HD stuff I'm totally lost again. According to the FCE manual it said after mounting the camera/card reader, open the L&T and my clips will show up in What's it called, a browser? the top box. So I worried when they didn't show up.
I found the button at the tiop left that said import clips. But when I navagitated to the directory, the 3 files were greyed out. However looking at the files in the finder, they're highlighted.
I deleted those first clips from the camera. We're going into Chicago today. So I reset the camera for 720p/30 and I'll see if that works better.
Is it better to shoot 720p/30 or 60?
You said don't use StreamClip! Why? I used it and got the 3 clips converted with the Apple Intermediate Codec, and on the timeline. Put in a couple of disolves. Seemed to work fine! And they played great.
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I feel like I should be able to solve this on my own, but I'm stuck. I've been using a Cannon HF S10 (AVCHD) for a few months. Up until about a week ago when I have connected the camera to my iMac and opened the Log and Transfer window all of the clips on the camera have appeared, but now they don't. I had this happen another time with a different camera and and after trashing the FCE preferences I was able to see the clips in the L&T window. So I trashed the FCE preferences, but this time I still do not get the clips in the L&T window.
The camera mounts to my desktop and also appears in Finder, so I tired clicking on the "Add Folder" button on the top left corner of the L&T screen and adding "CANNON". This did not produce the clips in the L&T widow. I also tried to add the folder that is one level down labeled "AVCHD", but this did not work either.
Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, in advance.
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Ok...nevermind. All of the thumbnails appeared. There are a lot of clips on the camera, so I'm guessing that this is the reason for the lengthy loading time.
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Importing a lot of video clips from a Sony camera to FCE; during the Log and Transfer process, is there a way to add multiple clips to the browser instead of one at a time?

Importing a lot of video clips from a Sony camera to FCE; during the Log and Transfer process, is there a way to add multiple clips to the browser instead of one at a time?

Select one and click cmd-A which selects them all.
Then click the import button if it hasn't started already.

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Hi. I got an Imac 21.5 ,2010 with 10.9.5 maverick and 4GB of ram. I installed the FCP express HD. when I go to "Log and transfer", shows all the clips and when I click for log and transfer, simply does nothing. It's shows that it's trying but at the end, nothing it's transfer. What it could be? Thanks.

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Only about 60% of the clips transferred over or was shown in the Log and Transfer window.

Offload the cards...back them up. That is priority #1. Do that first...then return the camera. Then try mucking about with this.
Back up the ENTIRE card structure.

Log and Transfer not working with Sony AVCHD camera

Hi, I have a new Sony AVCHD camera. The HDR-XR200 120GB hard drive model. It captures in 1920x1080i, and connects to Mac via USB.
FCP does not recognize the camera when I open the log and transfer window.
Can someone help me with seq setting and easy set up setting or other setting for it to work.
I am happy to import footage into FCP with AIC or prores 422. Just want to edit all the footage I have of my so's international soccer tournament held in Australia last week. I also have Final Cut Express on my Mac if that works better. This is very frustrating trying to get it to work.
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I use a Panasonic AVCHD, which FCP doesn't recognise. Anyway I've spent months playing around because this little camera blows my Sony V1 out of the water in sheer quality.
Best thing is just get hold of a copy of Toast 10, you can then simply drag your .mts files into this and encode to whatever you want, I edit in pro res LT, but Toast will even encode it to HDV if you want to end up on tape(Even this result still blows the Sony HDV apart)
FCP is very fussy about even noticing the very existance of .mts files, so I wouldn't waste my time, scratching my head.
By the way, I use Firewire 800 drives, not USB 2 and also in the name of God BACK UP YOUR MTS FILES ON A NEW HARD DISC CALLED "BACKUP OF .MTS FILES!" LOL

Log and transfer keeps going on idle... and won't load my clips

Final Cut Express has my video footage on there. But when I try to log and transfer it, it will have the spinny arrow thing that makes it look like it's loading clips but then it will stop and go on idle.
I have no idea what to do. I just put Final Cut Express on my computer the other day and this is the first time I am using it on this computer.
I already trashed my preferences, thinking that was the problem but I am totally at a loss. Please help. Thank you!!

There is lots of existing info on this forum about capturing AVCHD from Canon cams. Try a search.
Usually the trouble is in the Log and Transfer window settings.
Switch to Plain Stereo rather than the default Matrix setting.
Al

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I tried following Shane Ross' P2 workflow video exactly, but when I attempt to open the folder containing the "Contents" folder and the text file, the media doesn't show up in the Log and Transfer browser. Nothing happens at all; I click open and the browsing window disappears and the Log and Transfer window is left as it was when I first opened it.
I had initially thought that the problem was that the drive I was trying to look at was NTSF formatted. I normally wouldn't check the formatting of a drive because most of the people I work with are Mac people, but I ended up copying everything to an OS Extended drive and the workflow still won't work.
I'm new to P2 material, the director doesn't know anything about and she hasn't been able to get in touch with her friend, from whom she borrowed the camera.
Do I need to download some third party software to make this work?
By the way, I'm using FCP 6.0.3 on a MacBook Pro (2.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM) with the media on a G-RAID drive through FW800. The footage was shot on an HVX-500.

Shane, thanks for the follow up.
Yes, that did turn out to be the problem. I saw the thread on DVXUsers. Of course they attributed the discovery of the problem to you.
By the way, the tutorial you did, after I fixed the FX Factory problem, was great. I'm really enjoying this method of logging and "capturing". After trying this out, I want to smack everyone that's ever made me capture HDV.
You're the man, Shane!

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Log and transfer will transfer about 80% of clips on the Canon HF10 AVCHD camcorder, but the rest receives a red exclamation icon hovering over which brings the useless explanation box "Unknown Error".
Using My Book Pro II dual HD with data stripping connected via Firewire, no speed issues there. Over 900GB is free on the drive, too. Moreover, copying the BDMV > STREAM > *.MTS structure to a DVD and then running the Log and transfer brings up the same error and nothing is transferred.
The best part is that the same clips transfer just fine using iMovie '08. It is even possible to then import them from the iMovie project folder into Final Cut and then work with them.
Hopefully some smart person has an idea what I could try. Thanks!

OK, people. Got a freaking work-around.
Select the clip in the log and transfer window *), then define your IN and OUT points for this clip, THEN hit "Add to Queue". Marked portion of the clip will import nicely. Now we just need full 1980x1020 support. Hopefully an updated FCE soon?
*) Interface of the Log and Transfer window is as beautiful as any Mac app. Why hasn't that interface lift ever made it to the rest of Final Cut? Hopefully, next version.

Log and Transfer Color Different Than Viewer/Canvas Color. Why?

I've noticed that the preview window in Log and Transfer has different color characteristics than both the Viewer and Canvas window. Sometime I like the color in Log and Trasnfer better and sometime I like the other color better. What is going on here? Am I viewing a RAW-like version in the Log and Transfer window and if so how can I get that color to transfer into my project upon import? I'm shooting with a HVX200 and Firestore.

The image quality of the footage you see in Log and Capture and Log and Transfer is a very low res proxie...lower than that of the Canvas.
The truth is, you shouldn't trust ANY of the windows to give you a true representation of the color. Not the L&C window, not the Viewer, and not the Canvas. Only a properly calibrated monitor will...although a good TV will do a decent job as well.
The color won't transfer because it isn't different.
Shane

Why is there an 'Error: No Data' sign when importing in Log and Transfer?

Hello,
I am trying to import clips from my Panasonic HDC-SD100 camcorder into Final Cut Express 4. I am using the Log and Transfer window and am able to import most of my clips. However, every time I import there are a handful of clips that are left idle and an 'Error: No Data' sign appears next to them. They have not been imported to the Scratch Disk, and yet there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them because they playback on the viewing screen in the Log and Transfer window. Can anyone help me to determine what is wrong?
Many thanks.

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Log and Transfer doesn't "see" my camera

I just got back from an afternoon of recording the kids -- plug the camera into the computer, launch FCE and go to the log and transfer screen -- -and nothing. Panic now sets in. There seems to be nothing to be done, to get FCE to recognize the folder structure on my Canon Vixia FFS10 camera. What's up with that. (Why it needs a folder structure is strange to say the least)
It's not like the .MTS files aren't there. there's about 6GB of content that I'm anxious to get started transcoding. Is there something i'm missing on the log and transfer screen? The No Name disk is on my desktop, and using finder I can see the MTS files -- why FCE can't is strange.
Suggestions?

I don't think I changed format on the SD card, although I can't be 100% sure, since I didn't format the card before today's shoot.
What I ended up doing, is copying the MTS files from the card to a scratch drive, and convert them to AIC using Voltaic, which I'm guessing is all the log and transfer does anyway.
Having done that I formatted the card, using the camera, then shot of a clip, and sure enough now the camera (which is no longer called no name, but rather called canon) is recognized by FCE and it looks like all is now working.
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