XAVC-S format - Device Explorer

FoskeyMedia wrote on 4/15/2018, 1:23 AM

I just got a new Sony HXR NX 100 camera. When I recorded in XAVC-S mode device explorer can't find the files (or more acurately, wont open the "PRIVATE\M4ROOT\CLIP" folder on the SD card). How can I properly import them? Yes I know I could just copy and paste from the SD card, but then long clips will be missing a frame (or at least they did in AVCHD mode).

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Musicvid wrote on 4/15/2018, 5:42 AM

I don't know why it doesn't see them, but the software that came with your camera should work without frame glitches.

What version and build of Vegas?

Marco. wrote on 4/15/2018, 6:23 AM

If the media is still on the SD card, don't navigate to a subfolder to feed the Vegas Device Explorer but to the SD card itself as root folder.

FoskeyMedia wrote on 4/15/2018, 1:11 PM

I'll have to find the software and load it up. I didn't install it when I got it because I didn't think it was necessary. It's sony to sony. I also tried it using Sony's "Content Management Utility". It also cannot locate or recognize the files, which are stored in "E:\PRIVATE\M4ROOT\CLIP" as .mp4 files. I'm using Vegas 13.

I didn't initially navigate to the folder. I let Device Explorer do its thing. When it didn't load them I tried to point it and it still would not recognize the files. The only way to see them right now is in Window file manager or explorer.

Marco. wrote on 4/15/2018, 1:15 PM

If you copied it from the SD card it seems you didn't preserve the complete original folder structure which is essential for using the Device Explorer.

FoskeyMedia wrote on 4/15/2018, 1:20 PM

The SD card is actually still in the reader. That's where Vegas is directed. I just copied it manually when Device Explorer failed.

OldSmoke wrote on 4/15/2018, 2:25 PM

The Vegas Device Explorer only works for AVCHD, it never worked for anything else including XAVC-S.

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Marco. wrote on 4/15/2018, 2:27 PM

It works fine here for X-AVC (recorded by the Z100, F55 or other cameras).

FoskeyMedia wrote on 4/16/2018, 1:28 AM


I'll try and load the camera software and see if that works. It's actually not a BIG deal because I can always just copy and paste where I want just like any other file. So far for this shoot, the files haven't been more than 5 minutes long. It may become a situation when I have longer files that the camera breaks up into multiple files and I have to concatenate, I may drop a frame or 2.

Peter_P wrote on 4/16/2018, 2:27 AM

It may become a situation when I have longer files that the camera breaks up into multiple files and I have to concatenate, I may drop a frame or 2.

This should not happen with XAVC-S (MP4) files if your SD-card is formatted to exFAT, whitch is the default for cards with a size above 32GB.

FoskeyMedia wrote on 4/16/2018, 3:30 PM

Peter,
Are you saying that the XAVC-S format doesn't break apart large files? That's great if so. How about DV files? Are AVCHD files the only ones that break up? If that's the case...then it's really just a matter of "copying" all other files (besides AVCHD) instead of actually "Importing" them?

Peter_P wrote on 4/17/2018, 12:57 AM

Are you saying that the XAVC-S format doesn't break apart large files?

Yes if you are recording on exFAT formatted SD-cards, that allow for file sized above 2GB. I think there is no change for DV and AVCHD files. I did not use them for a long time. When I last used these, I had not jet exFAT formatted cards.

Marco. wrote on 4/17/2018, 3:18 AM

FoskeyMedia, it's not the video format which splits (or doesn't) the video files. It's the file system of the SD cards.