What Easy Setup settings do you use?

[jammiefreerider]

Hi everyone,

I have just started playing with my 151 but I can't see what settings to use to get the footage off the camera/SD card. There is no setting for USB, I cant see what to do.

Help is hugely appreciated, thanks

[Mike Harvey]

Are you referring simply to a file transfer? I bought a $20 USB multicard reader and use that. To use the camera itself... the instructions are on page 75 of the US manual (might be different for the 151) under heading "Nonlinear Editing (PC Mode)"

[jammiefreerider]

I mean with the Log and Transfer to edit it in FCP.

[Mike Harvey]

I'm Vista 64/CS4, so can't help you. Sorry

[JonathanS]

Turn the camera off. Remove the SDHC card. Plug it into a card reader on the Final Cut system. Open 'Log and Transfer' (on the 'File' menu). If necessary, add the source card (button top-left of window). Once the clips list is read (you'll see thumbnails, etc) you can play back the clips to preview, set in and out points and add logging notes, and queue the clips for transcoding.

All of this is in the Final Cut manual, under Log and Transfer.

As for using the camera as your card reader... actually, I've never done that, but it's in the HMC151 manual under the heading 'Nonlinear Editing (PC Mode)'. Page 75 in my copy.

[Kit_L]

Jammie

I suggest using a card reader; all the new ones are USB 2. It takes about 8 minutes to transfer 10Gb from the card to a HDD. My reasons for making this suggestion are:

Speed of the larger process (transfer of data to HDD then transcode at much more rapid speeds from the HDD, plus you have a HDD copy this way), and

Avoidance of possible corruption of the date on the card, and

Avoiding wear and tear on the camera's plugs: I have no logical reason for making this suggestion over connecting a USB cable to the camera, but I prefer using a reader to connecting that tiny plug to an expensive camera. Easier to take the card out, IMHO.

and @ JonathonS: you *can* work that way with FCP, but to avoid the possibility of card corruption, I feel it is a much better workflow to point FCP at a HDD *copy* of whatever's on the card, rather than point FCP at the card itself. The log and transfer function will be much faster if the date is being transcoded from a HDD (at internal bus speeds) than the relatively glacial speed of USB2. Corruption of the card's data can happen if, like yesterday, you get a significant spike in the power system in your studio or, worse, a complete outage as happened last week here (30" only, but still enough). Finally, the archive dimension in a tapeless workflow is very very important, I feel.

If you are using a laptop, then I would copy to internal drive, then transcode to an external drive, then edit from that. Once back home make archive from the internal drive copy. I have a light LaCie Rugged (7,200rpm, Oxford chipset; perfect for video) for this purpose.