organise mxf files

[Talea]

Hello everybody,

Last month I shoot a musicclip using the HVX 200 which recorded onto the FS-100.
In the same night I copied the files onto my harddrive. (the amount of databyte was the same as on the FS-100).
Unfortunately I had to give the camera back on the next day but couldn't start to edit the files before last week. So, now I discover that the files are supposed to be organised somehow.
My structure looks like this:
I have 10 empty folders called 0-9, two folders which have the names of the two days on which we recorded including both a lot of mxf files, a CONTENTS folder in which is placed on called Video and again some mxf files, some txt files and the last on is called "log" and this one is containing the XML files...

I read that there should only be the "CONTENTS" folder and a txt file. IS it possible to organise the files afterwards?

[Dan Montgomery]

Talea,

The FS100 has a utility you're supposed to run that organizes the files into P2 volumes. Ordinarily you'd have to borrow or rent a FireStore for a day to put everything back on it and run the utility.

We may however have something that can help. Please call our office or email me directly for details. imagine@imagineproducts.com

Dan

[Talea]

Thank you for your suggestion. I just trying it but the Firestore organizes my files since yesterday. Now, I'm just wondering if that's normal?!
Do you have any experience with the duration of this process bc. I couldn't find any information about the timespan of that organisation utility...

[BenB]

Organize P2 on the FS-100 depends on how much footage you've shot. A full FS-100 can take a few minutes, but not forever.

[calchip]

I briefly looked at the directories before and after organization, and it looked like all that it does is copy the files from a folder with a date/timecode as its filename to the "contents" folder, separating the audio and video files into different subfolders within the contents folder.

Does anyone know if there's anything other than copying of files into specific directories that the "organize" function does?

I haven't tried this, but you might be able to look at some of your organized FS100 content (inside the contents folder) and see which folders it creates, and which types of files go in which folder, then try manually recreating the same organization structure with your unorganized content. In the FS-100 manual, it does give information about the naming structure of the files and what each name structure represents, which should help. (Keep a backup of the original, of course).

[calchip]

On the FS100 we used, it never took more than about 30 seconds to organize the content, even with 75 minutes of video stored on it. If it's taking hours, something is definitely broken.

Our FS100 did crash a couple of times when we had large unbroken shots (3-4 minutes or more) so perhaps you're encountering the same bug we did. We upgraded the firmware, but we also stopped doing long unbroken shots at the same time so I;m not sure if we actually fixed the problem or not.

[BenB]

I do long unbroken shots, never had a problem.

As for manually organizing the file structure, why would you want to take more time doing it manually than letting the FS do it for you faster? Besides, from what I've looked at, you can't do a manual organization.