Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, I appear to be having a ton of problems (as I assumed I would making the jump to HD) and switching my “Easy Setup” just wasn’t enough. I have FCP version 6.0 and have asked some questions on Creative Cow.com. They mentioned a few plug-ins that I downloaded, but those don’t seem to work and so I don’t know if I’m just using the Log and Transfer incorrectly or if FCP 6.0 still doesn’t support XDCAM footage. I responded to the CC.com guys and asked them to do a step by step walk through for me so hopefully they’ll be able to help figure this jam out! When I click the “Add Folder” button in Log and Transfer and select a BPAV folder or any folder for that matter, it says the structure of the directory is incorrect, whatever that means?

Some questions about the camera perhaps you can clear up for me, when you have time. I’m trying to adjust my shutter manually, but it will not allow me. I have the “Shutter” switch toggled “on” and “Full Auto” is not on, yet my display says “SHT: auto” and it won’t change even when I alter the speed. And for some reason, I can’t change these things with the direct menu option, despite the fact that I selected “All” for direct menu access in the menu. And for some reason when I do toggle the Shutter switch it says “Cannot Proceed” on the display. Weird, eh? I realize that you may not know about any of these issues, but I felt the need to vent so to speak, heh sorry.

I just can’t believe how much changes when you upgrade from SD to HD!

And as for the Magic Bullet program, I want to and intend to pick it up, just don’t have the money right now since I bought the new camera and computer and am even starting to question what I’ve gotten myself into! It’s a good thing I don’t have any deadlines yet!

Any help/suggestions would be welcomed warmly!

Thank you sir,
Tony

Once you’ve created a project with the correct setup then importing footage should just be a case of using the log & transfer utility to select the location that contains the footage (either a local directory containing a BPAV folder, or the SxS cards themselves mounted within the camera) and choosing the clips you want to import.

I haven’t used Color much, it is definately a lot more complicated than magic bullet looks. I’d highly recommend magic bullet looks, especially if your new to this stuff for ease of use alone.

Thanks for getting in touch, I hope this helps. If not feel free to ask again.

Paul.

I’ve contacted you via youtube a handful of times concerning the Ex-1 and have very much appreciated all of your help/advice thus far. Your picture profile/notes and step by step instructions on this site are incredibly helpful as well, thank you.
I was wondering if you might be able to help me get through the initial steps of preparing my Ex-1 footage to be edited as I continue having difficulty here. I just got the Final Cut Studio 2 upgrade (from Studio 1) to support the footage and tried the “log and transfer” as you stated in your workflow section. I am completely naive to all this and it isn’t working. Could you please (when you have a minute) tell me what “Easy Setup” I should use as well as how to get my footage into FCP? I typically shoot 1080i24p, which I know is different than your PAL 25 or 50fps, but you seem to be an expert at all this!
Also, I do not have Magic Bullet, but do have Color (from FCS 2) and was wondering if you could just give a few tips as to your process of creating the great imagery you get in your footage? What colors do you bump up/down, saturation, crushing of blacks, etc?

I don’t mean to bog you down with questions by any mean and please take your time in responding, but again you’ve been very pleasant and helpful thus far and since I’ve creating an arsenal similar to yours, only wish to obtain as beautiful of images as you have.

I’ve not tried a letus yet so I can’t really compare them.