We have been through a range of solutions and finally cut a series using Sony Vegas 8 to make the conversions. The advantage of this is that you can "pre-cut" the footage in Vegas and only export the media you want to keep. We exported as MXF files suitable for MC. The downside is that it is slow. In a subsequent test, we trialled AVCHD Upshift

Hi Bill.. We are just finishing a series which uses Nanoconnect to get the HDMI video from Sony pencilcam HXR-MC1P cameras into Flash XDR recorders. We import the resultant XDCAM HD media into the Avid after two file copies : firstly from the card to external usb hard-drives, which are then flown from Australia to New Zealand. The media is then dumped

This issue has finally been "put to bed" in that, with a lot of work with the local SUN engineers (very helpful people), we have determined that the "fault" lies with the nfs protocol that is responsible for the writing of files to the nas. It has an inherant 4GB limitation and Avid seems to "see" this as branding the nas

Matthias, it would appear that you are right about the problem relating to the trial version. The files I was trying to convert had groups of files in them that were from the same take, since the camera breaks each take down into contiguous 2GB files for storage on the FAT32-formatted card. So, although they looked like totally independant files, Upshift

[quote user="ChezAmber"]Do you mean an additional firewire card? As far as I know there is one firewire card on the machine, which I installed myself in order to bring the Dell up to Avid standards and also give more power to my multiple media storage drives (all now unplugged.)[/quote] It sounds like the Dell doesn't have an on-board

Can you get hold of a firewire card and plug it in to a free slot on your machine (don't know which is the correct slot on a Dell, as we have HP workstations) and connect the mojo to this? There could be conflict (in an "AVID sense") between the on-board firewire and some other machine function. If you want to connect firewire storage

[quote user="Wm Warne"]Are there any factors shared by the UpShift files that are accepted by Avid and not shared by those that are rejected (size /duration, action material vs. non-action material, first files converted vs last files converted, for example)? Since you write that files tend to be accepted if reconverted by UpShift, I am guessing

Upshift for me certainly seems to be erratic. With two out of five thin-raster files, it will do a conversion that Avid rejects. Try again, replace the existing files and it stands a good chance of producing acceptable files for import. So, still looking for the definitive answer. So far, conversion via Sony Vegas seems to be the most repeatable method

[quote user="macjaeger"]But the original downloadable version didn't produce usable files from my Sony AVCHD clips. I dropped a ticket at NewBlue's support homepage and the next day they sent a download link for the bugfixed version (1.0h), which i'm using without trouble for over a year now.[/quote] We have been using Sony Vegas

[quote user="boltown"] If it stops at 2gb limit, check that the drives on nas aren´t formated as fat32. Maybe there´s the problem. [/quote]Thanks for the post, boltown. The NAS is formatted with a proprietory SUN system, which has within itself no 2GB restriction. However, to access the file system on the NAS, an intermediary between