Comments on: Backing up raw AVCHD video from SDHC cards to disk image

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:03:17 +0000

hey, have you tried the solftware revolverhd by ShedWorx… they claim to have a solution for archiving sd cards. I wonder how disk utility compares to RevolverHD.

Dave

By: paulhugel

paulhugel — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:19:46 +0000

My new Sony HXR-MC50U I have to first create a usb connection before I can see the mount point on my desktop then:

Anyone using AVCHD footage on a mac running Snow Leopard can use the technique of archiving explained above either the whole camcorder or SD Card etc. by creating a dish image anywhere, my preference is to save on 2TB external disk

When you wish to access it double click the “yourdiskimage”.dmg mounting it to your desktop

using iMovie 09: all your files will show up and you can select all to transfer all or uncheck all and select individual files to transfer to iMovie project

For Pro Apps
do the same as above except go File–> log and transfer on Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro drag the clips you want into the queue or select automatic and all will be transferred to your open project

when you are done go to disk utility and and eject the mounted image

Aloha

By: JeroenFromBelgium

JeroenFromBelgium — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:01:21 +0000

Woehoew, finally a decent solution to deal with AVCHD on my mac!
However, I’m not completely satisfied because I use my Panasonic camera to film skateboarding. Let’s say we film 100 little clips in one session, and in our final edit we won’t use more than 5 percent of it.
Is there away to exclude these clips from the disk image easily?
Thanks

By: George

George — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:46:01 +0000

Fantastic!!! Very useful indeed. Thank you very much for spending the time to put this piece together.

By: Keke

Keke — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:05:50 +0000

Thanks so much for the timely reply! I think I might have a ISO creator on my computer already. I will check those programs out too though, just in case. Thanks again.

By: Scoopz

Scoopz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:16:09 +0000

@Keke - I've had a good hunt around and asked everyone I know on twitter but nobody's come back with a windows equivalent to OS X's Disk Utility I'm afraid. Windows has a similar built in admin console "Disk Management" to partition and format drives but not for creating disk images. There are two programs that I've found but neither are freeware, however, they do both offer free trials. R-Drive (15 day trial) WinImage (30 day tiral) See how you get on with either of the above programs, just create .iso files rather than .dmg files as explained in this blog. If you do manage to find one, please let me know. Scoopz (Admin)

By: Keke

Keke — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:01:52 +0000

Is this or a similar feature available on PC? The disk image thing, I mean.

By: Backup and Archive SDHC Cards - Jonathan Brown

Backup and Archive SDHC Cards - Jonathan Brown — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:20:54 +0000

[...] of the SDHC card so I did a quick Google search to see if someone was doing this already. I found this post on Scoopz Blog which is exactly what I was looking to do. The short story is, using Apple’s Disk Utility, [...]

By: Daddy Dave

Daddy Dave — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:01:53 +0000

Thanks Uncle Scoopz, you’re the best!x

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:56:07 +0000

Hi, i have a canon hf100 an use a 8gb sdhc card, recently i wanted to store some of te videos to free up some space, as i was going away an wanted to take my camera, i copied the .MTS files into a folder on my mac, which somehow got deleted, but now when i insert the card into my mac imovie does not pick it up atall so the remaining videos are literally untoachable, all my other sdhc cards work fine, i think when i took just the MTS files of it must have disturbed the card is some way? i can still record and playback the videos on my camera using this card but it just wont work when i interested the card to my Mac.

Any ideas what i can do?