how to transfer footage from CF cards

[Magnus Dorati]

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[Julio Quintana]

1. Connect your CF card reader to your computer.
2. Create a folder on your external hard drive with the reel number (ex. Reel 1, Reel 2...)
3. Highlight ALL the files on the CF card, drag and drop them into the appropriate Reel folder.
4. Once transfer is complete, confirm that the .RDC files are the same size by right-clicking them and going to "Get Info" (on Mac).
5. You should also double-click some of the transferred Quicktime proxies to make sure they are all working, or use Clipfinder to quickly scroll through all the clips.

[Panos Bournias]

Thanks. Our loader tries this, without luck. He plugged the cam into the computer and the computer recogized the camera, but he got some sort of an error message. (an remember which one)

Do you need to press something in the settings or etc before you can just connect it and tranfer?

Magnus, you eject the CF card from the camera, take it off carefully and insert it in the cf card reader on your computer...

[Lewis-M Soucy]

Oh, so you gotta have a reader to transfer? Theres no way you can use the camera as a reader?

Very bad idea, the Red One is not a "camcorder so to speak and I've never ever heard of such a procedure. I'm actually surprised the camera mounts on your computer!

The normal procedure is well explained to you here. I recommend you follow it carefully.

[NateWeaver]

Oh, so you gotta have a reader to transfer? Theres no way you can use the camera as a reader?

A reader costs 50 bucks. Not to mention comes with many packages.

Tying up the camera body just to offload footage is terribly inefficient, wouldn't you say? It's so inefficient they didn't set the cam up to do it.

[Lewis-M Soucy]

Price range is wide, you can them for much cheaper:

http://www.amazon.com/PQI-USB-2-0-Co.../dp/B000W4T9KG

http://www.amazon.com/Expresscard-Ad...4434610&sr=1-4

[Noah Kadner]

Yeah-a reader is really a must have and they're practically free compared to a camera package. Don't use the camera!

Noah

[ericyoung]

Lexar UDMA FW800 CF readers:
http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Compact-.../dp/B000QU1QVG

are known to work with RED's 16GB CF cards. Think there's Sandisk one that also works.
Other models and makes may or may not work - some have random issues or do not work at all with these particular cards.

[Conrad Hunziker]

1. Connect your CF card reader to your computer.
2. Create a folder on your external hard drive with the reel number (ex. Reel 1, Reel 2...)
3. Highlight ALL the files on the CF card, drag and drop them into the appropriate Reel folder.
4. Once transfer is complete, confirm that the .RDC files are the same size by right-clicking them and going to "Get Info" (on Mac).

Or use R3D Data Manager which will do all the above steps in an automated fashion, and ensure that all the zeros and ones actually match up.

[George K "Veck McCartin]

Another danger that has not been mentioned is that the bus power on most 1394 controllers cannot be disabled. This causes a danger to both the external device(camera, drive, etc) FW bus and the Computer's FW controller, the connectors and may even threaten other devices on the bus.
For some reason, drives seem to do okay with this, decks and cameras often do not. I would only connect cameras for maintenance purposes.
Veck