View Full Version : u1 write back - its there


Uli Mors
July 30th, 2008, 02:25 PM
Hi - its there!

I just received a note from a sony sales rep that the PC-VERSION of the u1 update (write back to u1) is here!

Here is the new manual: www.media-in-work.de/u1/u1.zip

No - I dont have any further informations at the moment, but I already received a personal download link + the firmware will be downloadable in a few days from the official sony sites.

ULI

Paul Gale
July 30th, 2008, 03:24 PM
Hurrah!

Thanks Uli :) I'll chase Sony support to get it...

Mike Watson
July 31st, 2008, 10:58 AM
Well... does it work?

Paul Gale
August 1st, 2008, 01:07 AM
Sony prime support have no knowledge of it yet - are you sure you're not dreaming? ;)

Ivan Snoeckx
August 5th, 2008, 07:10 AM
This info comes from Clive on the XDCAM (http://xdcam.com.au/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=930&forum=1) forum. He is working for Sony Pro Australia.

PDW-U1 VFAM Driver V2.0 for Windows has now been released.

This enables write back on a PC Platform (XP/Vista).

Paul Gale
August 5th, 2008, 07:29 AM
I've now updated to v2 firmware - written XML data back to about 6 discs (disc titles etc) and it works well :) Not tried writing video files to it yet though.

Mike Watson
August 5th, 2008, 10:20 AM
I don't see the v2 firmware for the U1 on the Sony download site... am I missing something?

Bob Willis
August 5th, 2008, 11:58 AM
No, It is not on the US Sony site yet.

Jurgen Taghon
August 5th, 2008, 04:37 PM
Is there also a Mac update? (write now its just for windows platform)

Greg Boston
August 6th, 2008, 11:16 AM
Is there also a Mac update? (write now its just for windows platform)

That won't be completed until late in the year. There's a bit more work to coding for the OSX drivers than for Windows. In essence, they pretty much have to write the thing from scratch whereas with Windows, they're able to hook into the OS code for CD-ROM drives to eliminate part of the process.

-gb-

Phil Bloom
August 6th, 2008, 12:46 PM
it is out any day now. I have it but have yet to try it as no windows on my mac yet.

looking to find a way to make it work with parallels of something.

Mac version later in the year

Eugene Kosarovich
August 7th, 2008, 03:59 PM
Yay! The U1 2.00 firmware is now on the U.S. Sony ServicesPLUS site. :)

Note that you need to set up an account to download it, unlike the camera's firmware, but it's quite painless setting up your account.

Gene Bauer
August 8th, 2008, 09:06 PM
I installed tooday and checked it by writing an ext cliplist and a cliplist back to it from PDZ1. Checks good. It puts the ext cliplist in the "general" folder and the cliplist in the "Edit" folder.

It is probably a good idea to upgrade to the latest version of PDZ-1(2.40) also. Here are the steps I took. Restart when prompted by Windows:

1: Uninstall PDWU1 ver.1 drivers
2. Uninstall PDZ1 and Prodisc
3. Download, unzip and install updated PDWU1 firmware(ver 2.0)
4. Download, unzip and install updated PDZ-1 and Prodisc (Ver 2.40)
5. You still have to update firmware, go to programs and you'll see a new Sony app PDWU1 utility. Open Utility app go to update firmware and click update. You'll have to power U1 on/off. Finished...you should be able to write back within the PDZ-1 program. I did no other testing.

Jurgen Taghon
August 9th, 2008, 11:09 AM
so, if i have my timeline in fcp how can y copy the movie to an xdcam disk, in the best possible quality?
and how can y get the ruches to be archived to an xdcam disk?
Once the ruches are on the disk can they be read by any other xdcam hd player/recorder?

thanks

Eugene Kosarovich
August 11th, 2008, 06:06 PM
The write capability is currently only for Windows, not for Mac.

Matthew Pugerude
October 12th, 2009, 04:45 PM
Any word on the Mac Version?

Doug Jensen
October 13th, 2009, 04:28 AM
Write back for Mac has been available for almost two months.
You might be interested in this thread.
http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-xdcam-ex-cinealta/275015-finally-data-writing-onto-pdw-u1-macs-3.html

Thierry Humeau
October 13th, 2009, 02:39 PM
Just ran some tests backing up 16GB SxS cards to XDCAM discs data folders using a PDW-HD1500 deck. It takes about 15 min for each card (57 min. of footage shot at 35mbps), not bad. I assume using a PDW-U1 drive should yield similar times.

Thierry.

Doug Jensen
October 13th, 2009, 08:32 PM
Thierry, it sounds like the PDW-1500 is a lot faster than the U1. I did a test a few weeks ago and it took 36:01 to copy 17.1GB of clips from the internal HD of my MacPro to the "UserData" folder of a 50GB optical disk using the PDW-U1.

Thierry Humeau
October 13th, 2009, 08:48 PM
Interesting.... Is the SxS card in your Mac or did you attached the camera to the computer via the USB cable? I'll do a test with the U1 for comparison.

T.

Peter Beeh
October 13th, 2009, 11:12 PM
PDW1500 has dual lasers so can read and write faster, I seem to recollect

Doug Jensen
October 14th, 2009, 05:53 AM
Interesting.... Is the SxS card in your Mac or did you attached the camera to the computer via the USB cable? I'll do a test with the U1 for comparison.

T.

Neither. The BPAV folder I wanted to burn to the optical disk was already sitting on the hard drive of my MacPro. It had been transferred from an SxS card weeks ago.
I was only interested in testing how long it would take to burn data to the disc, and didn't want any other variables to interfere.

The type of data I was buring to the disc didn't matter. I'm sure that the results would have been the same for any 17GB of files on my computer.

Thierry Humeau
October 15th, 2009, 01:58 PM
Doug, you were right about the write time using a U1. It took about 37 minutes for a full 16GB SxS card. I was just under the assumption that the dual laser on the PDW-HD1500 was just improving read speads but obviously, it speeds up writing as well. About 2.5 times faster than U1.

Thierry.

Doug Jensen
October 15th, 2009, 05:58 PM
Thierry, thanks for confirming. It is always good to get a second opinion.

Doug