new copy tool

[Sektionschef]

Hi
If anyone is interested then please feel free and use my sdcopy.exe tool to copy the video files from the sdcard(or any other drive/folder) to your harddisk. It seems to have similar functionalities than Barbara's  PVGRAB/WS-SET utility.
It searches a specified source directory(and all its subfolders) for .MOD files and copies them to a single target directory.
The files get new filenames in the format ddmmyy_hhmmss.MOD. If specified, the tool can also rename extension .MOD to .MPG and can also set the 16:9 widescreen flag.
In addition a commandline mode is available to use it with batch files.
Download from here:
http://zyvid.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=280.0;id=119
Regards
Sektionschef

[Skymist]

A few questions of interest...
(1) How do you invoke the command line version?
(2) Does this work (has it been tested) setting widescreen for both PAL and NTSC?
(3) Does it do anything with photos (.JPG)?
(4) Does it work with SV-AV100 directories or only with SDR-S100?
(5) Does it handle SV-AV100  .ASF files?
Questions 2-5 are tasks that PavGrab4 can do.

One thing that PavGrab4 doesn't do is to give you the option not to change the extension in the .MOV filenames to .MPG. Is that the reason you wrote this?  Did you want to keep the filename as .MOV in order to use the files with MediaStage?  I'm curious.  Thanks for the program.

[Sektionschef]

Hi
1.) usage is: sdcopy sourcedir targetdir /ws /ren
Example: sdcopy c:\video c:\test /ws /ren
By appying at least one parameter you will get a message what parameters are missing.
2.) yes, works with PAL and NTSC
3.) no
4.) any directory structure can be used. It searches for .mod files in the specified source folder and all its subfolders.
If you would specify c:\ as the source folder then it would search your whole harddisk.
5.) no,  just mpeg2
There is no specific reason why you can let the file extension be .MOD.

Unfortunately this tool can not detect whether the mod file was recorded in 16:9 or 4:3. If you enable the widescreen option in my tool then it will set the ws-flag in all found mod files regardless whether they were recorded in 16:9 or 4:3.
This is because I don't know where panasonic stores the widescreen information on the sdcard. I assume that they use the .moi file for this but I don't have any description about it. I assume that a detailed description can be found in the sdcard standard specifications but unfortunately they are not free of charge. If you or anyone else have some informations on this then please let me know.
Regards
Sektionschef

[andrewpmoore]

Thanks for your utlity I'm finding it really handy.
One little request though, would it be possible to have a version where it created the date/time in a format that's more like yyyymmddhhmiss or something like that. At the moment in the editing tool I'm using (womble) it's hard to easily order the files in the order they were created. It was fine for april, but now i've tried in May all the may stuff comes before the april footage.
Having the option of the date in this format would make the ordering much easier.

Thanks again for the util
Andrew

[Sektionschef]

Thanks for your request.
I could add the ability to use that format for date and time that is set in control panel(under regional settings).
In addition another user requested to insert delimiter characters in the filename.
So what I could do is:
use "short date" and "time format" from regional settings for the filenames.
Unfortunately I can't use the Time/Date seperator character from control panel because they can include characters that are not allowed in a filename.
Therefore I would use "-" inside time and date and use "_" between time and date as a fixed delimiter character.
Example:
shortdate=yyyy-MM-dd
time=H:mm:ss
Filename would be: 2006-05-09_7-27-00.mpg
Please let me know what you think about it.
Regards
Sektionschef

[andrewpmoore]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I'm not too sure on using the regional settings for specifically what I want as I wouldn't want to change my system to be set to yyyymmdd for dates in everything else.

How about a combo box (drop down box) with a list of a few pre-defined formats, maybe with one of the options being to use the regional settings?

Don't want to create too much work for you though!

[Sektionschef]

Hi,
I'm not too sure on using the regional settings for specifically what I want as I wouldn't want to change my system to be set to yyyymmdd for dates in everything else.

I see.
what about a line in sdcopy.ini to specify the format like:
[Settings]
datetimeformat=yyyy-mm-dd_HH:MM:SS

Regards
Sektionschef

[andrewpmoore]

Hi,
I'm not too sure on using the regional settings for specifically what I want as I wouldn't want to change my system to be set to yyyymmdd for dates in everything else.

I see.
what about a line in sdcopy.ini to specify the format like:
[Settings]
datetimeformat=yyyy-mm-dd_HH:MM:SS

Regards
Sektionschef

That sounds like a great idea!

[Sektionschef]

Hi
Please find attched the new version SDcopy V1.2 which now offers different date/time formats for the filenames.
To update the sdcopy.ini file start sdcopy.exe but close it immediately.
Then open sdcopy.ini with an editor and modify the datetimeformat parameter. Only the listed formats are allowed.
If an invalid format is specified the the default format ddmmyy_hhmmss is used.
If you encounter any problems then please let me know, I haven't had much time to test it.
Regards
Sektionschef

[T_Scheen]

Works fine for me - Many thanks !!
Thomas

[andrewpmoore]

Thanks for that, I'll give it a try when I get home from work.

[andrewpmoore]

Thanks, works fine for me too.

[Skymist]

Hi
Please find attched the new version SDcopy V1.2 which now offers different date/time formats for the filenames.

If your new version is OK, you should detach the old version from your first message, and add a note referring readers to the new version.

[Sektionschef]

If your new version is OK, you should detach the old version from your first message, and add a note referring readers to the new version.

Thanks, haven't known that I can detach it again.
I have also found another tool that seems to do a similar job.
Download here:
http://www.prahm.dk/EverioAssist.exe
Someone wrote it for the JVC Everio HDD camcorders but it should also work for SDR-S100 or SV-AV100 because they all use the same filesystem.
Perhaps we can establish a kind of "tool corner" on this board for all these tools?
regards
Sektionschef

[winoutdoor]

Hi,
    I tested the new version SDcopy V1.2 is not good(V1.0 is OK).  The month and day sometime collect, sometime incollect.  For example, I copied the file's day from 13th to 31th of the files were OK, but if I copied the file's day from 1st to 12th of the files, the month and day was opposite each other!!
So could I ask Sektionschef to check it again.
Thanks for your kindly offer and help...

Peter