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Sony XDCam HD editting
has anyone worked with Sony XDCam HD and editted it on Premiere Pro? Im curious as to how the data rates can effect your edit. I think there are three different data rates, does the highest rate function as well as the lower rates and vice versa? any info or links for more info are appreciated.
thanks
Craig
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I haven’t used the cameras, but I sure would be interested in seeing what others have done with the format and their process.
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Craig,
[craigd] “has anyone worked with Sony XDCam HD and editted it on Premiere Pro? Im curious as to how the data rates can effect your edit. I think there are three different data rates, does the highest rate function as well as the lower rates and vice versa? any info or links for more info are appreciated.”
Adobe products don’t support MXF wrapped files like XDCam, any flavor, on their own. For the time being at any rate, Adobe is looking to their partners to supply this functionality. This applies to Pana P2 and Infinity MXF wrapped JPeg2000 as well. Some of their partners will or shortly will support them either directly or by transcoding. Perhaps someone makes a utility to rip the MPEG2 out of the XDCam files, but I haven’t looked into it, and it sure wouldn’t be the greatest workflow. So, if you want to edit XDCam with PPro…, look to Matrox Axio to edit XDCam files natively, or probably Cineform to edit them by automatically transcoding to Cineform’s codec.
Ron Shook
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I’ve been researching similar issues regarding the Infinity I’m buying. There are two companies that are very interesting in this regard, but very little known. Here they are:
MainConcept. I had a great conversation with their Dirk Peters who told me about their company, German with an American subsidiary. They provide Adobe with ALL their video codecs, but have not yet provided a JPEG2000 codec to them. They have a software encoder that will basically turn JPEG2000 into anything you want, from uncompressed avi to DVCPRO HD and so on. You have to buy the modules you’ll need. But with this, you can take the circle takes from your Infinity footage off the Revpro cartridge, convert them to uncompressed video, and save them to your hard drive array. They will also have some announcements at IBC and area a company to watch.
Morgan Multimedia. They have some kind of JPEG2000 plug-in for Premiere that was mentioned on the Adobe Premiere forum and the also have a range Windows JPEG2000 codecs and other products. They are motion JPEG specialists and as a French company they may have been the provider of the JPEG2000 to Thomson. Dirk at MainConcept said that while MainConcept provides many codecs to Thomson he didn’t think that they provided their implementation of JPEG2000, so to me, two plus two makes Thomson buying from Morgan, both French so a likely alliance.
Between these two companies, the JPEG2000 codec will find its way into an NLE near you soon.
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