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Premiere Pro and XDCAM Optical Disks
Who is using Premier Pro with material recorded on XDCAM HD optical disks? We’re just making the switch form FCP to Premiere Pro, and I’m looking for some suggestions on workflow. I’ve played around enough to know that Premiere handles the native MXF files just fine. But what’s the best way to get them into the system? Do you just copy the entire XDCAM disk straight over? What if you have 100 clips on the disk, but you only want 50 of them for editing?
I didn’t think I would ever say it, but I’m already missing XDCAM Transfer, where I could log and select only the clips I want to bring into the system.
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For optical discs, I would say that the Sony Transfer method is the best. You can try the Media Browser inside Adobe PRemiere Pro, but I have heard reports that our performance isn’t as fast as the Sony Transfer.
Since I don’t have a XDCAM disc transport, I’d be interested to hear your results.
Dennis – Adobe guy
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Thanks for the response, but it brings up another question. XDCAM Transfer is a Sony software program that is primarily used to import XDCAM material into Final Cut Pro. It re-wraps the original XDCAM.MXF file into a XDCAM.mov file because FCP cannot work with native .MXF files. Here’s the question: does Premiere Pro care whether the media file is .MXF or .mov? Is there a performance difference in Premiere Pro for one file type vs the other?
XDCAM Transfer and XDCAM Browser both give us some needed capabilities. They allow us to log our XDCAM optical disks, and write this logging information back to the XDCAM disk. That’s importnt. After the logging is finished, these programs allow me to select only the “good” takes, and move them from the XDCAM optical disk to a folder on my media drive. If Premiere Pro doesn’t care if the video file is .MXF or .mov, then I’m good to go.
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