• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  re: XDCAM data question

  Posted by Chris Pilkington on January 6, 2009 at 6:05 pm

  Right here goes!

  Working with XDCAM EX for the first time and am being sent the media on a Hard drive to work on tomorrow.

  The Footage data has been converted so it can be edited in FCP 6.05 now here-in lies my question…

  Do i need the original camera data (the MP4 files and all the rest of it) or can i be sent just the QT versions converted by the sony(?) software? it seems like a huge amount of data to send with the original camera files when i can only work from the converted ones anyway….

  Any help and ideas much appreciated as always……….

  Mark Maness replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mark Maness

  January 7, 2009 at 3:07 pm

  The very best option when working with XDCAM EX footage is to backup ALL of the card files to Blu-Ray discs in its entirety. Then you can use FCP to convert the footage to Quicktime to a hard drive for editing. After that, place those incredibly important Blu-Ray discs in a safe place.

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