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BMD Media Express 3 in June
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[Erik Lindahl] “I don’t see an issue with this at all. Perhaps “log and capture” features will be more stable when tied to a vendor-specific hardware even and MOST people have moved away from tapes for a large portion of the their day-to-day work anyways. “
I think those with vested interest in support tape, which would be video card makers, might be best suited to develop those tools. If Apple developed the tool it would have to work with a variety of cards. If the card developer also developed the tool it would take specific advantage of their card.
Even as tape moves to legacy over time, there will be those of use who need to resurrect (batch capture) old projects or work with projects that may need both tape and file based media. Batch capturing such a project would be interesting to say the least.
Imagine resurrecting a project that needed DigiBeta that had been converted to ProRes, XDCAM proxy files that need to link back to XDCAM HD, AVCHD files that had been converted to ProRes. The timeline would have to have the metadata to pull back media, often to retranscode, even if FCPX would no longer need to do that in some cases if one were starting the project fresh.
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I agree, given we more and more have a all digital file based workflow now – even if the source is film. But we still have the odd digibeta delivery or capture so even for our small post house we couldnt just drop tape-support over night – especially for archival purposes.
As has been pointed else-where a solid media management back-end is required even if apple drop tape-deck control in-app. I would be very surprised if the log and transfer tool hasn’t remained (although brought up to FCPX standards of course). Then again building a modern professional application, having a healthy plugin architecture even for i/o seems like a “smart” design to me. We’ll see.
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Erik Lindahl
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[Erik Lindahl] ” and MOST people have moved away from tapes for a large portion of the their day-to-day work anyways.”
How do you quantify most people? You’ve done a survey or looked up some article on this? MOST people I work with day to day are still working with huge libraries of tape, either for archive purposes or still shooting tape over hard drives.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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I’ll correct that – most people I work with, be it production or post production. A large part of it is also due to the fact all TV copies are filebased in Sweden. But, as I’ve stated, we’re still dependent on tape-capture our selves but tape for us is rare compared to filebased workflows.
Given this is my daily life everyone has a different one. FCP 7s current strength is that it support a very wide varity of workflows given the all filebased one can be questioned sometimes. Still – as you say – tape is required in a “pro” environment but as people have stated, perhaps this requirement doesn’t nessacarily need to come from the NLE. The NLE however has to be able to communicate with systems that solve this problem – i.e have a healthy i/o structure (OMF / AAF / XML / QT etc) and / or a stable plug-in architecture that enables third parties to solve the problem.
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Erik Lindahl
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Hello! Can ANYONE PLEASE point me to a software that can Import XML files written by BMD Media Express? I’m using FCP X, but can NOT import the XML files.
Am I doing something wrong? And what other NLE can read the files? I’ve tried capturing via ProRes and still nothing. Thank You
Jason
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