EX-1 workflow questions

[Mick Haensler]

[Craig Seeman] “Make absolutely sure you don’t have any ground issues or hum showing up in strange places.

“The studio” has been a commercial/project recording studio for the past 5 years with seperate and conditioned power, no hums or buzzes to speak of.

Set up a Mac in your home. You won’t regret it. Or maybe get a MacBookPro you can take home (and out on shoots with the camera).

I’ve been considering a MacBookPro to take on shoots and back up footage, don’t think the budget will withstand and extra $2000 though.

What are you doing specifically in designing an IT workflow given that’s the workflow for the EX1.

The MacPro will only be handling creative tasks, mostly video and sound design. I have a 16 track Tascam SX-1 Digital Audio Workstation for straight recording, it outputs broadcast wav files which should be compatible with any software. Office duties and Internet will be handled by a couple of trusty PC’s already in use for such tasks.

Are you handling access to the files through a server of some sort for example?

No, don’t have a need yet.

How are you handling data archival?”

This remains to be seen. For the time being, I’ll back up to DVD-DL seeing as an 8 gig SxS card will fit perfectly on one. We’ll see what the third party developers come up with this year.

Great questions. How are you handling these issues, I’m open to any and all suggestions. Man I love The Cow…you just can’t beat peer input.

Mick Haensler
Higher Ground Media

[Mark Palmos]

[Craig Seeman] “I’d love a 13.3″ MacBookPro rather than the current 15″ for greater portability.”

i hear ya, but seeing full pixel for pixel 1920×1080 on a 17 inch macbook pro is simply deeeevine….

Mick,
on a mac you need the XDCAM transfer utility to copy the stuff off the disk, and XCCAM EX Clip Browser to delete all the clips to carry on shooting on that stick.

really its better to have FCP on the laptop and ingest directly there because you will not have to import the clips separately. There is a bug however where you get 2 or 4 icons instead of one when ingesting to FCP.

mark.

[Andy Nagel]

[Craig Seeman] “ar I’ve only used USB on my PPC and Intel Macs and find about 2x from PPC and 4x from Intel (a lowly Mac Mini no less) when dragging the contents of the SxS cards. The speeds are slower when using the Sony XDCAM xfer software. I haven’t tried the clip browser which works on Intel Mac but not PPC compatible”

I have a Dual 2.0Ghz PPC G5. Sounds like the Sony Clip Browser will not work with this hardware. Can I still transfer SxS card files into FCP6.0.2 via USB with the XDCAM xfer plugin, copy the (rewrapped) .mov files to DVD or HD for archive, and erase the SxS card for reuse with the camera? Or is it better to drag the .mp4 files from the card to an archival hard drive, then import to FCP via XDCAM plug in? I’m struggling to see if I can use this camera immediately without buying a new Intel MacPro or MacBookPro, or both.

[Mick Haensler]

[Mark Palmos] “really its better to have FCP on the laptop and ingest directly there because you will not have to import the clips separately. There is a bug however where you get 2 or 4 icons instead of one when ingesting to FCP.”

Even so, I won’t be editing on a laptop. I will still have to transfer the clips over to the desktop once back at the studio. I don’t see the advantages of capturing into FCP on the laptop and having to pay for the extra seat of FCP. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Mick Haensler
Higher Ground Media