F70 – Firewire out or HDSDI out?

[Chris Borjis]

[Borjis] “And it takes much less room.”

that should read “Takes twice as much room” DVCPRO-HD that is.

[Mark Maness]

[Borjis] “But what I have found is that by capturing it in another codec and not just copying the xdcam data over, surely that takes longer. maybe a third longer. And it takes much less room.

1 Hour of XDCAM HD in the HQ mode is about 25GB.
That same hour of DVCPRO-HD is about 50GB.

How could it be more efficient for time and disk space with that in mind?
“

You’re right it does sound silly. Let me explain.

In our work for every one hour of disc or HDV tape we may only have 20 minutes of footage to draw. Well, if I import the entire disc, it takes more space in the long run. Yes, I can go thru all of the clip set in-points and out-points, but it becomes the same process of Log and Capture. Then after I do this I’ll need to add notes or rename clips so that anyone else could understand what the clips are.

Do this make better sense? Oh yeah…. you can forget about the long conforming process after your done with XDCAM HD before you send back to disc. That time that I may have wasted on the front end is eaten up on the back end. Besides, have you tried to work with XDDCAM HD in AfterEffects?

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Chris Borjis]

[Wayne Carey] “Do this make better sense? Oh yeah…. you can forget about the long conforming process after your done with XDCAM HD before you send back to disc. That time that I may have wasted on the front end is eaten up on the back end. Besides, have you tried to work with XDDCAM HD in AfterEffects?”

putting it that way, yes.

Thats exactly what I’m doing right now. When the XDCAM HD USB external drive comes out I may go XDCAM HD only though.

But I am concerned with your last sentance.

Is it a problem getting XDCAM HD into after effects?

HDV comes in fine, so why can’t a quicktime wrapped XDCAM HD file come in?

[Mark Maness]

[Borjis] “HDV comes in fine, so why can’t a quicktime wrapped XDCAM HD file come in?”

Well… XDCAM HD comes in fine…. but don’t expect for it to come out of AfterEffects as XDCAM HD. It will not work. I end up rendering everything to the Animation codec for the best quality when working with XDCAM HD.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Chris Borjis]

I just searched the AE forum and found those posts.

thanks for the headsup.