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GF-cam and Final cut Pro
Hi,
The company that I work for as an editor is going to invest in some nice, new Ikegami HDS-V10 camera’s. We work with FCP 7 so I have to find out what will be the best workflow for our systems with the material the camera produces. The camera records MXF files and the best solution so far is a an application from Calibrated software which let’s me import MXF files straight into my FCP project ready for editing (other programs such as MXF for mac don’t seem to work?).
So this works. However, there are a couple of concerns that I have. Namely: The clips in the first test project that I did turned white when I opened it a couple of months later! I mean white, as in no content… I could still import the clips from the original folder in my finder, but FCP would not reconnect them with the clips in my sequence or bin.
And the other thing is that the way this calibrated plugin works is that it creates a .mov reference clip next to the original clip in it’s original folder(to trick FCP I guess). Now the problem is that we are also starting with final cut server and I can imagine that all these double-files could become confusing for the whole folder-structure and automated processes such as making proxy files from watch folders and such…Maybe this is a problem that can be solved with conversions or what have you (suggestions?), but I was thinking that the best solution would be to find a way to make the camera record in QT. Maybe with an external recording device such as the the Atamos Ninja, or the SSD recording system from blackmagic? I don’t know if this would work on these camera’s or how convenient it would be. I mean: I can imagine our cameraman wouldn’t enjoy having to press rec on an external device mounted the back of his camera.
Does anybody have any experience with any of these, or other systems? Or with the whole HDS-V10/FCP/FCserver workflow? Please let me know.
Greetings,
Robin
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4 Replies
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Hi Rovin,
That camera shots basically XDCAM (HD422/100Mbps).
Had you tried that workflow?
rafael -
Thanks for your reply,
Do you mean by ingesting it with the XDcam log and transfer software?
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Hi Robin,
If you can go “SONY Transfer + L&T” that is the way.
This method will let you rewrapping the MXF as QT and most important, to be able to reconnect to the original media when needed. This is the best option for a proper media managing.
BTW, did you had a look to Shane Ross tutorial on “Tape-less Workflows”?
rafael -
Thanks again Rafael,
I’ll give it a try tomorrow at work. I did watch the tutorial on tapeless workflow, but I can’t remember him talking about GF-cam material specificly. I have the XD-cam l&t plugin already installed.
Robin
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