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Is there an off-line editing / capture workflow?
Does FCP 5 support any kind of proxy based, off-line editing workflow? (similar to Avid’s?)
With Avid systems you can capture using intermediate or proxy codecs, do the offline edit and then recapture later.
Does the Apple intermediate codec work well for this? anybody know of anyone that is doing this that wouldn’t mind sharing what works, etc?Thanks much,
Jeff -
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Since I usually online with 10-bit, I use the DV codec for the offline…only caveat is that the sequence frame size is 720 x 480 for the offline then 720 x 486 for the online. Might try something else next time, but DV is pretty versatile and has lots of realtime.
I have the Aurora Pipe Pro Studio card which offers both 8 and 10 bit codecs.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media -
thanks for the post.
How many options do you have when capturing? How many different codecs can you use? In your workflow, do you capture using the DV codec?
Thanks again,
Jeff -
JL,
FCP also has a low res off-line codec called “off-line RT”. I think this is what you’re asking about. It an extremely low res image, but we use it for the classic “off-line to on-line” workflow. It’s comparable to the avid’s 20:1 compression.
In the world of Reality TV production, the shooting ratios are so high (300-1) that there simply is no way that we could even use the DV codec to store everything. Furthermore, we’ve now got something like 50+ systems all networked via x-san, so the bandwidth requirements for moving around all those data streams would be too high. Off-line RT ain’t pretty, but it gets the job done.
Mark
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