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multiple format multicam edit
Hi,
We’ve just completed a multicam shoot on a variety of RED, HDCAM and XDCAM, all 25p (although the red sometimes did some slomo @ 50p), delivering 1080 25p. Now, I would normally edit this as a multicam edit, but the director, who’ll be cutting alot of this himself, prefers to stack the cameras in sync on different video tracks, which, while not as fast works remarkably well for him and gives quite different cuts to multicam.
This edit will be started on location on a Macbook pro with FW 800 GRaids, which for his method – running only one stream at a time should be fine. So I was going to capture the HDCAM at XDCAM 1080p 25 (35mbps) and transcode the RED to the same, so that he has everything in the same format and isn’t pushing his storage too hard, and so that I can then group clips up effortlessly when I come on board.
Ultimately this’ll be onlined, probably in a Nitris.
My question is is this the best workflow? Given the hardware limitations is XDCAM the best codec to offline in and will I encouter any problems transcoding while I capture from HDCAM.
Any thoughts or experiences much appreciated.
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2 Replies
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My vote would be ProRes. While I haven’t edited with XDCAM, from all the posts I’ve read, it’s way more problematic than ProRes.
John
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problematic in what sense?
I regularly edit XDCAM natively from EX1s without a hitch. Always choose to render out as ProRes for quality’s sake, but for just cutting, never had a problem and XDCAM is alot lighter than ProRes. Could you expand a bit more or post some links?
cheers
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