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New to XDCAM: where’s the reel number info???
I’ve just picked up a project that someone else started, and it’s my first experience of editing with XDCAM material.
I don’t know how the media has been imported exactly (it’s all hi-res, that’s for sure), but I was wondering if anyone can tell me why there is no equivalent of “tape number” info, coz I’m struggling to make sense of the order in which the material was shot.
Most of the clip names are in the format “478_0178_01”, but some start with a different 3-figure prefix, eg “529_0234_01”. Where do those 3-figure numbers come from? The card? The drive? The import? The previous editor has re-named some of the clips and it becomes more difficult to order the shots correctly in bins. (Usually I would sort a whole load of clips by reel number and start timecode to get them in a sensible order, but that is not so easy with XDCAM.)
I’ve skimmed through a PDF suggesting a workflow for importing XDCAM material, and it refers to assigning a “disk label” on importing. Could it be that this step has been omitted, and is that likely to cause problems identifying footage in the future?
TIA
Tim
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Enable Disk label in your bins and see if there are indeed disk labels.
If not, it’s not a problem to add them. (and add reel numbers as well if you like, in case you want to re-ingest over SDI)
Or, if the material is ingested and not transcoded, it’s not a problem as long as you don’t have to relink. (It’s in native form then, so it will not get better when reingested)The naming seems custom to me, and there is perhaps logic behind it…
Ask the previous editor about it.hth,
Bouke
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