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Please glance at my basic work flow. Does this make sense?
Is the following a good work flow for xdcam and new macpro?
XDCAM footage (80 gigs) comes to me via firewire hard drive to be edited in FCP.- Receive XDCAM footage via external Firewire drive
- Copy to mac’s new Solid State Drives.
- Edit with FCP and finish with Compressor and various encoding all from SSD’s
- Exported FCP project out to external Firewire back-up drive for storage.
Project will be done completely off SSD drives, Then exported out to external Firewire back-up drive for storage.
System Drive will also be SSD -
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As a basic workflow, it seems reasonable. I haven’t edited with XDCAM footage, but I’ve seen many posts suggest transcoding the XDCAM to ProRes to make your edit smoother. Also, be sure to keep all of the original file structure from the SDHC or SxS (or whatever the cam stores to)cards intact in your backup. I’m sure others with more direct XDCAM experience will chime in.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.2, Motion 4.0.2, Comp 3.5.2, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.2)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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Your workflow does indeed sound reasonable …
I’ve been editing in FCP with XD-CamHD footage in its native codec for the past few months and haven’t had any issues that make me want to transcode it all to PorRes.
There were driver issues up until about 6 months ago that caused some minor issues, but those are all gone now as far as I’ve experienced so I guess it depends on how up-to-date your system is.
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