Quality difference and workflow issues with XDCAM?

[Daniel Frome]

[Olly Lawer] “Working with proxies would be useful in terms of speeding up renders (or no renders at all!).

However, what’s the cost for Avid?
“

Since you’ve got FCP you would qualify for the crossgrade, which is $1499.

If you’re still a student then it’s better: $299 and 4 years of free upgrades.

[Steve Connor]

[Daniel Frome] “Do you want to edit purely with proxies? Then relink to full rez when the edit is done?
Do you want to edit with proxy video, but use the high quality audio? And relink to full rez video?
Do you want to edit with the full rez XDCAM material?
Do you want to write your final sequence back to XDCAM disk when you’re done?
“

From the sound of it, he’s using XDcam EX which doesn’t have proxies anyway. Of course FCPX can generate them if required

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
Adrenalin Television

[Olly Lawer]

Yep, you guessed it.

EX1.

Olly Lawer

[Steve Connor]

[Olly Lawer] “Yep, you guessed it.

EX1.
“

My guess, based on recent posts by Sony, is that FCPX will support native XDCam EX shortly.

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
Adrenalin Television

[Olly Lawer]

Great. Thank you!

Olly Lawer

[Craig Seeman]

Apparently Sony will be announcing camera support for FCPX at NAB.
Currently using XDCAM EX in FCPX is not different for me than it was in FCP7.
FCPX handles multiple codecs in the timeline much better than FCP7
FCPX makes it easy for me to mix XDCAM EX and AVCHD in the same timeline.
While FCPX is going through a troubled adolescence, there are certainly pros, right on up through broadcast, who are using it. It certainly doesn’t meet everyone’s needs but it does some things far better and faster than FCP7.