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sony ex 3 work flow
Who has the better work flow for the sony ex3, Avid or Final Cut Pro?
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Avid. Avid has INSTANT access to the footage via AMA, and then you can consolidate or transcode to the system drive…Or just copy the cards to your media drive and then access and edit them right away. No third party plugin like the XDCAM Transfer utility.
Working with the footage via AMA might be sluggish, depending on your machine, so you might want to transcode the footage to DNxHD. just like FCP wants to import the footage to QT. But getting the footage to ProRes via FCP is a two stage process. Convert to QT…takes time. Then transcode to ProRes…takes time. And lots of drive space. Avid allows you to see the footage right away, and then do ONE level of import/transcode. Much faster than FCP.
Shane
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from my experience, XDCAM, even on slower machines works quite smoothly
i use for lectures and demos footage from a chroma key music video
i play a timeline realtime, with spectramatte and background in green dot and get very good playback
all this, while AMA linked from a thumb drive 🙂
get the same results with P2
always gets wows from my audiences or clients
i even use it as a is-your-machine-even-strong-enough-for-editing test
hector
Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
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I’ve only had XDCAM slow down one machine, a work machine at some company. Mine has always been able to handle it fine. Even my laptop. BUT, I am plugged into the Hollywood system where audio is done by a mixer, so I need to send them AAF exports. And AAF doesn’t work with footage accessed via AMA, only with Avid media…so I always end up transcoding anyway.
Shane
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Hi Shane,
transcoding or consolidating a sequence is not like doing it with all the project’s footage …
furthermore, MC will allow AAF exports of AMA sequence in XDCAM if video is included too
though it does act strangely on export… and i’m not sure how well it works. i always transcode my final sequences.it seems like XDCAM and P2 AMA files get a different treatment (they were there first)
hector
Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
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I haven’t been able to export AAFs from sequences that have P2 or XDCAM footage accessed via AMA. And I am running Avid MC 5.0.3.
Shane
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try this
AMA linked sequence
export AAF
both video and audio chose “consolidate media” and “embedded”with XDCAM, it will give an error message regarding the long GOP video files and will offer options to
re-encode and continue (with a warning) … it will produce an AAF filewith P2 it just works
hector
Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
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Sorry Rich, to have taken over your question…
With XDCAM I just transcode the final sequence anyway…as I like to have an archive of the final project. So I’m not too worried. Same with P2. But I’ll try that next time.
As for P2…I just had to deliver an AAF to my audio mixer last month, and it didn’t work. “Sorry, you cannot export an AAF with non-Avid media or media accessed via AMA.” was the error (paraphrasing) that I got.
Shane
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PLUS…this didn’t work for AAF to Automatic Duck either…as I was going to go from Avid to FCP to Color and then output. Had to consolidate first.
Shane
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yes… sorry rich 🙂
Shane, i transcode my sequences too, then export AAF
i never tested the workflow i mentioned on a real project.
however… i just tested again on my laptop to be sure…
XDCAM acts a little strange, but both P2 and XDCAM AAF sequences exported AAFs as long as video was includedi’m on MAC MC 5.03
hector
Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
prePost Consulting
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