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Using XDCAM Transfer for Logging
Trying to deal with a mixed work environment….
We’ve set up a guest producer with the latest Sony XDCAM transfer software on her MBP running Snow Leopard. After a shoot, we loaded all the proxies from 8 XDCAM disks using the transfer utility to let her log and subclip the footage.
Now that she’s done, we want to export just the subclips so we can import them into our Avid MC 4.0.5 Nitris system to online the shoot and start dropping in Broll.
But I can’t figure out how to export just the subclips. The proxy movie exports in it’s entirety, but not with any markers.
Any suggestions? This works fine on the PC Software – how do we think different on this one?
Dan Warvi
After Effects, Avid, Motion, Broadcast Systems & PC as nec -
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Dan, I’m not in front of my system but I would check the Import settings in Preferences.
Avid and FCP Preditor
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“I know we told you the functionality between the Mac & PC versions of the software was the same. We didn’t mean EXACTLY the same.”
After a series of exchanges with a Sony rep, the only thing the two apps share cross-platform is the ability to watch the clips. The PDZ-1 PC software lets you export subclips and build a butt-ugly sequence that exports as an AAF. The Mac XDCAM Transfer software lets you log and make subclips, but it ONLY sends the full-rez media to Final Cut Pro.
Our workaround was to have the producer email us the database file located in the Users/Library/Application Support/Sony XDCAM Transfer/database , and put it into the same place on a Mac that has the same XDCAM media loaded. From there, we exported out the subclips to FCP, and built an ugly sequence. Then export out a XML of the project, imported into Premiere Pro CS4, and then exported again as an AAF. Then THAT gets imported into Avid.
We’re already making plans to buy Automatic Duck.
Dan Warvi
After Effects, Avid, Motion, Broadcast Systems & PC as nec -
After exporting subclips from FCP, why not just import the clips into Avid? And when MC 5.0 comes out, you can use AMA to link to those QT files.
Ed
Avid and FCP Preditor
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The idea is to keep all of the metadata intact. While the producer has ID the clips she wants (they’re greenscreen talking heads) the client almost always comes back with “There MUST be a shot of him talking about Chimpanzees and Tricycles. What’s on the rest of the tape?”
If we import them as QT clips, using Batch Import will only “look” at those clips, not the XDCAM media. When we use the PC Software, MC gets the right metadata to figure out they’re subclips from the XDCAM disk, and makes it easy to go back for more media.
Dan Warvi
After Effects, Avid, Motion, Broadcast Systems & PC as nec -
Yup, that makes sense.
Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
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