Why the XDCAM clips didn’t come “transcoded” to PRORES ?

[Steve Connor]

They don’t need to be optimised,

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[Craig Seeman]

Basically the EX workflow has remain unchanged between FCP7 and FCPX.

I believe Sony has promised plugin support (and they do have a plugin that allow import of the EX .mp4 without rewrap as does Calibrated Software for FCP7).

The questions I’d have would be: will clips be joined using the BPAV metadata (.smi), will the optimize and proxy options work?

If neither of the above were supported it would, ironically, mean AVCHD and H.264 .mp4 were better supported.

[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Thanks to Steve and Craig,
but just a little advice …
At the end should I export as 422, 422 HQ , 444 ? Do I get any better doing that ? Or should I leave it in native codec wrapped in .mov ?

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[Craig Seeman]

I’m not sure if there would be a visual difference between 422 and 422HQ. It may well depend on what the rest of your chain is to the targeted destination. I’d think 422 is fine unless you’re looking at another round of heavy compositing or grading or theatrical presentation.

[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Thanks Craig,
For my client:
What I know is that my client will use the final movie in a DVD and in his website (compressed).
For me:
I will need to do some composition with Motion. Since we don’t have anymore the “roundtrip” between FCPX & Motion, I’m still trying to figure it out the best workflow to insert some objects (pictures), text and clips (with alpha channel or created with masks).
In the past we could select the clip in FCP timeline and send it to motion as a background reference for the job and after that decide if we want to let FCP to render or export from Motion and put the clip over in a upper track in FCP.

greetings ….

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[Steve Connor]

ProRes is a very robust codec so going down a generation or two by importing the background into Motion won’t have any effect.

Hopefully true roundtripping will return in a later version

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