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XD Cam HD – Did I mess up?
I haven’t really done an HD project in FCP before, and I already started one without a lot of foresight, and maybe I’m over thinking so either some validation or a quick swift kick to the butt is much appreciated.
Started a XDCam HD 35 mbit project, 24 frame. Editing has gone smoothly, and no need to reload because I edited with the XDCam files, in a XDCam timeline, etc.
Now I have to send it for mixing, and then make a master. Ugh. So my first question is with the audio mix.
They want a betacam chase tape…. if I have to downconvert to make it, will the pulldown mess up the audio? They will have the timeline, but will the audio end up drifting if they sync it to the downconvert?
I’m glad I read the FAQ ’cause my second question was about downconverting the final timeline to SD on tape.. it’ll just do it and same with the DVDs…
Was this the way I *should* have done this project? Some people were saying I should have done it with pro rez, but I’ve always been of the mentality that and compression/decompression stuff just causes quality loss…? Thoughts? I am doing another project in FCP like this again, so any tweaks to my workflow is much appreciated. I’ve only done them in avid before!
Thanks!
-Susanne
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We use XD Cam HD for all of our productions. We have over 50 episodes shot with XDCam. We always digitize our footage to ProRes 422(HQ). There is not quality loss and you go from 1440 x 1080 to 1920 x 1080. You get a great picture with Pro Res.
To produce a BetaCam chase tape you will have to downconvert. We use our Kona3 cards to do all of our upconvert/downconvert. Our workflow for this is to play our HD timeline through the Kona3 and it will downconvert to SD. Patch the workstation to the deck and Kona will take care of the conversion with no audio sync issues.
Hope this helps.
Alan Smith
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I use XDCAM as well but input via FW using the Sony utility. What is the Pro Res buying you? Do you capture in realtime and convert then or do you import and then convert everything over. Just curious as to why you convert to ProRes.
Scott Sniffen
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