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XDcam and FCP storage space
I’m looking down the road at my next camera and the EX and the full size XDcams look intriguing. One question I have is how much storage space the XDcam files take in FCP – for arguments sake use the HQ 35mbs setting.
I’m running an FCP system with a 1.6TB raid. I know they say the EX puts 50 minutes on a 16GB card. Does that mean my 1.6TB Raid would hold 5000 minutes? Is it that simple? Or do I have to consider the ProRes and other resolutions. I’m just not clear on the workflow for XDcam.
Just seems improbable because I’m using uncompressed beta right now and it will hold 1200-1400 minutes. Someone please do some math for me!! Thanks.
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This isn’t really the forum for it, but let me say to be very very sure you like the look of XD picture before you invest in a camera.
I work with stuff shot on XD every day, and I can’t tell you how the chip they use in that camera makes me long for an old-fashioned BetaSP camera, of almost any stripe.
To me, XD looks thin and brittle. (Oh, and the slow shutter mode is worse than laughable.)
Just my .02.
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I’m doing an XDCam project right now.
It’s huge, hours upon hours upon hours of footage.
There’s some HDV B-Roll too.I took the expert advice of Walter Bascardi and
we’re doing the entire operation as DVCPRO-HD.Footage we are not using currently gets archived
to Western Digital 1TB mybooks. -
DVCPRO-HD is just a little over 50GB per hour in the 1080i mode.
Way less than ProRes in filesize.
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