XDCAM Browser still just BPAV?

[Craig Seeman]

[Ian Cook] “The acquisition meta display is part of the add-on bundle;”

To be blunt honest that’s not one of the things I’d consider worth charging for. I’ve actually argued with many people that I consider this an important feature and most say they never use it. It’s been one of my arguments for backing up the BPAV for example. There are many people (FCP users of course) who wrap to mov and toss the BPAV entirely.

I’m not sure what non MainConcept features Sony will sell as add ons but I can see some advanced media management features being worthwhile. For example, creating a data base, possible with proxies or even just thumbnails of what one backs up to an optical disc when using the split function. This way would would know which discs contain which shots.

What I’d really like to see is some form of project restoration (using UMID maybe) so that when one takes a XDCAM EX MOV project offline and later needs to do a bring back either the entire project or just a sequence, you can easily pull and rewrap to mov from the various back up discs . . . this even if just subclips were imported. This might be an XML which tied project to backup database for example.

[Ian Cook]

“To be blunt honest that’s not one of the things I’d consider worth charging for.”

-Beleieve me, we hear you on this one.

The media management features are a good idea and are being explored for future releases.

[Andy Mees]

Anything you can add to this thread Ian? https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/872926

And very generally, can you make any predictions on when we might expect feature parity with respect to the existing but EOL’d XDCAM Transfer? Would this be something planned for a XDCAM Browser 1.x release or more likely a 2.0 kind of thing. Appreciate this might be tricky info to provide but am just looking for a general feel of things as it were. I have a number of XDCAM Transfer users to support (40+) so have some vested interest!

Cheers
Andy