XDCAM HD Proxies

[Stuart Simpson]

[Bill Nahlik] “Is it possible to edit XDACM HD proxies transferred via FTP in Final Cut Pro?”

Not really… But why would you want to? It’s way easier to just take and edit the full res files, and drives are cheap!

BTW the most up-to-date version of the XDCAM transfer software is 2.7.1

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Bill Nahlik]

Thanks, Simmie,

The drives are in Baltimore, I am in St. Louis. We are trying to edit a segment of a larger project here locally without taking the drives away from the other editors.

I’ll try the newer version, if not for this project, then for the next.

[Stuart Simpson]

If you really need to I suppose you could drop the proxies into FCP and edit them, timecode should match up, but you won’t get any realtime…

Just make a sequence and drop one of the proxies onto it and let FCP alter the sequence settings to match. I’m not quite sure how you’d then relink the media though…

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Bill Nahlik]

That’s where I’m running into problems.

FCP is not importing the proxy files for me to edit. After it is cut, I could send the EDL back to Baltimore for them to re-link the timeline.

[Stuart Simpson]

[Bill Nahlik] “FCP is not importing the proxy files for me to edit.”

Just tried it with some proxy’s here and it works fine… Just dragged them from the cache folder. They were imported using the latest version of the transfer utility though.

-Simmie
4 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
2 G5s – Kona LH
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Bill Nahlik]

It worked! I downloaded the new version of XDCAM Transfer software (2.7.1) and it showed up. I also tried Flip4Mac and that did the trick too.