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XDCAM HD transfer software from Sony with FCP 5.04?
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Word of advice working with XDCAM that I’ve just recently discovered….
Do NOT really on Autosave (not that you should be anyway). FCP and XDCAM files lose their link extremely badly…. and Media Manager can make an absolute mess of an XDCAM edit.
As I have found from working with XDCAMHD for the last month. Apart from that though, it rocks. Loving the lack of need for capturing 🙂
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[JamieWorsfold] “Word of advice working with XDCAM that I’ve just recently discovered….
Do NOT really on Autosave (not that you should be anyway). FCP and XDCAM files lose their link extremely badly…. and Media Manager can make an absolute mess of an XDCAM edit.
As I have found from working with XDCAMHD for the last month. Apart from that though, it rocks. Loving the lack of need for capturing :)”
That is interesting…. I have only used the transfer software a couple of times yet since we seem to use the settings that FCP doesn’t have support for. Anyway… when working with files (instead of tape stock), always take serious care of your footage. Its not like tape were if something where to become corrupt that you can just redigitize.
The only problems I have been having is dealing with output. I can ONLY output (using the export function of the software) by selecting “Recompress All Frames” and it takes an eternity on a 35 min program (bars, tone, program content, and a black slug at end so that actual show is past the 30 min mark when dubbing to BetaSP).
Here’s another MAJOR problem. When outputting to disc using the software, you have to set your audio to 8 channels dual mono. Ok…. But when you play back your sequence of your show and you have a talent that has been recorded on one channel and possibly a second guest on another channel…. Your host is only on channel one – panned to the left and your guest is on channel two – panned to the right. YES… I can downmix for editing BUT when I write to disc, my talent is back to split channel. Ok, Sony…. How about fixing this one?
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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“Can you down convert the HD files to DV with the transfer software or is there a setting in the camera that will do this?”
I wish for this, and I asked for it at the Apple/Sony show when it came to my town. I got a lot of shrugs as an answer. They’ll either add this to the software or add proxies as extractable editing files. My guess is they’ll go with the proxies solution as they are pushing that on the Sony editing system (Xpri?) which had all the XDCAM HD bells and whistles right out of the box.
We import everything and then use the media manager to recompress to DV. The benefits we get are the ability to be importing in the background while logging already imported clips and adding all metadata. Once the day’s shooting is all imported and logged and tagged we leave the media manager to recompress overnight. We’ve had a few times where the recompress has aborted for an unidentified reason but mostly it’s been smooth. The image quality is great for an off-line and avoiding the pulldown removal by dealing with only 23.976 frames at all times is a nice change.
Having the windows box around is also good because it’s only in the Sony windows software that you can edit the metadata right on the disk. Useful if the on-set crew forget to change the preset naming format we decided on.(3 digits for Episode Number, 1 letter for camera angle, 1 digit for shoot day, and then the sequential number that the camera adds i.e. 103B10005)
Hopefully some of this will be added to the Mac version soon.ak
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[Wayne Carey] “Here’s another MAJOR problem. When outputting to disc using the software, you have to set your audio to 8 channels dual mono. Ok…. But when you play back your sequence of your show and you have a talent that has been recorded on one channel and possibly a second guest on another channel…. Your host is only on channel one – panned to the left and your guest is on channel two – panned to the right. YES… I can downmix for editing BUT when I write to disc, my talent is back to split channel. Ok, Sony…. How about fixing this one?”
Wayne, try this … set your sequence’s audio outputs to 8 channel dual mono as before, but use the channel output assignments (right click in the auto select area of each audio track in the timeline) to output ch1 to ch1, ch2 to ch1 ch3 to ch1 etc … this way you can output a full mix to ch1 (duplicate the tracks and the steps abov, mapping to ch2 etc, if you need full mix on more than ch1)
cheers
Andy -
I’m not getting audio when I import to FCP 5.04 from XDCAM Transfer… It is saving the QT movie WITH audio.
Any ideas?
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