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XDCam HD workflow
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editing XDCAM HD on the new 17″ MacBook Pro’s will give us about 5 or 6 streams of full res in real time – pretty healthy –
Is this at 18, 25, or 35 data rate? Wow, who needs a desktop machine?
Am I correct then in thinking that as of now the LP and HQ files need to be basically digitized just as if I were coming from tape?
By the way, thanks to everyone for their help.
Nick Lammers
Media Mill, Inc.
St. Louis, MOMedia 100i XS 8.2.2
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You are correct about the LP and HQ modes. You still have to digitize from the disc UNTIL Apple finally gives full support. It took Apple almost a full year before we got full IMX support – 30, 40, and 50 mbit.
By the way, Nick… My last employer used Media100s. My last system was an XR on a G4 Dual 1 gig Mac running Media100i 7.0. You’ll find out that the transition to FCP is not difficult at all. As a matter of fact, you’ll wonder how you did without it.
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Great info. Thanks everyone. Thanks, Wayne, also for the encouragement about the shift to FCP. I’m trying to stick with the M100 until Apple starts selling the desktop systems with the intel chips – wish I had a crystal ball.
Nick Lammers
Media Mill, Inc.
St. Louis, MOMedia 100i XS 8.2.2
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Did someone say even with data transfer, it’s only 2X real time?
If this is true and Sony isn’t predicting faster data throughput
down the road, then this is not the solution I’m looking for.
I shoot 4 camera multi-cam shows, maybe 5 reels (60min) for each camera.
(These are simultaneous timecode shoots so one of the reasons
I liked the XDCAM HD is because I can feed external timecode in
like betas or DigiBetas or the DVCAM 570.)
I want to drastically cut down my capture time.
If the low rez proxies are watchable, I guess that may be
a solution for the roughcut.Why does it take so long to transfer data from the blue ray disks?
Dan
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XDCAM HD SP mode (aka 25Mbs aka HDV)
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FWIW Sony certainly is predicting faster file transfer down the road, but that said, I don;t think its the data transfer that is the issue per se, its more likely the unwrapping of the MXF wrapped source and then the rewrapping as .MOV that takes the time. without native MXF support in quicktime thats not something that can be avoided (but certainly can be alleviated by ever faster processors)
as for the the low-res proxies being watchable, yes, they are certainly fine for a rough cut … but before we can do that we’ll also ned a native low-res codec 🙂
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