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XDCAM > HDCAM Layoff??
Hey Gang,
I have used XDCAM in the past but never had to layoff to HDCAM – the footage is 29.97 upper fields xdcam footage – my sequence in fcp automatically set to the same when i dropped in my first clip (clicked yes) as well i also set the reder control to ProRes as i had seen that being instructed in the past…just now i have to layoff to an hdcam tape and i am wondering if i need to kick out a qt file at prores and the bring it into an 8 or 10 bit uncompressed HD sequence for layoff.
Would it also be possible to just copy and paste from one sequence to the other??
any advice would be great
thanks
Lisa -
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we have all blackmagic HD & HD extreme cards…so as long as i render at proRes i should be fine to layoff in that codec or no??
I was under the impression that something about the GOP in XDCAM is why you render out ProRes – regardless i am wondering also if in the sequence we can just switch the compressor setting to uncompressed 8 bit and then just re-render ?
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if you have an AJA Kona board you can lay to HDCAM tape directly from the XDCAM timeline.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “No, if you are getting rt playout from your Kona, there’s no reason to recompress. “
She’s using BMD, not AJA unfortunately.
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[lisa rolley] “we have all blackmagic HD & HD extreme cards…so as long as i render at proRes i should be fine to layoff in that codec or no?? “
Somebody else will have to answer that. We don’t touch blackmagic stuff here.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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No, if you are getting rt playout from your Kona, there’s no reason to recompress.
Jeremy
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hey guys
thanks for the fast responses – you rock!so just to be clear on this you are saying to set render tab to prores and then layoff the sequence as is to hdcam – no need to change to uncompressed 8 bit – also would it hurt in any way to kick out the pro res qt and bring back into an 8 but uncompressed hd sequence or would there just be no difference and an unnecessary extra step of re compressing?
many thanks
Lisa : ) -
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I would imagine Blackmagic would be the same way. No reason to recompress.
Jeremy
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[lisa rolley] ” would there just be no difference and an unnecessary extra step of re compressing? “
Yep, no reason to recompress.
Jeremy
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Should be able to output with the BMD just the same. No render needed. But even with a Kona or MXO2 I’d render as prores using the render control settings.
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Hey Guys!!
So its time to layoff and I have a couple questions because another editor and I are noticing little jagged lines along the red lines in an actor’s shirt collar – This can be seen i nthe original files created with the xdcam transfer tool Sony provides – when viewed in qt we see that issue in the original transferred files…for broadcast HDCAM layoff is there anything that can be done to remove these jagged lines??
I just did a test export qt and in qt pro it says its XDCAM and i guess i was under the impression that when you switch the render tab to ProRes that when you render the sequence and kick out a QT file it would be in the ProRes codec – CLEARLY i was wrong…any thoughts on how to proceed in trying to clean up these little teeth in the red and also layoff to hdcam accordingly??
thanks
Lisa
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