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XDCAM workflow help
I work for a professional sports team. After every broadcast, we get a “melt” of the top plays of the game. We’ve been shooting with PDW-F355’s for about a year now, and now we’re going to start getting our game melts on XDCAM disk instead of tape.
My workflow question is this: I will get one big clip on the disk after every game with all the highlights in it. I need to log and transfer each highlight, so I break each highlight out as a separate master file on my editing hard drive. However, I’d like to do it so that we can go back in the future and retransfer the individual highlight clips long after they’ve been deleted from my current hard drive. Sony will now let you name the subclips in the log and transfer software, but it won’t write the names to the disk. So, this isn’t a permanent solution. I’ve tried importing the entire clip, making subclips in FCP, and trying to break them up with the Media Manager, but that hasn’t worked well either.
Does anyone have a good idea for my workflow? I miss the old “Batch capture” from tape, where FCP would go back and recapture from the tape. Is this something I can do with FCP 6 or 7?
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[Mitch Jordan] “Does anyone have a good idea for my workflow? I miss the old “Batch capture” from tape, where FCP would go back and recapture from the tape. Is this something I can do with FCP 6 or 7?”
Good old fashioned Batch Capture is still there Mitch. Could you not use that to recapture via baseband as and when needed? If baseband capture is not an option for you then you can instead archive a copy of your project and footage as OfflineRT HD (using FCP’s Media Manager > Recompress option). When you need to re-access that footage in high res then you can use Bouke’s new XDcam Extract tool to reimport the high res from disc.
https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=40
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Thanks for your response, Andy! I wasn’t aware of the XDCAM Extract tool. That might be the solution! If I use Batch Capture to recapture the footage, will it try to bring it in as ProRes or will I be able to transfer XDCAM material? Will it do the whole preroll, digitize thing, similar to tape? I guess I don’t know what you mean by doing a baseband capture. What is that? Thanks.
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Will it do the whole preroll, digitize thing, similar to tape?
Exactly. You’d hook up an XDCAM deck to your edit systems I/O device (Kona/Blackmagic/Matrox etc) and use it exactly as you would a normal tape based system to capture the offline material. The recapture codec/settings would be whatever you defined in the Batch Capture dialog.
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