[Andrew Southard]

Where is 1.3 available? I only see ver. 1.20 on the Sony XDCam site.

Drew South

[Andrew Southard]

Walter – Well Duh! That makes sense–My brain wasn’t engaged on that one, Thanks.

Tom – We do use the ProRes workflow some–but most of our work gets output back to the XDCam optical disc. In order to do that, I have to output it as an XDCam 1080i 60 VBR sequence to the XDCam deck. So staying in the native XDCam sequence makes sense to us. Quality and render times are no different. I’m open to all ideas though–enlighten me if you think we should do differently. In switching to Premiere Pro this will a be a moot point anyway, right?

It’s nice to have an adult conversation with intelligent folks like yourselves after being bombarded with all the hype and spastic panic that has been the world of FCS over the last couple of weeks–Thanks guys!

Drew South

[Andrew Southard]

Good to hear, Tom.

90% of our footage is XDCam (optical disc not ex). Anyone have any caveats using XDCam with Premiere? Other than I will have to buy the Main Concepts plugin (over $800!) to output back to XDCam disc.

I’m one of the soon to be Final Cut refugees. We have 3 edit suites on a Maxx Digital Final Share System RAID. All 3 suites have AJA Kona Lhi or Kona 3 cards installed. So, Premiere makes sense and should be an easy switch. I’m just trying to find any details that I may have overlooked.

Drew South

[Andrew Southard]

Walter,

So your single 4 core did not work–what about a dual 4 core? Am I also going to have problems there?

Drew South

[Andrew Southard]

I just found where I emailed RNDigital last fall for a new authorization code. They replied, so they were still around then. The web site was RNDigitalLabs.com

Drew South

[Andrew Southard]

That’s too bad–I didn’t realize they were out of business. I really like Finis. Another one to try is Final Plug 5 from Wave Arts.

Drew South

[Andrew Southard]

Finis is great! Try RNDigital.com

Drew South

[Andrew Southard]

FYI, just did a test on the Kona 3 card and it is working fine. FCP 6.01

Drew South

[Andrew Southard]

I’ll throw my 2 cents worth in here. We have been using a workflow for CC similar to what Alan is attempting to do for 3 years. I love it! We’re doing about 50 half hour episodes per year for Outdoor Channel.

We use Caption Link here in Nashville. I send them an highly compressed MP4 of the show and a Word doc of the script to their ftp site. A few days later, I get back a QT file that I lay in the V2 track. Using the crop tool in the motion tab, I crop the bottom 99. A few minutes of render time and I have closed captioning! I then output my edited master to Digi Beta. My edited master is CC’d, not just the dubs going to the network. IMHO, it’s faster, cheaper and better–the unobtainable trifecta!

Here’s the tech data on my process.
Uncompressed 8bit 720×486 sequence (has to be 486 not 480)
AJA IO feeding SD SDI to a Digi Beta deck

We do have another FCP system with a Kona 3 I could do a test on if it would be helpful.

Oh and by the way, thank you to the moderators here for keeping this forum civil and taking those to task who don’t.

Andy S
Nashville, TN

Drew South

[Andrew Southard]

Yes, “playback offset” does affect the timing output, not just monitoring. I’m outputting to DigiBeta via SDI with an AJA io. A 5 frame offset is what I’m using.

Drew South