Andy Mees
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Jurriaan
The Lacie will have more than 1 firewire port, so that you can daisy chain your XDCAM camera or deck through that eg MBP <> Lacie <> XDCAM
You can use Sony’s XDCAM Transfer to log and transfer the footage from your camera in File Access Mode (FAM) then unmount and disconnect the camera … and edit.Best
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Dean gets my vote too! Shane, you’ve got a new episode for your podcast right there. Heeee 🙂
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Our question… Is it possible in the xdcam hd logging mode, to give each subclip that is created its own independent name and description?
No.
Also, is it possible to give the disk a “name” that will transfer into FCP?
Yes. The name that you give the disc is transfered to the “Reel” field in FCP
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>The other day i had to export my timeline (FCP 6) of 25 minutes back to a xd cam (sony 530 imx 30). The time it took surprised me somewhat.It took me about 65 minutes.
If the timeline had been fully rendered IMX30 then the export with rewrap would have taken just about 20 minutes. Worth noting that whilst an edit with motion and/or effects may playback in FCP’s timeline in full quality without render, that is not the same as actually being rendered. so the additional time may reflect that rendering process.
>The plan was to export the timeline back to xd disk and than beam everything up via satalite (for broadcast in another place) using sdi out (embedded). Is there a quicker way to do this.
You can set FCP’s Video and Audio Playback to Apple Firewire and push that DV output direct from the timeline through a suitable converter and into your feed point (or record it to a suitable DV device first and feed from that device).
Or you could us an MXO, MXO2, AJA Io, AJA Io HD or other suitable I/O device direct attached to directly provide the necessary output for your feed or interim recording device.>Somebody told me that i could play the timeline from my macbook and use the xdcam as a bla bla converter en hook it up to the satilite in some way.
If the firewire interface on the 530 is like most of the other XDCAM cams then its probably output only, so it wouldn’t respect a DV input signal for recording or pass through when in AVC interface mode (or indeed any mode). That means, if I’m right, that it wouldn’t work as a convertor … you might want to confirm or disprove this using FCP’s live conversion to DV as described above to see if it works.
Fwiw, we use Matrox MXO’s as part of our field kits to provide realtime downconversion of XDCAM HD timeline’s at feed points … works a treat.
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MXF4Mac’s MXF Export may be worth a look for you Matt, it works a treat.
https://mxf4mac.com/mxf4qtexport -
Michael
Calibrating your LMD is no different to calibrating any other broadcast monitor … heres a link:
https://www.videouniversity.com/tvbars2.htm
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No Sean, currently there is no direct method for transcoding XDCAM HD (or XDCAM EX) on ingest a la the RED Log and Transfer (L&T) plugin. To make this work, Sony would have to extend their L&T plugin to handle XDCAM HD and the transcode … I’ve no idea if they’ll do this. As noted by Rafael, you can ingest via baseband using a supported I/O device to capture direct to ProRes 422 HQ eg AJA, Blackmagic or Matrox MXO2 etc (not on a laptop for this latter one). There are however alternative options, such as ingesting in the native codec as per normal and then editing native but using ProRes 422 as the render codec and exporting ProRes, or by editing directly with the native files in a ProRes 422 timeline, or using Media Manager to Recompress the captured clips to ProRes post ingest etc All of these options will produce the same eventual quality that would have been achieved had a transcode on ingest option been used.
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If you’ve set everything up 14:9 text/action/crop safe already then you should be able to take your 16:9 anamorphic master edit into Compressor and use the Geometry controls there to produce a letterboxed 14:9 master (set both Source Inset and Output Image Inset to Europe Standard 1.66:1)
That should get you there, though I’d agree with Alex inasmuch as most folks don’t actually require 14:9 delivery just 14:9 safe.
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Mitch is right. The deck is an MPEG HD recording device … you can only “record” in MPEG HD. You can playback any XDCAM content from the deck as DV over the Firewire connection but you cannot “record” an input signal as DV or anything else via that same connection. The only way to get non MPEG HD footage onto a disc in the deck is through file transfer. If you want to use the deck to record MPEG HD then you can hook it up to any I/O card or device just as you would any other pro deck. Works great with the Matrox MXO or MXO2.
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unfortunately not Josh .. its one of those things that you’d expect to work intuitively, but it doesn’t.
the workaround is to pull the tabs off into their own windows … when you reattach them they are automatically added at the left, so if really necessary you can arrange them the way you want … but I think most of us just work with the tabs as is.
heres a great site to bookmark for when you stumble across these sort of things: if you don’t ask you won’t get