[Craig Seeman]

[Walter Soyka] “That said, the number of people who need that, or who are willing to pay for it, will probably decrease. I think that we have already seen the bottom of the V on the workstation pricing curve. A lot of the things you used to need a workstation for — I/O and throughput — are either irrelevant now or can be done on modern consumer-class hardware, so the demand will probably go away.”

I can’t help to think what people will need to do real time multi-pass H.265 encoding on their home computers to upload 4K videos to YouTube. Not that anyone “needs” that.

[Craig Seeman]

You can do that with Wirecast playlist feature. You can set duration for each shot. Then loop the playlist.

See Playlist feature.
https://www.telestream.net/wirecast/whats-new.htm

[Craig Seeman]

Interesting that Adobe After Effects was shown and no mention how it might impact Apple’s own apps. I suspect that’s because WWDC is geared towards third party developers. Apple probably isn’t inclined to reveal how they’re using such technology internally.

[Craig Seeman]

Hardware is usually referenced in relation to software development. Either Thunderbolt 3 doesn’t require much in the way of new software development or at least not enough to give it attention.

[Craig Seeman]

FCP 7 Log and Transfer plugin.
I’d strongly recommend checking Sony’s site before anything else.

https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-xdcam/resource.downloads.bbsccms-assets-micro-xdcam-downloads-XDCAMSoftwareDownload.shtml#apps

[Craig Seeman]

[Sheila Hayman] ” I do have something called XDCam Transfer but I haven’t been using it because I can’t work out how to output to Apple ProRes 422LT.mov codec, which is apparently what I need.
“

I’m not quite sure where you’re getting your information from but XDCAM EX works in FCP7 without any transcode at all. ProRes of any sort is not needed.

You need the Sony plugin appropriate for your OS.

[Craig Seeman]

There are some encoders which don’t create Apple qualified ProRes files. These encoders are creating ProRes through some form of the FFMPEG encoder.

If you have the Sony FCP plugin you should be able to use the XDCAM EX files directly in FCP7.

[Craig Seeman]

[Chris Church] “Yeah they do work as is, by moving the XDROOT over “

You shouldn’t need to move anything.

[Craig Seeman]

This is what one user reports:

Card Reader – In the FCPX import window I see a PRIVATE folder and a private folder. The PRIVATE folder has three files per clip – 1 is a movie icon, 2 is an audio icon, 3 is a still image icon. Importing just the movie file brings in the audio and video flawlessly. The private folder is empty, but viewing it in the Finder it is the top level directory of the card, and encloses all the AVCHD, XDROOT, etc. items.

SD slot on back of iMac – I just see the PRIVATE folder, and it only includes 2 files per clip – the movie file and the still image file – no audio file. But again, the movie file is all that is needed for import. In the Finder all I see is the PRIVATE folder which encloses the AVCHD, XDROOT, etc. – no separate private folder.

They report that BOTH work as is though.

[Craig Seeman]

I wonder if it would be different if you used a USB card reader.