Darren Roark
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This is my question: Can MC7 or any other NLE allow you to work with media as it’s being copied from one device to another as though it’s already on your final destination? Transcoding is one thing, but if I plug in a card, and I want it to go to my raid drive for cutting, will it treat the media as though it’s already on the raid?
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I wasn’t aware, that is not good. Plus Apple’s stranglehold on prores can be decoded not encoded in Win really is crappy.
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I usually have no sympathy for production on the post end since they always seem to run out of money before they get to me.
I’ve been working on a doc (250 hours of footage, 3500K+ clips) where the A cam is an FS700. Many many long interview takes and spanned clips. Ki Pro recordings would have been nice, but I didn’t have any trouble with the XDCAM footage once they were spanned and rewrapped by X.
The thing FCPX can do that the others can’t is work with media that is still being imported or copied from another source. You can log footage while it’s still copying. Correct me if I’m wrong, but can any of the others do that? That to me anyway is a big time saver.
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None taken, I know my point has gotten lost in my convoluted mess of explaining myself.
Had they just imported the XDCAM cards straight into FCPX and not used the Ki Pros they would be no worse off and saved time and money. The budget was very very tight.
To Michael, Resolve can handle XDCAM natively if it’s rewrapped to a quicktime wrapper. FCPX does this on ingest and spans the files. (As do many other apps and NLEs) The grading robustness between the SDI Ki Pro footage and the XDCAM cards aren’t great enough to justify the cost. I’m amazed how rugged this version of XDCAM really is.
X is far from perfect, but if I don’t have to use extra recorders and wait for cards to be copied to hard drives, that’s a good thing right?
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My point was they didn’t need all that extra gear and labor if they were using X. Yes, it’s much faster if you are cutting in 7 to go the KiPro route, in FCPX the benefits of this are minimal.
It’s just a lot of wasted money for something that wouldn’t be necessary.
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As soon as I importe files from a card, I’m able to assign keywords to them as they are copying to the drive in the background. Also, if I drag in files from cards they get assigned the folder name automatically if that is checked on the import settings.
It does happen at the same time in that in other systems the files have to be on a hard drive first.
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Huh? That function is not unique to X. And neither is native/instant ingest of ProRes files.
My mistake. What I meant is they had a tight post deadline and were recording to six prores recorders instead of ingesting the XDCAM cards as they work in FCP7.
I know the reigning NLEs can all sync via timecode. What I meant was the added labor and equipment expense in order to avoid transcoding wouldn’t have been necessary in X or Premiere Pro. However in X, ingest and logging are done during the same step. IIf you have multiple fast card readers going, it can be a real time saver.
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For reality TV, it’s a pretty major thing to not only make a checksum’d camera archive of a card while simultaneously ingesting and editing the footage. Showing that to a few producers who already made up their minds from hearsay started to rethink their assumptions.
I just worked on a job that had six cameras set up to do a “bullet time” move at any part of the interviews. They used KiPros from the SDI so they wouldn’t have to transcode to prores. It was a week long shoot. Lots of money and time wasted when X could have instantly synced all the cameras with the matching timecode.
I do think that once producers realize the time saving benefits of X, the genie will be out of the bottle. This is good and bad since once producers assume you can do more with less, the rates are also adjusted accordingly.
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Did you try running Project Repair on the event’s backup file? For the future, I use “Backups for FCPX”. It’s well worth it to keep backups of events and projects.
Good luck!
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That’s not a bad idea, I have to do a fresh wipe of my system every few months and it works wonders. I’ve been having good luck with 10.0.8.
[Bret Williams] ”
I still have the 2011 and will have to run a side by side comparison. Thinking of rebuilding the whole 2012 iMac system, only months after getting it.”