Jamie Allan
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It seems that my post took a while to moderate so its a bit out of place now…
If you want to spend 18 hours re-capturing your footage to avoid Long-GOP and work in 422 for better comping and VFX capabilities then go for it – if you don’t need to, then save yourself 18 hours!
To transcode and import that much EX footage you’re looking at around 3.5 – 4 hours and roughly 270 – 290GB
There’s a number of ways to pass data between your two sites, maybe look at final cut server or simply swapping XMLs
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Yep, the XDCAM EX workflow is incredibly easy and straightforward. Aslong as you’re cutting on a decent spec mac pro you won’t have any issues with the codec, and you’ll be able to lay your final edit straight to the deck via a kona or blackmagic card.
You can read the cards straight off the camera or via a SXS card reader from Sony (3rd party readers may not support the transfer), trim the footage to what you need and add your metadata in the xdcam transfer tool and simply import the footage to your project then away you go!
You’ll need:
FCP 6.0.5 or above
SXS Pro card driver
Sony XDCAM Transferhttps://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_en_EU&contentId=1166605189229
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I normally use 1280×720 H264, best quality, multi pass for uploading to Vimeo/YouTube – remember their server will add further compression during processing so you’re best to upload the best quality your connection and their upload limit can handle.
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Go for the 3870 every time, benchmarks (and real life performance) are better than the 8800. I’ve seen many more rendering and general GUI issues on the 8800 when working with FCPS/Shake
https://barefeats.com/harper16.html for some core image app benchmarks.
We don’t spec any Mac Pro edit suites with 8800s, and we send out 3/4 a week with no issues (Touch wood)
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Did you find a solution to this Jacob? Any ideas would be much appreciated as a friend is having exactly the same issue.
Jamie Allan