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The Avid will be able to read the original P2 mediafiles, in their original file structure. The PC Avid will not be able to read anything that is in the OSX-only DVCPRO-HD codec that FCP uses.
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I’ve occasionally used P2 DVCPROHD media on a classic Nitris (just a short test), and as long as you have a really fast CPU, it seems to work.
Thing is, as said, DVCPROHD is thin raster, and this means that upon output, the footage needs to be scaled to full raster. The DX boxes have hardware to handle this, all other boxes do not.
Ever since MC/SN v.3, the architecture of the software has changed, so that various tasks can be distributed over GPU, CPU and hardware boxes. This has caused increased performance overall. -
I’ve heard it was done. However, if you are going to be sending stuff to ProTools, you may just as well create an AAF export rather than OMF, and keep your media in MXF. Works just fine with DigiTranslator on the ProTools side.
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AFAIK you should be fine when the media has been brought into the system, should you not?
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I haven’t heard of that. Pretty sure that I worked on a project last year that was started on 2.8 and continued on 3.0.
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I’m pretty sure I got those back to their original colors. Not in front of my systems now, though, and no easy access to pre-3.x versions anymore.
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I wasn’t too happy with the changed interface coloring in v3 either when it arrived last year.
If you go to Project-Settings-Interface you can customize the colors back to whatever you like them to be.
The slowness you describe does not sound normal. Must something odd in the setup. On Win systems there apparently is a conflict with certain versions of Wacom tablet drivers. Might be something similar on your Mac? -
There are some proprietary IMX50 codecs around. Obviously, you have this codec on your Mac, but not on your XW8600. Try and find out which codec exactly is used on the Mac, so you can find out if there’s a PC variant of the codec.
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It has been mentioned before on the Avid-L2 mailing list. Apparently, there’s an issue with the SRW5800 decks, especially in SR mode, that don’t respond well to aborted edits:
https://movies.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/Avid-L2/message/64515
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For the interlaced source you want to slow down, I would either prerender in the 25i project, or perhaps even safer, do a videomixdown after you’ve locked the cut.