[John Mahoney]

So I did a test with an external hard drive.
I know it is supposed to be non destructive, but even when trans coding from an external hard drive, once proxy mill trans codes, FCP log and transfer wont recognize the un-transcoded media.

This may not seem like a problem, but I work with many different clients, I often hand off un-transcoded media, and a transcoded version. If the transcoded media I hand them comes from proxy mill, and they ever need to re-transcode, they will not be able to use log and transfer.
My testing shows Proxy mill destroys your ability to go back and use log and transfer to re-transcode

What am i missing? I see this as a problem.

[John Mahoney]

I have not done the test with an external drive, but when I put a card with shot footage back into the camera, after I have transcoded the footage using proxy mnill, the camera will not play back the movies.

[John Mahoney]

I only use third party bats in a pinch, they usually dont let you know when they are going to croak. I try to use AC power whenever I can.

[John Mahoney]

While recording, the 5D does not output HD. The 5D outputs SD while recording. The 7D outputs HD while recording. Something to do with the 7d having two processors.

[John Mahoney]

I like the 7D for this reason. The 7D outputs HD while recording, I cant stand that the 5D spits out SD, I cant focus with that. It reminds me of my old HVX200, I could never focus with that.

[John Mahoney]

It also offers the advantage of being able to recapture if you lose a drive or Media Manage a job.

Exactly.

I did the test with the card precisely, because i did not want to jeopardize my the footage on the drives. the first thing i do is make copies to two drives, I treat these like shot tape. Once I have them the card becomes expendable. That’s why i did the test on the card. If the same thing happens with the drive, I have lost the ability to log and transfer with that drive. When I have more time I will do a short test, copying to a drive and using proxy mill from that.

[John Mahoney]

Proxy mill seems to work great, but if in the edit, they need to transcode stuff again for some reason, and they dont have proxy mill, I will hear about it if log and transfer gives them problems. I have not had time to test it with footage copied to a drive, but I cant see how this would be any different.

By the way, I took the card out of the reader and shot a few more clips of video, and when I put it back in the reader, FCP would see the new clips that had not been transcoded with Proxy mill, but none of the others that had been trancoded with proxy mill.

This is a link to a great review of proxy mill. I found it very helpful.

I wish I had more time to fiddle with it, but The shoot just started, and we are on for four weeks straight

If spotlight was writing info, where would i see that?

The time code issue is not a big deal at all.

Right now I am only using proxy mill to make the director low res TC burn Dubs of footage, and it works super fast. Perfect.

[John Mahoney]

I am trancoding from the card, i was just doing a test. I am reluctant to try it with my backed up media, because i dont want jepordize it. I bought proxy mill mostly for the abilty to make downres window dubs, but thought i woul use it for transcoding as well. For now i am going to stick with log and transfer for transcoding.
One other thing, time code from the eos data should be drop frame, but proxy mill is creating non drop, no big deal but since it is time of day, it should be drop

[John Mahoney]

If I am not mistaken, all tape based cameras record interlaced. Usually with pull down added. The chip is native progressive, even the low priced hvx200 is a native 1080p chip. but tape playback requires interlacing. the p”A” feature lets Final Cut easily remove pull down on import into a progressive time line