Mark Maness
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You are correct about the LP and HQ modes. You still have to digitize from the disc UNTIL Apple finally gives full support. It took Apple almost a full year before we got full IMX support – 30, 40, and 50 mbit.
By the way, Nick… My last employer used Media100s. My last system was an XR on a G4 Dual 1 gig Mac running Media100i 7.0. You’ll find out that the transition to FCP is not difficult at all. As a matter of fact, you’ll wonder how you did without it.
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Wayne Carey
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Very True! I agree with you completely, Andy. The Flip4Mac plugin still has a very long way to go to be really useful unless you are in a large post house with one PDW-1500 machine in a tape room. But even then, you really need to ability to make clips and import those markers only.
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Wayne Carey
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Not true anymore… Flip4Mac has come out with a new version specifically for the the XDCAM family called XDCAM Component v2. It will work with all forms of XDCAM footage. You can preview any clip before importing and name that clip before importing.
The only problem that I still have with this program is that it imports all 8 channels of audio even if you have only recorded two channels. There’s no way to select the audio channels you want.
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Wayne Carey
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So far, G-Raids are the most reliable external drives on the market. I haven’t heard of any complaints about G-Raids.
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Well, I’m a current FCP user that uses XDCAM and my experiences have been wonderful. The software that Apple mentions about is the software supplied by Sony that allows for direct connection of the XDCAM machine and your Mac. This software is not available to the public as of this time, but is supposed to be available at the end of June (according to Sony). It’s not necessary to operate but when it becomes available, it will speed the workflow tremendously. This software also has the assumption that the shooter shoots the footage in takes which would be a different clip of data. This isn’t always so…
Oh well, new technologies need new training…
At the current time, I have my machine hooked SDI thru an AJA Kona 2 capture card, capturing footage using the IMX50 codec. There is also a piece of software from Flip4Mac that uses the network connection of the machine to transfer clips via a network. Personally, I find it much easier to capture the old way of logging my footage and capturing only what I need.
XDCAM is absolutely awesome! I love the way that I can lay commercials to a disc and not have to worry if I am overwriting anything!
If you have any questions regarding XDCAM, feel free to contact me!
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Wayne Carey
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Isn’t it funny how we forget about the “good ole days” of manual video production? You know, creating effects by hand and plain ole ingenuity.
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Wayne Carey
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The easiest and only way to do this, is to run your spots thru Soundtrack Pro and Normalize the audio for 0db, then save your program with a different name so that you have a backup of your original spots. Works for me, but is a little costly on the drive space.
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Wayne Carey
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Ok… I have to jump into this!
I’m sure that some of you know that I am an XDCAM user and love it thoroughly! P2 is a neat concept but not very feasable for everyday use and archiving. That alone made my company choose XDCAM. It the same IMX codec and has the same qualities as P2, BUT, with the major advantage of that the media is a 23 gig optical disc that costs only $30 per disk and you can sit it on the shelf for however long you wish.
If your company needs to archive footage and shelve it, then XDCAM is the total solution for this problem. If you have any questions about XDCAM, I will be glad to tell you anything you need to know. My company has been using it for the past year and its absolutely perfect for our needs.
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I’ve seen happen several times…. I thought it was jsut something wierd happening like corupted memory. I’d shutdown and restart my system each time it happened. Seemed to work.
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Wayne Carey
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Well… once you copy your video back, your video and tracks will not be linked anymore. The simpliest way is to select your video and the corresponding audio tracks, go to the Modify menu and select Link. That will tell that video to move with that audio. This is important because if you move your video, the audio will be out of sync.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions