Mark Maness
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[David jahns] “Did you export an XDCAM format quicktime, or was it XDCAM source footage, rendered out to ProRes?”
Straight XDCAM HD format, no conversion at all.
[David jahns] “Did you notice any frame stutters from the duplicated frames?”
None that I saw. And the feature was a full 90 minutes.
[David jahns] “Or did you figure out how to make Toast encode at 24 fps?
“I have to assume that it encodes the same frame rate that it is given.[David jahns] “One of the other problems on the Mac is that we have no way to look at the raw file on the BR-disc once it’s encoded, so I’ve sometimes had trouble figuring out what Toast was doing during the encode. One an SD-DVD, you can open up the .VOB file and check it frame by frame – i haven’t figured out a way to do that with the BR discs yet.”
This is why you use BD-RW discs. If your project fails, you erase the disc and try again.
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[David Jahns] “And HDV, since it’s already MPEG-2, would probably suffer from another re-encode.”
Well, I can tell you that Toast worked absolute wonders with XDCAM HD 1080p24 to Blu-Ray.
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Wayne Carey
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How are you converting this footage? Deck? Software? What?
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Wayne Carey
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So…
The lesson here is new media, new computers. Got it?
Anytime someone creates a new form of media, it is assumed that this new form is to be used on new computer platforms only. Just a rule of thumb to remember for the future.
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Wayne Carey
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But you can rename any of your subclips inside of FCP.
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Wayne Carey
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Well, the problem lies with processing the footage in FCP.
If you ingest the footage and put it right back to disc, the output times will be quicker. But now, when you edit a program, all of the Sony encoding is now lost and the export program has to repackage the video before going to disc.
I remember very vividly in 2006 when we were working primarily with XDCAM IMX50, outputting a 28:30 program with bars, tone & slate would take approximately 1 1/2 hours thru the firewire export. It was pretty useless to us.
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Wayne Carey
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NO.
As a matter of fact, under 6.0.5, it seems that Motion files tend to crash FCP quite frequently when you are zoomed out wide on your timeline, say a five minute chunk showing.
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Wayne Carey
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If budget is a problem, XDCAM thru firewire is rather slow, BUT economical. Another option would be to purchase a Matrox MXO for direct SDI output to anything.
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Wayne Carey
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Nine years is an extremely good life for a computer. It may be time to consider a new Mac.
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Wayne Carey
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[walter biscardi] “I have been seriously considering selling off one of our M15U’s and replacing it with an RS-422 capable deck.
“Sure wish we could do just that. But in these tough economic times, we’ll just have to keep trudging through. But I can still dream….
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com