Mark Maness
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Ok…. It’s worth a try.
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Wayne Carey
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All of this depends on the post house.
When working with a post house, ALWAYS ask for their requirements. If you don’t, they will charge extra for any extra work they may have to do.
I’m assuming that you shot all of this on an XDCAM EX camera and that you don’t have an XDCAM HD deck in house. If this is true, see if the post house will take a 720p XDCAM EX file.
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Yeah… I though about that but I’m working with pre-made show graphics with backgrounds and specific fonts in several different text boxes.
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My Motion content is stored on my system drive (but its backed up). Its just a storage area for the templates. I’m not playing video from this drive at all.
At the moment, our normal RAID setup, a Facilis TerraBlock is having some serious troubles and we have not been editing on it for the past month. We’ve had several drive failures on it and its still not been resolved by Facilis.
[John Pale] “How much RAM do you have and is it in matching pairs?”
Oh yes…. I know all about this one. I was one of the original posters on this subject when the Mac Pro systems became available. I have 8 gig of RAM in 2 gig bars. It’s the same manufacturer and it placed in matching pairs across the risers.
Now, the only thing may be my video card. Its an ATI Radeon X1900 XT with 512 RAM.
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I agree with John…
Your best bet is to ask the post house that is doing the dub for you. They may request that you send a ProRes422 HQ file on a hard drive. But if you can get away with it, it’s ALWAYS best to output using your sequence settings. If you edited in XDCAM, output XDCAM. Doing software conversion between codecs will be your biggest headache.
For example, we edit our shows in DVCProHD 1080i29.97. My broadcast station requires a 1080i29.97 ProRes422 HQ file. Its easier and faster for me to write my shows to XDCAM HD on our PDW-F70 decks and capture that file as ProRes422 HQ than it is to export my timeline to ProRes422 HQ. Exporting my timeline will take about 12 hours to render. It takes me only an hour and a half to write to the deck and capture back into ProRes 422 HQ.
But this is our workflow.
Just my two cents.
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Wayne Carey
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You still haven’t told us your intentions with this project?
Are trying to write a BluRay to play on a TV or are you trying to backup a 350 gig file to BluRay discs?
If you are creating a BluRay for television, just use Compressor to compress and write your BluRay disc for you. Just like Andy told you, BluRay compression is approximately a 35 mbit H.264 so the quality will be stunning when viewed on a good quality HD TV.
You won’t be able to view your movie in its full quality as it was edited, unless you use your edit station to playback the video on a projection screen using your output card.
Your movie will fit on a 25 gig disc just fine. You’ll just be wasting a 50 gig disc, if you use one.
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I hope the next gen iMac will have a eSATA port. Strange that it doesn’t have it now.
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Wayne Carey
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You can work that way just fine, but I’m not too sure about the output. Personally, I’ve never had much luck with outputting XDCAM HD to another codec without aliasing issues. If I’m going to output to another codec, I write the program to XDCAM HD disc and then capture the disc into another codec of choice.
Some folks here will say, “Don’t do that… You’ll lose a generation.” Well, you will anyway if you convert to another codec, technically speaking.
I’ve learned that XDCAM HD behaves much better when using an XDCAM HD deck to capture into any codec.
A little off topic… Transcoding in FCP7 is totally out of the question. Somewhere, Sony and Apple have screwed up this process using the XDCAM Software Transfer and FCP7. I’ve tried the workarounds but they aren’t working anymore each time and update is applied.
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[Hector berrebi] “i do not trust them…. not after trusting the most expensive DVD’s few years back and realizing it was a mistake, “
How is that? DVDs and BluRays are a permanent form of storage. Better yet, all of your footage is stored by project and saved just like they were going on XDCAM media.
My experience with tape storage has been that it is slow to work with. If you have lots of data on a tape the tape has to search for it before restoring your media. Yes, it does work but tape drives are too expensive for us. And another thing… Tapes DO degrade over time, discs do not.
I have movies that are almost 15 years old on DVD that work flawlessly. Tapes won’t last that long. We used tape storage about 15 years ago when times were really good and money was flowing. We used it religiously up to the point that a tape broke and it cost us a show being aired. That was big lesson learned.
Everything has its advantages and disadvantages. The key is to find the solution that fits your workflow and longevity of storage.
I had a sponsor comeback to us five years after doing a DVD project for them. I backed up their project on hard drives. A hard drive failed… I was lucky enough to have had another copy on DVD without the media and I still had the original miniDV tapes so I could restore the project. The DVD backup saved my butt.
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[Hector berrebi] “archiving and storing camera file folders for as long as you would with tapes… that’s a problem”
That’s not a problem… Internal BluRay drives are going for about $140 and external drives are running about $180. Disc go for around $6 for 25 gig and $13 for 50 gig. Not bad pricing for archival media.
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Wayne Carey
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