Mark Maness
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AJA has by far the best technical support in the entire business. I have always has the nest experiences with them. Hector and Rudy are the best tech guys I have ever worked with. And overnight replacements… AWESOME!
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As for the release date… Usually when Sony says October, that means it will be early November for you see it.
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[davidb] “We will have an AJA io HD, so I am hoping we can just capture Beta/DVCAM footage and up convert thru that device.
We do not have on order the optional PDBK-104 board.The same goes for HD SDI out of the AJA back to the F75. “
Good going! The option board isn’t necessary for you since you’re getting an AJA IO HD. The great thing about this box is any input will travel through any output. Awesome for making dubs.
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See the beauty of XDCAM and tapeless workflows…
I try to do this when I can but when working in After Effects, outputting to XDCAM HD never works. We are looking into fully switching over to XDCAM HD workflows now.
[Andy Mees] “f you have the PDBK-104 option board for your F75 you can dub your BetaSP footage to XDCAM HD letting the deck do the upconvert.”
Always a great option to have on your machine. We have two decks one with the option in the mastering room and another deck with the HDV dub option board in the other edit suite.
Andy, I’ve been meaning to ask you if you do episodic television shows, and if you do, how do you handle working with SD commercials with your XDCAM HD workflow?
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[davidb] “Did you mean to say these codecs are not the most friendly to work with?
Either way I hear what you’re saying, but isn’t one of the big advantages with file based work flow is that you don’t have to log and capture, and you just drag the clips over?
I really don’t know.
I am very interested in this workflow as we have just purchased FCPro and the PDW F75 with a Sony Ex Camera and plan to put our express card data onto XDCAM HD discs. “Yeah, I know…. We aren’t doing what is intended by Sony.
Let me explain myself.
We are shooting XDCAM HD in HQ quality (35 mbits). We also use HDV cameras as our secondary cameras for our fishing shows. Now, for hunting we use primarily the HDV because of its size. Mixing formats in FCP is now possible but you still have to render all of the clips into one codec before writing them to disc. Therefore…. in order to save time and hard drive space, we capture everything into DVCProHD.
We are looking into the XDCAM EX ourselves but we are still struggling with the idea of the Express cards and having to carry a computer into the field to dump the footage to the hard drive or purchasing the PDW-U1 portable deck and dumping to disc after the shoot. It just adds more work in the field.
[davidb] “Then we could ingest the footage as files and edit the MXF files. If we had to mix some HDV or up rezed Beta SP could you transcode those files to MXF so the timeline would be happy and then archive back to the F75 thru firewire and the original MXF files would stay in their native format.
Except for the fact that they started as MP4 files with the EX camera. “I think you confusing yourself with the file names. This is Sony’s down fall. Everything XDCAM is some form of MPEG2. The file names that end with MXF and MP4, these are just wrappers that the software puts on these files to tell you that they are different forms of MPEG2. Yes, I know it gets confusing. The HD version of MXF is a form of HDV’s MPEG2, the MP4 files that the EX uses is another flavor of the HDV MPEG2. They are different but similar in the basics. The SD XDCAM uses MXF also but they are IMX codec files. Sony isn’t known for being consistent, just cutting edge.
In your case, now that FCP can use multiple formats is to digest whatever is most comfortable for you and then render everything to XDCAM HD for output thru firewire. The nice thing about FCP is you can do whatever you want or need. Don’t be afraid to come up with a new workflow that works for your company.
As for transcoding everything to XDCAM HD… I’ve not had much luck with capturing to it without major issues. BUT, rendering to it on the timeline is never a problem.
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This is happening because your graphic contains lots of sharp edges and thin lines. The only way to stop this is to add a slight blur to your image. A Gaussian blur of maybe 2 or less. You’ll have to play with the settings until you like what you see.
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That’s probably not too far off at all. Keep in mind that compressing mpeg2 is very very processor intensive. For 3 1/2 hours, it should take a long time, even with 8 cores.
I have a buddy who made a low budget feature film (about 87 minutes) and to compress for DVD still took about 10 hours on my Quad 3.0 system with 8 gig of RAM.
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[Thomas Hughes] “Does a stand-alone SD DVD recorder exist that has an HD SDI, HDMI, HDV-firewire or HD-firewire input? “
Not to my knowledge, YET.
[Thomas Hughes] “If yes, and I’m dubbing from the F70 XDCAM HD deck to that burner (and I know I
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I agree with Andy completely. FAM mode is data ONLY. There is no transcoding going on. This is the best quality you can get.
BUT…
If you are an older guy like me whose been in the business for the last twenty something years, the old way of Log and Capture is the most comfortable way of doing this. I prefer this method simply because we mix our footage with HDV and the HDV and XDCAM HD codecs are the most friendly codecs to work with using Final Cut Pro. We primarily use the DVCProHD codec to edit.
Yeah, it sounds like overkill… but its quality is awesome and easy to work with. Besides, when you air your program, after all of the processing that goes on, you’ll loose some of that signal. The game is the best quality you can send to broadcast. After that, its out of your control.
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Wayne Carey
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Sounds like the material was captured 29.97 Interlaced. You can do this. The material should have been captured at 30p.
Take a look at you 24p footage…. Does it say that its 23.98?
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Wayne Carey
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