[Richard Cracknell]

Throwing a complete curve ball in there, because of some potential issues in obtaining the pro discs at the moment because of the factories being knocked out in the Japanese earthquake… Anybody used the AJA Ki Pro Mini with an f-800?

I ask as we are planning on delivering a harddrive with rushes back to the editor mid shoot, I was going to be up all night each night ingesting to FCP and essentially doubling up the memory usage on the harddrives Im going to have to take. We are also planning on hitting the edit as soon as the shoot finishes so what I have read about the AJA Ki Pro Mini seems to be a little too good?

Any ideas on how much Apple Pro Res 422 you can get onto a 32gb Compact Flash card? The only other limit I heard was that you cant span over to a second card..

[Richard Cracknell]

I find it surprising that the discs aren’t reused much in that it must become quite an expense to keep stock of so much footage on these discs? I’m choosing to treat it very similarly to how I deal with a P2 workflow in a constant turn around and re-use of discs with plenty of backups on external Harddrives.

Does anybody have any experience of FCP Log and Transferring from harddrive backup versions as opposed to encoding straight from the U1 drive? I’m hoping that it works like other file-based systems that the folders I copy the disc contents into become the ‘reel’ and are treated like a disc.

I had heard some stuff about XDCAM sequences having very long playout times at the roughcut stage and similar audio slipping issues so I am planning on encoding to the straight Apple ProRes codec and offlining with this, hopefully removing the requirement for a conform or taking up even more space with the (HQ) codec.

[Richard Cracknell]

Hi there,

I’m trying to organise kit for a shoot using this exact workflow, including the potential use of Canon 5D for some extra styilized shots. Assuming this shoot has now finished I was wondering if you had some advice on how it went?

We are planning on moving quite a lot and backing up the discs as we go with a macbook pro, a couple of rugged lacies and the disc reader over a couple of weeks. What I wanted to know was what the approximate copy times are of disc to external harddrive? And then what sort of times you were experiencing on Log and Transfer importing of the footage into FCP for editing and the space the new .movs took up compared to the original raw media? I’m assuming it simply re-wraps to .mov so size should be similar to the originals? Also whats the re-usable lifespan of the discs?

I’m planning on setting up the edit on an Apple ProRes 422 1920x1080i50 sequence (we have to deliver interlaced) and wanted to check that the sequence works with the XDCAM footage, and with the 5D footage once I turn that ProRes (I normally use mpeg streamclip). I normally find that knocking the ‘video processing’ to 8-bit stops a green render bar appearing on similar but mixed codecs (such as 422 and 422(LT))

Long and rambly first time post but thanks for patience!