[William Campbell]

I just finished a XDCAM EX 1080 30p project where I also brought in some HDV 1080i clips. Since most of the material was EX my timeline was native 1080 30p EX. The HDV came in just fine without render problems. For online I rendered the sequence to ProRes. It looked fine and there were no issues.

[William Campbell]

Thanks Rich- Any preference for MPEG-2 or AVHC encode? Can you increase the bit rate if you are burning with a BD drive?

[William Campbell]

Would Walter’s MPEG-2/AC-3 from compressor work with Toast 11 for a simple menu setup if one was to skip Encore? My work flow from FCP7 will be a 15 min ProsRes 422 1920/1080-30p project to internal BD. If so, any suggested tweaks to the MPEG-2 settings? And what about the difference between burning onto BD media or a DVD-5. For a short BluRay disc is there any reason to use BD media or will I get the same results from a DVD-R? I bough Nazarian’s “Fast Track”. Good stuff but I’m still a bit confused. Thanks in advance.

[William Campbell]

My EX3 has firmware 1.10. There is only a mili-second of green flicker when switching into focus assist.

[William Campbell]

The Sony tech at Able Cine said it was normal. I haven’t thought about it since. It has been a good camera. The only issue I have had with my EX3 was that I tried the auto flicker reduce setting when overseas to see if it would cut down on 50 hz light flicker. It didn’t really help and I forgot to turn it off. Outside it made a mess of a couple of contrasty shots. Turned it off and haven’t had that issue again.

[William Campbell]

I forgot mention that when I import clips into a card Bin you can add description such as RW01- Road scenes, hospital ext. You’ll end up with a batch list than can print that looks like this:

* RW09A- Women’s ward, swing, records, Rural clinic, Pascal night
RW09A-1 07:11:44;12 Women’s ward, director walking
RW09A-2 07:21:24;10 kids on swing
RW09A-3 07:22:58;00 electronic records
RW09A-4 07:25:20;03 followup clinic at hospital
RW09A-5 07:27:50;01 Rural clinic waiting room, exam, EXT
RW09A-6 07:48:44;09 waiting room, exam EXT, new building EXT

The Batch list put the * at the begging of every in.

This was from HDV but EX clips work the same. Clip names are just a little longer.

[William Campbell]

As a shooter and editor they way I deal with it is much the same way that I batched tape. Especially HDV that tended to break into clips anyway. Each 32gb card is given a sequential slug name in the field just like a tape. Say RW01 for Rwanda01.
When I import the files into FCP from my HD I create a new project just for the import. Say Rwanda Import. Each card imports into a Bin. RW01 to Bin RW01. Then before I import the next card I go into the Capture Scratch folder, make a new folder RW01 and put all the clips I just imported into RW01. That way if I need all the FCP QT clips for that card later I can just copy that folder.
When I log the clips I leave the file name the same as they were capture in camera and use Log Notes for a description. If you are in FCP change your media info to just show clip, reel, in, and log note. When you are done logging all your imported clips Export a Batch List and then open it in Word for a Card/Tape list of all your Cards with clips,and description of each clip. It will match your native files and your FCP import files as well.

Your original Import Project will have all the info you need for deliverables for the client.

When you start your edit start with the project for the card import. ie: Rwanda Import. Rename the project to Rwanda_01 (or however you name your projects.)Make a new BIN called Card Master and put all your card bins into Card Master. Then make all the subject bins you want. Open up the Card Master Bins cut and past away. You can go crazy here building bins for sequences.

And when shooting, as another poster mention, with the EX do more let rolls. Less on and off.

[William Campbell]

To get 10.5.8 as a startup on partition on a nehalem we needed to 1-Removed the partitioned HD from the Nehalem.
2-Mount it on a Mac Pro running 10.5.8.
3-Install a retail version of 10.5.6 on the partition and then upgrade 10.5.6 to 10.5.8.
4-Re-install back in the nehalem.

Now we have a 10.5.8 startup for the Nehalem Mac Pro that we can use with Sony Transfer. We will use this until Sony comes up with a Snow Leopard version of Transfer.

[William Campbell]

Folders- Sorry. I meant one SxS card to a folder. As with tape I give the project a name. ex: Rwanda. First full SxS card going into folder RW01. One BPAV per folder. I’ll set prefix for clip naming to RWD_ and let the clip names play out for the whole take. I’ve heard you can rename the BPAV to BPAV_RW01 but I’d rather not mess with them.

Archive- 50 gig XDCAM discs should be the answer but for now it’s a HD. Blu-Ray is being considered.

Final project layoff is usually to HDCAM SR.

[William Campbell]

Here is my process. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

1-XDCAM EX- Use EX Clip Browser and only EX Clip browser to transfer file from SxS card on MacBook Pro to G-mini in the field BPAV files go into ID folders usually one folder for every two SXS cards. Files from G-mini transfered to edit bay drives. All native EX files backed up to a drive that will be used for archive. Transfer/wrap for FCP is via XDCAM Transfer though FCP import.

2-XDCAM 422-XDCAM Transfer to name disk and log clips. Then write protect disk and transfer/wrap files via FCP import XDCAM Transfer.

NEVER DRAG DROP FILES

I’m I OK with this workflow?