[Avid-L2] More with the questions: XDCAM and P2

So I also checked out the P2 and XDCam workflow docs on the Avid
website.

P2 seems pretty self-explanatory and simple.

XDCAM seems slightly more complicated, but again, my issue is the age
of the document.

The document is dated 2008 and has several references to problems with
the system that are SUPPOSED to be ironed out "shortly."

Well, it's almost 2010, so have those issues been ironed out? We have
no way of knowing. The basic thing seems to be a problem with reading
longer files when doing Batch Importing. The system is supposed to be
able to import XDCAM full-res files at about 1.5 times realtime (45
minutes to import a 60 minute file), but when Batch Importing from
long takes, the system - circa sometime in 2008 - would slow down to
about 5 times realtime. This was supposed to get fixed.

The other weird thing about the docs is that usually company
documentation is done from the viewpoint of the COMPANY, but this doc
had an author's fingerprint on it. In other words the writer was
referring to himself in the article. It included personal anecdotal
evidence instead of any kind of tested information with hard
statistical info. So you walk away from reading the pdf wondering if
any of it is true or did you just read somebody's blog?

My sense from the RED, P2, and XDCAM documentation is that Avid's
messaging is hopelessly lost in the woods.

The fact that this list seems to have better information than the
company itself is frightening. I feel like Martini in "One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest" with Bouke, Job and Terry as McMurphy (Jack
Nicholson character). That makes the new Avid CEO, Nurse Ratched.
(Hey, if you think that's a cheap shot, I made myself out as Martini:
the short, fat, bald, mentally challenged guy.) It's the inmates
running the asylum.

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