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

Steve,

I can't speak to the quality of those doc's. I haven't looked at
those since shortly after they came out and I gave up on that workflow
because it was so time consuming. But since then, I revisited that
workflow, and it has improved dramatically, time-wise. I'm using the
Sony PDW-U1 Drive, which has a USB-2 connection, and the import time,
especially with Batch imports is much better. Little faster then real
time. When using the PDF-F70 deck, with a firewire connection, it
takes longer. Although, your then working with Native XD Files. So,
you may need to include transcoding in there as well, depending on
what your delivering.

In our day to day workflow, we use the PDW-U1 to import the XDCam
Proxy files, do our edit, then Upres the sequence, doing a batch
capture with the PDW-F70 deck, to what ever resolution or format that
the deliverables will be. We find this to be a faster way to work in
the end.

To get around the crappy proxy audio, we use Boukes app called,
XDcam proxy / HQ audio extractor. (http://bit.ly/pzNEi), which
extracts the high quality audio from XDcam disks and saves it as a BWF
file, including time info, creation date/time, Reelname. This allows
the editor to work with finished audio, and then we just have to uprez
the video. If your editing with XDCam Proxy Media, this is a must have
app.

Maybe I should r-write those docs to reflect the improvements and the
workflows we come up with using XDcam for the past 2 years.

Jamie Beedy

On Oct 7, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Steve Hullfish wrote:

> 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.

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