For the others: there's no black magic in the XDCAM deck or drive. When
working with XDCAM media the Media Composer does all the work creating
the proper file. I have done this many times using "send to playback"
when there is a transfer mgr in a workgroup environment. The first thing
the MC does is write out an MXF file in a "temp" directory and then
proceeds to transfer it away. If you snag that MXF file you can FTP it
to a U1 drive or 1500/1600 desk and then play it out. It's just that
easy. The FTP process puts it in the correct folder and writes all the
metadata. You can also do many other nice things with that MXF file,
like archive it, send it to some other kind of editor that plays with
XDCAM MXF files, like a Harris Nexio/Velocity etc. You can also
(finally) work with it in Adobe apps with CS5. Note that even with MC
5.0 you (still) cannot export a QuickTime movie using the XDCAM 50Mbps
codec which means if you're working with that kind of footage you are
forced to transcode it to a MINIMUM of DNxHD145 mbps which takes
time/steps and triples the file size for no good reason.
It would be great if you didn't have to "trick" the system into thinking
there was a real drive present rather just export to XDCAM (file) or
something like that. But I'll take what I can get for now.
Thanks again Bob.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of pleasecallmebob
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:00 PM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Export to XDCAM file, no drive
It is possible to export an OP1a MXF file from Media Composer.
On Windows place a blank XDCAM HD folder structure on a drive. You can
download one here: http://snipr.com/svftj-cwb
Use Link to AMA volume for the empty folder. A bin will open and an
error dialog that no clips were found.
Close the bin and delete it.
Select a Sequence or clip and Output > Export to Device > XDCAM
Under Target XDCAM Disk, Select the path for the AMA Volume.
Select the desired Video Format
And OK.
This will create an XDCAM HD OP1a MXF file in the clip folder that can
be played by the XDCAM Viewer and imported back into Media Composer. For
some odd reason, the audio is distorted with the VX-10 player on
Windows, but VLC on Windows and the XDCAM Transfer application on the
Mac works.
The clip will have the correct Time code of the sequence or clip.
What this won't do is create a whole XDCAM HD disk, with the Proxy etc.
The clip in this folder will not work with AMA.
It will also write over any clip that's added. If C0001 is in the clip
folder, and another clip is written to the folder, it will be written
over with no prompting.
On A Mac using the Export to Device to an AMA mounted XDCAM folder
results in an error that there isn't enough drive space available. If
the contents of a blank XDCAM HD disk is copied onto a drive, in my case
I used a USB Flash drive. This will mount on the desktop and a bin will
automatically open with the dialog that no clips were found. At this
point I was able to export to the flash drive.
The other option is to use the Disk Utility and create a read/write disk
image. Copy the contents of a blank XDCAM HD disk to it. It will act the
same way as a thumb drive. This process has the same limitations as
using an XDCAM Folder with Windows. Only the MXF file is written, none
of the other work is done; proxy etc.
To create a Disk Image using Disk Utility; Select New Image from the top
menu and make sure the Image Format is: read/write disk image. Mount the
image and copy the contents of a blank XDCAM HD disk to the image.
Media Composer will automatically see this as an XDCAM HD disk.
Hope this helps.
Bob
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Mathew Sherman" <Mathew.Sherman@...>
wrote:
>
> Why can the Avid not export to a Sony XDCAM HD MXF file? If I don't
have
> a device connected to my computer when I'm ready to export I'd still
> like to be able to export them to the desktop. I can use FTP or other
> method to get those files onto the disc later on. Or is there a way?
>
> Matt.
>
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