Interesting. How well is the Canon footage shot to begin with? I've only dealt with a little of it but there isn't a lot of range to tweak without artifacts etc.... IIRC.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@...> wrote:
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> further - and rather ironically, we're also using some Canon H264 in the same show- and that gets converted via Mpeg Streamclip to DNxHD.
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> Can you guess which one looks better in the final sequence - especially after color correction? The sony stuff. Too bad canon doesn't use XDCam EX.
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> gh
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> On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Greg Huson wrote:
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> > We're using XDCam EX consolidated from AMA- works great. Very happy with the results, works great- functionally, can't really tell the difference between that and native media.
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> > On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Dylan Reeve wrote:
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> >> Hi, I'm seeking some opinions on workflow for XDCAM EX material...
> >>
> >> Editing episodes that have up to 25 hours of XDCAM EX footage per episode,
> >> and trying to decide the best workflow.
> >>
> >> Initially we'd decided to transcode all the camera footage to DNxHD 185, but
> >> obviously this is taking a lot of space and we now feel it may be overkill.
> >> The alternative is that we Consolidate all the AMA media, which still
> >> achieves our main aim of getting the source files out of the AMA management
> >> and into Avid's own MediaFiles structure but keeps the actual media as
> >> native 35Mb/s XDCAM EX.
> >>
> >> Obviously there is a slight processor overhead in editing with the highly
> >> compressed XDCAM EX rather than native DNxHD, but is that significant enough
> >> to worry about? Are there any pitfalls I'm not considering? In testing with
> >> a couple of card's worth of media the system appears to have no difficulty
> >> dealing with the media.
> >>
> >> In the past they have used roughly the same process with upwards of 200
> >> hours of footage in a single project and ran into instability, but in
> >> retrospect that was likely a combination of unpatched Media Composer
> >> versions (5.0 without subsequent updates) and a system that was in need of a
> >> reinstall.
> >>
> >> In this case each episode will be handled individually, and the source AMA
> >> material will be taken offline once the footage has been ingested.
> >>
> >> Any multi-pass process (eg. Transcode to DNxHD 36, edit, relink to AMA,
> >> transcode to DNxHD 185) is not acceptable for our purposes.
> >>
> >> Dylan Reeve
> >> http://dylanreeve.com/
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