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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