Re: [Avid-L2] XDCAM EX - Transcode or Consolidate?

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:

> 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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