further - and rather ironically, we're also using some Canon H264 in the same show- and that gets converted via Mpeg Streamclip to DNxHD.
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.
gh
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Greg Huson
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Post Production / Production
Culver City, CA
323 677 2092
www.DigitalServiceStation.com
greg (at) SecretHQ.com
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On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Greg Huson wrote:
> 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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> Greg Huson
> Secret Headquarters, Inc
> Post Production / Production
> Culver City, CA
> 323 677 2092
> www.DigitalServiceStation.com
> greg (at) SecretHQ.com
> facebook.com/greg.huson
> www.SecretHQ.com
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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...
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>> Editing episodes that have up to 25 hours of XDCAM EX footage per episode,
>> and trying to decide the best workflow.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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