Here's what I found in a somewhat dated, but not necessarily inaccurate, XDCam workflow guide:
Batch Import Speed Improvements
The speed of batch importing from an XDCAM device has been substantially improved – in some cases with speed improvements as much as 1000 percent!
In previous versions of Avid NLE products, the time taken to batch import depended on the length of the original clip. The longer the clip, the longer a batch import took. To import a few seconds from a very long clip could take many minutes. Effectively, the batch import workflow was impractical for any media longer than one or two minutes.
This version imports parts of longer clips in seconds. This opens up the possibility of doing a proxy edit and batch importing the high resolution for the completed sequence in a short and practical period of time. A typical workflow might include the following steps:
Sony PDZ-1 Interface
• • • •
Import Proxy video
Edit Proxy video
Select sequence and perform BATCH IMPORT
Recreate title media and render effects
Now my question is if I take the XDCam disks and ama them then transcode to 10:1 SD material and do my offline when it comes time to online would I decompose imported clips for the sequence and then batch import or do I batch import an undecomposed sequence and Avid asks me for disks one at a time like a batch capture only now it's a batch import. And would this be an import of only what is needed with handles? My concern is that this workflow would require all the ama media to be available as virtual volumes requiring all the XDCam discs to have been copied to a storage array so all the volumes could be accessed at once. At this point I assume I would just consolidate the sequence with handles to my online media drive. I'm looking for the proper way to make XDCam work like tape but without the XDCam deck involved but the PDWU1. Is that possible?
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
No comments:
Post a Comment