That is likely from the XF 300 or XF 305, Canon XF at 50 Mbits. The
DSLRs record to H.264 at a somewhat lower data rate.
I'm very interested in advice for a best post workflow, though! I have
had trouble using AMA (on Mac MC 6.5x), and have reverted to ingest and
transcode...
Ricardo Ismach
Casual Dog Productions, LLC
Portland, OR
On 2/5/2013 10:09 PM, John Moore wrote:
>
> I'm starting up a project, well picking up a project that had been
> started and I've since added new media via ama transcoding. When I
> received the project one interview had already been transcoded to
> DNX220. Judging by the video format of CANON XF MPEG-2 50Mbits
> (1080p/29.97) I assume the footage came from a Canon 5D or 7D. No
> reel numbers were added to the already transcoded interview clips so I
> followed their lead and when I added the extra raw material they gave
> me I just linked to ama volume and transcoded to DNX220. At the time
> it was for a quick radio cut and wasn't going to continue on my end.
> Now I'm cutting the whole show and want to make things air tight for
> reconform. I haven't spent a lot of quality ama time but my plan is
> to name the bins for the individual card folder names I've been given
> for example "BCC-Portman-DAY1-CF1" without the " marks. This works
> for a bin name and a tape name but the dashes make me wonder if I will
> get burned with some illegal characters causing issues under the
> hood. So far so good but just wanted to ask. Now for the media I've
> already transcoded without adding a reel name first I can modify and
> add a source but I seem to recall that the reel number metadata gets
> baked in more robustly if it is done before the initial transcode.
> Should I be concerned about just adding a reel name after the fact and
> would it be worth re transcoding the media adding the reel number
> before the transcode? I can always modify the existing radio cut to
> match the reel names so it would relink to a new transcodes. I'm not
> under a big time crunch so I'm viewing this as a learning process as
> well as a job so I don't mind redoing some of my initial work if it
> will make for a better workflow when it comes to online. Heck I'm not
> even doing the online so I don't know why I'm so worried but it just
> seems like the right thing to do. Any suggestions and experience
> is welcome.
>
> John Moore
>
> Barking Trout Productions
>
> Studio City, CA
>
> bigfish@pacbell.net
>
>
>
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