This IS the Avid L2: RE: [Avid-L2] Xdcam to Avid Workflow Prod to post

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

RE: [Avid-L2] Xdcam to Avid Workflow Prod to post

Robert

do you use the transcoder as well?

Have you looked at their archive component for Interplay?

Rupert Watson

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From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Robert Lawson
Sent: Wed 7/31/2013 1:15 AM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Xdcam to Avid Workflow Prod to post

We are very happy with NLTek SAT AI to aid our file-based workflow for
broadcast news.

Plus if you're working in an Interplay environment, AutoIngest really
shines.

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013, Shawn Broes wrote:

> There's also the SAT Auto Ingest tool, which also uses the U1 & U2 decks.
> Get three or four hooked up, and mass ingest is easy.
> The other cool thing is you can just have it set up to bring in low res
> proxies (MPEG 4's) for editing, then you can uprez later-
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> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Jason Gillet <jsg5403@yahoo.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Cool any one have any experience on how people are working with them in
> > production? Do people work as if its a tape based workflow and wait till
> > post to ingest. Post makes sense and sound straight forward.
> >
> > J
> >
> >
> > On Jul 30, 2013, at 11:01 AM, John Beck <jb30343@windstream.net<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Paul Sampson's guide is excellent. About 80% of the media I get was
> > > recorded as XDCam 50 on Sony Prodisks. Here are a few observations.
> > >
> > > The disks have been nearly bullet proof. Out of many hundreds of disks
> > > I've only had 2 fail. I was able to recover 100% of one of them using
> > > Sony's utility. Sony's media recovery center was able to recover 100%
> > > of the other for a small fee. The disks are inexpensive enough that
> > > none of the producers I work with feel the need to reuse them.
> > >
> > > For the majority of editing in MC I suggest using a Sony U1 or U2 drive
> > > and using AMA to link to the disk. The sad part of this is that with a
> > > full 50 GB disk the AMA linking can take a good 10 minutes. Once the
> > > clips are on line, cut them into a selects sequence and consolidate or
> > > transcode the sequence. Repeat for all your disks.
> > > --J.B.
> > >
> > > Jason Gillet wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Please forgive me I have never actually had to deal with XDCAM in
> > production before. I have a client who is interested in shooting xdcam
> vs a
> > card based media such as P2, C300, SXS, etc... His theory is it's easier
> > and cheaper than with Xdcam. What is the real workflow from Prod to post?
> > Is it, shoot to Disk take disk out and ingest into Avid AMA via deck? Do
> > people clone the disks in the field? if so what hardware are they using
> to
> > do this with?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jason Gillet
> > > > Editor/Engineer
> > > > Gillet Productions, LLC
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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> --
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> *Shawn Broes*
> *818-606-0576*
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Rob Lawson
System Administrator, ACSR ISIS, Windows & Interplay
CBS News

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