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

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-






On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Jason Gillet <jsg5403@yahoo.com> 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
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> On Jul 30, 2013, at 11:01 AM, John Beck <jb30343@windstream.net> wrote:
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> > 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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