I googled Paul Sampson's workflow guide but it's pretty old. Trying to figure out what people are doing for high volume XDCam workflows. We may be moving to HD on a reality series and XDCam was suggested for a format. I've heard lots of good things and I like the tape like aspect of XDCam as far as archiving goes. It was suggested to save money on stock that they could reuse the XDCam disks after copying them off to drives and LTO etc... I wasn't part of this conversation but that seems like a bad idea. One of the big pluses for XDCam is the disks are like tape on the shelf. At 23 bucks for 85 minutes ish of record why reuses them. The transfer time to disks and lto would cost more than new disks. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
When it comes to workflow we have a lot of 3.x mc stations. Some have mojos most use and additional video card for full screen playback. We're thinking of upgrading a number of stations but I'm not sure if that's going to happen. Is the current approach to XDCam to ama and transcode or is the more traditional import method more solid? Is the proxy workflow better than a traditional transcode to 10:1. There will no doubt be a bunch of mixing and matching of various other sources of acquired footage so I don't want to work in a native format that is going to make it hard to do timeline exports etc... My gut says to get the XDCam in using the PDWU1 drives and transcode to avid SD 10:1 then treat as normal offline. Would this allow for a traditional decompose and then a batch import of the XDCam material? Basically what is the way to online uprezzing just the needed material like I would off tape. I know we could get the sony deck but can
this type of workflow be accomplished with the U1 drive just importing the need sections? Any experience would be appreciated.
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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