Re: [FCP-L] Re: Sony EX1R Post Workflow

That too is my experience with EX footage with long form editing in
FCP 6 or 7. Tremendous amount of crashes and longer processing time
(renders, exports, etc) compared to DVC Pro HD. It requires too much
memory to process.

Dom Q. Silverio

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:00 PM, r_salsbury <synchro@syncretist.com> wrote:
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> I was gonna just let this go by, but since it's turned to a bigger discussion, I'll mention that I've worked at 2 separate facilities where XDCAM EX (1080/23.98) footage was a real hassle to work with in FCP. Technically, it's just supposed to work as a native editing format, but it drove folks a little crazy at both places. FCP 7 is much better with it than 6, but for the shows I've been cutting, it's not seamless. That translates to half hour or hour long shows.
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> We were seeing lots of green frames, weird sync stuff, crashes way more often than normal, and exports both self contained and reference took forever. Like, 20 mins for a 30 minute sequence, with a huge fibrechannel SAN as the backbone. Drives were not the bottleneck.
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> The current series I'm cutting for is shooting with these cameras (I think the cheaper one), and after mighty amounts of troubleshooting, we decided to transcode EVERYTHING that had been shot thus far over to ProRes LT. Things have gotten so much better - those self contained exports are down to about 3 or 4 minutes, and no crashes.
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> I like the way the footage looks, and would encourage folks to check the cameras out, but not without trying to road test a project the same size you'll really be working with.
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> I'll also add that the assistants are impressed with how quick we can load and integrate new material, even with the step of transcoding from XD to ProRes, so there are speed advantages to the format apparently.
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> --- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, David Dodson <davidadodson@...> wrote:
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>> Now we're finally getting to the nut of what I was trying to unearth.
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>> So when shooting with the EX1R's long GOP MPEG2s you have to copy the card contents to a drive and THEN transcode/rewrap the material to (ProRes?) for cutting?
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>> And more critically, is this a real-time or longer-than-real time process?  And if not, how long?
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>> Thanks,
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>> David
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