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

Shane

If you have a PXU-MS240 you can download from SxS card to disk in the
field and attach the disk via e-SATA. The hard disks are swappable and
the unit runs off the same batteries as the camera.

I thought it was just a re-wrap to access Sony MXF long GOP media on FCP
?

The Nano flash web site says;

Selectable Quality / Record Rates

* Master Quality - I-Frame Only : 160/220 Mbps 4:2:2 I-Frame
Full-Raster
* Master Quality - Long GOP : 100/140/160 Mbps 4:2:2 Long-GOP
Full-Raster
* Broadcast TV Mode: 50 Mbps 4:2:2 Long-GOP Full-Raster
* Proxy Mode: 19 Mbps 4:2:0 Long-GOP 1440x1080

So it appears they support both.

And they claim

Near Universal NLE Support

* Final Cut Pro: All Quicktime files
* Avid Media Composer: All I-Frame MXF files, 35/50 Mbit Long-GOP
MXF files
* Edius: All MXF files
* Matrox Axio: All MXF files
* Vegas: All MXF files
* Premiere CS3/CS4: now supports all MXF files, with Main Concept
MPEG Pro XDCAM

And as the flash cards are cheaper I know of at least one production
company who are considering using them like tape and not offloading in
the field; just keeping the cards like they used to do with rushes
tapes.

Avid have created AMA so that you don't need to ingest the SxS, P2 or
GXF media from cameras at all; you can just edit it from a virtual
volume (folder copied from the camera media. I wonder how long it will
be before we see the same functionality in FCP?

Rupert Watson

+44 7787 554 801

www.root6.com

From: FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Shane Ross
Sent: 10 December 2009 09:03
To: FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FCP-L] Re: Sony EX1R Post Workflow

On Dec 10, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Rupert Watson wrote:

> If you are going to render to another i-frame codec for editing then
> why
> care if the acquisition codec is long gop mpeg2 of i-frame H.264?

Conversion time. Longer than it takes to capture a tape. I have to
ingest, THEN convert.
But if they shoot to the KiPro...I'd be a happy clam! Even to that
Nano-Flash, that shoots I-Frame MPEG-2 (odd but true) is better.

I like the images the EX series puts out...don't get me wrong. The OP
asked for alternatives, so I provided some. The BIG drawback to the
alternatives is the cost of the tapeless medium. Making it so that
you MUST offload in the field so you can reuse the cards. That can be
a task an a half!

-shane

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