Hand over a clip in DVCam or XDCam format

marcel-vossen wrote on 11/12/2009, 1:02 AM
Hello,

I was asked to hand over a clip to a TV station in DVCam or XDCam format but have no experience in this.

Is this a hardware format like a tape or disk, or can I just send them a DVD with the clip , rendered in one of these formats?

If so, what output format would this be in Vegas? I am in the Netherlands and we use the PAL standard by teh way.

Thanks for your help!

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farss wrote on 11/12/2009, 2:34 AM
DVCAM is a tape format, the data on the tape is identical to DV, just written with a wider track for less risk of dropouts. If you were sending them a file a vanilla DV AVI PAL file would do fine.

There's so many flavours to XDCAM I would not go there unless they gave you more precise specs.

Bob.
marcel-vossen wrote on 11/12/2009, 5:39 AM
Thanks ,

The strange thing is they don't accept files , only tapes or disks, and I don't have a tapedeck like that. There is a way to send them files , but then they want MXF D10-30

I looked into that last week, and had some support here to do that in Vegas. It's ready for sending but it looks crappy because there is very small little horizontal stripes around moving objects and people, and I dont know if thats because of the lower resolution or an error, so I sent a sample to support to have them judge if it's supposed to be like that.

Now they say they won't accept it unless it's 100% sure its correct, because they dont want to troubleshoot and sent it back etc.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 11/12/2009, 5:46 AM

Take it to a post house and have them dub it to tape.

Done.


farss wrote on 11/12/2009, 12:42 PM
Pretty well all Sony VCRs will write DVCAM and many of their cameras will too e.g. Z1, PD 170.

Your problem sounds like aliasing or line twitter that happened during the downscaling from HD to SD. Putting the video onto tape will not make that go away.

Bob.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 11/12/2009, 3:03 PM

"Putting the video onto tape will not make that [twitter] go away."

True! I did not mean to make it appear that I was suggesting otherwise.

My last reply was simply in response to the question of delivery only.

Sorry for not being more clear.