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farss wrote on 9/6/2007, 8:16 PM
I'm kind of curious as to why you're flooding this forum with multiple posts about a camera?

Yeah I'm pretty excited about this baby and might actually buy one myself however there are fora (e.g. DVInfo) with sections devoted to just cameras. Over on that forum you'll find the usual suspects from here and many more as well. Surely it'd seem more appropriate to discuss cameras there or at least limit discussion here to one or two threads.

Not trying to dampen your enthusiasm, heck for once Sony might have a real winner on their hands but ....I mean I've got access to a SI-2K and it's about as relevant to here as the EX1, well OK you CAN use Vegas to edit EX1 footage but still.

Bob.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/6/2007, 8:28 PM
as true as your words may be Bob, I've no time for fora lately and it's nice to be able to pop in here and get some links to info I can read on my extremely truncated breaks as I head into yet another all nighter trying to catch up after having taken a week and a half of vacation last month. (what a foolish move that was ;) ).

Dave
farss wrote on 9/6/2007, 8:33 PM
Vacation?
Had to look that word up in a dictionary.

Bob.
Cheesehole wrote on 9/6/2007, 9:09 PM
Sorry Bob some of us are a little obsessed... heheheh :) I've haven't been this excited about a camera in years! It's my desktop background for real.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how the full quality 35Mbps footage plays in Vegas natively. It's impossible to find samples of raw XDCAM HD footage on the web. Anyone have experience with XDCAM HD on the timeline?
farss wrote on 9/6/2007, 9:45 PM
Anyone have experience with XDCAM HD on the timeline?
NO but, I've watched demos of Xpri and XDCAM.
The concept behind XDCAM is you don't pull the full res footage onto the T/L. That's what the proxies are for and why V8 supports partial FAM mode.
You do an edit on the proxies and then conform and render out.
I don't know how that workflow will sit with people here or how the extra speed of transfer from the SXS cards will obviate the need for this either however for ENG editing the demo I watched blew me away. Being able to do the same thing in Vegas is certainly impressive.


Bob.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/6/2007, 9:54 PM
really this EX and Vegas8 are a great combination. I spoke to news guys in Vegas last NAB, and many of their field guys do cuts in the field in Vegas and then kick them over. Imagine just cutting the proxies on your machine and sending the files up to the destination and then sending a project file shortly after having cut the proxies on vegas and sending an EDL or .veg to your primary editors back home, they've got the proxies, they can work with, off your cut, and then get the full files to swap out before they have to go to air but have the work all done while the files are coming in from the field. Awesome possibilities arise.

(Well, that's the end of that slightly extended bathroom break,(don't worry I washed my hands before I put up this post :P ) Back to work :)

Dave
Laurence wrote on 9/6/2007, 10:26 PM
Well, with my P4 I'm used to working with Gearshift Proxies. Since you're using proxies anyway, am I correct in assuming that my P4 would probably be up to the task, even if the renders would be kind of slow?