Just viewed the "Upgrade Webinar", and one of the screens at the beginning of the seminar announces:
"No-recompress rendering XDCAM-EX to MPEG-2"
It got me interested, so I checked - and yes, the 35/420 mxf files from EX-series camera can be smart rendered not just to mxf (as present for some time), but also to mpg (or just m2v). Nice, BUT:
- why cannot be smart-rendering intelligent enough and also kick-in on progressive (or really, PsF) stuff rendered out to interlaced, which is obligatory for BD?
I mean, for example: I have all my XDCAM-EX stuff in 1080/25p (PsF) format, and - after just cut editing - I'd like to make a reference BD out of it. Sounds easy, huh?
NO - smart rendering of progressive mxf will not work with "Upper field first" setting, required by BD!
SCS, please drop it into our wish-list basket.
Piotr