Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

[Michael Hancock] "However, if you're on a Mac (which you obviously are) you can rewrap the Quicktime ProRes files to ProRes MXF files which gives you full functionality and the stability Avid is known for. It's like rewrapping P2 footage in FCP - it double the disk space you need, but it's super fast"

I'm coming home with 14 Terrabytes of data. The idea of doubling that to 28 Terra is not practical.

[Michael Hancock] "If you shoot to ProRes, does your recorder also shoot to DNxHD? If so, you could transition to Avid on the next shoot."

That's a possibility I'm exploring, though most recorders that encode to DNxHD do it in a quicktime wrapper.

[Michael Hancock] " you could transcode the ProRes files directly off the recorder/cards (what are you shooting with) and edit with the Avid ProRes MXF files and place the originals on a shelf. Think of rewrapping the ProRes to MXF as your first backup, of sorts, that you're editing with."

That's a possibility worth investigating.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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