Re: "AVOID XDCAM like the PLAGUE for editing on timeline!"

[Philip Owens] "I made a decision today after the failures - I can't deal with this any longer, so I'm going to buy a Matrox MXO2 Mini and a DVD recorder to make outputs easier. Hopefully that'll be less painful. It can hardly be worse....
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Oh, you just reminded me. We have terrible issues with export too. Exactly the same - try exporting a long TL and at some random point it just hangs with the Out Of Memory error. If you open Activity Monitor and have that on display whilst working, you may see what I see - that is the available RAM reduces gradually till it's working with maybe 50-100mb free. I think when it gets to this stage it's only a matter of time before it crashes. My work around has been to export in chunks of no more that say 10 mins. A real PITA but at least viable. Your idea of an MXO2 is a good one, but something like one of the BM cards would be cheaper. I'd go for the O2 if the cash was there tho'.

In all honesty I think something is fundamentally wrong here. Whilst many report no issues, and write it off as corrupt media or incorrectly set up systems, we're talking about a whole gamut of system types - from VAR supplied setups correctly configured to those like my own - a DIY build but with all the knowledge of 20 years in the industry, FCP since the 90s and the entire wisdom of the Cow built in to it's construction!

Whether it's the codec (which I suspect) or FCP (less likely given that all other working modes for me have been rock solid) or some voodoo interference twixt the two I don't know, but it's bloody frustrating.

Jason

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