Re: Workflow Decision Time - XDCAM EX

I can only chime in here with my experience. I, along with many others, have had terrible problems with crashing working natively with XDCam. We had a meeting at the production company yesterday with a local FCP guru who has had issues too; his workflow now is to trascode all XDCam to ProRes (not HQ) and work in that. It's something we're going to adopt across the board in order to try and stabilise things.

Now, this is in PAL land and there are many who don't seem to get the issues we're finding. If that's the case for you then working natively may be the way to go; unfortunately you won't know 'till you try. If you do go that way and experience random crashes, then turning off thumbnails in the TL and not using Icon view in the bins seems to lessen the problem. I think it's an issue in writing the icons (they change whenever in/outs are altered) but as I say many haven't encountered this issue.

In your shoes, given my experience, I'd transcode to ProRes 1080 before starting. But YMMV, and you may use option 1 with no issues at all...

Jason

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