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Originally Posted by Douglas Scott
What is relatively soon as far as version upgrades?
The XDR is useless until I can send my clients from the field files they can use in their editing systems. I would say that AVID is mostly used by my national clients and Final Cut Pro is probably next in line.
FYI, on many of the projects I work on as a freelancer, we shoot a story in a day and I either FedEx the tapes to the editors for next morning editing or do a satellite uplink for editing that night. Some projects will take 2 or 3 days, but the tapes are sent out right after we finish shooting or the field producer takes the tapes with them. On some occasions, a courier is sent to the shoot location to take the tapes to the nearest airport for the next flight out.
The critical point here there isn't much time for transferring formats. I could get away with transferring from the XDR to a DVD or hard drive to be sent out, but I don't think there is time for loading the files into say FCP and rendering them into another format and output them onto a DVD or hard drive for shipping. There just isn't time at the best of locations.
When flash media comes down in price enough to send them to my clients, I will skip the transfer altogether. That is most likely a year away.
As I stated before, we need an operational menu system to review clips, etc., but more importantly are files that can be used by production houses throughout the USA and beyond. Until this is done, I have a very expensive paperweight with lots of promise.
Scott
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Hi Scott-
Just for my clarification, your #1 priority (for the Flash XDR) is MXF file support, so our files can be played back (and edited) on an Avid system, without transcode?
MXF support is planned in the very near future. We are working on 1080psf and audio control this week. Next comes QT file playback followed by MXF support. Our native file (CDV) is already very close to the MXF file format, so I anticipate a short development cycle.
At what cost does Compact Flash become a viable media to transfer files? The 32GB cards (good for 70 mins at 50 Mbps) are now $85. If your files are less than 30 minutes in length, you could consider a 16GB card for transfers.