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Originally Posted by Douglas Scott
So for your "Bottom Line" the file that the customer gets has to be something they can work with and that is not a reality as of today and in the next week or so if you're not using FCP, you are still out of the loop.
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That is a valid point. The C-D engineers seem to work quickly as can be seen in the numerous firmware upgrades. For what little it's worth, I would imagine MXF files will be available within a month.
I've just gotten a break and started testing our alpha unit on an XLH1 and XHG1 and the results are beautiful - color appears much more accurate over HDV and richer. Mosquito noise and jaggies (aliasing) are greatly reduced. Just shot some 100mb scenes panning a forest with tons of details like pine needles and small leaf bushes all in dappled light. The mosquito noise dropped noticeably over the same shot in 50mb. Closeups of seed grasses and leaves gently blowing in the wind were indistinguishable between 50mb and 100mb.
Will be looking for another opening to shoot some torture tests like waves crashing on shore or a waterfall to see the difference between HDV, HDCAM422 at 50mb, and then at 100mb.
Using the workflow that Tommy Schell described above. XLH1 > HD-SDI > XDR > USB Compact Flash reader > drop files onto FCP timeline sequence > Multibridge Pro HDMI out to a Samsung 1080P DLP 67" monitor and HD-SDI out to a Panasonic LCD BTH1700 monitor.
The time to transfer the files to the hard drive from the Compact Flash Card; less than a minute. (Not even necessary if you want to edit off the card).
The time to capture the files from the tape; about 20 minutes.
The recent QT .mov firmware upgrade is a real treat to get a feel for what a gem the XDR is. Eager, as many are, for QT production work grade firmware version as well as MXF version. We use Edius for much of our work and imagine it will have to wait for the MXF version files.