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Wedding Highlights

The highlights for my first HD project. This was shot on a Sony XDCAM Ex3 which is file based HD.

The workflow is pretty simple but kind of a pain when it comes time for output.

Ingesting the media is simple. In Avid MC 4 all you have to do is copy the footage to your HDD then in Avid go to File -> Import AMA volume and select your folder. Its a pretty quick and easy process.

In Avid MC 3 you have to export your clips from Sony Clip Browser as MXF files and then import them into Avid. This takes forever if you have a lot of media.

For outputting you have 2 options.

1. If you are outputting back to tape (such as DvCam) You have to make a video mixdown to SD res and then output from that. This can also be done for outputting to Dvd or Blu-ray (HD mixdown) as it is quicker than option 2

2. Export Quicktime movie - I haven't experimented to much with this but a 2 min video exported at full HD res came in at 15gbs.

Option 1 gave me a lot of problems, I kept getting decompression errors but was able to get rid of most of them by switching back and forth from timelines and freeing up some HDD space seemed to help as well. But in the end I had 1 frame that kept getting the error no matter what I did, so I ended up having cover it up with another shot.

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