I am getting ready to set up a project that will be working with XDCAM HD 50Mbit footage and I was wondering if there is any reason to make proxies or if it will be fine to work with the HD footage. The only issues I can think of is space limitations on our nexis or slow perfmormance if the systems can't handle the footage. I tried to look up what system requirements are needed to edit with that size of footage but I am having trouble finding any info.
My plan is to either consolidate the footage from the Pro Discs to our Nexis and work with the HD footage or consolidate it to an external drive and transcode it down to our nexis if space is an issue. Is there any issues I should keep in mind with this workflow?
You can do the maths on the storage impact. Dnx36 is about 3/4 the capacity.
I'd imagine on modern systems it should play fine. Even 4 streams is only 200mbps so just a bit more than dnx185x
I'd do some tests.
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XDCAM is fairly light in terms of storage bandwidth requirements. You can playback multiple streams over USB 3 with no issues. However, it is a long GOP based codec. A decent CPU is needed to process multicam. You want 12 core or higher if you are editing in multicam. 8 core is fine for a simple non multicam sequence.
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Thanks for the responses and recommendations all. I managed to get some footage to group and test out and it looks like both my iMac with 4ghz Intel I7 and a MacPro 2.7 GHz 12-Core are able to work with a group with 9 tracks with no issues that I could see so that is good.
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