Workflow ideas

Hi

I have been asked to edit a conference with a fast turn around.I have to turn around each session of the conference and upload to YouTube whilst the next session is underway, with lower thirds and PowerPoint.

We will have a new MacPro 6 Core 3.6Ghz with 16Gb Ram and a AJA Io XT. I also have available AJA Kipro recorders and my MBP 2.3Ghz I7 16gb.

So my question is do I

A: Can I record directly into FCPX using the AJA Io XT then edit, not sure how I would edit the next session
whilst recording the last....

B: A/B the Kipro drives HOT swapping them as I go? This is the rack mount version with two drives.

C: I will also have a Promise Pegasus2 8Tb raid, can I connect both the MacPro and the Macbook Pro to the drive at the same time? reordering the footage on the laptop and edit on the desktop?

??????????

Your thoughts would be appreciated


Rob

Anyone worked this way before?

Are you wanting to edit 'Growing Files'? If so, you might find some ideas in these articles.

Experimentation with Softron

Quick turnarounds on Tour De France

Well we have just ordered a new mac pro also ordered Sofron Movie Recorder. Had a long email exchange with them explaining the workflow. Testing will start next week sometime. Going to set up a camera in the studio here and do a 2 hour import (about a session length) then edit on the fly. Whilst exporting I will then start session 2.

So I will report back.

Rob

Just understand about the waveform drawing and you will be fine

By that you mean keep the inspector closed during import? I edit mainly 1-2 hour conferences I have been doing that since I looked at the page from the Tour De France.

Thanks for the reminder.

Rob

Yes and have them turned off in the browser.

Hi

And thanks for all the information.

Back from our first outing and all went well! Nearly I had to stop importing live as I was getting massive CPU use and beach ball in X and when the live import updated my timeline sometimes went offline. I am going to have a chat with Softron about this to see what I did wrong. I didn't have this in testing, it could have been that the I/O and raid were in the wrong ports. I copied the I/O from the Tour De France posting here when testing but I didn't set the equipment up onsite. I did give them a list of what and where.

But all in all it went well and the client and our director we blown away when they saw how fast I was able to upload at the end of each talk.

Hi all,

Been reading and watching from afar until now, learning lots from you guys along the way, but got a question I can't seem to find an answer to, or more probably an answer that I like!

I've got two basic camera's I can get a hdmi feed out of and would like a way to be able to ingest that into my mac live so I can edit a growing multi cam file. I see that there's the Softron route, but that's beyond my league, so wondering if anyone knows of a cheaper solution or workaround at all?

It's just a little job for a friend, but if I could save the time to have to wait before editing that'd be great, but I'm suspecting there may not be a workaround/cheap solution.

Thanks,
Paul