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Quicktips 2011 Day 27: Speed up FCP’s XDCAMexport

This Reader Quicktip comes to us from James Stuckey Weber and it’s a tip to speed up the exporting process of the XDCAM format in Final Cut Pro. I don’t do a lot of XDCAM export from FCP so I can’t confirm the rather dramatic speed-up this tip claims but I can’t deny it either. When the XDCAM export does present itself next time I’ll be trying it out.

Here is James’ tip:

When you export to XDCAM from Final Cut, there are two export stages- the first where Final Cut is “Writing Audio and Video”, and the second where the Sony XDCAM Exporter is actually copying the file over to the deck or drive you are using. Here’s a quicktip to drastically reduce the time of the first step.

That is quite a huge difference in James’ tip. Talk about a timesaver. Give it a try the next time you have to export XDCAM and let us know how much time this tip saved on the export.

You can follow James on Twitter @jamesnw.

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wow ... this one definitely bears some bulk real world testing, will get back to you on that

Posted by Andy  on  02/27  at  08:29 PM

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Sorry to say that results from bulk real world testing suggests that this is tip is busted ... not a single field user I contacted was able to measure any benefit whatsoever in closing windows as directed. It made no difference at all. Pity :-(

Posted by Andy  on  03/24  at  07:04 AM

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Yup .... did you see the follow-up that was posted on Day 30:

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/story/quicktips_2011_day_30_follow_up_for_day_27/

Posted by Scott Simmons  on  03/26  at  08:25 AM

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Lol.  Sorry, nope didn’t see the follow up ... thanks for the link, makes sense ... still a pity.

Posted by Andy  on  03/28  at  04:01 AM

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