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To set the playback options for XDCAM media:

1. Right-click the Video Quality menu button, and select Draft Quality (yellow/green) or Best

Performance (yellow/yellow).

Some effects, such as IllusionFX and FluidMotion effects, do not playback in real time when

you select Draft Quality. For these effects, you must also select the Progressive Source

button in the Effect Editor before you render.

2. (Option) You can perform emergency play-to-air operations of the proxy media as an export,

as a Send to Playback operation, or as a digital cut.

Batch Importing High-Resolution XDCAM Media

from the XDCAM Disk

Once you finish editing your sequence with proxy media, you can replace the low-resolution

media with the corresponding high-resolution media with the Batch Import command. The Batch

Import command lets you reimport the high-resolution DVCAM, MPEG IMX, or XDCAM HD

files, directly from the XDCAM disk, while automatically linking the new imported material

with the sequences and master clips created with the low-resolution MPEG-4 media. If you batch

import media for an edited sequence, the import operation copies only those portions of the

high-resolution master clip needed by the sequence, not the whole clip. If you batch import

master clips, the import process copies the entire clip.

The Disk Label column in the bin headings displays the XDCAM disk labels created when you

import the XDCAM media. For information on displaying bin columns, see “Bin Column

Headings” on page 352. If necessary, you can use the Modify command to change the name in

the Disk Label column.

You can also import the high-resolution media files separately. Since importing high-resolution

master clips requires more storage, time, and bandwidth than batch importing only the necessary

parts of clips, you might want to import the master clips to another workstation or to another

system in a shared storage environment — for example, to an Avid shared storage server. Once

you import the high-resolution media, you can Relink to move between the proxy media and the

high-resolution media. For more information about relinking media, see “Editing and Finishing

High-Resolution XDCAM Media” on page 316 and “Relinking Media Files” on page 467.

To batch import high-resolution XDCAM media:

1. Double-click Import in the Settings list.

The Import Settings dialog box opens.