This is by no means a be all, end all guide to XDCAM. My circumstances were I was tasked with building an Avid workflow for a show shot almost entirely on XDCAM. Due to cost restrictions, 1600 decks were not available, so I had to use U1 drives. We had some B-Roll being shot on 5D, but none of it was groupable to our cameras, so we didn't need that timecode necessarily. It was also so infrequent, that is was decided to not use one XDCAM disc per day, but rather to put all 5D footage on the minimum amount...
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