• Avid Media Composer

  Accepting codecs

  Posted by Tim Boknecht on February 3, 2009 at 3:59 pm

  Quick question, editors:

  Which codecs do you accept at your places of business?

  At our network affiliate, we end up receiving files from all over using countless codecs…many of which aren’t recognized by our old Avid Meridian system. We’d like to restrict the codecs we accept to a list of industry standards but aren’t sure which should all be included. It becomes too time consuming to run everything through After Effects just to be able to use it on the aging Avid.

  Here are our initial preferences:

  H.264
  Mpeg-2
  Avid Meridian
  Photo jpeg
  Sorenson 3

  Are there others you feel should be on the list?

  Tim Boknecht
  Promo Writer/Producer
  KAKE-TV
  Wichita, KS
  316.946.1326

  Dino replied 17 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Hancock

  February 3, 2009 at 5:50 pm

  Animation
  Uncompressed
  Targa Sequence
  PNG Sequence

  Michael
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  Dino

  February 3, 2009 at 6:56 pm

  That’s an interesting initial list. I wouldn’t accept any of those for most any work but especially for a Meridien Avid.

  I mostly agree with Michael, Animation or TGA sequence. Most of what you listed are potentially very lossy codecs and far too open to interpretation by the person creating the files. Chances of it going wrong are high. Animation and TGAs allow for full uncompressed or lossless compression. They are also practically universally understood (by systems, software) so most anyone should be able to create or receive them.

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