• Avid Media Composer

  SDHC import problem

  Posted by Jess Hinchliffe on January 26, 2011 at 10:41 pm

  Hello all,

  I recently bought a new HD camera which records footage in the .avi format using the h.264 compression onto an SDHC card. I checked to see if Avid Liquid 7 supports this format and the website says that it does. However, after recording a few hours of IMPORTANT footage, I import the file as I usually would and get the following error message “Format or compression is not supported.” How is this possible? I need some advice as to what I can do to get Avid to import this and I need it asap.

  Many thanks in advance.

  Hector Berrebi replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Hector Berrebi

  January 27, 2011 at 4:23 pm

  are you trying to bring it into liquid?

  if you’re bringing it to MC, try encoding it first, using squeez or mpeg streamclip to a DNX file then bring it in avid, you most probably won’t lose quality when doing this.

  i’m not familiar with liquid, but if there is a favorable codec liquid likes, you could use this advice and transcode before import. do mind that some codecs will lose quality compared to original

  hope this helps

  hector

  Hector Berrebi
  Schibber Group
  prePost Consulting

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