• Avid Media Composer

  AMA Files Stutter & Get Stuck in MC 5

  Posted by Eddie Gonzalez on June 24, 2011 at 5:14 pm

  I used Sorenson Squeeze 7 with the included Avid Codec to encode a 20 minute movie to .MOV. The resulting file is 9Gigs and plays perfectly in QuickTime. When I link to that .MOV file in Media Composer 5.0.3, I can scrub perfectly through the footage…but when I click play it stutters and sticks and starts stuttering again. Both the audio and the video stutters. I have no other problems with my set up. In otherwords, when Import the file into Avid, the stuttering problem goes away and is perfect…so the stuttering is only when linking via AMA method.

  thanks for your help in advance.
  Eddie
  Windows XP 32bit
  Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13Ghz
  2Gb Ram

  Shane Ross replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  June 24, 2011 at 7:01 pm

  Just import it. Convert it to the Avid MXF file. AMA is good for getting ACCESS to the footage (as the name states, Avid Media ACCESS), but not all files are well suited for working with in their native format. Even a QT file in an Avid codec can have issues, so just transcode it to DNxHD and use that.

  Shane

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  Jim Malmstrom

  June 28, 2011 at 4:51 pm

  “Just import it. Convert it to the Avid MXF file. AMA is good for getting ACCESS to the footage (as the name states, Avid Media ACCESS), but not all files are well suited for working with in their native format. Even a QT file in an Avid codec can have issues, so just transcode it to DNxHD and use that.”

  Shane,

  I’m a little confused – or maybe I’m not. You’re suggesting the original poster convert his file to AVID MXF. You closed by saying he should transcode it to DNxHD.

  Is there any confusion there or, is it the case that one can transcode a file into any one of the Avid HD codecs but that any file transcoded or imported into AMC becomes Avid MXF media regardless of codec used on import/transcoding?
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  Shane Ross

  June 28, 2011 at 4:59 pm

  [Jim Malmstrom] “that any file transcoded or imported into AMC becomes Avid MXF media regardless of codec used on import/transcoding?”

  That is correct. Any codec you choose, when you transcode, becomes an Avid MXF file.

  Shane

  GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
  Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

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