• Avid Media Composer

  Trouble converting t2i footage into dnxhd using Compressor…

  Posted by Edward Calabig on August 20, 2011 at 1:35 am

  I’m having trouble finding the correct Compressor settings to transcode my h.264 footage into DnxHD (36 or 175).

  My preset in Compressor is:
  File format: Quicktime movie
  video settings:
  Avid DNxHD codec
  frame rate current
  depth millions of colors+
  color levels 709
  alpha none
  resolution 1080p/23.976 DnxHD 175 (or 36)

  audio settings:
  linear pcm 48/16 bit

  When I look at the converted quicktime movie, it looks awful. What am I doing wrong?

  Thanks.

  Ed Cilley replied 14 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Edward Calabig

  August 20, 2011 at 2:11 am

  Ok I’m trying mpeg streamclip now and going to export other format
  switching to dnxhd codec
  quicktime movie
  1920×1080 (unscaled)
  unchecked interlaced scaling (did not check deinterlace video

  The video looks much better except everything looks more flat than my proRes HQ transcode from compressor. Is this normal for DNxHD?

  Should I check deinterlace video or interlaced scaling?
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  Andrew Mckee

  August 20, 2011 at 6:04 am

  There is no need to convert DSLR footage in another application. Here are 2 ways to get footage into Avid.

  1) FIle -> Import – This will import the original movs and convert them to Avid MXF files in chosen resolution.

  2) Link to AMA Files – In version 5 or above this will bring in the native files but performance will depend on your system (definitely get better performance than FCP7 though). Most likely you will need to then transcode which will convert to Avid MXF files (although marginally faster than the import option)

  Andrew McKee
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  Ed Cilley

  August 20, 2011 at 12:50 pm

  Use option 1 that Andrew mentions. Options 2 is good if you have a ton of clips and will only be using a few clips, but playback of the H264 files via AMA gets slow in long sequences.

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  Edward Calabig

  August 20, 2011 at 4:50 pm

  Thanks I had a question though. Does the project save a d copy of the imported footage somewhere? I can’t find it in my project folder or in the source folder where my original h.264 footage is at?
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  Ed Cilley

  August 20, 2011 at 5:24 pm

  Avid works differently than FCP when it comes to file management. All imported media goes to the drive you specify on the import screen. (Hopefully you work with an external drive and not your system drive.) In other words, all media you work with in Avid, gets imported and new files created. Music, stills, video, everything gets imported to the following folder…

  You will find a folder called “Avid MediaFiles”. You really don’t need to navigate to this unless you are trouble shooting other issues. Also, the files you find in here won’t just open in QT, like your Capture Scratch files in FCP.

  This also makes media management easy, since all clips used in the project are stored in this one place and not just pointing to the original files which could be scattered on several drives. You may want to look at a program call Avid Media Mover by Random Video (https://www.randomvideo.com/products/mediamover_avid.html). This makes backing up an entire project really easy since it moves all media into one folder.

  Hope that helps.

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  Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
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