• Avid Media Composer

  Advice needed– Avid Native Support and other things

  Posted by Andrew Hays on October 23, 2011 at 10:54 pm

  Need some advice on which cameras and which HD acquisition formats work natively with Avid (i.e. you don’t need to transcode, re-wrap, or render the footage (once it’s on the timeline)). I’ve personally only used AVCHD and that codec is not very edit-friendly. Our business needs something that we can edit with fast, and not much render time. We are looking at a $5,000 budget for each camera. going to be getting two cameras. we are leaning more towards file-based formats. We are also considering LTO drives for the Mac. Any advice on that would be helpful as well.

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  Andrew Hays replied 13 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  October 23, 2011 at 11:11 pm

  P2. AVCIntra and DVCPRO HD are MXF files and work with no transcoding needed.

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  Andrew Hays

  September 6, 2012 at 4:00 am

  Thanks Shane. As always, good information.

  ..and knowing is half the battle.

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