• Avid Media Composer

  Importing files

  Posted by Ugo Danesi on April 19, 2012 at 8:52 am

  Dear all,
  I am migrating from fcp7 to avid media composer 6.
  My first problem is the setting up of the project. My footages are in HDV 1080i50 or in ProRes422(HQ).

  When I import them into my project AVID starts a conversion which is really time spending. Is there a format of footages which is nont converted by AVID but ingested istantanely?

  Thanks in adavnce.

  David Powell replied 14 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Stacy Lincoln

  April 19, 2012 at 3:02 pm

  All raw footage takes time to ingest. Quicktimes will come in fast.
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  David Powell

  April 19, 2012 at 7:01 pm

  You can fast import Quicktimes (do a search on that). You can save time by transcoding via Mpeg stream clip (a free app) to a DNX format and then fast importing that into Avid. This will keep your system from being tied up during long transcode processes

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