• Avid Media Composer

  what codec for DVCAM into Avid using Squeeze?

  Posted by Matthew Lovering on July 21, 2012 at 3:01 am

  Hi

  I posted this on the Cr. Cow sorenson forum but perhaps it’s really an avid question.

  I’ve been given 8 hours of PAL DVCAM footage already digitised off tape and I want to use Squeeze to convert the .mov quicktimes to AVID friendly format. I don’t want to link using AMA and transcode later in Avid. I’ve done this a few times for HD footage – it works well, is faster and lets me control which folders I put the footage in in the main AVID mxf folder, but for SD which codec setting is the most appropriate to use? Avid 1:1? Avid DV100? some other one?

  The finished projects will be going onto the web but I’ll keep everything interlaced in case someone wants to make a DVD later.

  I’m using Squeeze Pro 8.5 and Symphony 6 on a mac.

  thanks for any help 🙂

  cheers

  Matt

  Bouke Vahl replied 14 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Bouke Vahl

  July 21, 2012 at 10:02 am

  Avid has DV as native codec.
  So you could ama and consolidate, not transcode.
  This will be lighting fast, and no quality loss.

  Bouke

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