• Avid Media Composer

  mp4 playback/audition and work flow

  Posted by Paul Dougherty on November 20, 2012 at 4:23 pm

  Since I anticipate more jobs using YouTube mp4 clips, I’d like to improve my Avid workflow. By that I mean I’l like to AMA link to mp4’s I’ve downloaded from YT and browse/audition them within in MC. These HD clips typically play nicely in Qt Pro player, but they play really poorly in recent versions of MC (5 & 6) running both on a 3yr old MacBook Pro and (why not) a new Mac Mini. The media disc is a 7200prm G-Drive. Clips will playback for a few sec than stall. FCP 7 seems better.

  Before I start transcoding “keepers” I’d like to do my browsing/selects within MC, am I being unreasonable or missing something?

  Thanks in advance,

  Paul

  Shane Ross replied 13 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  November 20, 2012 at 8:38 pm

  Preview in MPEG STREAMCLIP…convert in there to Avid Media then import into Avid.

  But personally, I wouldn’t use Avid for this, if YouTube is your source. Adobe Premiere edits this stuff natively, without conversion.

  Shane
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  Paul Dougherty

  November 20, 2012 at 11:42 pm

  Thanks Shane, do people sue Compressor to convert to Avid media? (to be able to set up batches)

  Paul
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  Shane Ross

  November 21, 2012 at 12:02 am

  You can. Just need to use a ProRes setting, and then change the encoder to and Avid codec. I guess you can review in there too.

  Shane
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