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BMD AVIs files on Mac PPro CS3?
I’ve posted this on the Premiere forum aswell, but hoped one of you BMD guys might be able to help more specifically?
…If I explain, can anybody shed some light on whether it is feesable or if not how much of a pain in the @ss it would be to sort out?…
I currently capture to PPro CS2 on Windows PC via Decklink (Standard Def) using the BMD 8-bit YUV codec as AVI. Any minor edits in PPro are exported as BMD 8-bit YUV AVIs. I then use these clips mainly in After Effects and render out my final clips back to AVI 8-bit YUV for playout via PPro. That is the extent of my use for PPro.
SOOOO….my proposed plan is to move over to CS3 on a MAC PRO and be able to use these AVIs in PPro and AE on the mac. What problems am I going to have?
Obviously I will start to use QT for capture/playout and rendering from then on, but it’d REALLY useful if I could use these old AVIs for alts to old archived jobs.
Last thing – I won’t really be using PPro to edit much – just capture, playout, encode MPEG-1 + 2 and the odd tiny chop. How stable is CS3 on Mac Leopard at the moment? did they sort out all the problems? I’d probably be using a Decklink HD Extreme.
Thanks for any advice.
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My question would be can QT decode an AVI with a BM Codec.? In my experience QT will not make AVI’s in excess of 2 or 4 gig(cant remember), so i would wonder if it would decode..
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you cant hear my inner voice scream… can you..?
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Hi, I use AE CS3 on MacPro with OSX 10.5.2, QT 7.4.1 and Decklink HD Extreme and it doesn’t have more issues than any previous setups I’ve used. QT 7.4 introduced problems in OSX with renders going over 10 minutes in real time but that seems to be fixed with the 7.4.1 upgrade. Over a lunch break I set up an hour long render with Fractal Noise and it came through uninterrupted. I edit with FCP and don’t have Premiere so can’t give any info on how it works on OSX. If you make a small .avi file, like 5-10 mb big and post it somewhere I can download it and try to open it in AE later this week, am a bit swamped in work for the moment.
cheers
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