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  transcoding H.264 to Avid DNxHD or other codec?

  Posted by Raul Dederichs on November 30, 2012 at 7:32 am

  Hi,

  I know this has probably been discussed over and over, I am actually quite nauseous of reading about it on millions of HDSL workflow descriptions, but as I am not clear about it I was wandering if anyone of you is.
  To clarify: I am on a PC, therefore denoising and transcoding to Avid DNxHD used to be part of my standard workflow. Since CS6 came along I sometimes skipped this step an simply edited native footage. Now I have a timeline where some of the footage is native H.264 with color correction (mainly LUT & colorista II) applied while other footage has been rendered, with special effects and so on, in Avid DNxHD. Just for the record, I had always assumed that using the avid codec with 10 bit color space would give me at least a bit more latitude with color correction, but now that I see this timeline all the Avid codec footage looks awful, I transcoded some more footage to make some before and after comparisons and it turns out the avid footage totally falls apart, specially in gradients, and I am not pushing the limits, I mean I simply apply the standard cinestyle LUT and the whole image is filled with, I don’t even know what to call it, noise? Not really because denoising won’t get rid of it, aliasing? No clue, will appreciate your experience on this!

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  Raul Dederichs replied 13 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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