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Digitizing/Recompressing for Avid???
Hi,
we are trying to provide some DVCPro HD footage (shot at 24p) to an Avid Editor. They would like for us to digitize the footage onto our system (G5 running FCP 6 with Kona LHe for i/o or firewire for i/o) in an HD codec, then copy the files over to a firewire drive that they can take back and import into their Avid.
We tried digitizing the footage with the DVCPro HD codec DIRECTLY to their firewire drive, but the Avid did not recognize the clips.
Do we need to recompress all our clips to another format? I’ll ask in the Avid forum, too… but anyone know what format would be best for Avid???
If anyone has a workflow for this situation we’d sure appreciate the info.
Thanks!
Jennifer Isenhart
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1 Reply
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Why are you doing this? Capturing in one system for use in another system is never recommended. FCP and Avid…and Premiere…all capture differently. VERY differently. FCP is Quicktime based…Avid isn’t. Avid is OMFI based. Capturing DVCPRO HD natively on FCP is capturing to a proprietary codec that is tied to FCP. Any machine, even a mac, without FCP cannot view a DVCPRO HD clip. And footage captured with an Avid is captured using Avid’s proprietary format, and would need to be converted before anyone else could see it.
Never capture footage in one edit system for use in another. It is more work than simply capturing with the proper NLE.
Shane
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