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another problem
So here’s an interesting problem I’m encountering along the same lines– I just finished directing this film which we shot on the HVX200 with 35 lenses. My producer set up the P2 dump through Final Cut (he had just gotten out of the hospital), and I of course was slightly distracted by directing the film to think and realize that Final Cut would be handling all the imports/conversions.
THe problem now is that we have 75 quicktime files that have been encoded with the DVCPRO HD codec, which, as I understand it, is not available for PC. My editor cuts in Avid, and our Adrenaline and Nitris systems here are all run on PC. Whenever I play one of the files, or import it into Avid, I get sound, but just a blank white video image.
Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.
Kyle
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2 Replies
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The AVID should be able to import image sequences. Why not convert your film to image sequences in some format the PC can read and transfer them that way (with separate sound)? Needs space, but should save your …. neck.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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I am going to continue my pattern of agreeing with Uli. Don’t import footage in FCP that you intend to use on an Avid. Use the Avid to edit the footage. If the version of Avid that you have isn’t compatible with P2 footage, then what you will need to do is import the footage into FCP, output that to DVCPRO HD tape, then capture that tape in the Avid.
I told another company that is ALL Avid (one FCP station) to do just this.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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