Avid can’t match FCP 7 quality

[Pete Fausone]

I don’t expect you to spend anymore time on this. The point is I don’t want to do anything but link the media offline timeline to the Alexa Prores4444 23.98 camera masters.
Then simply export the timeline to create a flat file. This is how I did many onlines over years with MC5. No consolidate or anything to waste time. Just assemble the camera originals and export out a flat file with the Avid effects baked in. In other words never make an mxf file. I am doing a simple uprez style online.
I think you’re test, which works fine for me also, is not apples to apples. I start with Alexa camera originals shot at 23.98, not 24fps. Maybe that’s what trips it up.
The dailies are mostly 2K 2048Xx1152 and the VFX are 1920×1080, all 23.98. So I really appreciate your help but at this point the top Avid engineers can’t solve this, so don’t waste any more of your time. I just posted cause I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss something obvious.

Thanks

[Job Ter burg]

You misread my test. One of my three workflows does precisely that. Just link and export. i did perform the same est with an Alex file, but cannot share the results because I don’t own the rights to those clips.

Simply put: I cannot reproduce the issue you are describing.