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Avid footage into FCP
I’m hoping there’s an easy way to do this that doesn’t require spending a ton of money for Automatic Duck (as much as I’d like to have it)…
We shot a few hours of footage on D9 for a client who now needs DV-sized movies so they can edit on their own FCP system with single firewire media drive. Here at work I’m using a older Avid Meridian system to digitize and export the footage, but so far the Avid-DV quicktime won’t play and the Avid 3:1 compression file plays but requires rendering in the timeline. I suspect he’s using FCP 5.1 but I’m still awaiting a reply. I tried making them a true .DV file but since the Avid is LFF and DV wants to be UFF, the results are less than optimal.
I’m still a total newbie to FCP (but my OctoMac and FCS2 are all ready to go, just waiting on my RAID delivery!) – any suggestions for my end or his end that can get Avid Codec quicktimes to work?
Or if that’s a lost cause, any suggestions for a generic Quicktime codec that I can spit out and he can use without rendering?
Thanks much,
-Adam—
Video Photographer / Avid Editor
Maximus Media Inc. -
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Update – he has FCP 5.0.4.
If we need to stick to FCP-preferred quicktime, are there any suggestions as to one that we can crank down to around 200mb/min file sizes and maintain decent quality?
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Video Photographer / Avid Editor
Maximus Media Inc. -
If your Meridien is on a Mac your best bet would be Apple DV in a quicktime if you’ve got it. Personally I’d de-interlace in the export as the progressive is (more likely) to work.
If your FCP guy is comfortable with modifying the settings he could change the field dominances and such in his FCP timeline – but would then have to re-render in a correctly set up timeline to roll back to tape.
Good luck!
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He hasn’t been having any luck with any DV flavors that weren’t actually .DV files, but I think we’ve got a semi-solution in a DVCPRO codec QT.
I say ‘semi’ because it’s taking my Avid around 4x realtime to export the files, so the full project is going to tie up the system for 12+ hours… I’m sorely tempted to take the project (plus the massive D9 deck) home and do it all in one pass there as a first test for my new OctoMac FCP setup. =)
Thanks for the reply,
-Adam
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Video Photographer / Avid Editor
Maximus Media Inc.
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