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Avid import of FCP files with AMA?
Hi all –
An Avid production company would like me to digitize a live event directly to hard drive, which they would then edit. Recording would be 720p 30 or 720p 60. But I am Final Cut-based, digitizing with a Kona LHi card. Will Avid’s AMA plug-in be able to read my FCP Quicktimes directly and let the Avid editor begin immediately, or will the FCP Quicktimes have to be “unwrapped” and/or transcoded again by Avid? If only a certain Quicktime file can be recognized by Avid’s AMA plug-in, what would be the best codec to digitize to? Standard-vanilla 720p? Apple ProRes? (the Kona card in FCP can digitize to seemingly a billion different Quicktime formats, but not Avid-specific Quicktimes…)
Thanks,
Larry Marshall
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3 Replies
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Currently AMA does not support Quicktime. So yes, it would require a “regular” import from ProRes into DNxHD.
MC5, just announced at NAB, to be released June 10th, _will_ support QT over AMA (and therefore will explicitly allow users to use ProRes files captured with FCP and such).
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Can you not just hire an Avid rig for the job? They aren’t that expensive. Otherwise you’ll have to wait until June for MC5, as Job said.
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Problem solved. Sort of. Client decided they would rather have the program recorded to tape. Thanks for the AMA update for June.
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