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best codec for film to hard drive transfer
Im starting a job on a client Avid system (Ive worked on Avid
but it’s been about 10 years!) and we are considering having the film transfered straight to hard drive. The client does have a Beta SP deck but since there are a few effects shots that we are looking to move to after effects I was hoping to get a little higher resolution out of it. Were shooting 16mm and my main question is what formatt to tell the lab to put it to? What is the most native formatt that I can import into this system?Here are the specs on the system.
Avid media composer Adrenalin 2.7.2 (PC)
with Avid media dock Ultra 320Its my understanding that the client has not purchesed the
dongle to unlock the HD capabilities of this system (but Im unsure if that means just 1080i or 720P as well?)Thanks for the help and please let me know what other information I can provide to properly answer this question!
Andy
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3 Replies
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The system will do HD, what they don’t have is the ability to output HD since they need a Dnxcel board. But the system will edit HD material. You can always work with 720p material if you like. A bigger question for now is what are the plans once the cutting is done? That will help guide a better response.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Thanks Michael, good to know. These are regional commercials that we are doing so they will be exported to a variety of formats (best the stations can handle) If we end up cutting HD they will likely have to be down converted for output anyhow.
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I’m interested in this situation, too. I’ve done it a few ways already, but would love to hear some more ideas. I’ve gotten back DVCPro HD, which was fine, but I find that codec to be pretty noisy. (This was what we got when we left it up to the lab.) I have liked just having it done in 10 bit Uncompressed, to have the best possible ‘master tape’ copy – and then formatting the whole batch to whatever sysstem I’m using. But I haven’t had the chance to work with Avid’s own HD editing codec, DnxHD or whatever. I’m not sure a lab could do that – or if it would need to be converted upon capture. Anybody have some experience to share?
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