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Best workflow between Avid (PC)/After Effects (PC & Mac) and Editshare
At my job, we are strictly PC with the exception of my personal MacBook Pro that I use (along with a Dell T7700 workstation) for graphics.
We use an Editshare system for all of our files, and it works great with Avid. When the editing is done, and it is time to send something to me to finish, the process starts to hit a bump.
QT Reference files work great on the machine they are created on. But once you try to open these on another computer, if the drives aren’t mounted EXACTLY the same letter, it will not work, and you will have to go in and find each individual MXF file (it doesn’t find one and auto-see all the rest) So sometimes you will run out of letters, and can’t mount exactly the same.I have also tried exporting an AAF from Avid and running that through Premiere and then AE. BUt the same problem. If the drives aren’t exactly the same letter on the other machine, it won’t work. We have a lot of network drives, and when we use our 5-slot P2 readers, that takes up another 5 letters, even if they don’t have cards in them.
Getting that to work would be #1 best thing. Editshare hasn’t exactly been the best about helping us in that situation.
Aside from that, what would be best codec to send from Avid to AE as a sort of “master” file?
Right now we’re just using QT ANimation compression, which is obviously huge.
We generally shoot DV25 on Panasonic P2, but occasionally shoot DV50 (for green screen), and sometimes 720p60 HD on the HPX-500 cameras.I’m a Final Cut guy, and haven’t had a ton of time to look through Avid and test everything, but hopefully someone much smarter than I has an opinion, because my co-workers know nothing. (The first 3 months I was here I was receiving all of the footage as TV color and didn’t know it, and couldn’t figure out why the blacks were crushed)
Any help would be great!
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I used the Animation codec for years, but the slow import/export times in HD led me to look at other options. So I downloaded the Avid DnxHD codecs and have been very pleased with quality and speed. After rendering in After Effects, be sure to check 601/709 color when importing to Avid to get a “fast import.”
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