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DVCPro HD workflow question
Hello fellow bovines, I’ve an offsite edit coming up soon and have a workflow question. I will be using an Avid approved dual 3.0G HP with MC 4.04. Captured footage will be DVCPro HD (720P) from P2 cards. I’m new to 4.04 and understand it will work natively with DVCPro. I’ll be multicam (2 cameras I beleive) editing. My question is this: Since I have to copy the footage to my media drive anyway, is it better to go ahead and transcode the footage to Avid’s DNx codec? Or does it not really matter these days. FYI, my media drive is an eSata connected G-RAID 2 TB drive. Thanks in advance.
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Do you have a MojoDX or NitrisDX attached to this system? If you do, that box will handle the uprezzing of DVCProHD (it’s a thin raster format, so this will save your CPU some cycles, since the BOB will do the stretching to full raster).
You should be fine running the DVCProHD native, but if you’re going to copy to your media RAID you may as well transcode. Our system gets much snappier playback of DNxHD footage then DVCProHD, but we don’t have a MojoDX or NitrisDX to help.
Can you get some footage to test your playback before the edit?
Michael
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Thanks Michael,
I won’t have a Mojo, and the DVCPro ref mov I sent out displays white when I open it (QT Pro is not installed, thinking that’s the reason). So I think I’ll just transcode when I move as you suggest. A quick test of that worked well. And without a BOB I really don’t need to stress the proc any more than needed.
Thanks again
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If you choose to work with DVCProHD and you export a quicktime reference, make sure you choose to use the AvidDV codec on export. The DVCProHD codec only shows up on Macs with FCP installed. Everyone else has to use a decoder – Avid has their own that will wrap the reference file as an AvidDV100 file (it’s basically allowing quicktime to read the DVCProHD media as AvidDV100).
Also, if you use the P2 media directly through AMA, I don’t think you can export a Quicktime Reference, so you’ll need to transcode regardless if you’re definitely going to be exporting reference files, or you’ll have to turn AMA off and use the old Import P2 Clips to Bin method.
Michael
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I’ll be working late.
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