DVD to AVID Workflow

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DVD to AVID Workflow

Posted by Romeo Rubio on June 14, 2011 at 4:37 am

I’ve been asked by someone to take videos from various DVDs and prepare them for editing in Avid. Is there some sort of intermediate codec that I should encode it into, something equivalent to Prores for FCP? I’ve been searching for it, and it seems to be DNxHD. Also is there some sort of free program that is able to encode to this format? I looked in mpeg streamclip and I can’t seem to see it in there. Again the two questions are which format and which program to do this encoding. Also is this the best workflow to do this or is there a better way?

Romeo Rubio replied 14 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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Hector Berrebi
June 14, 2011 at 7:46 am

DNXHD is HD only, unlike Prores

and frankly, its an overkill to use it for DVDs

if you have Avid on the same system that you have mpeg streamclip, then you should have all avid codecs available.

keep same size, quality 100%, and pick Avid mpeg 50 Mbps from the codec list
if you really want to waste HDD space pick Avid 1:1

but i believe that even Avid DV will look good.

run some tests 🙂

hector

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Romeo Rubio
June 14, 2011 at 10:02 am

Unfortunately I don’t have Avid on the system I am working on. I guess that’s why it isn’t showing up. Is there some sort of add-on component that will allow me work with the Avid codecs you mention, something like Perian for Quicktime?
Hector Berrebi
June 14, 2011 at 10:15 am

yup… and its all free 🙂

https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?SearchOperator=0&ssdFilterCommunity11=0&ssdFilterCommunity13=0&ssdFilterCommunity3=1083&ssdSearchOperator=0&ssdFilter_SearchKeyWord=Codecs&page=1

install avid codecs on your system and mpeg streamclip will see them

hector

Hector Berrebi
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Romeo Rubio
June 14, 2011 at 8:50 pm

Thanks for the link. I will download it and try it when I get back to my system. When doing this will I be encoding them in a Quicktime wrapper (“export to quicktime” on the task dropdown in Streamclip, and then chose the mpeg 50 flavor)? Or will downloading the codecs from the link allow Streamclip to chose a MXF Export in the dropdown? Thanks for the help.

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