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FCP to AVID DS question
My SYSTEM
MAC dual G5 2.5 gig. 4.5 gb RAM. OS 10.3.8
Blackmagic Decklink Extreme card v4.8b
FCP 4.5 production Suite
1 300gig scratch disc
500GB G-Raid Firewire800
Decks = Beta-SP, DVCpro, DigiBeta.
Audio Mix = Mackie 1604 VLZpro
I believe I have the stock display card
Panasonic AJD-230H DVCpro deckI am working on a show the must go to a final edit. Usually I dump off to Digibeta then send to the AVID editor. The footage is taken in uncompressed 8bit. I have to rent The digibeta so this gets costly just to transfer this show.
Is there a way to make this show an uncompressed quicktime,
put this on a harddrive and input this into the AVID timeline?
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YOU can export to the Animation codec. Mind you, the file will be HUGE.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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Give it as Blackmagic’s uncompressed codec (8 or 10 bit). Download the PC codec installer. It works this way.
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Like MPE said, uncompressed would be the better way. Using the Animation codec (or “None”) would clip the superwhite and superblack values because they are RGB codecs.
By why not simply give them an EDL? Shops that have a DS usualy also have an in-house digibeta deck. And since your clips will loose timecode, they will either need to rebuild the the sequence or deal with the fact that they can’t redo transition and can’t tweak the edits. The EDL way is much simpler…
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Well blw me down! I didn’t know that.
Thanks for correcting me. I’ve never transferred footage that way, only with an EDL or via Automatic Duck (the Duck is WELL worth it).
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net -
yeah… it’s not intuitive at all, but since RGB 0 and RGB 255 represents YUV 16 and YUV 235, YUV actually have a larger gammut than RGB. Mind you that I thought for a while that it was the opposite… I had to read a clarification of the subject by an Avid DS engineer to really grasp the idea.
There are not many reasons to transfer movie files from FCP to Avid DS in a offline -> online workflow since most DS suites have a digibeta deck and that EDLs make the most sense for onlining. Unless you are dealing with HDV files which DS can’t capture… which is why I tried the FCP to DS route once.
It’s a shame that QT by default doesn’t have a standard uncompressed YUV codec (the “component” codec is YUV, but awful). Sometimes ppl doesn’t dig the idea that they have to install a codec to read quicktime files, and I do know why they are afraid of installing new codecs when you are working on a system that is fragile due to it’s complexity.
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