Media management?

[Eric Jurgenson]

The workflow Matrox has built into Axio allows for offline editing of low res files converted from the original hi res captured footage with their own special lo res codec. This material can be edited on any computer with Premiere and Matrox’s software codec installed (you don’t need Axio). Since the hi res stuff is already in the Axio project, it’s pretty straightforward to either just use it or recapture it.

Then it’s a matter of copying your project, deleting unneeded sequences, and using whatever Premiere project trimming tools are suitable (in project manager). For example, they have a “exclude unused clips” option.

If your source material is SD dubs of HD material with synched TC, I would think you could still recapture a trimmed project, at least with a RS-422 deck with real timecode.

[Ken Adolph]

I have an AxioHD system and this is not exactly correct.
You cannot create low-rez files from the high-rez stuff you have captured. You have to capture in low-rez, edit and then recapture the high-rez.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca

[Mark Palmos]

[ken adolph] “I have an AxioHD system and this is not exactly correct.
You cannot create low-rez files from the high-rez stuff you have captured. You have to capture in low-rez, edit and then recapture the high-rez.”

Ken, that is a HUGE relief! Pat, and I’m sure everyone who does projects with hours of footage, would not be impressed by having to capture at high res FIRST then working at low res! That would be completely pointless unless you were copying low res stuff to use on a laptop or on a system without Axio.

Could you please tell us what compression ratios you can choose from, and if these choices are avialable regardless of whether your source is DV, SDI, Component, YC, Composite, HD, HDV…

What file format does Axio create?

Thanks Ken,

Mark.

[Larry Sherwood]

Ken, you can export captured clips in Axio using ANY of the same codecs that you can capture with. . .

LS

Larry Sherwood
Sherwood Post Production
Austin, Texas
512 219-8721
larry@sherwoodpost.com

[Ken Adolph]

Yes Larry that is true but only one file at a time.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca

[Larry Sherwood]

You are right Ken, just the same, you can only Capture one file at a time as well.

: )

LS

Larry Sherwood
Sherwood Post Production
Austin, Texas
512 219-8721
larry@sherwoodpost.com

[Ken Adolph]

Thanks Larry
Maybe I should explain our workflow on this project.
It is a 1080p HDcam project. Low budget horror film. We are doing all the cgi/fx stuff so we captured all the fx takes at full rez in order to build the monster, etc. Then we wanted to export these files to Axio HD-offline so the fx guys could work at home and then bring the Max/Combustion stuff back to work to see what it really looks like. We tried the codecs in Cleaner but they crash Cleaner. We finally used Cleaner to export all the 1080 full-rez files to Mpeg4. This works but not as well as if they were in Axio HD-offline because they don’t have the original TC.
We are trying to figure out how to get the full-rez stuff to sync in combustion. Probably manually.
Anyways this is backwards from the process for most projects but if the Axio codecs worked in Cleaner or there was a batch process from Matrox this would be very handy in this situation.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca

[Pat Mcgowan]

I thought you could do a lo-res proxy project export for offline editing on a laptop using AXIO and PPRO?