New Media Composer

[Trevor Asquerthian]

I’ ve moved an ongoing job back to Avid from PP. It was on PP as it was a turnaround and I didn’t want to transcode, now in Avid I just link pretty much everything (I do import music as it is quick, sample rate converts if necessary and I had a sequence link to wrong music track once).

Linking mixed frame rates works. There’s more choice in how Avid deals with the frame rate conversion too.

Background render works well but exporting ties up the machine (ie no AME style integration) also H264 can take a long time so there’s a few options around exporting QT Ref or SAS or intermediate codec & having AME or other products make the H264.

Export options have expanded over recent years – what do you need? I tend to either export OP1a AVCI or DNX MXF or have a ProRes mixdown track and export QT SAS (same as source). I have nablet plugin for linking/exporting XAVC MXF too.