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QT for FCP to AVID
Hey guys, I posted this a day or two ago and thought I had it figured out, but I guess not. I work in Final Cut and I’m trying to send an HD Quicktime to a guy to work with on an AVID. He can’t take DVCPRO HD, which is what format it is in now. I tried to download the DNxHD, but I’m running tiger and it looks like you have to have leopard. He asked about MXF, but I’m not familiar with that one. Any thoughts?
Really appreciate it,
Cole
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8 Replies
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The guy is working on AVID Media Composer 3.0.5
Figured that info might help.
Cole
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An uncompressed quicktime will be fine. You can use the meridien codec or even the animation codec at best settings if you don’t have an avid codec.
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Download the Avid codec at https://www.avid.com/dnxhd. Then encode into a QT movie in Avid codec. If they are coming from DVCPRO-HD, you may choose anything from DNxHD120 on up. This should give them a fast import (basically a copy from QT wrapper into MXF media) into the Avid.
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I tried downloaded the DNxHD, but it won’t install because I’m running Tiger, not Leopard.
Cole
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The go with what Grinner said.
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nope.
Grinner recommended Meridian codecs. Those can’t do HD.and Animation at 100% is overkill. After you push it over 75% it becomes 422.
So if you use Animation for normal video, stick to 75% or your filesize will increase significant without any quality gain.Also, watch out for gamma trouble. Give the Avid guy a test image.
Three vertical bars (black, mid grey and white) makes a simple test if you have gamma shifts or not.What i don’t get is that the codecs don’t work on older OS’s.
They should…
Perhaps find an older version of the codecs.Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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Thanks for the responses guys. I’ll definitely see if I can find an older version of the AVID codecs. But what I ended up doing was send an uncompressed quicktime. It was big, but it got the job done.
Thanks,
Cole
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The Avid Codecs LE 2.0 is only for Leopard, WinXP and Vista. Here are some links to older versions:
I believe you have to go back to 1.8 for Tiger support.
Michael.
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