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rendering file format for export from combustion to avid
I am about to start using an avid media composer adrenaline where I work.
I have been working with a discreet edit with combustion.
We will be putting combustion with the avid (as well as AE).
I’m in the midst of working in combustion and want to know what format I should render out to BEST for import into the Avid (DV 25).Thanks,
Karen -
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If drive space isn’t a huge issue and I’ve got a graphic that needs an alpha channel, I will typically render out 32 bit uncompressed TGA image sequences from Combustion. If I’m looking to save some space, or I’m not as concerned with compression, I would render out a png sequence.
Dave Potts
Combustion/Lightwave/Photoshop Monkey
UNC Charlotte Video Production Services -
I don’t know if I’m too late or how qualified my opinion is but I’ve been having difficulty with roundtrips through combustion from Avid, particularly in loss of quality.
I found that Targa sequences was the best way for me, I exported as a Targa from Avid and out of Combustion with a Targa.
(Avid also let me increase the frame size of Targa outputs, and I doubled them. This quadrupled my file size to about 10 meg a frame, but that wasnt an issue. I know that shouldn’t have made a difference as surely DV resolution is DV resolution whatever, but it did, a visible one.)
Another tip is if you want something for Avid that is an overlay, an animated title that you want over your footage, then render in Combustion with the Color+Alpha button selected and the footage layer for your background image turned off. This will import into Avid with Alpha (reverse alpha it of course in the import imptions as is standard) this can then be placed on Video2 and will play over your footage without any resolution loss. (Get it right though because you can’t resize alpha layers in Avid independently of the footage on the track below – at least I cant)
Hope this helps anyone.
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