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Sony EX & AMA Consolidating
Hey Everyone-
Have a quick question. I am an assistant editor working with Sony EX AMA footage with MC5. The editor I’m working for prefers not to work off of AMA alone so I am currently consolidating all files to an external drive at the original shot resolution of SONY EX 35mpbits. The new consolidated files seem to be connecting to my project nicely but I am confused when it comes to transcoding. I keep seeing forums on transcoding AMA to DNxHD Avid files at 145. But given that I don’t have alot of drive space and I know transcoding takes longer-I decided to just consolidate. Will I have trouble grouping this footage or will my editor have trouble working with the original Sony Ex 35mpbits resolution? Why do people prefer transcoding to consolidating? PLEASE HELP!
Thank you!
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Drive space is fairly cheap these days, if you can possibly afford to go get a TB or 500 gb drive, it will be worth it. Avid plays nicely with DNxHD, it’s native format. You can work through AMA with outside codecs like XDCAM and H264 without transcoding, but your workflow will be slowed down considerably. Material that is not DNxHD often plays back choppy and slow.
“Where that light source is coming from?”
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Thank you! I do have a TB external-I am still confused though if this XDCAM 35mpbs will work once everything is in Avid. So far I have a few shoot dates multi grouped and it seems to be working fine. But do you mean that this codec I have consolidated in will make it choppy eventually? By consolidating them it has made them into MXF files so I’m working off of those from my drive not the AMAs. I just have for instance 0413 AMA ALL FOOTAGE bin and 0413 ALL FOOTAGE (with the consolidated XDCAM 35mpbs files) Just want to make sure this is okay and wont give them problems down the line. The project is only 2 cam and 3 days of shooting so figured that since he will be working in the native shot rez from camera he won’t have to online it as it’s not going to air.
Any suggestions?!
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Yeah don’t online if you don’t need to. Doesn’t XDCAM 35mbps shoot into an MXF container? If they’re already MXF files no need to transcode. you should be fine. DNxHD is just generally the recommended way for Media Composer, it’s proprietary format. I was thinking you were dealing with MPEG4 video.
“Where that light source is coming from?”
“The same place as the music.”
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