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Transcoding for MC via Premiere Pro
My little B camera is a sony nex-6, and it creates spanned clips MC can’t deal with. (AVID tech support haven’t been able to resolve it.)
So I am loading into an old installation of Premiere Pro to transcode, but Premiere’s DNxHD settings are acting up. The quicktime exporter won’t register 1080p/23.976 – which is my project’s format – and gives me 1080i/29.97 instead. I imagine that if I go for this time-consuming fps translation back and forth, it will degrade the image, but maybe it’s the simplest thing to do.
Any suggested work-arounds welcome.System Specs: MC 6.5.4
HP Z400, 6GB, Nvida Quadro 2000,ATTO express SAS R680 RAID Adapter, Atto Media00 SCSI Disk Device, Matrox MXO2 Mini; HPZR2240w & HPZR2440w -
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Try Resolve. Download it (it’s free) and use it to convert the footage directly to the Avid media format.
Shane
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I might try that Shane if I have to, but it’s a hassle. Resolve and MC will not run with the same display card driver on my AVID-configured workstation. Switching between them requires changing the driver back and forth. (I grade with Baselight as a plug-in.) I am hoping for another solution.
System Specs: MC 6.5.4
HP Z400, 6GB, Nvida Quadro 2000,ATTO express SAS R680 RAID Adapter, Atto Media00 SCSI Disk Device, Matrox MXO2 Mini; HPZR2240w & HPZR2440w -
MC 6.5 is an old version. Is it worth upgrading if a newer version gives support?
Orherwise you are jumping through lots of inage degrading hoops.Pat Horridge
Broadcast & Post Consultant, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
Free online Tutorials at VET digital media academy online https://vimeo.com/channels/752951
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“Is it worth upgrading if a newer version gives support?”
Thanks Pat, but that’s a big “if”: The issue wasn’t on AVID support’s radar until I brought it up and it took them quite a while to come to terms with it. The little mirrorless Sony NEX6 is a consumer grade camera with an apparently idiosyncratic spanning protocol I doubt they’d work to accommodate. Moreover, the upgrade would require a new computer. (As would – disappointingly – any upgrade past the 6.0 which came with this computer from AVID.) And I don’t like to upgrade in the middle of a project.
System Specs: MC 6.5.4
HP Z400, 6GB, Nvida Quadro 2000,ATTO express SAS R680 RAID Adapter, Atto Media00 SCSI Disk Device, Matrox MXO2 Mini; HPZR2240w & HPZR2440w -
If you can get a copy of a spanned media aet to me I could test on v8.6
Pat Horridge
Broadcast & Post Consultant, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
Free online Tutorials at VET digital media academy online https://vimeo.com/channels/752951
pat@vet.co.uk -
That is kind thanks, Pat, but even if 8.6 works, I couldn’t take advantage of that without upgrading to a point where I would be retiring this little camera from this purpose anyway.
System Specs: MC 6.5.4
HP Z400, 6GB, Nvida Quadro 2000,ATTO express SAS R680 RAID Adapter, Atto Media00 SCSI Disk Device, Matrox MXO2 Mini; HPZR2240w & HPZR2440w
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