[Adam Claude jones]

Thanks. I actually have not yet downloaded the MC demo. I wached some video demos online.

Are ScriptSync and PhraseFind included in MC or are there they separated applications that must be purchased separately.

[Adam Claude jones]

The thing is people are not complaining because Apple has put professional features in the hands of amateurs for $300.

People are complaining because Apple took the professional features away from everybody’s hand.

Problem is not that it is too cheap, it is that it is no longer professional.

You ranting makes no sense then.

[Adam Claude jones]

Thanks. I will check it out. How does it handle DPX sequences? How about XDCAM EX and 5D H264?

Thanks.

[Adam Claude jones]

Thanks for the detailed explanation Ivan. Very kind of you.
I still have a couple of questions about it bellow and would appreciate your help with them. Thanks in advance.

You can access XDCAM and Canon H264 files via AMA. In other words you can import them into Avid bins and work with them, but that won’t run so good (especially H264).

So I can work with XDCAM and H264 natively but it is buggy? What kind of problems are we talking about here?

So after import you should make selection (clips, subclips, what ever) and transcode to Avid DNxHD MFX.

Ok. But am I lossing anything by transcoding to DNxHD? Probably not but I just want to make sure. In the end of the day it is still a generational lost though.

For DPX you will use Avid Metafuze. Free Avid application that runs on Win & Linux (no OS X).

So that won’t work on a Mac? I wonder if it will cause any problems for grading in Resolve on the Mac?
I absolutely need DPX and I absolutely need Resolve on the Mac. For DPX in Avid I need Windows. To grade these same DPX in Resolve I need a Mac. Resolve on Linux is out of my range.
Trouble?

Metafuze will convert DPX sequences to AVID MXFs and keep the metadata

It will keep the metadata but will it still be uncompressed? Or will it compress the files making me lose quality? I’m thinking MXF may be a wrapper here but wanted to make sure.

Edit with mxf files.
Export tiff sequence for Nuke

Can I also export DPX instead?

Bring back VFX sequence into Avid
Lock your edit
From here you have some different paths to CC suite:
A) Export EDL, purchase $500 MXF option for BM Davinci Resolve and conform Avid MFX files in Resolve

Can’t I go the DPX way? Or maybe TIFF (if Resolve works on TIFFs)? Must it be MXF?

B) Export EDL, “bake” export your sequence, create cut list with EDL in Resolve

Not sure i understood it here. 🙁

C) Reconnect original media ….
Again, I’m oversimplifying explanation here but I hope you’ll get the picture how it works.

Thanks for the explanation. It was very helpful. Although I do have a couple of questions about it. 🙂

In Premiere you would import XDCAM, H264 and DPX original files and edit right away.

Man, Premiere is looking more handy and less work. I guess Avid is still lagging behind in some aspects. What was more attractive in FCP than Avid was because I had the impression Avid was always either lagging behind or holding back.

You can download trials for the both applications (you don’t have to purchase via App Store just to try it out 🙂 ) and test some workflows yourself.

Yep. I just want to narrow down to one first so I can try that first and if it works for me I just stick with it.

Thanks again Ivan.

[Adam Claude jones]

But Resolve Mac also works with DPX right?
Also is there a workflow from Avid media Composer to Resolve?
Thanks.

[Adam Claude jones]

But Resolve doesn’t work only with prores. Unless I misunderstood you?

[Adam Claude jones]

Thanks Ivan.

So in Avid you need to transcode everything? Even XDCAM EX and Canon 5D?
And how is the DPX workflow in Avid? I didn’t find much online.
Let’s say I have a DPX sequence that must be edited, then sent to compositing in Nuke and then sent back to Avid for finishing editing and then sent to Resolve for grade and in this DPX project I have a few shots in XDCAM EX and Canon 5D. How would that go? This would be a normal project for me.

[Adam Claude jones]

This is extremely disappointing. Kind of makes me wish Black Magic would release Resolve for Windows so I could leave the apple platform for good. Apple screwed everybody who has been supporting them for years.

[Adam Claude jones]

If only Da Vinci would offer Resolve for Windows now. 🙁

[Adam Claude jones]

I have to agree Tom.