Brendan Charles
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Thanks for the clarification, Michael- so is it more of a performance thing than a quality/result issue? So far working like this I have noticed some slowdown but nothing that makes it too hard to work.
This way of working is extremely convenient since my clients often come with a hard drive full of media and I can link, edit, and export all before they leave without having to wait for imports/transcoding. That being said, I wanted to make sure I this method wouldn’t come back to bite me later on or result in a loss of quality.
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Not sure what your workflow is like- but in the future couldn’t you just AMA link the clip, then transcode your sequence so you really only import/transode only what you use of that file, instead of importing the whole thing.
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MPEG Streamclip has yielded pretty good results when converting MP4 files for me. You could try converting to .MOV with the Animation codec, or ProResHQ for minimal loss of quality. The files will be much larger, but at least you will have an easier time ingesting them into AVID and with not much loss of quality.