Doug Hubbard
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I did as you said and loaded the native files into FCPX and stepped through them. Yep, I see the same frame skipping in the 59.94 footage. One frame of motion, one static, one frame of motion, etc.
I guess that solves that! Thanks very much for your input.
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[Shane Ross] “Perhaps they can look at the footage you AMA…make subclips and trancode only what they need.”
That definitely seems like the better solution. Do some refinement before we transcode. You’re right, we’ve already seen some slowdowns thanks to the AMA footage and usually I avoid cutting AMA like the plague. Appreciate all your input!
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Here’s a crazy notion. Could I just cut with the AMA media? Bypass transcoding entirely? The editor will probably use a total of 30 seconds of this stuff from across 4 or 5 DVDs, so it seems so wasteful to bring in 10 hours and 500GB worth of DVD just for that.
It would be the only AMA media in the cut, but it’s small enough and these machines are fast enough that maybe it would be alright?
Edit: I should add that picture quality is gonna be low regardless. This stuff looks like old, poorly lit VHS footage. So “quality” is a relative term here.
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Thanks, that’s more or less what I feared. Would this frame blending or motion blur be something I can add in AVID or would I need to round trip out of it to some other software?
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Yes, it looks like it is actually a spanned clip. However I AMA’d both cards in together and it still didn’t seem to recognize them as being associated? Is there a way to have AVID join them?
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That’s what I needed! Thanks, works well. Now I just have to figure out a way to speed up the steps :/