[Francisco Antunes aka chicão]

Yeah… R3D is a tough one. And so ProRes is a good example of a successful AMA workflow.

I guess the key is having a workflow that best suits your work.
(and let’s wait for the 8.3!)

[Francisco Antunes aka chicão]

Support for 4K and a new DNx format. That sounds great! Looks like the best of both worlds: using the brand new tools for dealing with large-than-HD frame files but keeping the solid workflow of transcoding.

Thank you guys for replying me. I’m always questioning the current workflow (I think it’s a good idea to do that from time to time), so it’s good to know most people keep doing the old fashion way. You are all correct, so far the AMA isn’t quite good and reliable as the standard way of doing things in the MC’s native enviroment. As you said, it’s much better to trancode in background and keep like that. Let’s wait for the MC 8.3, when it’s said to be the one for the 4K-DNx-thing.

[Francisco Antunes aka chicão]

Thanks for getting back to me.

The things is: Since MC 6.0+ Avid keep launching great things for the AMA workflow: Dynamic Folders, Frame Flex, Color Space setting, an many other things… But it seems they can’t beat the solid, fast-paced and trusty “transcode-to-avid-enviroment” workflow. Editing is much faster and render-free once you just transcode everything. That’s how thing have been for me so far.

But as an editor I really want to get my hands in everything an AMA workflow has to offer. I’m tired of Resizing a transcoded 4K-image with 3D-Warp an tell the director “oh, this blow up here will be correct once we get to Post”. I want to Frame Flex-it in MC, as AVID is advertising.

So far I was concerned with data rate and bandwidth issues. I guess I have run more tests to really find a good way of AMA-ing the workflow. Or, as you are saying, maybe AMA will never be as quick and solid compared to transcoding media to MC’s enviroment.

[Francisco Antunes aka chicão]

Indeed: making an audio mixdown was the only 100% foolproof method. The bad thing is for the current workflow from the place I work at, as I can’t just send them an AAF-link of my work: now I also need to send them the MXF for any audio mixdown.

I really don’t know what is the issue with Time Compression/Expansion in this new MC. Maybe I got used to an outdated plugin, as Time Shit is doing the same job in a much less problematic way.

[Francisco Antunes aka chicão]

Yeah. Need to create and additional audio track to do the trick. Too bad Time Compression/Expansion used to be more reliable in the past. Time Shift seems to behave less buggier though. Maybe AVID is no longer given attention to the old Time Comp/Exp.

[Francisco Antunes aka chicão]

Hi there!

I was having the same problem. I tried what Rafael Amador said. I changed my “Video processing” to “Render all YUV material in high precision” and it worked. Renders seem to take longer, though.

I’m using a 1920,1080i sequence with AppleProRes 422. I’m using only photos (jpeg and tiff) to make a video.

I would like to hear from you if I’m doing the right thing. Thanks!