[Frederic Lumiere]

I guess doing a video mix down is the way to go then?

Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

[Michael Phillips] “Which filter are you referring to?

Any really. I select Name in the ‘Column’ drop box – enter a specific name and the results will return only hits with that name. Things probably have changed…

[Michael Phillips] “As far as making sequences into sources…export your rendered sequence (if needed) as a QT reference, and bring it back into your project as a new source….all bets are off for source metadata, EDLs, etc. if used as source in a new sequence. All you will have if filename of QT and whatever timecode the original sequence was at. “

I bring in footage already synced audio-wise with DualEyes, so the sequence is multiple clips comprising the whole interview. All the clips are now DnxHD175 X (the result of transcoding AMA’s H.264).

So when I create a QT reference, it exports the audio as AIFF and creates a 1Mb QT Reference file, which looks fine. When I bring it back in MC, it looks like it re-encodes the whole thing rather than fast importing like I would expect since it’s already DnxHD 175 X. Is there a way to bring it back without re-encoding?

Thanks for all your help Michael BTW!

[Frederic Lumiere]

Thanks Michael,

Actually I just discovered that the filter (not the Search Current Bin) does work at the front end of the search. Since my naming convention is pretty good, I can search for the name of the character in addition to the PhraseFind search.

Do you know if there is a way to output a sequence as a ‘self contained’ DnxHd clip without re-transcoding? I think I’d like to output the 3 hour interviews as one clip for finding purposes…

Frederic Lumiere
Producer
Lumiere Media

[Frederic Lumiere]

Hey Michael,

Well the new transcodes .new02 to 28:1 SD (for offline) are made from DNxHD175x clips that already have the .new01.

I sorted by video format and color coded all the 28:1, then sorted by NAME and the ones with a color coded match are not to be transcoded…

Still, it’s a lot of manual selection on thousands of clips. Especially since the ones that got transcoded are all over the place.

I just wish I could select all, transcode and choose to skip the ones that have already been transcoded.

[Frederic Lumiere]

Thanks Jeff,

I get to select all from the Media Tool window but the transcode option isn’t available when right clicking…

[Frederic Lumiere]

[Frederic Lumiere] “I see, I have to copy the audio manually to the new drive if I don’t need it converted… makes sense.”

Well actually, it doesn’t really make sense since all the files have an .mxf extension and I don’t know which are video and which are audio.

I guess I’ll just reconvert the audio for the proxies.

P.S. Now I’m talking to myself… :-0

[Frederic Lumiere]

I see, I have to copy the audio manually to the new drive if I don’t need it converted… makes sense.

[Frederic Lumiere]

But consolidate doesn’t give me the option to make proxies, only transcode does and when I choose transcode if I don’t check one of the convert audio check boxes, no audio moves over to the new drive.

I did check Video and audio on same drive(s)

[Frederic Lumiere]

Also, unless I choose to convert the audio, it ignores audio. Anyway to keep the audio intact without having to reencode it?

[Frederic Lumiere]

Perfect – thanks Juan!