[Hector Berrebi]

[David Roth Weiss] “the evil transcode word,”

actually, i think what got people ticked in that pic was not the grayed out “evil transcode” but the lack of XML in the import sub menu which looks like it became iMovie’s best buddy…

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[Michael Phillips] “Why not AMA to both sources, transcode to a flexible low data rate format”

that would be the right way to go…
but apparently she already L&T all of her media in FCP and she wants to use that…

hi Michael 🙂

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[Hector Berrebi]

yes, when you transcode you create traditional avid MXF media, low res is an option, DNXHD 36 should be your choice.

when you link via AMA you create master clips that just link to the files in their current location.

in your case avid media files will work much better for comfortable editing

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[Hector Berrebi]

[David Roth Weiss] “On the other hand, maybe our good friend Sohrab has mashed-up this image so we’ll all pull out just a few more of our feathers?”

nope… it was part of the last batch on twitter… i posted a screen grab of it earlier on the previous long pointless thread.

strangely, its the only pic that was taken off that tweet. i noticed it earlier but didn’t pay too much attention to it.

but it does clean Sohrab 🙂

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[Hector Berrebi]

if you didn’t already transcode i would suggest a different workflow, but as you did. this one should work too

considering you properly used FCP log & transfer you should have a bunch of prores HQ files for the AF100 and probably a bunch of prores HQ files for the 5D (unless you changed the preferences to a different flavor of prores…)

Prores HQ is probably the best your files can ever get to be visually and FCP does a good job transcoding to it.

MC5 and up, supports AMA link to Prores files.

organize all of your Prores masters on a decent external HDD (some RAID 0 with eSATA or at least FW800 connection, WD makes non-expensive ones)

ingest all of the material into MC using link to AMA.

place it all in one bin and call it AMA something…

the prores files will probably be too intensive on your system to comfortably cut an offline, select all of the files in the AMA bin and transcode them into DNXHD 36. send them to your work HDD, the size difference is big… 1 second of Prores HQ is 27.5 MB, 1 second of DNXHD36 is 4.5 MB

now you will have offline files that look good and as they are Avid media files, are very easy on your system. you can rename them, organize them into bins and cut your work with them even using a good external FW800 drive. some of the smaller, 2.5″ models (portable ones) would work fine. or you might have enough space in your internal drive… but that’s less recommended.

disconnect the HDD with the original masters and keep it somewhere safe.

the AMA bin will become offline. its ok for now.

when you are done cutting you will reconnect it and can relink your final sequence to original Prores files for color correction and finishing.

you have several choices at that point that will depend on your delivery requirements and finishing platform

hope this helped

hector

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[Hector Berrebi]

yup… and its all free 🙂

https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?SearchOperator=0&ssdFilterCommunity11=0&ssdFilterCommunity13=0&ssdFilterCommunity3=1083&ssdSearchOperator=0&ssdFilter_SearchKeyWord=Codecs&page=1

install avid codecs on your system and mpeg streamclip will see them

hector

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[Hector Berrebi]

how did the gopro footage come in? folder structure? just .mov files on the card?

if its a folder structure its probably too big, but if they are individual files, can you send me a short one somehow?

i would like to test what you describe. if its not an issue of course…

hector

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[Hector Berrebi]

a few more questions/suggestions

did you try it on a different Avid?

could it be a windows permission issue?

is it a batch of cards, and if so, is just one of them problematic or all?

did you try with different footage from a different shoot (xdcam too…)?

other formats (P2 for example) link normally?

hector

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[Hector Berrebi]

[David Battistella] “Have not seen any r3d media. Heard them say “up to 4k, but not RED specifically.”

considering that most 4K that’s shot these days is R3D,

and the high sex appeal RED has,

and the extensive (and quite wonderful) Avid support for R3D…

it is very difficult for me to believe that it wasn’t addressed.

didn’t see P2 anywhere also… 🙂

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[Hector Berrebi]

DNXHD is HD only, unlike Prores

and frankly, its an overkill to use it for DVDs

if you have Avid on the same system that you have mpeg streamclip, then you should have all avid codecs available.

keep same size, quality 100%, and pick Avid mpeg 50 Mbps from the codec list
if you really want to waste HDD space pick Avid 1:1

but i believe that even Avid DV will look good.

run some tests 🙂

hector

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