[Jamie Parry]

No worries Martin.
although Manchester,England is quite cave-like!

I don’t think alexicc is right for an FX workflow anyway (as Gary has pointed out)
however Nuke is good and Resolve Lite is now out and free!
Resolve Lite will let you take in prores444 and output DPX sequences.
No audio but that’s OK for you right?

Alexicc is meant for editorial type people.
j

[Jamie Parry]

the demo version of alexicc that you get does a weird LUT on the image just so you can examine the workflow….but not use the footage obviously 🙂
the real version has a LUT by Steve Shaw which looks great.
post here how i can get a short,one second clip from you, i’ll do a (real) alexicc pass on it and send you that file back if you like…
options are always good!
jamie (alexicc person)

[Jamie Parry]

i never did get sent any clips of this xdcam stuff!
so I don’t reaaally know if i can do it but i’m still willing to try….
Bob Kertesz is someone whose opinions i highly value (having lurked on CML for a long time) so it was great to help him out.

you’ve recently tried Alexicc that i wrote for steve shaw (alexa LUT clip thingy) But more importantly i recentlyhad the pleasure of watching your Avid 3D webcast.
Highly informative!
I think i may be able to do better than Metafuze for macs re the 3D file prepping for media composer as it stands now.
i’ve been messing with some slo mo 3d from a phantom camera, 2 images on one sensor but all wrong for avid…so i sorted it out and learned with your help what i had to do.
cheers
jamie

[Jamie Parry]

email steve@lightillusion.com
he’s doing beta testing of a workflow that will do what you want (in a very easy and basic fashion at the moment)
here is a demo video

https://homepage.mac.com/lindsayellis/avid-alexa.mov

hope it helps someone
jamie

[Jamie Parry]

it may be possible to do this using ffmpeg or its broadcast savvy cousin ffmbc
they will both encode to dnxhd RAW (not wrapped in .mov or .mxf)
which can then be wrapped in avid friendly MXF format by writeavidmxf from the bbc’s ingex project.
I’ve done it lots from .MTS files and other weird files from “go pro” etc at work.
I wrote front end programs to do batch lists of it.
All metadata gets added and you put the MXF files in the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1 folder and they show up in the mediatool for you to drag into a bin.
OR… if you put the MXF files in a spare folder under the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/ (ie a folder called 23 or something) , let avid index the folder then drag the .mdb fileinto a bin- all the clips appear in the bin! cool…
If you send me/post up a SMALL 30 sec sample of the media i’ll have a go and do a screencast if it works.
I do this on os x 10.5 and 10.6 but all the above components are on windows too.
the batch scripting i leave to others on XP, i never learnt to do .bat files!
jamie