[Jane Wagner]

Hi Hans,

Thanks so much for your detailed response. I was thinking of using 0 raid drives, and then cloning them for a back up copy, plus this will give an extra set of media for possible use by the AE. Any thoughts on raid 0? I will do a test with the import vs AMA link.

Best,
Jane

[Jane Wagner]

Hi Richard,

I am at the trying to work out the best flow for our new long form doc project. We are shooting mostly 7d. For offline if we do the AMA link and transcode at a lower resolution DNxHD36, what would be the process for prepping for the online? How do we do the conform? Can we do a conform of the consolidated sequence, and then just import the consolidated clips at high res? Will the consolidated clips link back to the original card files?

Best,
Jane

[Richard Sanchez] ” If you want to do an offline, you could go DNxHD 36 (or even go standard def into the 15:1s range). If you want to avoid a conform, then you can transcode to DNxHD 115 or 175, but that will require a lot of hard drive.”

[Jane Wagner]

Hi Hans,

I would love to know more about the gamma shift. We are starting post on a long form doc. currently shooting with the 7D and wanting to do AMA Link then transcode at a lower resolution for ‘offline’ then consolidate to a higher resolution for online. But should we do this by importing at a lower resolution then consolidating re importing at the finishing res? Any input would be greatly appreciated. On a related but slightly different note, we are thinking of not doing Raid arrays but going with JBOD for more flexibility with large quantities of media. Any thoughts on this and speed with HD footage?

[Hans Sieber] “A gamma shift every time I´m using a non Avid or strictly RGB (Animation) codec. I did test this by exporting colour bars qusing a QT container with e.g. H264 codec. Open it with AMA and you`ll get the gamma shift. It´s confusing me for more than 2,5 years…”