[John Pale]

If you really have now way of getting a definitive spec from the client, DV NTSC (or PAL..whichever you shot) will be easily worked with in FCP, Premiere and with Avid.

If you give him MXF media, it will only be readable easily in Avid,

[John Pale]

You may have to install the AJA software codec for PC (from their website) to see the files initially.

DNX hd (unlike Apple Pro Res) is only for HD footage. Sounds like this is an entirely SD project.
You can import into Avid once you install the AJA codec. In your import dialog, set Avid to create 1:1x media (to stay uncompressed) or select 2:1 if you want to save space and use compression.

[John Pale]

Avid doesn’t really care what you use on the Mac. Whatever card that is supported by Apple for your machine is acceptable. There isnt any significant acceleration using the graphics card in Avid. Even on the PC, you have nothing that approaches the CUDA integration in Premiere Pro. It is not even worth thinking about.
Resolve needs the Quadro card to no have any monitor plugged into it for optimum performance, so you should have your GUI plugged into the other card. Avid should ignore the Quadro, as there is no monitor connected to it….however there are some bugs with the new Avid interface involving multiple monitors…so you may have to play with your workspace presets to get it set up properly. You won’t miss any GPU “acceleration” in Avid, as there really isn’t any to speak of…its all done by the CPU and your CPUs are blazing fast.

[John Pale]

I can’t wait for Pol Pot’s review of DaVinci Resolve 9.

[John Pale]

You’ll be appalled if you watch some American programs in Europe. Often they don’t bother to pitch correct.

[John Pale]

Of course I just bought the tutorial from Ripple Training and they’ve gone and changed the interface.
🙂

I’m sure much of it is still valid and give a good foundation to learn the new features.

[John Pale]

Adobe adds metadata to media, which might be causing problems. I remember discovering this while trying out FCPX. You can turn off this behavior in Adobe applications in preferences,

[John Pale]

You can’t raise your bit rate significantly, as 7 is about the highest you can go in a burned DVD and not cause playback issues on some players. Hollywood DVDs are replicated, not burned. Different process. They also use expensive hardware encoders and are working with very high quality source material. DV is a bad codec. ProRes might improve things a little.

Your settings for VBR are not good…you will actually cause artifacts and playback Issues with those settings. There is also no need to turn the frame controls on unless you are doing resizing or frame rate changes. You are vastly increasing your encode time, with no benefit. Actually, you might be making it worse…as you have deinterlacing turned on. Bad idea.

How long are your videos? You might have better quality using CBR rather than VBR

[John Pale]

Sounds like you corrupt media somewhere in the timeline.

You can try to find it by breaking it up into smaller increments and try to find the corrupt clip.

You might also just try to transcode your entire timeline to DNX145 and see if it plays.

[John Pale]

Dont set a field order. Select ordered for current format. The image file is progressive.

You really shouldn’t be using AMA for graphic files. Just import those. Use AMA for video files.