[John Pale]

And yes. You can also use DaVinci Resolve to do your transcodes and see if that helps.

You probably have an Avid support contract if you own the software or are a subscriber. You should contact Avid support and let them know what you are seeing. This should not be happening.

[John Pale]

If you are on a Mac, you can also transcode to the Apple ProRes MXF. They are considered “native” for Avid and should have identical performance. I’d be curious to see if there is any quality difference.

[John Pale]

If the Samsung doesn’t have an audio pass through, you could try something like this.

HDMI audio deembbedder. Has a headphone jack and video pass through to your Samsung

https://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-To-40695-De-Embedder/dp/B0089YTWCQ%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-ipad-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0089YTWCQ

[John Pale]

Good luck. Sorry, I don’t have anything better. Make sure the people responsible know how difficult they have made this.

[John Pale]

May I ask how long this concert is and how many songs? Even though there are different performances, I am assuming these are the same songs. Hopefully we are talking small differences that throw off sync a bit and not wildly different versions with a lot of improvisation. I’d also be inclined to initially approach its sort of like Shane suggested, cutting the performances to their original audio and not the final mix. I’d use these edits as source material. You are going to have to make several passes on each song to get it right. Make a new sequence with the final mix audio of the first song. Edit in the video from the version of the first song you like best on video track 2. Leave video track one empty. Sync it up at the beginning (first note or drum beat). It will obviously fall out of sync. Try to adjust the video where it falls out by slipping shots a frame or two. If it’s impossible to make a shot look right, because the performance is too different, lift it out and leave a black hole. Go through the whole song doing this. Add the video from another performance of the song to video track 3, and do the same thing…then again for the third performance on video track four. Hopefully, by the time you complete the process, the performances will reveal themselves as not too different and you will have a usable shot where all the black holes are. Duplicate this sequence and save it. Now, on the duplicate, begin to merge the different performances by moving shots down to video track one. Remember, your job is not to be a detective and match every shot to its original audio. Just make it believable and entertaining. Do this for every song (keep the songs separate sequences for now), work on joining them later). I’ve used this technique for several songs but never for an entire concert, but depending on the performances, it can work, even though it’s time consuming. I don’t know of any magical fast solutions to this problem.

[John Pale]

Thanks for the clarification. Does not sound like the same issue I experienced.

Probably wouldn’t hurt to run the updates to v6.5, but you are probably better off transcoding out of Avid. Things are much better on more recent versions of software, but I guess that doesn’t really help you,

If you have a spare computer, you could run the trial of version 8.4 to do the transcoding and copy the finished media and bins.

[John Pale]

As I alluded to before, I think it has to do with the frame rate in combination with that version of Avid..if in fact you have 60fps material. Do you? I would see the problem crop up with 60fps, but it would be just fine with 29.97, 25, 24, 23.976. This was with Windows 7 and Avid 6.x. In Avid 8.x, I don’t see the issue anymore.

Another thing to try…and I should have suggested this before, is to manually select the AMA plugin rather than have Avid select it automatically. You do that with a pull-down menu in the link dialogue.

[John Pale]

As I recall, that version of Avid had difficulty with 1080p @ 60fps. If possible, do as Shane suggests and convert in another program.

[John Pale]

Try creating a new user setting and see if that behaves as expected.

[John Pale]

If you are talking about file based footage, Prelude does indeed do what you want. You can preview, mark in /out and transfer only the section you want… in batches or one at a time. It works quite nicely. Have you done the tutorials for it? Its a pretty powerful tool.