[John Pale]

Ummmm…..

That Read Me is from the original Avid v 7.02 released in 1998.

Avid restarted the version numbers sometime around the release of the Avid Adrenaline.

Cool seeing the old pre-OSX Mac interface, though.

[John Pale]

As good as the Cow is, it ain’t the best place for the latest Avid info.

You’ll want to be on Avid L-2 or the official Avid forums on their site.

[John Pale]

Joseph could probably expand on this better…but you also have to consider your monitoring setup.

Is your monitor introducing or exacerbating the banding?…unless you have a 10 bit panel how can you be sure?

[John Pale]

JPEGS should be fine, however it won’t hurt to convert them to tiffs. JPEGS are compressed, which involves a tiny bit of processing cycles to decompress. Your machine has a very fast processor, so I doubt that’s the problem.

You might want to clear your renders and re-render the effects (Clear Renders in/out). Perhaps one is corrupt.
Make sure none of the photos are super large (the dimensions you mentioned should work fine, but if there are any that a super sized, it might cause a problem)

[John Pale]

More details about the photos….

What resolution?
What file type?

Running off the internal drive or an external? (Yes, I know an SSD is wicked fast, but there can be other bottlenecks besides disk speed.)

[John Pale]

If you have access to Final Cut Studio, you can use Cinema Tools to turn the ALE into an FCP batch list, which can be imported and turned into an FCP bin. The bin can be exported as XML, which Premiere can import.

Convoluted, but might work. Sorta fun to try.

[John Pale]

Did you try linking with AMA and Consolidating?

[John Pale]

The AMA plugins are not third party. That would mean a company like Boris or Intelligent assistance were making a product necessary to fill a hole in Media Composers capabilities.

The camera manufacturers provide their own plugins. Avid provides the architecture. This frees avid from having to update the whole app every time a new camera comes out or a camera gets new firmware that breaks something. Now if RED or Sony want to release a new camera or update, all they have to do is update their plugins. No need to wait for an Avid upgrade cycle.

Avid needs to cleanup their website a little to make things more clear and organized, or maybe offer subscriptions to AMA plugins, so people can stay current more easily, but the idea behind it is sound.

[John Pale]

Are you sure about your specs?

The last G5 iMac made was in 2006.

If you have a G5, you have a PowerPC processor which is incapable of running anything recent.

[John Pale]

It’s even better when you have some uncompressed stuff in there and your file ends up being huge 🙂

Same as source is just that….pass through. No re compression, just rewrapping to
QuickTime..

After thinking about it, my solutions were not the best. It would have been better to transcode the non ProRes material before export. What I suggested would take longer and recompressed the material that was already ProRes. Not a visible quality loss, but unnecessary.