[John Pale]

[Tiffany Chung] “My friend has ProTools, but I’ve just been informed that he wasn’t able to open up the OMF file that I gave him because he doesn’t have the Digitranslator plugin, which costs $500.
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If your friend can’t take an OMF or AAF, you might want to think about finding someone else to mix this. Its a pretty basic thing for a sound guy to be able to do. Pretty much any tv or film project would need to use one of these formats for interchange.

Okay. Here are some other options..neither are very good.

1) Export each track individually, as an AIFF with no fades or effects baked in. Also, export your temp mix as a guide track. He’ll line up each track in ProTools and mix. You will not have any handles on each clip and he will have to recreate every fade based on what you did in the guide track. Not pretty, but thats how they did things in the pre-OMF days. Or they conformed from an EDL…don’t ask.

2)Have him do the mix in Soundtrack Pro, which can take an FCP timeline directly or via OMF. You can also import into Adobe Audition, which is a little better. Neither are as good as ProTools.

[John Pale]

I would think Blackmagic support would be the logical place for this question…not here or the Kona forum.

[John Pale]

Does it work with an audio mix down?

Admittedly, that kind of limits its usefulness.

[John Pale]

In MC 7 you can also link to stills using the new FrameFlex feature, which is intended for RED and other high resolution footage, but works with stills too.

You can keyframe and do nice pans with it, retaining full resolution. No rotation, though….but Avid Pan and Zoom doesn’t do that either.

[John Pale]

You have Resize Image To Fit Format Raster set in your import settings.

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/demystifying-the-avid-import-settings-dialog-box-part-1/

You will need to use Batch Import to reimport them and fix it.

[John Pale]

[Ricardo Maria] “Tried the Encoder solution. It sped up the import, but a 2 GB file turned into a 14 GB one… So it’s not a perfect solution…
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Thats normal. If you want to edit with DSLR footage, you need to make Avid codec files. They are all I-frame, higher bit rate files and will be much larger.

If you want to edit with the files natively, at smaller file sizes, you need to work in Premiere Pro or FCPX. They actually have decent performance with DSLR footage natively.

New versions of Avid will allow you to edit, in a somewhat limited way, with the footage natively…no transcoding…by linking with AMA. You need a fast system to get anywhere near acceptable performance…and I would not try it on a large project.

[John Pale]

I don’t usually recommend mixing workflows, but I’ve had good success using AMA with this.

Link to the Quicktimes with AMA. When the AMA clips are in a bin, select them and the sequence, and select to link to selected items in all open bins in the Relink dialog. You may have to cross match criteria so that the clip name links to the file name. Once your sequence links to the original media via AMA, you can transcode to your desired resolution.

[John Pale]

I think the Avid 7 compatible AMA plug in just came out yesterday. Did you install it?

[John Pale]

Michaels suggestion will work. It’s not a free product, but its good to have in your toolbox.

Other options..

1) download the trial of Avid MC 7. Trial is fully functional for thirty days, if you have a machine capable of running it. Recent versions of Avid use AMA for this. You link to the camera media, then transcode. The transcode is 5 times faster than straight import. I would do this on another machine and move the media and bins to your older Avid…don’t recommend trying to install 2 versions of Avid on the same computer.

2) You mention you have access to Encoder (I assume you mean Adobe Media Encoder). If you have the Avid QuickTime package installed, you can encode to Avid DNXHD…you’ll have to make your own custom preset. these Avid QuickTime files will fast import.

Straight import is very slow and your footage will have incorrect gamma on that old version of Avid. They fixed this around v5.5.

[John Pale]

If there is no budget for a proper hardware conversion (Alchemist, Teranex, Snell and Wilcox), try to find someone with an Avid Symphony DX (not third party I/O), Using Universal Mastering, a Symphony can convert 23.98 to anything.