Joshua King ortiz
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Thank you, MIchael!
Do we have any news as to when Avid is planning to update the Red AMA plugin? It could definitely be a factor if the coding for the plugin is outdated.
Still, though I’m sure it could be a factor, I’m not sure that it is the main culprit in this particular case because, if it was, it would affect most users trying to transcode R3D footage within MC, not just me.
For now my workaround is to transcode proxy MXF dailies in Resolve and relink to the Hi Res files when the edit is done, but I would much rather be able to do the whole process within MC.
Are there any macOs settings (I’m on High Sierra), Quicktime settings, or settings within MC that could be causing this?
Thank you for your help!
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Hi guys,
So, I installed 2018.12.8 and it still not allowing me to transcode within Media Composer.
Is there some kind of setting that might be causing this? I’m trying to move back to Media Composer, but all of the problems I’m encountering (transcoding and playback issues with RED and Blackmagic footage mainly) is deterring me.
Thank you,
Joshua King Ortiz
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Hi guys,
So, I updated to 2019_11 like Shane suggested and it helped solve the playback problem. It still stops on its own at times, but it works much, much better, specially when I turn on proxy mode in the Settings and bring down the playback resolution to Best Performance in the timeline. I can get several layers going if needed with that setup.
Tried transcoding (which was the other big problem I was running into with RED footage) and I’m still getting an error (Exception: AMAProducerTask::Execute: AMA Plug-In Unable to Provide Sample) halfway through transcoding the first clip. Any suggestions regarding that?
To answer Dom’s questions, the drive is a 4-bay 16TB USB 3 RAID and yeah, they play flawlessly in Resolve and Premiere…and now in Avid too ☺
Thank you for your help guys and let me know if you have any ideas on how to solve the transcoding error.
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oh, and the version of Media Composer is the 2019.8.0 and yeah, it has to be related my other problem of not being to transcode RED footage either.
Thank you guys!
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Hi guys,
I tried Dom’s suggestion in the Source Settings and it didn’t work.
I have a 2012 Mac Pro with dual Xeon 6-Core 3.33GHZ CPUs, an Nvidia GTX 1080ti, 64GB RAM, PCI-e SSD system drive…it should be handling at least one r3d stream no problem. Premiere handles RED footage on this same system without a hitch. And, even though Avid’s playback performance is significantly worse than Premiere’s with codecs other than DNx or ProRes, it still shouldn’t be this bad. It literally plays for about 3 seconds and stops playing.
I think it has something to do with Quicktime and/or RED’s AMA plugin. The activity monitor on the Mac also has an alert saying Quicktime OPServer (Not Responding) whenever I open Avid.
I’ll try Dom’s suggestion of re-installing the RED AMA plugin and let you know if that works.
Thank you for the help!
Joshua King Ortiz
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Premiere shouldn’t have any trouble with an .mov file, that’s just the Quicktime wrapper that contains the HEVC (H.265) codec. Like Greg mentioned, the HEVC (H.265) is not an edit friendly codec so it’s very taxing on your system, meaning you need a powerful workstation to handle the footage natively. If you’re system can’t handle it, the best thing you can do is either transcode to an edit friendly codec like Greg suggested (Cineform, ProRes, DNX) or to go with a proxy workflow and link back to the original codec once you’re edit is done.
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Hi Rafael,
Thank you for the quick reply! 🙂 The codec is DV NTSC 24p Standard Def. It was shot with a DVX-100 and a 35mm adapter. So the codec shouldn’t be the problem. I’ve experience several kinds of FCP7 glitches, but none like this one.
Thank you!
joshua