Kevin Downer
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That is not entirely correct.
If you switch your Avid Project “Format” tab from “YCbCr 709” to “RGB 709” you can transcode to Prores 4444 MXF amongst other RGB MXF formats.
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As Michael mentioned Prores 444 is your best bet for maintaining a high quality/resolution file that Avid can use. DPX renders are just not going to work in Avid unless you use the third party app Gluetools. Any other image sequence is just not worth the hassle as for the lack of Timecode metadata and eye matching.
Hopefully by NAB Avid will get DPX going as they seem to be “working on it”
Lustre can create Avid MXF files as well but limited to YUV codecs only and no RGB options.
You should check with your post house as Lustre requires a headless Mac to process the Prores files through their conversion app “Wiretap”.
if they are running Flame Premium which has Lustre as part of their package, the Prores encoding is possible on their RedHat Linux station.
If it is Lustre standalone, no dice.
You could translate their provided dpx graded clip sequences yourself but that requires Resolve or some other conversion process.
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I’ve been using Automatic Duck’s Media Copy to copy the MXF and AMA linked media to a San.
I then put “_HOLD” suffixes on the local MXF folder and rebuild the database from the San and relink the AMA file.
Check to make sure everything loaded and re-connected in Avid and then use the Duck software to create an HTML database report of the files that comprise the sequence. LTO then follows.
It’s a free app and works a treat. Consolidate could get you to the same place but that’s not going to work for AMA files.
Other options are other third-party apps like EDL Spy for more complex unix/DOS command tasks or using Resolve Collect and Resolve itself to whittle down the actual Raw files your using to something manageable.
Nice thing about some of these options is the AMA bonus and the ability to copy over folder tree paths if necessary for keeping track of origins.
Only EDL Spy and Resolve Collect require a small purchase. Other options are free.