Kim Huston
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Ahhh. Thanks! That clears it up.
It sounds like in summary, if you don’t want Avid to do anything to your colors, import at 601/709. Then color correct the blacks and whites back to legality, if you have any from the source file being RGB. And if you want Avid to clip the illegal blacks and whites for you, or if you file just IS RGB, like a screencap or graphics, load as RGB.
And if the file isn’t RGB, loading it as such will make it look washed out on computer monitors because you’ve just cut out the brights and darks of your footage’s latitude. But the reason 601/709 looks darker in blacks and brighter in whites on the calibrated monitor is because it still has illegal blacks and whites displaying.
Also it seems to still maybe have something to do with h264 because at work I’ve loaded quicktimes with the animation codec and at either 601/709 OR RGB it looks the same, I believe.
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MPEG Streamclip.
Export as Quicktime.
Avid DNxHD Codec > RGB, 1080p 23.976 DNxHD 115 8-bit1920×1080 (unscaled)
unchecked interlaced scaling (though I guess that doesn’t matter)
uncompressed audio.
I’ll have to do a test of it with Perian uninstalled then.
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Interesting. I transcoded OUTSIDE of Avid though. So I never AMA’d the H.264 files. So I’m not sure if it applies. Unless Perian is affecting the way ALL programs are reading and displaying H.264 and would therefore affect how all other programs are letting me transcode from H.264.
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Yes, I do have it installed.
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Though, thinking about it… I suppose you could just precomp it all the then open it up in another and rotate the precomp.
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So it sounds like essentially you can’t rotate a composition like rotating a canvas.
I have to make an entire animation sideways for output, but I was hoping I could do it all the right way up and then just rotate the composition. But I have to do it manually for every layer it’s almost not worth it. Plus it won’t rotate the keyframes with it.
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Well if anyone comes upon this thread one day.
The solution is that Avid Symphony 5.0.5 does not support MXF.
From wikipedia:
“Symphony was introduced to the market in 1998. It was based on Avid’s Meridien hardware, supporting SD only, and was available for the PC and Macintosh platforms. Its last release was 5.0.5 which supported Windows 2000 and Mac OS X v10.2.
The next major upgrade was Symphony Nitris in 2005, with a redesigned software and integration with the Nitris DNA hardware (PCI-X). It supported 8 bit and 10 bit SD and HD resolutions in both compressed and uncompressed forms, the MXF format and DNxHD codec, and ran only on Windows PC platforms.” -
(I just tried to digitize a clip from a tape and it loaded as an omf. I also need to change to MXF for loading purposes!)
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Ah ha…. Well that’s not going to happen! I’ll probably just try some more masking and feathering in After Effects.
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Thanks for the info! Sounds like it’s best to just not have anything out of focus around the keying edges.
It’s unfortunate because that whole commercial (linked) is in front of the green screen and we wanted to use the new 5D camera.
I’ll check out those keying programs/plugins though. I definitely could use the help of software specifically designed to do it.