Michael Phillips
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You can also “field step” in Media Composer when in an interlace project. One thing to check is making sure you did not select a DNxHR resolution which does not support interlace formats.
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Thanks for checking back in. And I agree that this is a machine room class IO device, but it’s the only Avid IO device so it needs to fit into different scenarios. Keep us up to date on your experiences!
Michael
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Thanks Robert – a nice concise step by step for “dailies”. One thing I try to avoid is any AAF for clips that have audio tracks. I have found it to be very hit and miss. Video only seems to work well.
Other considerations for users is whether you want to to work at camera source resolution or at project resolution as they may not be the same. If working at anything above HD you will want to select DNxHR.
Michael
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Anybody else finding this to be the case?
https://community.avid.com/forums/t/136627.aspx
To me, this has always been a machine room I/O solution and less a standalone, single system I/O solution. But that could just be me.
Michael
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Hmmm… should be fast enough, have you done a speed test on it just to be sure? I also find that the longer the media file, the more MC struggles with it, but that was always with LongGOP and AMA linked files where this was immediately noticeable. But, there may be something related with DNxHD, but I don’t have any real insight of where to look next.
Michael
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What type of drive, connection and speed can it do?
Michael
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Other than uncompressed, codecs have a data rate associated with them. And based on that data rate, the resulting file will have a different size assuming everything else about the file is the same.
From your list:
Avid codec: which one?
Avid DNxHD codec: which one? 36, 80, 145, 220, 440, etc.?
H.264 codec: not knowing the other data rates, nor the data rate of this one, it will be the most compressed as it is a longGOP format and not I frame.As far the differences between the different “uncompressed”, it is hard to tell the reason there. What was the size and frame rate of original file?
Michael
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Depends on whether Canon makes am AMA plug-in that supports that particular camera. Have you downloaded all available Canon AMA plug-in and they are installed?
Michael
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Unfortunately not and have brought it up several times with Avid. The original shoot date is far more useful than the date it was imported into Media Composer. The only thing you can do is duplicate the columns you want to preserve into a custom column before the transcode.
Michael
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The device still uses Avid’s Open I/O and Blackmagic drivers, so I don’t expect much different behavior than other Blackmagic I/) devices. Any improvements to DNxIO will be available to other third party devices as well as per the DNxIO FAQ.
Michael