Mike Jeffs
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So I find we end up exporting a lot of op1a xdcam 50 mxfs for delivery to our omneon play out server. Thing is its a far faster export then any flavor of mov. From my tests the mxf export is about real time or faster, the mov is about 1x slower then real time.
So I end up just using the xdcam mxf as our master output file, but of course there isn’t a easy way to preview these files on the PC or Mac without bringing them back into avid. So what do you think I should sacrifice, the speed of export for the ease of viewing, or should I keep the mxf since a lot of times it’s going to be in that format for play out.
Decisions decisions.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Check out telestreams line of products they have a lot of great avid integration. And they offer everything from small guy shop to full enterprise solutions.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
I just ran into a quirky issue
I looks like to me no matter what when you AMA link in a Clip that has stereo audio, Avid does not preserve it. It brings in the Audio as center panned mono files. even if you Consolidate or transcode
The only way I have found to preserve the true stereo audio is to do a import and in the options make sure and pair A1 and A2 as stereo
for you gurus out there is this true or did I miss something.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Yes you can just delete the original AMA linked clips. It won’t effect you new media or new media.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Chris,
We are alive in Idaho. The snow sucks at first but it she does lend itself to pretty video.Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
[Clint Wardlow] “Well, I keep hoping it will gain some traction in Utah, where I am located.”
I’m just making a educated guess but my feeling is as long as Salt Lake stays mainly Avid, and Provo leaning more towards Adobe, (last time I was down there talking to there post production head) I think that FCPX will have quite a hard time gaining traction.
Here in BYU-Idaho we made the decision to become a Avid Learning partner A) we get all the support we need from Salt Lake, and B) as it is still the precieved King of the post world students coming out of here certified will have a little more clout.
That being said we will also be adding Adobe to a lot of our workflows and classes. Not so much FCPX
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Thank you. we recently revieved two HMI joker bugs the 800 and the 400 but only one ballest. looks like we are going to have to spend the big money to get a second ballest.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
It’s funny I just had this discussion with a college of mine who runs 3 or 4 isis 5000 systems and allarge isis 7000. They have a lot of project going simultaneously. With many editors hitting the system at the same time. Basically they only create 5 workspaces
1) Is the Avid Media Files workspace so all of the MXF folder structure sits in there
2) Is the Avid Project and Bins workspace
3) Non Avid Media workspace. This is where all the MOVs Tiff Jpegs After effects etc live. Also all of the non-Avid Software projects live here as well
4) Protools workspace. All of the sessions and media live here.
5) Masters or Final Exports workspace. This is where all finished media lives.Hope that helps if not oh well 🙂
We on the other hand have decided to go the project based approach. One workspace that contains everything related to the project. Source files, Avid Media, Project Files, Non Avid Media etc. This makes it easier for us to then archive our projects to a simple LTO tape system. Our nameing convention is pretty simple too (E.g Year-Month-Day-ShowName)
Within the workpace we create a simple file folder structure
Avid Media Files/
Project/
Source Files/
Motion Graphics and Effects/
Color correction/
Audio/ (within audio we have a To audio folder and than a From Audio Folder)
Exports/
DVD/ (on occasion)Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Just for informational purposes for anyone in the future who may search and find this thread.
We decided to go with a Isis 5000 two engines (32tb), with the possibility of adding a third in 2014. we will connect them to a Cisco switch via the 10Gig card. The primary editors (7) will connect using Dual 1g to the switch and then we have a 10 gig connection from the switch going to the campus network which will then be utilize by a couple of editors and classrooms.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
From what I understand x264 is the open source version of the codec. But they are essentially the same. That is, any player, editor , ect will see a x264 just as it would a h264. The quality of a file at the x264 at same bit rate should be exactly the same as h264. The major difference is that because it’s open source more companies can create products that accelerate the encoding process or tweak it a bit. Such as telestream.
There are a couple of ways to compress a DVD quality file into h264 or x264 under 2 gigs and keep decent quality. What are you using to transcode?
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho