[Tom Smith]

Yeah i already have been making proxies, was hoping with a much stronger cpu and a better drive setup I may be able to escape it.

[Tom Smith]

Yeah I don’t do huge projects right now. I’m not in a major area and it’s mostly smaller stuff. If someone ever came to me with a TB of footage for one single project I’d be astonished so 1 TB of storage for working footage will be fine for me. I just want it to playback smooth. I am getting all types of footage from go pros to drones, some in 4k. Would just rather not have to transcode much if I don’t have to. Right now I get massive dropped frames with the go pro and DJI footage, though not sure if it’s the CPU that’s just the bottleneck as I have the media and cache split across drives and cache is now on an SSD. I’m currently only on an i5 2500k. Will be very likely running an i7 9700k with this as well, 32gb ram, gtx 1080…Sometimes I multicam but not often, and when I do, usually only 4-6 streams of 1080. I know they say look to double the bitrate of your footage when ti comes to disk throughput and the largest mbps I have in a file in my current project is 706206.

[Tom Smith]

Try clearing the cache to repopulate new reviews, sounds like something went awry after an update.

[Tom Smith]

well i ran the files through Mediainfo and it turns out they are variable frame rates. They are VHS tapes that were captured by someone other than me. They are quicktime prores 422. 1920×1440. The thing is though, if you load them into Premiere, they are listed as 29.97 and play perfectly. In Avid though, it’s listing them as a couple different FPS. Someone on another forum gave me a command to type into the Avid console to force it it into 29.97 but it didnt work. At this point what I think is the best bet is re encode these to a proper 29.9. I did some tests encoding out of Premiere and AMA linking and playing in Avid and they work fine. The problem is I don;t know which codec I should really use to re encode out of Premiere. I don’t have a ton of hard drive space left and I only have enough space to fit just about the same amount that these files take up currently, so if you could help me out with selecting a proper wrapper and codec settings for that, that would be great.

[Tom Smith]

thanks for tips 🙂

[Tom Smith]

Just FYI, I made a 1080 sequence and 1920×1080 raster and exported same as source and it exported correctly. Pillarboxes on the side. I am not sure why the director did this, but its something the actual editor will have to deal if it’s a problem after the director makes his rough cut. He nor I have time to deal with it at this point. If it means re encoding and then relinking then so be it.

[Tom Smith]

Well i didnt do anything, I was given the footage by the director. He captured it off VHS.

I mean sure you can get it to play back properly in Avid and not look distorted in the composer window, but exporting… Well anything I tried ends up squishing the footage and pillarboxing.

ANY tips you might have for me at this point I would love. I am more worried about the exporting portion of course.

[Tom Smith]

Nope its 1920×1440, as shown in the pic (File info out of Premiere) https://i.imgur.com/KHcWGUc.png

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[Tom Smith]

Me Neither:)

War stories to tell the grandkids for the future though.

[Tom Smith]

I know he wants it to hit the festivals and will most likely be wanting to show it online as well.