Re: [Avid-L2] Re: The growing trend to use DSLRs for HD video shots.

The footage from a Canon 5D is H.264 at about 46Mb/s - by my reckoning it
should be A LOT better at that bitrate than it is. But regardless the 5D
footage does show substantial compression artifacting in dark and
high-contrast areas, at least in my footage, and then there's the aliasing
issues..

But indeed Media Composer 5 does make it heaps easier. The footage will AMA
link in seconds and should be reasonably editable on decently spec'd systems
(it struggles on my Dual 1.6GHz Celeron laptop, but can usually manage
1-stream in realtime). However the time to transcode a clip from AMA H.264
to DNxHD is MUCH better than an import of the same clip - a little over
twice as quick on my laptop. My approach now for DSLR editing would be AMA
link all media, make clip selections from the the AMA footage, then
transcode it all to DNxHD for editing - a pretty solid workflow.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Pat Horridge <pat@horridge.org.uk> wrote:

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> On the Avids we'd move to DNX185
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