Re: [Avid-L2] Re: AVC-Intra Workflow

I've not had considerable issues with AMA. It depends a lot of codecs
probably, the performance we get from XDCAM as AMA is fine. With H.264 we
usually need to transcode to ensure reliable media performance.

I prefer the Avid-native media management, but still AMA seems like a
slightly better implementation of edit-in-place workflow than in many other
systems. The NLE builds an index of mounted media when you point it at the
AMA media, so it can relink files reliably without manual intervention. This
behaviour can be a little quirky at times, but overall it seems to work
pretty well.

Our workflow is usually and offline/online one - AMA media (XDCAM and DSLR
usually) is trancoded to offline SD resolution (10:1 or DV25) and then
edited. When the cut is finished the sequence it relinked to the AMA media
to "up res" and then the entire sequence transcoded to a common format for
finishing.

I want to see improvements in AMA, but it's pretty solid.

Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:

>
>
> DON'T use AMA for long form. Too many issues with relinking as time goes
> on. Use AMA to log and then transcode your footage to DNxHD and never look
> back.
>
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>, Jason Gillet
> <jsg5403@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was curious how people are working with AVC-Intra. I haven't actually
> cut
> > anything in this format long form and I wanted to know if it's best to
> load as
> > AMA and work with it that way or are people converting it to DNXHD once
> it's
> > loaded.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jason Gillet
> > Editor/Engineer
> > Moving Pictures NYC
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>

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