Philip,
>> know that FCP/L&T doesn't allow any editing before transcoding and AMA
>> does, but people are recommending against that unless it's a very short
>> and quick turn job.
For another perspective, here is an example of beneficial AMA use in long
form work:
I had a project with 9 hours of P2 source clips - all green screen
interviews. The client needed to review the material as soon as possible
after the shoots. Using AMA, I logged the clips and then cut them down
into 2 hour stringouts.
Through elimination of some weak takes, irrelevant material and other
miscellany, I got the total down to 6 hours (3 two hour stringouts). We
added Avid's real time time code window to the sequences and laid them off
to a DVD recorder for the client to review.
So we were able to get the DVDs out to the client in a timely manner
without any transcoding or rendering in a format they wanted (DVD w/window
burn).
After we got the DVDs out the door, then we transcoded the 6 hours of
stringouts to DNxHD at a more leisurely pace - i.e., when there was an idle
machine or on an overnight.
I had no problems throughout the process - it all worked flawlessly and all
in real time.
- Rich
At 10:35 AM 1/21/2011 -0800, you wrote:
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>
>
>On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Bouke wrote:
>
> > Must admit, my L&T is rusty...
> > (I do mainly Sony material...)
> > But think of the entire way Avid works, Avid needed clips to be Avid
> files.
> > That is gone, any file can now be played trough the entire pipeline.
> > FCP always has been an advanced QT player that can handle any QT
> compatible
> > file.
>
>I wish it could handle more than 10% of QT files. In reality FCP only
>handles QT files that are video files. That's about 10% of the (current
>and soon to be gone) QT capability.
>
> >
> > For my understanding,
> > can you edit with L&T mounted material and then media manage?
> > (from memory, MM needs a reelname to be present)
>
>You can edit with L&T proxies and then media manage after editorial. I've
>done that with RED material.
>
>To be clear: I know AMA allows immediate editing but the recommendation
>from Terry, and others, is to use AMA to make selects and transcode those
>to DNxHD before editing. To me that's so close to L&T, where you make
>selects and transcode before editing, that I'm just not seeing the
>difference - for the recommended workflow.
>
>To be further clear. I know that FCP/L&T doesn't allow any editing before
>transcoding and AMA does, but people are recommending against that unless
>it's a very short and quick turn job.
>
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