Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Canon DSLR Metadata?

Thanks, Oliver. I've decided my system is too slow to work with the native H.264s anyways, so now I'm deciding between converting them to ProRes and AMAing the ProRes files, or just importing them to MC, transcoding to DNx in the process.

Is there an advantage to the ProRes method, do you think? An advantage to staying with AMA, even if it means having to transcode to DNx eventually?

Zak Ray
Editor | Cinematographer
Boston, MA
978.473.4226 | worldwide-studios.com

On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:29 PM, oliverpetersvidy wrote:

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> > Zak Ray wrote:
> > I was under the impression that it was a plug-in
> > architecture that manufacturers could write for,
> > allowing for specific handling of their files.
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> You are correct, but Canon hasn't done that. Their only AMA plug-in is for the XF cameras. Dom is correct that the metadata info is in the THM files. Still isn't read by Avid. BTW - the THM has no TC. Only a date/time stamp. Some of the various conversion methods derive TC from that, however I have found it to be problematic with some camera files and have quit using them.
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> In the case of Canon files, AMA can read many of the QuickTime files that match a video format and uses a codec that your installation of QT can read. This is because of Avid's internal development and not an outside manufacturer. This is how Avid currently reads the Canon 5D/7D/1D files. It's also how they read ProRes files, since Apple clearly hasn't written an AMA plug-in for them ;-)
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> - Oliver
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