Re: [Avid-L2] AMA sequence export to QT fail

I think that's right - we're asking the poor application to do too much.

On 22 Dec 2011, at 13:52, electropura212 wrote:

> One thing you are not taking into account is that you are mixing Long GOP
> footage (HDV) with regular I frame footage. You are asking the software to
> do several conversions at once. In addition to doing your transcode to
> your new codec, Avid (or QuickTime ?) must figure out the cadence and
> create the frames that don't really exist in the source footage.
>
> Curious if it works any better if you just transcode the HDV footage first.
> Leave the others in their original format.
>
> On Thursday, December 22, 2011, Roger <rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > I just tried this (mix of AMA 1080i50, AMA 720p25 and SD 25i) and it
> failed, as you say. I transcoded to 1080i DNXHD120 and the exports were
> fine.
> >
> > On 21 Dec 2011, at 17:54, Jay Mahavier wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, so now that I've got this sequence cut together using clips that are
> in MCv6 using AMA I need to get it out to a QT. Preferably PhotoJPEG high
> quality. But when I try to export it fails. Some of the AMA source is Apple
> Intermediate. Some h.264. Some HDV. Some PhotoJPEG. Some is SD, some is HD,
> etc etc. The audio is a mix of audio from the AMA clips and some imported
> MXF audio.
> >>
> >> So I thought it may be one of the codecs of the source clips. So I start
> dumping various sources from the sequence and it almost always ends up
> failing. The only thing that seems to help is breaking it down in to 1 min
> pieces. And then it sometimes will export.
> >>
> >> Now if I do a video/audio mixdown then it's all ok. Is there a know bug
> with exporting from sequences with AMA sources in them that I missed? Or am
> I just doing something wrong?
> >>
> >> So far I'm very underwhelmed with AMA. Extremely underwhelmed.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Jay
> >>
> >>
> >
> > With best wishes,
> > Roger Shufflebottom
> > rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk
> > +44 7973 543 660
> >
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With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk
+44 7973 543 660

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