Saturday, March 10, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] AMA relink with Canon 5D files

 

Ha! Good answer.

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On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:02 AM, "bouke" <bouke@editb.nl> wrote:

> short answer:
> Decompose, take your media offline, re-import at 120 or 180 Mbits (10 bit is
> overkill) and get another colorist.
>
> Bouke
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pierrehaberer" <ph@cineaste.org>
> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 4:13 PM
> Subject: [Avid-L2] AMA relink with Canon 5D files
>
> I've posted that question on the forum, but there are a lot of knowledgable
> people here who don't necessarily read them. So I'll add it here too.
>
> I'm reaching the end of a film cut on 5.5. Film was shot on Canon 5D MkII,
> then all the files came on two hard drives on which each card had been
> copied. We linked all those folders to bins (one bin per camera card) using
> AMA, then each clip was transcoded to DNxHD36, one bin at the time. Hundred
> hours of footage.
>
> Now the edit is done, and it's time to go back to the original camera files.
> It's my first film shot on a 5D, but I followed a similar workflow on
> several films before which were shot on XDCam and on which everything went
> smoothly: Link via AMA / Transcode to DNX36 / Edit / Relink final sequence
> to original XDCam / Export Tiff sequence for color grading on Colorus.
>
> But I just talked to the colorist and he said that AMA for 5D on Media
> Composer 5.5 is a bit flakey because it modifies the luma range of the
> picture. Fine, I can use MC6 just for the relink. I need to export tiff
> files that would have the full 000-255 range: what is the best way to do
> that when I relink my final sequence? Any settings (project settings, etc) I
> should be aware of? What settings for export?
>
> Thanks to all the AMA experts out there!
> Pierre
>
>

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