Hi everyone,
We have a client who will be shoting on the Alexa, it's for a TV show, not for DCP or anything so it will end up on tele and at the most Bluray. I'm trying to steer them towards recording DNxHD MXFs for obvious reasons but they would like to shoot Prores 4444.
Due to the fact that we are on Version 4 Avids (upgrade is not an option) we do not have access to any of the quicktime AMA goodness or compressed 4444 codec options.
My question is, what will become of the extra samples of chrominance when the files are truncated to 422 on import in to Avid? (we'd have to use DNxHD185X as our codec). Will this infact have a detrimental effect on the quality rather than if they just shot native Avid codec and we just rewrap on import. Will it make no difference for them to shoot at DNxHD?
Obviously it will also take us more time to import the footage as well as Prores is not native in version 4 as far as i know. Is it just silly for them to shoot Prores when we've told them what systems we're on and their limitations?
Thanks list,
Andi
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