Re: [Avid-L2] Isis Media Composer using AVXIntra as editing codec?

Steve,

Are you maybe confusing AVC-Intra with AVCHD? AVC-Intra (in MC) is a
100Mbit/sec high quality intraframe codec suitable for editing, mastering,
shooting, etc.. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVC-Intra)

AVCHD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD) is an extremely efficient lossy
codec only suitable for shooting (sometimes) and highly compressed
delivery. And yes, you do want to get away from it quickly when bringing it
in for editing.

AVC-Intra works well but I would say is sluggish compared to DNxHD (unless
you have the Nitris DX AVC-I chip, as Dave mentioned). However, it's not a
space saver or a lower quality codec.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Steve Hullfish
<steve4lists@veralith.com>wrote:

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> I'm freelancing for a place that has an Isis and Media Composer 6.5s
>
> When they were walking me through their standard procedures, the first one
> was to set the Media Creation settings to capture at AVCIntra... My
> previous dealings with AVCIntra as an editing format SUCKED. I thought the
> goal was to get AWAY from Intra as quickly as possible. They're actually
> intentionally taking media INTO AVCIntra on Avid. Is there any benefit to
> this? I doubt it saves that much space/bandwidth compared to DNxHD 45...
>
> There are multiple stations using AVCIntra as an editing media format.
> Does anyone think there's any good reason for that? I'm not being sarcastic
> or rhetorical. I want to know. I want to convince them to switch to 45, but
> that will be going against the advice of the "expert" that set this up.
>
> Steve
>
>
>


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