Marc, You are correct. I'm mistaken. It's AVCHD. That's cool? These are MC 6.5 systems running on a mirrored Isis 7000 of considerable size.
Their consultant told them to use AVDHC at 720p. I would prefer DNxHD at 1080.
This is for a TV station in a major market. The news stuff is P2. The rest is all off of network servers, coming in as some flavor of MPEG2 HD.
I was feeling like the system (which is brand-spanking new) was sluggish.
If it's fine to edit with and it saves space, I'm all for it. Personally I'd prefer DNxHD and 1080, but that's just personal and I don't know that it would really look any better, but I feel like at DNxHD 45 it wouldn't save that much space over AVCHD and MIGHT provide better performance.
Steve Hullfish
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author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:23 PM, Mark Spano cutandcover@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
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> 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.
>
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> 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
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>> 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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