[Avid-L2] Avid Seg AAF'd to Resolve for transcoding then .mov export skips frames?

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On Sunday, July 28, 2013, Greg Huson wrote:

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>
>
> I remember seeing that in Resolve with... something. Can't remember what
> or how I solved it, so my memory's as useful to you as it is to me. Are you
> selecting "handle mixed frame rates' before loading any footage and the
> aaf? I wanna say I was having the same problem, but using XML, and that
> fixed it, but I could be forgetting some other detail- that was during v8
> which seems ancient history now.
>
> 'Handle mixed frame rates' does solve a lot of problems.
>
> GH
> ----------------------------
> Greg Huson
> Chief, Secret Headquarters, Inc
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>
> On Jul 28, 2013, at 0:33, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to update everyone on something I've discovered about our
> skipping
> > frames with an aaf import from Avid to Resolve 9.1.5. It seems it's not
> a skip
> > every so often but a skip in every shot somewhere in the middle when we
> import
> > an aaf. I tried the same sequence using an edl and we do not get the
> skipped
> > frames. I would now speculate this might have to do with the aaf being
> > interpreted as if the outpoint of the source time code is inclusive when
> in fact
> > it is exclusive. I seem to recall a setting related to edls being
> interpreted
> > as inclusive or exclusive but I can't seem to find it again in Resolve.
> Am I
> > misremembering this setting? Perhaps I am confusing the inclusive vs.
> exclusive
> > setting with Red Cine X Pro.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore <bigfish@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > This one hour show was offlined in Avid using downconverts from
> multiple Red Epics. The finished offline sequence was decomposed in avid
> and then stringouts of the reels were made into timelines to facilitate
> exporting aafs of the string outs linked to the origial R3D files. This was
> done to transcode the need footage to DNX 220. Apparently the AE could not
> get his Avid 6.x to do the transcodes from ama linked R3D files. My similar
> system does but his doesn't. So the transcodes were done in Resolve. I'm
> not sure if those transcodes were then linked back up in Avid and a new aaf
> of the timeline was sent to Resolve for color correction but that is my
> guess at this point. The problem we are seeing now is that the .mov in
> ProresHQ exported from Resolve of the final show is skipping frames ever
> minute or so. These are a complete skipped frames that I have confirmed are
> not skipped on the original R3D files. My gut feels like something is
> > > going on between 29.97 and true 30. The footage was shot 29.97P but
> I'm wondering if in one of the myriad of transcodes there could have been
> some link in the chain that was trying to in essence frame rate convert and
> thereby caused the skipping frame every so often. I stepped through field
> by field or Psf by Psf to be more accurate and it's definately skipping
> over a complete frame. Nothing like a frame being doubled up it's a missing
> frame that exists in the original. Anybody seen this type of behavior? I
> was not involved in the workflow so I'm trying to back engineer something
> that hasn't really been engineered from the start. TIA
> > >
> > >
> > > John Moore
> > > Barking Trout Productions
> > > Studio City, CA
> > > bigfish@...
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
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