Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Walter Murch and NLEs

 

The new H264 codecs are pretty horrible (v low data rates for remote editing).Think AVR4 ish and only single field.
 
With Best Wishes, Roger Shufflebottom +44 7973 543 660


From: "'Edit B' bouke@editb.nl [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com; Roger Shufflebottom <rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 October 2015, 13:57
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Walter Murch and NLEs

 

Nah, if you transcode non-interlace aware with interlaced footage, the compression will be horrible.
So yes, it does work, but it will not be as good as possible with interlaced aware scaling.
 
And why should you? Avid has a XDcam 17.5 Mbits and 35 Mbits flavour. That's long GOP, so it should give you a way better image.
Even the 17.5 Mbits should totally outperform DNxHD 36, especially on interlaced material.
(Read, way better image at half the datarate.)
 
And there are the new H264 codecs. No idea if they are suitable for editing though, never tried anything with it.
 
But for those who want to offline using low datarate transcodes, i've got something else. But better to put it in a new thread.
 
Bouke
 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Walter Murch and NLEs

 
Seconded!  Although someone did point out to me that if you temporarily switch your format from 1080i to 1080p, then trasnscode to DNxHD36, then switch back, the interlace is still there. I do this a lot. Neat (but as you say, why isn't it in the menu?).
 
With Best Wishes, Roger Shufflebottom +44 7973 543 660


From: "John Pale pale.edit@gmail.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>; David Dodson <davidadodson@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 October 2015, 0:39
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Walter Murch and NLEs

 
Maybe someday we can get the unlock codes for 1080i use of DNXHD36

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, David Dodson davidadodson@sbcglobal.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
Hey, Avid and me, we go way back. In fact, I was the very 2nd person to ever use DNxHD 36 on a feature. In 2007 I cut a movie called OUTLANDER. A Viking/sci-fi thing with Jim Caviezel. I cut on location in Nova Scotia with the shoot, and was determined to cut in HD, mostly to impress my bosses. So I asked Avid what the deal was. Anyway, just a couple weeks before, Stephen Mirrione had been given the command lines to unlock DNxHD 36, at the moment a brand new codec, for OCEAN'S THIRTEEN. It wasn't officially available on MC at all!

Damned Mirrione. If it weren't for him, I would've been the first man to use DNxHD 36 on a movie. Damned Mirrione.





On Oct 20, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Rupert Watson rupert@root6.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

David 

I guess you will have to call yourself 'Walter' now you are getting specific responses from Avid. 

Rupert Watson 
+44 7787 554801 
www.root6.com 

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: 20 October 2015 22:50 
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com; David Colantuoni <david.colantuoni@avid.com> 
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Walter Murch and NLEs 


When I get a chance, I'll make a video of the actual behavior and send it to you. Probably the best way to get a handle on it is to actually see it happening. 

Thanks for your help! 

DD 



David Dodson 
davidadodson@sbcglobal.net<mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net> 



On Oct 20, 2015, at 2:44 PM, David Colantuoni david.colantuoni@avid.com<mailto:david.colantuoni@avid.com> [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> wrote: 


Dave, 

I asked around and this should not be an issue. I'll ask somebody on my team to look into it further. 

Dave 









From: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> on behalf of "David Dodson davidadodson@sbcglobal.net<mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net> [Avid-L2]" 
Reply-To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>", David Dodson 
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 5:19 PM 
To: Ricardo Ismach 
Cc: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>" 
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Walter Murch and NLEs 



In my case, I use every one of the 24 available audio tracks. For features, I'll usually have production audio on tracks 1-8, Music on 9-12, and the rest is effects. 

For some reason, I've done a lot of films with large casts, so I get all kinds of booms plus iso tracks, and I put them all on the timeline for easier turnover to the sound people at picture lock. 

And since producers now seem to demand a high level of presentational value form the offline, you're obligated to tart it up with all kinds of sound effects and ambiences, anything to make it more polished. And again, I'm just talking about the offline here. Gone are the days when people knew how to watch an edit, knowing that later, down the line, the sound professionals would get their hands on it and do their excellent thing. 

No. Now, everyone's got to come into the bay and watch something that could, but for some color grading and dialogue EQ, walk and talk like a damned near finished product. 

In any case, I rant mildly only to illustrate why I have so many audio tracks going that need all that damnable wave form redraw. Because I would find it very difficult to do my job as efficiently without the wave forms. I like the wave forms. Hell, I love the wave forms. But for the love of god, why, in any complex sequence over five minutes long, does it become such a burden on the system? 



David Dodson 
davidadodson@sbcglobal.net<mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net> 



On Oct 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Ricardo Ismach <bad-dog@casualdog.org<mailto:bad-dog@casualdog.org>> wrote: 

Rewrites (of audio waveforms) have been snappy for me for some time - probably a good couple of years. While I have an audio engineering background, I rarely have more than a dozen or so audio tracks (probably because I am failing to dedicate tracks to individual cues as some might). 

R 
On 10/20/15 1:23 PM, David Dodson davidadodson@sbcglobal.net<mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net> [Avid-L2] wrote: 

MC 8.4.2. Mac OS 10.10.5. 27" Retina iMac. 32 GB RAM. 4 Ghz Intel Core i7. 

And you should see the funky "rewrite" effect, as it looks like it's "scanning" each audio track. I don't know how to even describe it. I was going to actually shoot a video of the timeline as it does this thing, and post it to see if I was the only one who was seeing this behavior. 


David Dodson 
davidadodson@sbcglobal.net<mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net> 

On Oct 20, 2015, at 1:18 PM, David Colantuoni david.colantuoni@avid.com<mailto:david.colantuoni@avid.com> [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> wrote: 

What version are you on, I swear we had fixed this years ago. 


David Colantuoni 
Senior Director PM Creative Tools & Storage | Products and Technology 



From: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> on behalf of "David Dodson davidadodson@sbcglobal.net<mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net> [Avid-L2]" 
Reply-To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>", David Dodson 
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 3:32 PM 
To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>", Marcel Brassard 
Cc: David Colantuoni 
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Walter Murch and NLEs 


As long as we're doing this, I'll go ahead and say that I would sell my soul to perdition for audio waveforms (and redraws) that don't bog the system performance down to maddening degrees. 

I'm on a decently powerful Mac, and even then there are times in which I'll merely change the zoom on the timeline, and then have to sit there and wait for the waveforms. I cut mainly features, so I'll have around eight layers of production audio, several music tracks, SFX, etc. Maddening and deflating. 



David Dodson 
davidadodson@sbcglobal.net<mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net> 






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