Saturday, August 6, 2016

[Avid-L2] Re: Sony FS7 footage won't AMA

 

If it is XAVC-S the consumer format that didn't work in Avid a while back.  I don't think support for it has come even with the updated ama plugins.  I may not be current on this but I know that use to be the case.



---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <bruno@...> wrote :

Looks like this may be some form of XAVC. I know previous versions of Avid did have some problems with the various flavours of this file format. The autodetect function in Avid does need the original file structure to be maintained, but since you mention that you cannot manually import these files, there may be other issues that need investigating.

I would have a search on the Avid community forums, where this subject has appeared many times, eg.

http://community.avid.com/forums/p/138098/783722.aspx

 

The Sony workflow guide also has a section on editing within Avid...


https://www.sony.co.uk/pro/attachment/1237492960962?token=iqHCQoEOkH0hGr1GSn0vTCkWQH1MzWz8nVtczJngCRuMKCX3_og2BF6e2ZMeW7LV7y7BfnTOD6oX5XMxXkNRrcULCj7ncrjWQJ9DMO-4wSVXo2li-a7ZfxjP9ByeTuSo35WGGQ..


If all else fails, you may need to use the Sony Catalyst software to convert the media to something more Avid friendly.


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Re: [Avid-L2] Media settings MC 8.6.1

 

I've never had to type "AllDrives 1" only "AllDrives"  That is new behavior to me I will have to check on my home system. 



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This console command worked: "AllDrives 1". Per Kevin on the Avid Forums. You need the "1". Thanks!

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[Avid-L2] Re: [Editing-List] Autodetect Broadcast Wave Mono Groups import setting?

 

The need for the wavs is a Netflix delivery requirement.  Even though we were able to spit out a ProResHQ of the final sequence to send to the facility creating the IMF master, which has already aired, or should I say streamed on Netflix?  We now have to deliver archival masters ungraded and textless.  While the aforementioned master was under 600 GB and afforded audio included in the file now we have to deliver DPX files which do not have audio so I must generate .wav files.  We have generated ProTools stems but because on these archival masters I added some clean cover / Textless Elements to the end the ProTools stems would only work for the actual program content.  In order to have audio on the additional end material I had to pull the stem elements from the actual show and add them at the end for the additional elements.  Some networks want clean covers want clean cover/Textless Elements with sound and others MOS.  As a result of this I made new audio only QT .movs which match the archival sequences then using VideoToolShed's Audio Map created individual .wav files for each stem.  This is what Netflix wants so I'm going to give them both the .mov of audio only and the wav files to comply with their delivery requirements.

The whole DPX archival master delivery is complete overkill given our initial Camera Original is AVC-Intra 422 YUV 10bit BT.709.  Originally we delivered DNxHRHQX files thinking that should meet the "DI" archival master delivery requirement.  Initially we were told that would be sufficient but subsequently someone else at Netflix said that is not sufficient.  After all why do in 600 GB what you can redo in 4.51 TB with separate audio files?  There really seems to be a disconnect between these delivery requirements and technical reality but my job is to find a way to meet the demands even if they seem silly and overkill. 

All this so it can be streamed and choked down to nothingness to the viewer.  But hey it's 4K and "Every Pixel Counts, Every Pixel Counts, Every Pixel Counts..."  Ahhhh now I will comply, now I will comply....  Just can't wait for 8K to be shoved up my art hole.  ;-(



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Regardless of the settings, if you import WAV files into MC and they have underscore followed by number, MC will assume they belong together by track.

Try naming a file Track_10.WAV and importing. You'll notice it shows up as 1 audio track on A10.

Now if you import something like Track_01.WAV through Track_10.WAV, it will show up as a single clip with A1-A10. This is often bad news for editors trying to load things like VO, where audio engineers might label them this way.

Remove the underscores. Then each file will import to its own clip. This underscore business has been in MC since at least MC v4, and probably goes back further.

The stereo track loading happens because MC thinks it's smart by seeing tracks labeled by the default Pro Tools output setting (.L, .R, .C, .Lfe, .Ls, .Rs). Any combination there will give you a single clip on loading into MC. So your .L and .R tracks load as a single stereo clip. MC isn't smart enough to change the name of the clip to remove the extension though, so the clip name is whichever it saw first.

Your last question is about exporting WAVs from MC? I do not think MC writes out broadcast WAVs in any circumstance. So trying to output WAV with TC is not possible with MC. You can, as you've cited, change TC (or in this case add TC) with Wave Agent or one of Bouke's apps. Curious though - it sounds like you're taking broadcast WAVs with TC into MC and trying to output broadcast WAVs with TC. The original files should work fine in this case, I would think. Unless you're doing some kind of editing to them in MC. What's the purpose for wanting to spit out WAVs after they're in MC? I would suspect that not having broadcast WAV output from MC as a feature is probably due to the fact that not many people need it, so they decided to leave it out. So many weird discrepancies like that between features of Pro Tools and MC.

In Pro Tools, you can easily do what you're after. Import the WAVs, drop them onto the timeline and make any edits necessary. Then consolidate each track into a solid file and export them - these will have the time code of the timeline embedded. The consolidate basically writes a new file and since PT always makes broadcast WAVs, it assumes (correctly) that you'd want the timeline time code as its birthday.


On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 8:18 PM, John Moore bigfish@... [Editing-List] <Editing-List@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

I received what look to by typical mono mix stems .wav files from a Protools mix session.  When I go to import a single stem I end up with a stereo track that appears to be to mono stems with the same name as the original mono mix stem.  It gets weirder when the tracks for say the full mix which are named the same for both channels with the difference being the suffix.
To be specific  when the "Auto Detect Broadcast Wave Mono Groups" is checked on if I import "Santa Rosa ST MIX.L.wav" I end up with a stereo track where both tracks are labeled "Santa Rosa ST Mix.L.wav"  If I do the same with the "Santa Rosa ST MIX.R.wav" I end up with a stereo track with both tracks also labeled "Santa Rosa ST Mix.L.wav".  Turning off the feature and I get the normal mono tracks I would expect to get.  I'm not sure how Avid detects these Broadcast Wave mono groups, is it based on the tracks names and why would both the right and left stems come in as stereo tracks with both tracks labeled Left.

That was the issue I first noticed then today on a different project at work I exported an audio only .mov using direct out of an standard 8 channel 5.1 LtRt mix stems.  I ended up with a .mov with 8 discrete tracks that I used QT Pro 7 to change the track assignments from mono to their corresponding proper assignents of L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs,Lt,Rt.  Then I ran Videotoolshed's Audio Map program, which I think I called QT Map in a thread earlier this week, and that produced 8 .wav stems each with a suffix of _1 thru _8 which correspond to the individual tracks from the audio only 8 channel QT .mov.  When I ama link media to any one of the individual clips I end up with an 8 channel clip.  I went and made sure to uncheck the autodetect broadcast wave mono groups in the import settings but that seems to have no effect on ama linking.

As was suggested a few weeks back in order to change the time code on the wav files to match the sequence time code I downloaded the free Wave Agent program.  When I changed the time code on the first "_1" file it actually changed the time code on all the individual wav files.  When I bring any one of the 8 wav file into wave agent they show the correct modified time code and the Channels Column shows "8(MONO).  I'm curious how these wav files are all linked.  Is it based on file name or is there something in Audio Map when it strips the 8 discrete channels from the .mov to create 8 .wav files that creates metadata embedded in each of the files that links them together.  I haven't had a chance to check much with the resulting files but they do import and link back into Avid with the correct starting time code I modified using Wave Agent so everything is working but I'm curious if Avid has a bug detecting Broadcast Wave Mono Groups and does it base it's imports and linking on just the file names or some other metadata present in the wav files?

When I originally stripped out the wav files using Audio Map the files all show a 10 hour something time code when brought into Wave Agent.  That's where I changed the start time code to match the sequence start of 00:59:00:00 24 frame code.  I have no idea where the original 10 hour something code came from as the QT 8 channel .mov that was used by Audio Map had matching time code to the sequence.

So many little metadata devils to line up.  It would really be nice if Avid would just export direct to .wav with matching timecode to the sequence.  It does export but all the .wavs start at zero time code in my experience.  Does anybody know of a way to make Avid do what I need?

From the thread a few weeks back here is the link Jim F. posted for Wave Agent:


Mac and Windows. More info, link to app and manual here:

 
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[Avid-L2] Re: Sony FS7 footage won't AMA

 

Looks like this may be some form of XAVC. I know previous versions of Avid did have some problems with the various flavours of this file format. The autodetect function in Avid does need the original file structure to be maintained, but since you mention that you cannot manually import these files, there may be other issues that need investigating.

I would have a search on the Avid community forums, where this subject has appeared many times, eg.

http://community.avid.com/forums/p/138098/783722.aspx

 

The Sony workflow guide also has a section on editing within Avid...


https://www.sony.co.uk/pro/attachment/1237492960962?token=iqHCQoEOkH0hGr1GSn0vTCkWQH1MzWz8nVtczJngCRuMKCX3_og2BF6e2ZMeW7LV7y7BfnTOD6oX5XMxXkNRrcULCj7ncrjWQJ9DMO-4wSVXo2li-a7ZfxjP9ByeTuSo35WGGQ..


If all else fails, you may need to use the Sony Catalyst software to convert the media to something more Avid friendly.


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[Avid-L2] Re: Sony FS7 footage won't AMA

 

I suspect this may be some sort of XAVC footage, and previous versions of MC had problems with some versions of XAVC.

For the Avid autodetect to work properly, the file structure on the original cards needs to be maintained, but since you cannot directly import these files, there may be other issues.

Have a look at the various Avid community threads on this subject, such as...

http://community.avid.com/forums/p/138098/783722.aspx

 

Also, take a look at Sony's Workflow guide which has a section on editing with XAVC in Avid

https://www.sony.co.uk/pro/attachment/1237492960962?token=iqHCQoEOkH0hGr1GSn0vTCkWQH1MzWz8nVtczJngCRuMKCX3_og2BF6e2ZMeW7LV7y7BfnTOD6oX5XMxXkNRrcULCj7ncrjWQJ9DMO-4wSVXo2li-a7ZfxjP9ByeTuSo35WGGQ..

If all else fails, you may need to use Sony's Catalyst software to convert the footage.

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Friday, August 5, 2016

[Avid-L2] Re: [Editing-List] Autodetect Broadcast Wave Mono Groups import setting?

 

Regardless of the settings, if you import WAV files into MC and they have underscore followed by number, MC will assume they belong together by track.

Try naming a file Track_10.WAV and importing. You'll notice it shows up as 1 audio track on A10.

Now if you import something like Track_01.WAV through Track_10.WAV, it will show up as a single clip with A1-A10. This is often bad news for editors trying to load things like VO, where audio engineers might label them this way.

Remove the underscores. Then each file will import to its own clip. This underscore business has been in MC since at least MC v4, and probably goes back further.

The stereo track loading happens because MC thinks it's smart by seeing tracks labeled by the default Pro Tools output setting (.L, .R, .C, .Lfe, .Ls, .Rs). Any combination there will give you a single clip on loading into MC. So your .L and .R tracks load as a single stereo clip. MC isn't smart enough to change the name of the clip to remove the extension though, so the clip name is whichever it saw first.

Your last question is about exporting WAVs from MC? I do not think MC writes out broadcast WAVs in any circumstance. So trying to output WAV with TC is not possible with MC. You can, as you've cited, change TC (or in this case add TC) with Wave Agent or one of Bouke's apps. Curious though - it sounds like you're taking broadcast WAVs with TC into MC and trying to output broadcast WAVs with TC. The original files should work fine in this case, I would think. Unless you're doing some kind of editing to them in MC. What's the purpose for wanting to spit out WAVs after they're in MC? I would suspect that not having broadcast WAV output from MC as a feature is probably due to the fact that not many people need it, so they decided to leave it out. So many weird discrepancies like that between features of Pro Tools and MC.

In Pro Tools, you can easily do what you're after. Import the WAVs, drop them onto the timeline and make any edits necessary. Then consolidate each track into a solid file and export them - these will have the time code of the timeline embedded. The consolidate basically writes a new file and since PT always makes broadcast WAVs, it assumes (correctly) that you'd want the timeline time code as its birthday.


On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 8:18 PM, John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Editing-List] <Editing-List@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

I received what look to by typical mono mix stems .wav files from a Protools mix session.  When I go to import a single stem I end up with a stereo track that appears to be to mono stems with the same name as the original mono mix stem.  It gets weirder when the tracks for say the full mix which are named the same for both channels with the difference being the suffix.
To be specific  when the "Auto Detect Broadcast Wave Mono Groups" is checked on if I import "Santa Rosa ST MIX.L.wav" I end up with a stereo track where both tracks are labeled "Santa Rosa ST Mix.L.wav"  If I do the same with the "Santa Rosa ST MIX.R.wav" I end up with a stereo track with both tracks also labeled "Santa Rosa ST Mix.L.wav".  Turning off the feature and I get the normal mono tracks I would expect to get.  I'm not sure how Avid detects these Broadcast Wave mono groups, is it based on the tracks names and why would both the right and left stems come in as stereo tracks with both tracks labeled Left.

That was the issue I first noticed then today on a different project at work I exported an audio only .mov using direct out of an standard 8 channel 5.1 LtRt mix stems.  I ended up with a .mov with 8 discrete tracks that I used QT Pro 7 to change the track assignments from mono to their corresponding proper assignents of L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs,Lt,Rt.  Then I ran Videotoolshed's Audio Map program, which I think I called QT Map in a thread earlier this week, and that produced 8 .wav stems each with a suffix of _1 thru _8 which correspond to the individual tracks from the audio only 8 channel QT .mov.  When I ama link media to any one of the individual clips I end up with an 8 channel clip.  I went and made sure to uncheck the autodetect broadcast wave mono groups in the import settings but that seems to have no effect on ama linking.

As was suggested a few weeks back in order to change the time code on the wav files to match the sequence time code I downloaded the free Wave Agent program.  When I changed the time code on the first "_1" file it actually changed the time code on all the individual wav files.  When I bring any one of the 8 wav file into wave agent they show the correct modified time code and the Channels Column shows "8(MONO).  I'm curious how these wav files are all linked.  Is it based on file name or is there something in Audio Map when it strips the 8 discrete channels from the .mov to create 8 .wav files that creates metadata embedded in each of the files that links them together.  I haven't had a chance to check much with the resulting files but they do import and link back into Avid with the correct starting time code I modified using Wave Agent so everything is working but I'm curious if Avid has a bug detecting Broadcast Wave Mono Groups and does it base it's imports and linking on just the file names or some other metadata present in the wav files?

When I originally stripped out the wav files using Audio Map the files all show a 10 hour something time code when brought into Wave Agent.  That's where I changed the start time code to match the sequence start of 00:59:00:00 24 frame code.  I have no idea where the original 10 hour something code came from as the QT 8 channel .mov that was used by Audio Map had matching time code to the sequence.

So many little metadata devils to line up.  It would really be nice if Avid would just export direct to .wav with matching timecode to the sequence.  It does export but all the .wavs start at zero time code in my experience.  Does anybody know of a way to make Avid do what I need?

From the thread a few weeks back here is the link Jim F. posted for Wave Agent:


Mac and Windows. More info, link to app and manual here:

 
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[Avid-L2] Autodetect Broadcast Wave Mono Groups import setting?

 

I received what look to by typical mono mix stems .wav files from a Protools mix session.  When I go to import a single stem I end up with a stereo track that appears to be to mono stems with the same name as the original mono mix stem.  It gets weirder when the tracks for say the full mix which are named the same for both channels with the difference being the suffix.
To be specific  when the "Auto Detect Broadcast Wave Mono Groups" is checked on if I import "Santa Rosa ST MIX.L.wav" I end up with a stereo track where both tracks are labeled "Santa Rosa ST Mix.L.wav"  If I do the same with the "Santa Rosa ST MIX.R.wav" I end up with a stereo track with both tracks also labeled "Santa Rosa ST Mix.L.wav".  Turning off the feature and I get the normal mono tracks I would expect to get.  I'm not sure how Avid detects these Broadcast Wave mono groups, is it based on the tracks names and why would both the right and left stems come in as stereo tracks with both tracks labeled Left.

That was the issue I first noticed then today on a different project at work I exported an audio only .mov using direct out of an standard 8 channel 5.1 LtRt mix stems.  I ended up with a .mov with 8 discrete tracks that I used QT Pro 7 to change the track assignments from mono to their corresponding proper assignents of L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs,Lt,Rt.  Then I ran Videotoolshed's Audio Map program, which I think I called QT Map in a thread earlier this week, and that produced 8 .wav stems each with a suffix of _1 thru _8 which correspond to the individual tracks from the audio only 8 channel QT .mov.  When I ama link media to any one of the individual clips I end up with an 8 channel clip.  I went and made sure to uncheck the autodetect broadcast wave mono groups in the import settings but that seems to have no effect on ama linking.

As was suggested a few weeks back in order to change the time code on the wav files to match the sequence time code I downloaded the free Wave Agent program.  When I changed the time code on the first "_1" file it actually changed the time code on all the individual wav files.  When I bring any one of the 8 wav file into wave agent they show the correct modified time code and the Channels Column shows "8(MONO).  I'm curious how these wav files are all linked.  Is it based on file name or is there something in Audio Map when it strips the 8 discrete channels from the .mov to create 8 .wav files that creates metadata embedded in each of the files that links them together.  I haven't had a chance to check much with the resulting files but they do import and link back into Avid with the correct starting time code I modified using Wave Agent so everything is working but I'm curious if Avid has a bug detecting Broadcast Wave Mono Groups and does it base it's imports and linking on just the file names or some other metadata present in the wav files?

When I originally stripped out the wav files using Audio Map the files all show a 10 hour something time code when brought into Wave Agent.  That's where I changed the start time code to match the sequence start of 00:59:00:00 24 frame code.  I have no idea where the original 10 hour something code came from as the QT 8 channel .mov that was used by Audio Map had matching time code to the sequence.

So many little metadata devils to line up.  It would really be nice if Avid would just export direct to .wav with matching timecode to the sequence.  It does export but all the .wavs start at zero time code in my experience.  Does anybody know of a way to make Avid do what I need?

From the thread a few weeks back here is the link Jim F. posted for Wave Agent:


Mac and Windows. More info, link to app and manual here:

 
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[Avid-L2] Re: UHD Color Space

 

That's what I did. The RGB projects as I understand them are more about 444 vs 422. Your sources are at best probably 422 YUV so I agree with your choice. I haven't flushed out all the new project types because my world is broadcast and always Rec 709. I think version 8.4.X had a long list of project types with all the various color spaces etc... With Ver. 8.5.X. There is a different structure to project types and now the color space choices are in the project settings. It seems a little more flexible now.



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So the source is shot on multiple cameras. C300's FS7's. looking at there meta data, some are shot with YCbCr S-Log 3 Color Space and some are shot YCbCr REC 709. I'm thinking I should just stick with YCbCr 709 in the Avid project??

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