Re: [Avid-L2] AVI Conversion to Avid Friendly Codec on Mac?

Resolve will play almost anything.  The only major exception is that on a PC it can't write ProRes files (it can on Mac and on UNIX with the big panel).

Here's a current list.  Even if you buy the studio version just to transcode files, it's a good deal.  Plus it's pretty good at grading…  and lots of new restoration stuff hidden under Fusion Effects on the Color page.  Free upgrades, often, always getting better.  I use it all the time.

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Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
jeff@kinetta.com
kinetta.com

On Feb 10, 2023, at 7:56 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I did not know Resolve will play AVI files but it's worth a try.  I have got the AVI file into Avid through Handbrake but it's really grainy or noisy and given I don't have any idea how the file was created it's all a mystery.  The producer does have a DVD he's going to rip.  That's probably SD but it might look better than the HUGE AVI. As Bouke said it's not just file size that matters and given how grainy/noisy this looks that might account for the HUGE size and not be an indicator of image quality.  Why couldn't they just have 3/4 inch, Beta, 1 Inch, D2, HDCam and HDCamSR for choices?  Then my old linear brain would know what to expect.  ;-)

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
jeff@kinetta.com
kinetta.com