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

Cool. I see the mention of OpenDML. IIRC, that was an effort from the mid/later 90s. I can't recall all the specifics, but perhaps your file was encoded a long time ago. But good to see 4:2:2, 1080, huh?

I'm speaking as a producer here. I.e., someone with only enough knowledge to be dangerous. I suggest that you, rather than your producer, do the conversion. Even if your producer is really technical, if you do the conversion, you might save a couple rounds of file transferring as you get the file into the exact format and specs you want. Shutter Encoder is pretty easy to use (I use it a lot), and offers output in various flavors of DNxHD and DNxHR and a bunch of other formats. Or use Handbrake (also fairly straightforward). As has already been said, they're both basically front ends for ffmpeg. 

You should be able to pretty quickly get a file you can work with…and judge if the image quality will work for your film.

HTH,

Jim

On Feb 9, 2023, at 1:56 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I went by file size as a rough guide for quality of the file.  According to Media Info it's AVI format.  Perhaps the website is in error putting this in a section labeled CinePak?  Here's what Media Info shows:

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