Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Re: [Avid-L2] PNG Image Sequence - Linking Hell(p)

I have this problem when importing PowerPoint slides - if the frames are 100% identical, you don't get a new one, because the "unique ID" is created by mashing the content into a unique code, but "same content" means "same code", so it's like "I've already got this one".

The way I fooled it was to read the frame into Graphic Converter and re-export it. The re-encoded copy is ever-so-slightly different from the original, and now has a unique ID. That worked for me because I needed to differentiate identical slides from two different PP shows, but never more that two copies of any given slide.

Graphic Converter can operate on whole batches of images, such as a frame sequence, and perform sequences of pre-programmed operations on each frame. I don't think just saving a second time will work when you have multiple copies in the *same* batch that are identical, as they will each export identically, but you might be able to fool it by including something in the batch that makes some invisible change to each image that's based on the file name or sequence number, like an invisible watermark that makes every frame every-so-slightly different.

I don't think there is any setting that will force MC to do something more obvious, like include the file name in the unique ID algorithm.
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