[Avid-L2] Expert Decompose based upon resolution, was: Re: MC 4 upgrades

John,

You know, with a few steps via the relink tool Media Composer has had the capability for a while now to decompose based upon resolution of the files.

1st step, start with a relink and select the method of "Specific Resolution" it will look for everything equal or better than the video rez you specify. Also make sure "Unlink Lower Quality Media" is checked, and "Create New Sequence" is checked (or relink a copy of the original sequence).

A caveat here is that the re-link always unlinks all title media, and may unlink imported effects. This is not a deal breaker, because you get it back in a later step.

The relink throws all the lower rez media off line, and then you decompose the new sequence, selecting "Offline Media Only" and "Captured Clips Only".

After you have digitized all the decomposed clips, go back and do a final relink, using "highest quality" and those pesky files that were not tape sources, and were the correct rez or better, will come back online without having to recreate title media or re-import.

This capability has been around for a long time. My Media Composer 2.8.4 has it. It is in 3.x, and I sure hope it is still in 4.x.

Going via the relink step also picks up higher rez files that might already be digitized (in a shared environment, or something done a while back), so that you don't have to re-digitize footage already on the system.

I have heard some editors complain about using relink, but the only time I have trouble with it is when I exceed 1,500 files per folder on my drives (unity included). I have had several techs try to tell me that systems can handle a far larger count than this, but I stand by that number to this day. (Possibly because I work mostly on Mac based AVIDs, and the OSX finder is a slow beast with lots of files). Hope this filecount can go up a bit once Snow Leopard gets certified, but I will wait and see on that one.

Dave Hogan
Burbank CA

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From: johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, September 24, 2009 11:12:25 AM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: MC 4 upgrades

I like my version better but this is still nice. Say I've got a mixture of offline and online resolution material. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to decompose only the low res stuff leaving the full res alone? Maybe down the line something like this could be added?

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