I think the battle continues....
There should not be any difference in exporting or playing back stuff through SDI.
It's sad Avid is not able to get it right. We are in filebased workflows so picture quality should not be an issue when exporting a file. Or do we need to feed the grading with Tapes again?!
Cheers,
Bart
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Job ter Burg (L2B)" <Job_L2@...> wrote:
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> Hi Bart,
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> I don't have half your experience mixing all those different formats in a sequence.
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> I think an HDSDI playout to an external device is probably the safest way to go about it.
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> Not sure what the issue is with HDV etc. and the flagging, but I'd sooner suspect Quicktime than Avid. QT is not the greatest format when it comes to flags, gamma, etc.
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> FCP import is also tricky in my book. I was never able to correctly import a simple Belle Nuit tesr chart in FCP, as it always remapped. So i'm not sure the FCP import is the best test.
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> I prefer DNxHD conversion because it wraps into a single codec, and the Avid codecs are correctly keeping 709 as 709, without remapping.
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> In fact, playing out to FCP or tape is basically doing the same thing, wrapping into a single codec.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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