This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: AVCHD Hell

Which logically should be filed as a bug report IMHO. Same source, same TC, get on with it.

K

On 7. okt. 2011, at 19.50, Terence Curren wrote:

> AFAIK, if the original files were imported, you can't relink AMA to them, and vice versa.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Quinsee-Jover" <tony@...> wrote:
>>
>> That could be a good solution. I'd have to toddle off and learn how to
>> relink, but it's worth it if that would work. Unwrapping with ClipWrap is
>> really fast.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>> HD Heaven Media Limited (company no: 07061040) is registered in England and
>> Wales at Sapphire Heights Courtyard, 31 Tenby Street North, Birmingham B1
>> 3ES
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
>> Knut A. Helgeland
>> Sent: 07 October 2011 18:25
>> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: AVCHD Hell
>>
>> My question (on the DS list) was: If you unwrap AVCHD to Quicktime using
>> ClipWrap, can you AMA to those files then?
>>
>> If yes, Tone could AMA in the original media and relink the seq to the new
>> set...
>>
>> K
>>
>> On 7. okt. 2011, at 18.29, Michael wrote:
>>
>>> You can't AMA avchd can you? Or do you mean convert to dnxhd quicktimes,
>> AMA those, offline, etc...?
>>>
>>> It would help if MC could AMA avchd though. Version 6 maybe?
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...>
>>> Sender: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>>> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:27:00
>>> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
>>> Reply-To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>>> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: AVCHD Hell
>>>
>>> My point is, convert them externally to DNxHD and then batch import them.
>> The import process will be MUCH faster and it won't hang.
>>>
>>> This is one good argument for the AMA workflow. Mount your movies via AMA,
>> Convert to offline resolution and edit. Then in online, remount AMA and
>> relink to hi-res version.
>>>
>>> Doesn't help you at this point though.
>>>
>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Quinsee-Jover" <tony@> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Trouble is they won't then batch-import. Remember this is a conform job.
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HD Heaven Media Limited (company no: 07061040) is registered in
>>>> England and Wales at Sapphire Heights Courtyard, 31 Tenby Street
>>>> North, Birmingham B1 3ES
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On
>>>> Behalf Of Terence Curren
>>>> Sent: 07 October 2011 16:44
>>>> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>>>> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: AVCHD Hell
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Or convert them externally to Avid.
>>>>
>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Quinsee-Jover" <tony@> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Steve.
>>>>>
>>>>> T.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> HD Heaven Media Limited (company no: 07061040) is registered in
>>>>> England and Wales at Sapphire Heights Courtyard, 31 Tenby Street
>>>>> North, Birmingham B1 3ES
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On
>>>>> Behalf Of Steve Hullfish
>>>>> Sent: 07 October 2011 16:35
>>>>> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] AVCHD Hell
>>>>>
>>>>> There was just a thread on this.
>>>>>
>>>>> For some reason - a bug? - if you try importing too many AVCHD files
>>>>> at once, it will choke on one of the files that hangs everything
>> FOREVER.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you do them one at a time or in smaller (though still relatively
>>>>> large
>>>>> batches) it will import quite quickly.
>>>>>
>>>>> The actual import of the files isn't bad. I just did an entire
>>>>> project like this. When I did 60 files at once, it would inevitably
>>>>> hang on a single file. In batches of 20 or 30 files at a time, they
>>>>> came in pretty
>>>> quickly.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a pain, but that's the solution as far as I can tell.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve Hullfish
>>>>> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
>>>>> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>>>>> co-author: "Color Correction for Video: revised edition," "Avid
>>>>> Xpress Pro Editing Workshop" and "Avid XpressDV On the Spot"
>>>>> presenter: Class On Demand's "Complete Training for Avid Media
>>>>> Composer" AND "Complete Training for Apple Color"
>>>>> www.classondemand.net/media/final-cut-training/color01.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 7, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Tony Quinsee-Jover wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've asked this question on the Avid forums, but knowing that all
>>>>>> the best minds hang out here I thought this might actually be a
>>>>>> better place to pose my dilemma.
>>>>>> Our client offlined a half hour (24 min) show in PAL 16:9 using
>>>>>> maybe 30% HD mts files from a Panasonic MC1P camera. They pulled
>>>>>> all these files in at
>>>>>> 10:1 on their MC. I now have to online this show. It will be
>>>>>> finished on DS, but this question isn't DS related. This is also
>>>>>> Prog 1 of a series of shows, so this workflow needs to get nailed.
>>>>>> I opened the sequence on MC and consolidated it with 10f handles.
>>>>>> I selected "Batch Import" on the MC from the consolidated sequence,
>>>>>> selected MXF2:1, and pointed it to all the mts files.
>>>>>> After 48 hours MC still hadn't imported 50% of the files and the
>>>>>> file it was currently working on said that it had 34 hours to go!
>>>>>> Those files which had been imported appeared to be full length,
>>>>>> rather than consolidated, meaning that many of them were 30 minutes
>>>>>> or more, for maybe 1 sec used.
>>>>>> It's been suggested that I'm asking a lot of a 32 bit application
>>>>>> to not only import but also rescale all the horrid files, so would
>>>>>> I be better importing them at HD (say DNxHD 185) and then switching
>>>>>> back to my SD timeline and then consolidating the media to SD?
>>>>>> Would MC then only be converting the few seconds used instead of the
>> whole file?
>>>>>> Sorry if this last sentence is using some wrong terminology, but
>>>>>> I'm no expert on MC these days.
>>>>>> Cheers in advance,
>>>>>> Tony
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HD Heaven Media Limited (company no: 07061040) is registered in
>>>>>> England and Wales at Sapphire Heights Courtyard, 31 Tenby Street
>>>>>> North, Birmingham B1 3ES
>>>>>>
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