This IS the Avid L2: RE: [Avid-L2] best editor for H264?

Friday, September 19, 2014

RE: [Avid-L2] best editor for H264?

Surely FCPX would want to perform the Mavericks (I'm helping you, really) conversion to MP4?

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 19 September 2014 11:55
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] best editor for H264?

FCPX could do this, however, it will actually work better on a high end iMac than an older Mac Pro. It's heavily dependent on the GPU you have in it (Open CL). FCPX can probably sync it automatically and create Multicam groups based on audio waveforms.

On Friday, September 19, 2014, John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, September 19, 2014, Michael Brockington mbrock321@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I need to do the following:

Take sets of 4 clips from gopros covering the same event. Sync them
from audio-only cues. Trim the head of each clip so they all start from
the same sync frame, and export the trimmed clips - preferably without
having to re-encode or transcode to a different format. Each set of
clips is at 48 or 60 fps. Some sets are 1920x1440, others 1920x1080.
I'd also like to add warps/pips to each set in the editor so I can
review all 4 at once (or multicam them.)

It doesn't seem like Avid is the best tool for the job. AMA performance
of H264 is still pretty bad with even 1 clip on the 24-core Westmere Mac
Pro I'm using. I don't think Avid can export AMA H264s same-as-source
after trimming, and certainly can't do it with odd raster sizes and
frame rates. Transcoding for something so simple seems like a waste of
time and space, and the non-standard rasters and frame rates will be a
pain there too.

Can Premiere or some other editor deal with this sort of task natively
and gracefully? What would folks recommend?

Thanks,
--Michael