I was just in a meeting with clients where Cannon C300 and Sony F5 and F55 Native support came up. They are trying to emulate their former FCP 7 workflow where they could just sling ProRes all around and have no transcoding. I suggested working native as most of their footage is XDCam and XDCam EX. They will also be using Cannon C300s and some Sony F5 and maybe F55 footage. I know there are ama plugins for the later but will Avid handle them natively? I looked up the Avid Codec Support page, see below but I don't see C300 listed or F5/55. During the meeting one of the engineers googled on his phone and said that the Cannon C300 is essentially like the Sony EX format, or one of the XDCam flavors so it would work native with Avid. Can anyone confirm or deny this about the C300 format working natively with Avid.
The clients are trying to avoid the time of transcoding so I suggested consolidating the native format compatible files which should take roughly the same time it takes to copy the file which should be about the same as their ProRes workflows they had with FCP 7. Should we be looking into anything else to speed up their current transcoding everything workflow?
Native codec support
Avid DNxHD 444
- All DNxHD 444 Formats
Avid DNxHD
- All DNxHD formats (review the DNxHD Technology white paper for details)
Avid compressed SD resolutions
- AVR (playback only)
- 15:1s, 4:1s, 2:1s
- 20:1, 10:1, 3:1, 2:1
- 35:1p, 28:1p, 14:1p, 3:1p, 2:1p
- 4:1m, 10:1m, 3:1m(p), 8:1m(p)
Avid proxy formats
- Interplay MPEG-2 proxy, MPEG-4 proxy, 720p H.264 proxy (transcode service only)
Canon XF
- 50 Mb/s, 4:2:2
DV
- DV25 / DVCAM (25 Mb/s): 4:1:1 NTSC, 4:1:1 PAL, 4:2:0 PAL, 24p
- DV50 (50 Mb/s)
HDV
- JVC HDV (19Mb/s)—720p
- Sony HDV (25Mb/s) 1080@24p/25/50i/59.94i
- Canon HDV 1080 at 24p/50i / 59.94i
- Native project formats: 1080i/59.94, 1080i/50, 720p/23.976 (with support for 24p material), 720p/25, 720p/29.97, 720p/50, 720/59.94
- Capture over IEEE-1394, edit, playback, export to file without timecode (export not for 24p material)
Ikegami GFCAM
- GFCAM 50 Mb/s
- GFCAM 100 Mb/s
JVC ProHD
Microsoft VC-1
- VC-1 (edit/playback on Intel Macs only)
Panasonic AVC-Intra
Panasonic DVCPRO (SD)
- DVCPRO—25 Mb/s
- DVCPRO50—50 Mb/s
Panasonic DVCPRO HD
- DVCPRO HD—100 Mb/s
- AVC-Intra (baseband capture over HD-SDI requires AVC-Intra encoding module with Avid Nitris DX)
- Native project formats: 1080i/59.94, 1080i/50, 720p/59.94, 720p/50, 720p/25, 720p/23.976
ProRes
- ProRes encode (Mac only) and decode
- Full metadata support
Sony XDCAM (SD)
- DV—25 Mb/s
- IMX30—30 Mb/s
- IMX40—40 Mb/s
- IMX50—50 Mb/s
- Full ancillary data support through AMA
Sony XDCAM EX
- MPEG—25 Mb/s CBR
- MPEG—35 Mb/s VBR
- Full ancillary data support through AMA
Sony XDCAM HD
- MPEG—18 Mb/s VBR
- MPEG—25 Mb/s VBR
- MPEG—25 Mb/s CBR
- MPEG—35 Mb/s VBR
- MPEG—50 Mb/s CBR
- MPEG-4 Proxies
- Full ancillary data support through AMA
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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