I have been asking it before but I'll do it again: what is actually wrong with editing everything in AMA and skipping the transcoding (and eventually relinking)stage completely? In the last years I have been editing multiple series of 30+ minute docs with 20 hrs+ of source material each and never had any serious issues doing so. The material mostly came from Sony F5 and FS7 in AVC100 HD format, playing from a 4 disk Raid5 storage disk.
When done, I do a mixdown to whatever flavor of DNxHD is needed (for CC) or export directly from the AMA linked timeline to HD MPEG50 (for Broadcast). The AvidMediaFolders stay pretty empty these days, except for renders, titles, imported graphics and MP4 stuff. I don't feel like I'm walking a dangerous path doing so, since everything feels and acts rock solid. Am I just lucky?
Dio van Maaren
AMA will slow down the machine eventually, at least that's my experience with longer edits. And I have had crashes where I lost work because I waited to transcode. Not fun.
I generally transcode a few times as I go along. I cut in clips I know I will absolutely use, then transcode.
On shorter edits it hasn't been so critical. AMA does get you cutting faster without the transcoding first. But sometimes you pay for it!
Posted by: Dio van Maaren <dio@synccp.com>
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