Re: [Avid-L2] Panasonic Varicam 35 AVC-Intra Native to Avid?

Going completely from memory so I'm likely wrong but I think AVC-Intra is also long GOP. The "intra" is a marketing term. JB 

On Apr 30, 2020, at 5:44 AM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I use to transcode my Panasonic Varicam 35 4096_2160 media to DNxHR HQX and link to that and consolidate but lately I realized I could just consolidate rather than transcode.  So Avid will ama link to the Panasonic Varicam 35 media no problem but consolidating it makes it much more stable and easy to work with.

I was thinking given Avid will consolidate the media and rewrap it to an Avid friendly mxf that means Avid will handle the media natively right?  When I was going to make a mixdown for scaling purposes I thought it would make sense to do the mixdown to the AVC-Intra but the only choice I see is XAVC at something like 320mbs or 480mbs.  There doesn't seem to be a choice for just AVC-Intra.  I'm on MC 2018.12.7 on a Mac OS 10.12.6. 

My basic understanding is XAVC is a more compressed format than AVC because it is Long GOP, perhaps there are other reasons too.  So the question would I be better off doing a mixdown to DNxHR HQX like I have been or to the XAVC choices?  Would mixing down from symphony color corrected sequence of the consolidated AVC-Intra to the XAVC codec in any way be theoretically cleaner and avoid what Netflix calls recompression?

Nothing broken just trying to improve my workflow if possible.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net