Re: Decompose, Batch Import, Uprez doubt.

Avid is not going to be able to import a part of a file, it will always import the whole thing. This is probably unavoidable really as various formats are stored in different ways, it would be very hard, programatically, to issolate a smaller part of a video clip from a larger file in a reliable way (what works for Animation QT wouldn't work for H.264 for example).

If you're working with this sort of material again in the future, then the best workflow would be to import all the media into the 'online' resolution, and then transcode that full resolution to a lower resolution for the edit. In this way you could have one hard drive with the low datarate offline footage on it, and one with the full resolution online footage. If you do it that way, then when it comes to making the online all you have to do is relink the offline sequence to the online media.

Alternatively Avid's recently introduced AMA feature currently provides very fast access to P2 and all XDCAM variants, and may well be expanded to other formats. It provides a very effective way of working with file-based camera formats.