Avid & Color
by Robert Douglas
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Apr 10, 2008 at 6:06:28 am
Hi All,
Anyone have any experience with exporting out of Avid into Color? Is there a reliable workflow either using Avid XML, ALE, or EDL? Any useful info would be much appreciated.
Re: Avid & Color by Timo Teravainen on Apr 10, 2008 at 2:12:43 pm
Hi Robert,
There's a program called Automatic Duck that helps with importing an Avid project into Final Cut Pro. And from Final Cut you can send your project easily to Color. I haven't used it but I've heard it works ok.
Re: Avid & Color by walter biscardi on Apr 10, 2008 at 2:43:22 pm
[Timo Teravainen]"There's a program called Automatic Duck that helps with importing an Avid project into Final Cut Pro. And from Final Cut you can send your project easily to Color. I haven't used it but I've heard it works ok."
The project is easy to move, the media can be another story. Especially if you're using an Avid codec. Color does not support any Avid codec, nor does FCP.
We cut Avid projects all the time here using the Duck, and it's very simple to move the project from Avid to FCP. But we always recapture the media using Final Cut Pro.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
Re: Avid & Color by Michael McIntyre on May 3, 2008 at 9:17:13 pm
I just did a test to see. This was for a short piece so it would probably prove a pain for anything long-form.
Avid -> Animation Export -> AfterFX {expanded 601 levels, spit out 10-bit uncompressed} - Final Cut {chopped it up, it was cuts-only} -> Color.
That's a lot of steps and many would argue too much re-compression in the chain. I just really like messing around in Color. Sadly, I have an AJA IoLA so I have to jump back to Final Cut to see output on 'real' scopes/monitor. I have been impressed that the Color scopes are actually pretty spot-on accurate to what I'm seeing on the Tektronix. Not exact but very close most times.
So, yes, you can do it but it's a pretty silly workflow.
