Unwrap a DNxHD Quicktime and rewrap it as MXF?
by Adam Recht
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Sep 13, 2008 at 3:17:19 pm
Hi
Camera department wants to deliver me DNxHD-encoded footage in a Quicktime wrapper. I can import this into MC 3.0 no problem, but it's sloooow - about 2.5x real time. One bit of oddness is that on import I'm presented with a dialogue box asking if I want to import the quicktime with a matte or as an A/V clip - which is odd as it's only 24-bit data, there's no alpha.
Since the contents of the quicktime are already encoded with the DNxHD codec you'd think there might be a fast way of ingesting the footage - strip off the Quicktime wrapper, add an MXF one (I'm sure it's not as simple as I make it sound) and bung the result in the Avid Mediafiles folder.
Does anyone have any ideas that might help? Or am I just stuck with a sloow import?
Re: Unwrap a DNxHD Quicktime and rewrap it as MXF? by Dave Schweitzer on Sep 15, 2008 at 9:11:31 pm
Check your import settings, and try ignoring the alpha (as opposed to use existing or invert). This may allow you to skip the selection hurdle and at least do a batch import overnight or when the system's not otherwise in use...
