

I found it ok to use AMA – no need to Ingest to MXF etc.Unlike Premiere, Avid doesn’t have such Sequence-specific settings.Set Project Settings for media type as per source footage.I already use Avid, so that will be my auto-arranging tool of choice. Wouldn’t it be nice if the NLE (or whatever) could auto-populate a Sequence with clips placed appropriately in (timecode-) time on it?Īs noted in an earlier post, Adobe Premiere can’t do this, but Avid and Edius can. huge outdoor site) there is no common audio with which to synchronize them. Perhaps there were also multiple cameras, but for whatever reason (e.g. from an intermittent shoot of a long event. Posted in AAF, Avid, Premiere, workflow | No Comments » Not an urgent project, so I give up for now… Surprising, given it was already DNxHD in the right format and better quality… And this import didn’t replace the right-clicked clip, it just added the import to the bin as an additional clip. The Import process took significant time, because (as I later confirmed) it was doing a transcode (to DNxHD 120) rather than a re-wrap. So I tried the next-best (RightClick) option, namely. I tried Bin: but the option was greyed-out. Regardless, I wasn’t impressed by Avid’s programmer-level “cryptic” error messages.

One can only guess at which company is at fault here, but one poster blames Adobe. I had previously succeeded in exporting AAF from Avid to Adobe.Ī forum post says Adobe can read Avid but not vice-versa – confirming my (limited) experience. However, not only were they not linked, but Avid’s Relink function failed to recognize them. I had naively assumed that the Media objects would have been AMA-linked to the source footage, which by the way included DNxHD recorded by BlackMagic Cinema Camera. Result: Bin created, containing what appeared to be (from brief glance) all relevant Media and Sequence objects (now in Avid’s representation), but the Media objects were offline/unlinked and various “cryptic” popup error messages appeared from Avid. Given a simple 3-minute dramatic scene with footage from BMCC (as DNxHD 185 of HD 1920×1080 at 25fps) and a Windows-7 system:įrom Adobe Premiere CC (latest version) I exported AAF.
