David Esp Video Technical Blog

These are standalone tools I have seen (on web) others using to transcode from various formats into Avid formats such as DNxHD.  Of course, that’s also achievable from within Media Composer (e.g. by its Consolidate/Transcode feature), but a stand-alone tool encourages parallel, and hence possibly collaborative, workflows in post-production.

• Metafuze – Avid’s own such program
  • Previously covered at http://blog.davidesp.com/archives/335
• TMPGEnc Xpress
  • http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=39128
    • “Peter Moretti”, May 2009
      • It’s an excellent program for transcoding, changing frame rates, removing a pulldown, capturing from DVD’s and more. Probably the best $100 I’ve spent on editing.
      • But it’s main advantage over Cineform is that it will transcode HV-20 footage into a Quciktime file of any DNxHD format. This file can then be fast imported into Avid.
      • Read more: http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=39128#ixzz1VeVZzElm
• MPEG StreamClip ?

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