Combustion workflow with Avid and DNxHD files

[Tana]

Hi guys…. this is my first post in this forum and it seems to be a good forum for combustion. I went to the Autodesk site and I couldn’t find a Combustion Forum. Crazy.

I’m an Independent filmmaker and I trying to figuring out the workflow for Combustion with Avid media composer. I currently own and Avid xpress pro HD but I will get next week the upgrade to M. Composer.

We are planning to shoot a feature film with a Sony pmw EX1 and transfer to 35mm at the end.
I will be having tons of VFX and compositing with Combustion and editing with Avid media composer.

Now…this is the situation…. I will be using my laptop for everything. My machine is a Dell Precision M90 with Intel Core 2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz, 2 gigs of ram and a 512MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M graphics card.

The footage will be 1920x1080p/23.976 (I’m guessing) transfer to Avid DNxHD codec. I read about this codec being great for compositing.

This is what I found…

The Avid DNxHD codec is specifically designed for nonlinear editing and multi-generation compositing, including collaborative postproduction and broadcast news environments. It has the ability to maintain image quality – which is essential to mastering for television broadcast – more effectively than other HD acquisition codecs. Avid DNxHD delivers more precise color correction, graphics, effects, and compositing over multiple generations of post production processing. The result is image quality that is virtually indistinguishable from the original image, regardless of source material.

Link http://www.avid.com/resources/whitepapers/DNxHD_WP3.pdf

Also I read there’s an Avid DNxHD 36, is a high-quality offline resolution supporting full 16×9 aspect ratio and is in 1080p/23.976, 1080p/24.

So I’m guessing I can do a perfect conform of all effects and then replace the footage for the High quality footage in combustion and that’s it. Then render and export as what??? I guess not Targa because I have to go back to the timeline in avid, so I’m guessing as Quicktime DNxHD 220.

If anybody knows or worked with this workflow please let me know.

Thanks guys.

Tana

[chris]

you might want to look into the plugin from automatic duck with loads an avid timeline into combustion. not required but it might shave a lot of time off your pipeline – especially since it will all be you on the same system.

//garyD

[Steven Knight]

@visualZ 25020 wrote:

you might want to look into the plugin from automatic duck with loads an avid timeline into combustion. not required but it might shave a lot of time off your pipeline – especially since it will all be you on the same system.

//garyD

Thanks Gary…
I know the Duck. I’ll dig deeper into it.

Thanks

T

[Steven Knight]

Hellooooo!!!!!!! Hola!!!!!!! Nijo MAAAAAA!!!!! anybody here… SOS. Help

[Steven Knight]

@Tana 25025 wrote:

Hellooooo!!!!!!! Hola!!!!!!! Nijo MAAAAAA!!!!! anybody here… SOS. Help

I know is easter…sorry guys.

T

[Anonymous]

I am sorry I dont get it ?

Do you need further help?

Mike

[Steven Knight]

@mseymour7 25031 wrote:

I am sorry I dont get it ?

Do you need further help?

Mike

Hi Mike
I’m just trying to figuring out the workflow with Combustion and Avid HD codecs.
I read there’s an Avid DNxHD 36, is a high-quality offline resolution supporting full 16×9 aspect ratio and is in 1080p/23.976, 1080p/24. This means I can conform the whole shot a low res and then replace the footage in combustion and done.

Anybody try this Codec with Combustion. 16×9 1920×1080 Avid DNxHD???

That’s the question.

Thanks

T

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