Importing DVCPROHD files with Headroom

[Eugene Lehnert]

I am attempting to import DVCPROHD files into the Smoke system but after the files are brought in I am losing information above .7 millivolts. How can I import files with Headroom the same way you capture a tape with headroom?

[Karl Varner]

As it stands at the moment that would be a codec rewrite I believe. We’ve just had a similar issue trying to import MXF and the clipping is occuring at the YUV>RGB import stage so unfortunately you cannot apply a LUT to get the info back. We had Montreal test this for us as we found that via Avid we could export a TIF that maintained the headroom (keeping it in YUV, if we had Avid YUV>RGB then it clipped too)

hope that helps

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[Merrill DataSiteF]

Good to know. Hopefully Autodesk can write the headroom option into the file import function. 12 channels of audio would be helpful these days too.

Thanks for the post.

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