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The document discusses various import settings for getting assets into an Avid Media Composer project, including options for color space, dithering images, frame import duration, autodetecting sequentially numbered files, and field ordering in files.

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Amc 61

The document discusses various import settings for getting assets into an Avid Media Composer project, including options for color space, dithering images, frame import duration, autodetecting sequentially numbered files, and field ordering in files.

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Getting Assets into Your Media Composer Project

ff Computer RGB, dither image colors: This is used in the same situation as Computer
RGB, except it performs one extra operation on the graphics file. If the file has fine
gradients and you notice there is banding in the final imported image, try this. The
extra operation it performs adds some noise (dithering) that may help
to reduce or hide the banding.
ff 601 SD or 709 HD (16 - 235): Choose this only if your file is already at the proper
broadcast levels for your video format. For files created in other applications, such
as Photoshop or After Effects, this will be infrequent. However, good examples of
files that are already at broadcast levels include the SMPTE Color Bars file that
Avid provides inside the Test_Patterns folder, and video files such as P2 that
can be imported.

Additional selections
The following are the additional selections within the Import dialog window:

ff Frame Import Duration: When you import a still image, you can tell Media Composer
how long you'd like the duration of the Master Clip to be. Media Composer will only
create a frame or two (which Avid calls a Slide) of actual media, so you can set any
duration you like without worrying that the media will take up a lot of drive space. This
simply instructs Media Composer to refer to the "slide" over and over again for the
duration that you specify.
ff Autodetect Sequentially-Numbered Files: Choose this option if you are given
a folder containing many files where each represents one frame (for example,
of an animation). They'll be numbered in order (sequentially). During import you
would select only the first file in the folder (not all the files). Media Composer will
then automatically look for file number two, then file number three, and so on
(autodetection). When the import is completed, Media Composer will have assembled
all the files (frames) into one single Master Clip.

Be sure to leave this option deselected if you are not importing


sequentially-numbered files for the purpose of assembling them
into a single Master Clip upon import.

ff Field Ordering in File: This is not to be confused with Field Dominance; these
options only apply to interlaced video formats. If your video format is progressive,
these options will not be displayed. Before you can know what to select here, it's
pretty helpful to know what the native field order is for different video formats:
‰‰ NTSC is Even (Lower Field First)
‰‰ HD is Odd (Upper Field First)
‰‰ PAL is Odd (Upper Field First)
‰‰ PAL DV is Even (Lower Field First)

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