some days ago I have spent some days in Berlin (Germany) with a camera team, which has shot some footage about G. W. Bush, who were visiting Germany also this time.
My task was to broadcast the footage into an other city, where the footage was edited on a Thomson GV Editing Suite.
We have had the following workflow:
1. We have converted the SDI-Signal of the SNG-Car into DV (Focus Mediaconverter MKII)
2. The DV-Signal was captured with Magix Video de Luxe 2004(:-))
3. We have converter the AVI-and WAV-Files with MC (4115) into MP4 (H264, 2Mbits) and MP3-Streams
4. we uploaded the streams onto an ftp-server of "upload-net" (free of charge up to 100MB)
5. the files was downloaded by other teammembers onto the editing suite in France.
6. the MP4 files were converted with MC in AVI (HUFFYUV, 16Mbits) to be able to edit them with Edius 4.61 Pro.
7. The edited files were exported from Edius uncompressed in AVI (YUY2)
8. The YUY2-files were converted in MP4 (h264) again (800Kbits).
These files were broadcasted on different portals.
(e. g. http://www.nh24.de/content/view/13252/96/)
Beside the fact that MC has made a very good job on a rocksolid way, we should have had the following things to work on an faster way.
- MC should export in MOV (H264) to be able to edit these files directly in a common editing system (It is anyway done in the new build
- MC should allow batch encoding with the separated audio and video lists.
Many softwares capture video and audio on a separated way. (video in AVI, audio in WAV). It would be very good if one could import many audio- and videofiles in MC and match them. (We did not want to export the files from Magix Video de Luxe to avoid any quality-loss. We had to therefore use the files, which were saved by Magix directly onto the HDD!)
- MC should allow to cut the files at encoding. It would have been very usefull if one could set a size or length after which MC must start a new file at the encoding.
e.g.:
export_1.mp4
export_2.mp4
etc.
We have ca. 10GB AVI-files (30pcs). We have 30 WAV-files as well. Both audio and video could have an import list in MC. On this way MC could automatically match the files and mux them. On the export side one could set, that MC should start a new MP4-file after either 100MB or 40Sec.
- it would be also excellent, if MC could capture from any VfW oder DirectShow-Sources. It is perhaps possible to integrate an open source application.
Thank you anyway Stanley! MC has really done an excellent job on a very stable way.
Regards,
I.
