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Add a legacy DNxHD output option that would be compatible with older Avid versions

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
October 19, 2022
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Just wanting to bump this again as this is a pretty important issue I've seen mentioned in a few places. With the update to how AVID codecs are processed in v22.3, I have been forced to stay on 22.2.1 because the productions that I've worked on and the one I'm currently working on cannot import AVID Quicktimes that I render in v22.3 and later. In the release regarding this change, I believe this was said that it was done with the AVID team, but something is broken here because what used to work, no longer does. If I'm wrong here and there's a new procedure that I need to follow to get things to work, I would be grateful to know that. Sadly, as of now, I'm stuck on v22.2.1 and unable to enjoy the updates that have been released since.

[Original Title: Still stuck on v22.2.1 due to AVID Codecs Change with v22.3]

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JohnColombo17100380

Community Manager

Hi @Matt Boardman & @m1jackson,

Thank you both for highlighting this issue with the DNxHD format when working with older Avid systems. For some more background, I did find this post from April when this change was first made in cooperation with Avid: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/announcement-changes-to-quicktime-dnxhd-support-in-premiere-pro-22-3/td-p/12905939. Matt, I see you posted in that thread as well, so this is more for the benefit of Michael and others visiting this thread.

Per the conversation in that linked post above, I've moved this bug report to the Ideas section and changed the title to request a legacy output for DNxHD that would be compatible with older Avid versions. Please let me know if this correctly reflects your needs or if it should be changed to something else.

Thanks again for bringing this up,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team

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Jaydude-wb

Inspiring

I am struggling myself with asynchonicity of Ae/DNxHD and Avid/DNxHD.

My current workflow with After Effects 2023 runs via ProRes, which the latest versions of Avid can import.

m1jackson

Inspiring

Hi, I've been using AE2021 very sucessfully to render DNxHD Quicktimes on a Windows 10 machine.

It plays back on my Windows machine a in Quicktime Player 7 or on Mac without issue.

However, when rendering in AE2023 on the exact same machine using the exact same project, and the same output que (upgraded scene file of course), when playing back on a Mac in QT Player or in the Avid, the movies appear black. When playing the movie back in QTPlayer 7 on my Windows machine they also appear black.

These are the same file rendered in the two versions of AE

To mess with my brain just a little more, when opening the file in VLC, the movie plays back fine.

Rendering the movie to frame sequences works, but that's not really a work around because the DNxHD still comes out black.

Rendering to ProRes 422 works just fine.

I've tried to reset preferences.

I've reset up the "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects" (that's a pain)

Any input or recommendations by anyone would be appreciated. Thanks.

J

Jaydude-wb

Inspiring

Same here. I used Elmedia Player to play DNxHD .mov's generated by previous versions of Ae, but with Ae 23.0. the movies are black in Elmedia Player.

Seems that Ae writes some kind of new dialect that no other app understands (when imported back in Ae, the .movs look fine)

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