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ok i resolved the issue. it looks like the problem was more or less on the avid side. got with one of the guys in IT and he put an exe from the avid software on a thumbdrive. its "Avid Codecs PE" i had installed the Avid Codecs LE on my system, but that did nothing. so evidently the PE has the avc intra codec. once installed the file imported into premiere fine and was fully functional. sweet.
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That's standard def for ya. But you're going to end up with that anyway...
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it doesnt play native in windows either. in quicktime it only plays audio with a white screen. so i know its a codec issue. it plays fine in 4videosoft mxf converter, but those guys want 30 bucks to unlock it for a full conversion. i can convert it to a crummy compression at work though. i was wanting to work with the very loosely compressed stream from the avid. not an mp4 or whatever. 
I'd like to see if this can be resolved, so i brought in a sample video exported from newscutter using "same as source" setting. so it should just be a rewrap of the raw p2 card video. as i said, it works on the premiere bays in the building fine. i can drag it in, edit, export to whatever, no problems. the best i have gotten at home is it imports as a wav file. but i have not gotten any video i compared about 12 different export flavors from newscutter in premiere, and the avc-intra is by far the best looking. every other export i tried the colors would get either washed out to a degree, or the brightness would overcompensate, or whatever.
video file:
Microsoft OneDrive - test avc-intra.mov.
Jim_Simon wrote
If you have QuickTime files, then they've been converted. I recommend using the originals.
so do i. to get into the why and how i'm struggling with this, one of our photogs made a wedding video with newscutter from his panasonic p2 camera, edited and everything, for one of the anchors, and he was wanting it authored to dvd. i said i would do it, because he's just a photog and doesnt do actual disc authoring. i just assumed, export the thing as dvd stream from newscutter, importing into encore, and away i go.
...anything but...
so here are the export options from Avid. *scratches head*
so i was like "well, i guess quicktime is the way to go"
under quicktime i have:
i didnt want any of those, so i went back to the first screen and chose "same as source" and it greys out "format options" at this point, what it appears to me like it does is it takes the native avc-intra video from the sequence, and then it wraps it in a quicktime wrapper, and ther you go. the export takes seconds to finish. where as if i were to choose quicktime > h.264 or quicktime > mp4 it would take about 10 minutes per 1 minute of video to export. so its not reincoding anything from my vantage point. it just packs it up and spits it out.
here is a comparison though. quicktime > avid dnxhd codec is on the left, quicktime > same as source (avc-intra) is on the right.
if you look. the dnxhd blew out all of the clouds to just white. where as the avc-intra maintains the subtle grey hues. so to me avc-intra is definitely the way to go. but how the heck do i get this video to play on my machine? it just wont. it just absolutely wont. work does not have cs6, they only have CC2017 and on, so no encore on any of the edit machines. and technically, i don't even have access to Adobe, those bays are on the other side of the complex at "marketing" but i just walk over there to use it. so my workflow at work is end to end avid. (but i think premiere is better so i'm trying to get this project out of avids clutches, and furthermore, there arent even any options to export to dvd anyway)
ugh!
edit to add: of course i know i can just simply export out of avid as dvd stream and take it home, i tried that, and screwed up on 2 things, so then i have to wait until i go back to work to export it again, and try it again, and its just too obtuse to do work that way. i just don't get how i can use the files at work, but not at home. *scratches head*
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