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ChainsawAsh

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I was just curious for Mac editors out there - what is your preferred file format for editing? I'm an editing student at Columbia College Chicago, and own Avid Media Composer 3.0, but I'm very early on in the editing program, so I'm not entirely sure what the best format is to be editing in.

Should I use one of Avid's proprietary codecs, or find a lossless codec somewhere else, or what? What I'd like to do is go from the DVD, rip with MTR, convert with MPEG Streamclip or something similar into a format that I can edit with in Avid, then export in the same format to a file which I can burn to a dual-layer DVD with as close to no quality loss as possible.

Once I get it into Avid, I'm fine with the editing process, I just need some advice in the initial setting-up part.
 

JMB

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The Avid file format will probably be Avid DNX HD. MPEG Streamclip should allow you to convert it if the Avid codecs are loaded on the computer.
 
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