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Originally Posted by bartosz idzi
What features are you missing Mark? AFAIK, all you need to work with video in Catalina is convert your video to MXF wrapper instead of the MOV.
Have to admit that after converting the video to MXF video engine is really solid here on latest PT and Mojave. Hope that striping out more of 32bit code out will really help in PT 2020.
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You seem to be under the impression that people who work with video in big markets only have to ingest or export video rarely. Hardly the case.
For instance, in December, I was working with 1 major US television network, the largest film studio in the world on a feature film, and 3 different streamers for different multi-part series.
Zero of them send video in MXF. There are a lot of turnovers and a lot of re-conforming. There is a lot of exporting of clips for review to be sent to producers, directors, and editorial rooms that need to be in a file format they can easily playback where ever they are. Sending 40+ clips out a week is not unreasonable today. The "quicktime exports" are also not possible with the current state of Catalina/Pro Tools. I work off a ProRes/DNxHD copy of picture and have an offline h264 version of picture also setup which gets on-lined when I need to make clips to send out so I can save time by using a reduced size picture that can be done "same as source."
Even if I was working on 1 feature, there is a lot of ingest and clips. Modern filmmaking means faster edits and more frequent picture turnover from editorial and directors doing reshoots on location during post. And review by just about everyone in their own locations spread across the world.
So it is a joke to say things are covered with just a change to an MXF wrapper. The current state is not compatible if you work in a major market for content creation unless you want to lose a significant amount of time.
I see Mark's issues and the concept that this is "good enough" support for now is flawed.
(and for those reasons, I won't be making the move "up" until things are solved.)