Avid Behaving Badly #12: Autosequencing in 23.976 NTSC doesn't Work

I'm working on a 24P show and we've been using the XDCam proxy files for our offline editing.  This season, however, we've added more cameras, and the multigroups lag when using the proxy MPEG-4 codec.  To solve this, we're transcoding everything to 8:1m.  So much for faster than real time capture.  But I digress.  In order to make the transcode happen, you have to change your project format to 23.976 NTSC or else the 8:1m codec won't even be made available to you.  Which is horseshit, but I digress.  After transcoding, I figured hey - there's no reason I can't make my timelines and groups in the standard def project, right?  Wrong.  There's a very good reason why I can't do those things, and it's that Avid is a piece of fucking garbage.  For a reason I cannot fathom, autosequences created in 23.976 NTSC projects don't match clip TC to sequence TC.  They just don't.

Change back to 1080P/23.976 and autosequencing works perfectly with the exact same clips in the exact same bins.

Stupid goddamn Avid.

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  1. This just saved the last remaining hair on my head. Sincere thanks. Stupid irrational Avid.

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  2. Thank you so much, this too saved me in my time of need. I love this post and this blog has been really helpful.

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