Editing Sony F65 rushes on Avid Media Composer

Team · Post by **Team** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:48 pm

Sony has AMA plugins for editing F65 rushes on Avid:

Sony AMA Plugins

AMA plugin installers for Sony products used with Media Composer, Symphony, or NewsCutter: XDCAM, XDCAM EX, HDCAM SR, F65

Last Updated : November 5, 2012

Products Affected : Media_Composer, NewsCutter, Symphony

Where do I get the installers for Sony AMA Plugins?

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XDCAM:

Get direct access to and full native support of Sony XDCAM, XDCAM HD, and XDCAM EX formats (including low-res proxies) with the AMA XDCAM plug-in. With fast and flexible XDCAM workflows, you can edit your way, right away. Edit SD and HD footage directly, get better clip and project management with full metadata support, import footage over FireWire, and deliver final projects in XDCAM formats.

HDCAM SR:

Get direct access to and full native support of Sony HDCAM SR Lite media and metadata. This plug-in eliminates having to transcode media, enabling you to start editing footage right away

F65:

The SRPA-10 plug-in supports Lite and SQ bit rates for 4:2:2 files and SQ bit rates for 4:4:4 files

Get direct access to and full native support of Sony HDCAM SR Lite media and metadata. This plug-in eliminates having to transcode media, enabling you to start editing footage right away. The Sony F65 AMA plug-in support both versions 6.0.3 and 6.5.

Sony has made system recommendaitons beyond the minimum Avid system requirements for the best experience using this plugin. Please see the documentation from Sony included with the download.

Installers:

Unless stated otherwise, it is encouraged to run the latest AMA plugin version

XDCAM and XDCAM EX

Both plugins are installed by the same installer

Plugins can be downloaded from Sony's website

For Media Composer 6.0, Symphony 6.0 and Newscutter 10 and later download the latest 64 bit plug-in

For earlier versions download of the Avid Editing Application download PDZK-MA2 Version 1.3 32-bit

HDCAM SR

Mac and PC download: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/srpa-10

F65

Mac and PC download: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/plav-rw1

AMA Plug-in Guides:

Sony XDCAM, XDCAM EX and HDCAM SR AMA Plug-in Guide

AMA Workflow Guides:

AMA and Sony XDCAM

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Update: Media Composer 5.5.2, NewsCutter 9.5.2, and Symphony 5.5.2 PC systems are not compatible with the Sony AMA Plugins v1.1003 and v1.4. To install the plugins, please see the following article: 408111