From operation experience I'd say you can't rely on any flagging re color space. Sadly too many other proccesses get it wrong for it to be reliable. (read more)

It really depends on what you need to do with what you output. If it visually stands up to the job then it's good enough. If your output then has to be further oricessed then that has to be taken into account. (read more)

The media tool MUST show the DNX185x clips for them to come online. If a clip doesn't have media showing in the media tool it can't be played by Avid (unless it's an AMA linked clips which these aren't) You can't use reveal file to show a file that is offline. It will only show the... (read more)

If you open media tool on the media 185x drive connected does media tool show all the clips as dnx185x ? if not you may need to trash and rebuild media databases (also make sure ownership is off on the drive) If the dnx185x master clips all show in media tool I'd drag one of them that won't relink... (read more)

The issue is that your source is limited to 8 bit and AVCHD compression is tough. Remapping levels is forcing data values into bands. Upsampling to a higher sample rate like 64bit can help but eventually for display you will likely end up at 8 bit again and all those errors will become visible again... (read more)