• Avid Media Composer

  Tiff sequence won’t playback in XpressPro?

  Posted by Chris Foogs on August 7, 2008 at 11:35 am

  Hi all,

  I have imported a Tiff sequence into AXP using the default settings (DV25).

  In each sequence there are about 700 files for about 20-30secs worth of footage and the TIffs are about 3.5mb each.

  Once imported the sequence refuses to playback – it will move jerkily a couople of times and then just skip to the end of the sequence.

  It looks as though the machine just doesn’t have enough grunt – could this be the case? Or maybe there are settings I could alter?

  I’m going to convert the pics to Jpeg to hopefully alleviate the problem, but will I lose picture quality?

  Thanks all.

  Jakub Vansa replied 17 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jon Zanone

  August 7, 2008 at 11:50 am

  What are your system specs?

  Jon

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  Job Ter burg

  August 7, 2008 at 12:45 pm

  Sounds like a display problem, sometimes caused by ill placed windows. Will other footage play back correctly? Click on your source/rec monitor and hit CTRL + ‘ or CMD + ‘.
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  Jakub Vansa

  August 7, 2008 at 11:02 pm

  I think converting to jpg will not help you, because Avid makes its own media files… Are you sure about proper resolution? Because some very good resolution such as 1:1 could make you trouble during playback due to its very high data rate.

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