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Please Help – 10:1 – 1:1
Hey
I am new Avid User — I pretty much got the basics understood — but one thing I need help in and if someone out there can tell me step by step on how to do it — I would be so grateful —
We received over 20 digi beta tapes with 40 mins each of footage so obviously we can’t capture all 20 tapes with 1:1 mxf as we dont have enough memory so the main editor captures the footage with 10:1 mxf
no what i want to know is when he out puts the tapes to 1×1 and he told me that is how i do it — now he has left and i am left with doing that i have no idea
so here are my doubts —
1. in future when i get 20 or more tapes to bring into the system — how do i do that
2. outputting the footage as 1:1 mxf
3. what happens to the extra stuff — such as music , pictures other footage as the 1:1 will only capture the footage that it recognizes
4. step by step
please please help me out or I will be screwed
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18 Replies
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In the digital capture tool (for tape ingest) and the import box (for pictures), you have a pulldown menu that allows you to select the resolution you want to use. That is where you would choose 10:1, or whatever other resolution you want.
These numbers mean the amount of compression applied. So a 10:1 clip will be compressed to about one tenth of it’s original size.
1:1 has no compression.
Does this help, or what exactly are you concerned about?
Terence Curren
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Common offline-online workflow:
– Tapes arrive
– In the Capture Tool, select 10:1 when capturing
– Capture V & A from the tapes
– Edit
– After locking the cut, DUPLICATE the sequence (CTRL-D in the bin), then delete all audiotracks from that copied sequence.
– Select the duplicate sequence, and choose Clip->Decompose. You can choose handles, I’d go for at least 10 frames
– Select all decomposed clips, and choose Clip->Batch Capture
– Set the Capture tool to 1:1x MXF.
– The Avid will search for all video material used in the cut, and capture that without compression
– Copy the sound tracks from your locked cut, and place them under the duplicate (hi-res) sequence.You don’t have to recapture the sound, since that is all still there, at the nicest quality it can be. You will only be recapturing any used video footage from the tapes. Then you can playout to tape without compression.
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[Dan Newton] “3. what happens to the extra stuff — such as music , pictures other footage as the 1:1 will only capture the footage that it recognizes “
Music and sound do not need to be recaptured. Many people duplicate the 10:1 sequence, remove the audio tracks, then do the Decompose. Then after capturing the video at 1:1, edit the audio back in from the original sequence.
Pictures, animations …. stuff not captured from tape are handled differently. If you imported this stuff at 10:1, then you need to select the sequence and use the Batch Import command to re-import this stuff at 1:1. In practice, there really is little reason to be editing this material at 10:1…as all recent Avid systems can mix resolutions without issue…just import all your pictures and animations at 1:1 to begin with…. yet some editors who started with Meridien or AVBV systems insist on doing it anyway. It’s not usually a problem, as you can batch import, but why create extra work for yourself?
You should look up the terms Decompose and Batch Import in Media Composer Help and read the appropriate sections thoroughly, in addition to following the advice here.
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So basically
as they are 20 tapes i should name each one when capturing
so when I am done with the edit — i duplicate it — delete the audio / music — and then go ahead with the capturing to 1:1
but what about if i added footage from another source — maybe like a quicktime mov file — do i need to delete that and then after its done with the 1:1 capturing of all the tapes to make the full edit — i just manually add the quicktime files to the duplicate —- and the same goes for music and pictures
please let me know
thanks
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[Dan Newton] “but what about if i added footage from another source — maybe like a quicktime mov file — do i need to delete that and then after its done with the 1:1 capturing of all the tapes to make the full edit — i just manually add the quicktime files to the duplicate —- and the same goes for music and pictures “
No. After recapturing the tape footage, you use the Batch Import command to re-import all that stuff at 1:1. You don’t need to manually re-edit the pictures and animations into place. You need to have all the Quicktime and/or graphics files you imported originally ready and available. You don’t need to do this if you already imported them the first time at 1:1… did you? or were they also imported and edited at 10:1?
And do look up Batch Import and Decompose in Media Composer Help. All of this and more is in there.
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Hey there
No I imported the music / pictures / quicktime videos separately but all at 1:1
the thing i don’t get is — and really sorry for this — cause i am so use to final cut
so i don’t need to manually place the music and others in the duplicate as they will already be placed there
please let me know
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[i]so i don’t need to manually place the music and others in the duplicate[/i]
Yes, you DO need to splice them in manually after the batch capture.If you choose to decompose, you can choose to select to decompose the captured clips, so you will be ignoring any of the imported images (those can already be 1:1 during import). Or, if you imported those at lower resolutions, you can select “imported clips” in the Decompose dialogue box as well and Batch Import those consecutively.
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So basically — in the duplicate — after each one is re imported back in as 1:1 — will they be automatically placed in the same place on the duplicate edit — and so the gaps are the images / songs / other videos will have to be spliced in…..
Please let me know as soon as possible
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Nope.
The decompose process will make all decomposed elements “offline” (no media). If you choose to decompose only the captured clips (not imports), all the captured elements (from tape) are going to be “Media Offline”, but all the imports are still there (with media), at their exact place in the sequence. The Batch Capture process will “fill” all the (captured) clips that have no media in the duplicate sequence.
You manually add ALL audiotracks of your original sequence onto the duplicate sequence.
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Hey
so let me write out the steps — to make sure I am right:-
1. tapes arrive
2. put tape in Digi Beta Machine
3. go to tools — capture tool — name tape ( i should name each tape ) — select 10:1
4. capture each tape ( V & A )
5. Edit
6. when edit is complete- duplicate the sequence
7. just delete the added music tracks in the sequence
8. Highlight the duplicate sequence
9. clip – decompose
10. clip – batch capture –
11. change capture setting to 1×1 mxf
12. then it will ask me to put in lets say tape one ( whatever i named it )
13. i add tape in ( question — do i need to rewind the tape? )
14. it will then capture the video/audio sequence from the tape and the video sequence of each captured digi will automatically replace the 10:1 footage
15. i will then have to just splice in the music in the duplicate
16. all added quicktime videos and pictures will already be in the duplicate and will not need to be manually spliced it
17.out put the final on a digi for the librarySo am I right
just let me know as soon as possible
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