• Avid Media Composer

  avidfx (boris) strange roundtrip behavior

  Posted by Joshua Schwarz on October 24, 2011 at 6:41 pm

  i’ve been experimenting with the avidfx 5.8.3 filter plugin that came with my new media composer software. i really like that it has a “roundtrip” feature which allows me to go directly back into the avid timeline after quitting avidfx without the render/import steps reguired to use after effects with avid.

  i haven’t been able to figure out where avidfx is hiding all the project files during the roundtrip. i’m really not comfortable with not knowing where stuff is stored on my system. the avidfx interface is really weird in this regard. if you save the project while in avidfx, it will give you the standard dialogue box for saving. then when you quit avidfx (which is how you “return trip” back into the avid media composer) your changes will not be saved to the timeline!

  however, if you don’t use the “save project” in avidfx but just quit, you will be given the option to save. if you click yes, there is no dialogue box but when you return to avid, your timeline is updated. huh?? i’ve looked all over my mac for the project files but they are really well hidden. where are they?

  thanks, josh

  
  

  joshua schwarz, producer/editor | post josh productions

  Joshua Schwarz replied 14 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Joshua Schwarz

  October 26, 2011 at 4:34 pm

  ryan hardison figured this one out. here’s our email exchange on the subject:

  ryan – thanks for replying. i didn’t see the apply button before. much better than saving on quit which is what i was doing. i’m sure you are right about boris saving the effect in the avid project. i just played around and it appears that it is saved a a precompute hidden file within the sequence. that makes sense but it isn’t intuitive from the dialogue box that was popping up when i quit avidfx. thx, josh

  On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:51 AM, “Ryan Hardison” wrote:
  > Oh, I just re-read your post on the Cow. Make sure you are using Apply to get back to avid from the Boris Interface if you aren’t already.
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  > ryan
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  > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Ryan Hardison wrote:
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  > The Boris Project files are saved within your avid project. If you have the effect editor open on one of your Boris Effects, then just drag the effect icon from the Effect Editor to a bin to save a copy of it that then can then be dragged and dropped onto another clip. Or you can save that bin and move that to another project or avid and then apply that effect to clips in that project.
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  > If you want to save an external file, then you have to save from with in the Boris interface and you’ll get a .red file on your desktop (or where ever you send it), but I don’t find that very useful for work with in the avid.
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  > Just save the effect to a bin and use that as the project back up for Boris.
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  >
  > ryan

  joshua schwarz, producer/editor | post josh productions

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