Avid MC Mac Avid pan and zoom problem

[Ricky Barrow]

just a couple of thoughts … after you set the Avid HQ, did you render? also, is the monitor icon on timeline all green?

Ricky

[Ricky Barrow]

Also, what is the resolution of the file you are referencing?

Ricky

[Mark Editor]

Wow thats a quick reply, thanks. Ok just checked everything and rendered it to a different drive and amazingly its now working! However only on Ultra hi Quality which is odd as I’ve never had to use that before on PC Avids. Thanks for your help though. Maybe I just hadn’t tried that particular combination of settings.

[Mark Editor]

Ah hang on. It only works if there are no moves on it. I just put a slight zoom in on and now the render doesn’t work. The quality stays rubbish? Any thoughts?

[Ricky Barrow]

Not off the top of my head, make sure you are not Zooming in farther than the file resolution would allow (the file you are pointing to needs to be larger than your project settings). After each change in the effect, you must render again (rendering creates the new media). I sometimes have flaky issues if the meory usage (indicated in your project window) climbs too high, but the app usually will say “not enough memory”. I work on PC, not sure if there are irregularities related specifically to MAC. Sometimes rebooting the app solves a lot of issues for me.

Ricky

[Mark Editor]

Thanks Ricky, I seem to have solved it for now. I have gone back to Video res which didn’t work before but does now and restarting the app also helped like you say. Thanks again for the quick reply and for stopping me throwing the mac out the window! PC’s, all is forgiven!

[Kris Anderson]

Pan and zoom has some quirks. You must render it in order to actually see the move in the desired quality.

Also, if you change anything after the render it will stay as low-res rubbish, even after re-rendering. You have to remove the plug in and re-apply. It’s a pain but that’s just what it does.