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Going Live with Avid Xpress
My company and I are experimenting with going “live” to the web with a short delay, about 3 minutes, using or Avid Xpress software on an alienware notebook. What we want to do is take a video signal via firewire into our Avid software, apply lower thirds and any other graphics we may need and then send it out to an external encoder via firewire which will take it live to the web. We can’t take the extra time to export to a mov or avi file and dump it into the encoder so my quesiton is… can we play it “live’ from the timeline or export to tape via firewire into this box with out using Mojo or any other DNA? I am under the impression that I can’t, but I find that hard to believe and I hear from some other people that it can be done. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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HI,
I dont really think that u can playback in the timeline and export to a tape or anyother devices without the DNA or Mojo With all those effects u will have. Coz all these titles u use hav to rendered when dumping to a tape withrout a mojo and when the DNA is there it takes care of it.So i think U can use the Mojo and take the video out from it and feed it to any device u want and do watever u want. Yeah!
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Thank you for your advice. I’ll see what we can do about getting a Mojo or other DNA in so we can try that.
Thanks again,
NDK
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Titles will need to be rendered, but that shouldn’t be a huge problem as they will render quickly – assuming they only come up for a while and fade off – if they are present for the whole duration then you will have a big render.
Once those are rendered the timeline should be able to be played out over the DV without any problems.
With a Mojo you will get a realtime layer which will mean titles can be played out unrendered.
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Thank you for your response. How do I go about playing out the timeline, after rendering, with out a Mojo or DNA? I read something somewhere that you can’t output via firewire without one.
NDK
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As long as you are in “blue dot” mode, all vision from the timeline will playout the standard Firewire port (except when it is receiving input, ie. when the capture tool is open).
All you should need to do is render the timeline, go to the start, press play and it will come out the firewire. It pays to put a frame of black at the beginning and end of the sequence, otherwise it will hold on the first and last frames.
Firewire output should be covered in the manual (I don’t have any handy at the moment)
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GREAT! Thank you! I’ll look it up.
NDK
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