green dots in middle of clips

[Michael Hancock]

Are you working on Media Composer 5? If so, these are motion adapters that are converting the footage from one frame rate to another. Avid automatically adds them if you open footage from a project with a different frame rate. Or the editor took interlaced footage and made it progressive with motion adapters.

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Michael Hancock
http://www.oswaldcommunications.com

[Tel Jaba]

thanks a lot for your replies Michael
yes I am working with MC 5.0 project was edited on 4.x (not sure)
I had to repair a;;l bins by the way and some of the sequnce bin wouldn open and they couse Avid to quite!!

so what do you suggst I shoudl do about this green dot Michael?

[Kris Anderson]

Render it.

[Job Ter burg]

Before you render everything, are you by any chance working in 25fps? If so, you may just have 25p footage in a 25i/50i project or 25i/50i footage in a 25p project, and then you should be able to just switch your project to the right format.

[Kris Petersen]

Ok, I’m having a similar and yet baffling problem.

Only some of my clips have green dots. They were all shot 720P, 29.97; the sequence and project settings are the same. All of the clips were shot consecutively, same day, no change in the camera settings. It just randomly changes, first half of the sequence has dots on all the footage, second half does not, except on the last transitions (cross dissolves into the filler). Those transitions have dots.

Any suggestions? I’m confused. I understand that rendering will get rid of them, but why are they there in the first place?

Thanks!!

[Daniel Huber]

Hi,

If you are seeing green dots in the middle of clips when they are in a sequence they have motion adapters on them.

This means some clips are a different frame rate! You can find this out by adding the FPS column to the bin through text view.

This is how you can mix and match frame rates. It is done automatically by the editor, and it is based on your projects settings at creation.