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How do I import video surfaces into Marquee?
Dear Guys,
I am a novice Avid user and I am having the most frustrating time getting a moving video file of any kind except .OMF into Marquee for use as a surface. The problem is Marquee will import only an .OMF file (won’t import WMV, AVI, MPG, M2V, MOV, or anything else) but Avid will not export an .OMF file. So what do I to to try to get some compatibility between these rwo programs?
Please help if you can. What am I missing?
Best,
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7 Replies
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you can render it when done, no need to export.
But you will find this is much quicker and easier in After Effects.
Because it’s so slow, I stil have not found a single use for Marquee. It’s basic functions can be had in title tool and anything worth opening it like bevelling or motion blur renders infinatly slower than programs offering much more capabilities.
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I get what you’re saying. But right now Marquee is all I got. And I just want to get a Video file into it for a surface.
Yesterday a guy told me how to render OMF files from Avid to bring in to Marquee, but I made 6 different OMF files with different settings and not one of them would import into Marquee. I know it can be done, I just can’t figure out HOW!
The only videofile I can bring in to Marquee is a few OMF files that I have on my Hard drive from some early captures and I don’t know how to find out what their compression settings are in order to duplicate them to export new ones.
Collective genius required. Any takers on this one?
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You’ll have to A: find the weird named OMF file ya need, import it into Marquee and wrestle with it’s limitations and render times or
B: just bust it out in AE and call it done.
all Avid editors have to know After Effects, man. All of em.
It has been this way since Cosa released AE ’94, imo.
Avid has just done nothing to improve things for you, brother. -
Ok Grin,
here’s a question for you. How do I find out what the properties are for an AVID clip. I want to pick one of those weird named OMF files that Avid imported, and find out if it’s OMF 1.0 or 2.0, if it’s 2:1 or 3:1 or 10:1, audio embedded or not, and all of that stuff.Any way to find that out?
– Matt the AViator
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man, you can see those stats in your bins under statistics.
wont help ya find the omfil file name though.
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Grin, I don’t have AE – that’s why I’m not using it. I kind of wish though.
And you can right click a clip in a BIN and pick Reveal File, and that will give you the weird OMFI directly.
Funny thing is I used to be really good with Marquee, way back when it used to be called Asymetrix 3DF/X. But it had a hell of a lot more flexibility back then.
But my original question still stands. Someone’s gotta be able to crack this…
– Matt.
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An Avid without AE is reckless on the producer’s part.
Gripe till ya get the tools ya need.
IMO, any producer booking an AE-less Avid is either reckless, careless or inexperienced.
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