IEEE 1394 ?

[Jon Zanone]

First off, do you have a Mojo? if you do, you may be having a conflict with your firewire card. Make sure the FW card is on a separate bus from your Mojo.

Make sure your system is up to specs. Check here to go over the details of your system:

https://www.avid.com/products/xpresspro/specs.asp#pc

You don’t say what you are trying to control. Check this link to make sure your device is approved for use with Avid:

https://www.avid.com/content/8927/SUPPORTED%20DEVICES%20FOR%20AVID%20EDITOR%20PRODUCTS.pdf

If your device isn’t listed, it may still work, but it will be hit an miss.

If you used Vegas to import, then delete all the media Vegas generated. That should free up some room.

Jon

“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”

[Shashank Walia]

Sir i am not having an mojo and also i am not havina avid certified firewire.Is there any way through which some disk space can be saved as OMFI is creating a great load.

[Michael Hancock]

Everything in your OMFI MediaFiles folder is your Avid media. When you capture directly into Avid or import a file it’s converted to either an OMF or MXF file. If you delete the original files from Vegas your Avid media will still be there, because it’s referencing the OMF it created. You either need to get a bigger hard drive, more hard drives, or delete the Vegas footage as Jon suggested, if you’re planning on editing in Avid.

One more thing–when you import, what resolution are you choosing? If you’re choosing 1:1 you’re going to get big files–try a lower resolution, depending on your footage. I assume if you’re capturing via firewire you’re looking at DV25 or DV50–importing/capturing to these resolutions will save you a lot of disk space.

Michael.

[Shashank Walia]

sir should i delete master avi files i capturef through vegas.I can do that if there is no problem on quality. sir i am capturin a dvcam footage shot from a sony hvr z1n camera.

and sir if i dont capture them on 1:1 how will quality come same as the original.

please provide me a solution and thanks for the earlier replies…..

[Rhewitt]

sir should i delete master avi files i capturef through vegas.I can do that if there is no problem on quality. sir i am capturin a dvcam footage shot from a sony hvr z1n camera.

Yes, you are safe to delete the .avi files that were created by Vegas.

and sir if i dont capture them on 1:1 how will quality come same as the original.

There is often a confusion with 1:1. 1:1 means no compression is introduced and is used when the original input source is un-compressed such as composite or component video. Not when inputting video that is already compressed.

DV & DVCAM are already compressed at a ratio of 5:1. When you create a new project in Avid you simply select the format of the original source material. If you select DV/DVCAM PAL or NTSC for your project and capture settings, the video will be captured (brought into Avid) at it’s native resolution (DV25). It will not apply any further compression as it is being captured. This means you can accurately predict how much storage is required, approx 12-minutes per Giga Byte.

There’s nothing to stop you capturing DV/DVCAM at 1:1. It will not increase the quality but it will use five times as much space on your hard drives.

There are, however, advantages of creating titles and effects at 1:1. This is possible on Media Composer and I believe XPress Pro. Your original video won’t change but when creating your titles and any effects such as colour correction they will be created with no compression. This helps prevent the jagged edges you get on title and graphics at DV/DVCAM resolution. When publishing to DVD these will get compressed but they won’t be ‘double compressed’ as the video will be when going from DV/DVCAM to MPEG2.

Hope this helps.

Richard.

[Shashank Walia]

Thankyou very much Hewitt. This means that its ONLY OMFI what matters to Avid my master .avi files have nothing to do with it.Also sir if i capture footage via different application and then import it into Avid Xpress ProHD then will there be a quality loss.

Also sir this means that OMFI will be the master files after i capture them in to AVID.

Also i would like to appreciate this community where students like are able to clear their doubts with such great professionals..

[Shashank Walia]

As told by professionals above to delete master avi’s captured by other application after importing them to avid and making OMFI’s,I just want to know will there be a quality loss id i i import them in avid rather than capturing direct due to no firewire support.

plz it is urgent .

help is and will be appreciated.

thanks