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Try SnagIt by Techsmith. Cheap, easy to use, and you can download a fully-functional 30 day trial. You can save as uncompressed AVI, as well as other methods. Doesn’t get much easier than that. Big files, but no codec arguements.

Jon
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Take the Powerpoint presentation and select “File, Save As. . .”

In the filetype dropdown, you will see you can also save the Powerpoint slides as JPG’s, PNG’s etc.

These can easily be resized to full screen video and imported, or you can access them using Pan and Zoom if that would be more effective in some cases.

When I have used this technique, it saves the entire presentation to a series of images.

Jon
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You will, at least, want to consider adding another GB of RAM for a total of two on the system.

I presume you have a typo and meant you have a Matrox video card. My understanding is that Avid really does not like Matrox cards at all. They particularly like and want the NVidia Quadro cards. I think it has to do with the way the card handles instructions, particularly in hardware as opposed to a software layer.

Or some techno-babble similar to that which I admit I don’t fully comprehend. I’m gonna go align the plasma injectors in the warp core pre-sequencers now. . .

Jon
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Hi grinner – I figured out what the issue is. Our early version of MC Adrenaline (1.1.1 still) does not have that functionality. That’s why I was doing workarounds with it.

We’ll have a new MC on 2.7.5 soon, so things should be a tad easier to do!

Thanks for responding, though!

Jon
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I think the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to do this is to create a virtual drive.

On your media drive, create a folder called “Graphics Kit”.

Within the “Graphics Kit” folder, create an “OMFI MediaFiles” folder.

Locate the OMFI files that respresent your graphics kit and move them to this folder.

Open Notepad and create a text file that says:

subst G: E:\Graphics Kit

where “G:” is the available drive letter for the virtual drive and “E:” is the letter of your current media drive.

Save this notepad file with a “.bat” extension. You can place it in your “Startup” folder and it will launch and create the virtual drive automatically.

When you launch your Avid, it will detect the virtual drive and database it for you.

All you have to do then is lock that folder and your graphics are untouchable. You can also easily make a backup copy of them.

Jon
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I can’t tell you what to do, only what I would do.

I would wait until the xw8600 is certified by Avid. I would wait because I need to be editing, not troubleshooting.

Let someone else do the trailblazing on this; that is my opinion.

Jon
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I hear you Bouke. What was that old system?

How about 16MB on a 25MHz system? Remember the Newtek Flyer? We drove one of those for a few years.

The faster the machine you buy, the longer you go before you have to replace it. That $900 isn’t buying you speed as much as it is buying you TIME.

Jon
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I may not be clear on what your client wants. But if I understand correctly, here is what I would do.

Play your original footage and record to a DVD recorder using the overlay output from the tape machine. This gives you the tape TC over the footage. They can use this to reference specific clips and be TC accurate.

Ideally, record one tape to one DVD, with the DVD’s labeled identically to the tapes.

Then when they give you the digitize list, you go back to the original tapes and digitize away! Just don’t use the overlay output of the deck at this stage, of course.

Jon
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If you want to keep that moved media separate, but let the Avid see it (and you are on a PC) here’s the trick.

Let’s suppose you placed the moved media in a folder called “other media” on your media drive. Create an “OMFI MediaFiles” folder inside the “other media” folder and place your media in that new folder.

From Windows, run Notepad. In Notepad, use the substitute command to create a new “virtual drive”. Assuming you want your virtual drive to be letter X and your current media drive is E:, just create the following line:

subst X: E:\other media

Save this on your desktop with a .BAT file extension. Then just double-click it (before launching Avid) and Windows (and Avid) will now see your “other media” folder as a virtual drive.

A good solution for temporarily moving media to a system when you want to keep that media separate from your other media.

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The difference between the 4200 and the 4400 might be, for example, bus segmenting.

Avid requires full access to some internal data busses. The 4200 may not be configured in a fashion that makes the Avid happy.

Or it might be an AMD processor. Avid is not fond of those either.

The best course is to e-mail the Avid folks and ask them what the problem is with the 4200. (Besides that video card).