Alain Dessauvage
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BMD cards used to be rubbish, but they finally caught up with the rest performance wise after al these years. Just don’t use the latest driver (10.5) but the previous one (10.4.3). BMD is now Avid’s preferred hardware partner and works with Resolve, so things don’t look too good for AJA and others. Matrox already stopped supporting Avid.
I’m running an Intensity Shuttle Thunderbolt on my MacBook Pro and a Decklink Mini Monitor on my MacPro 2010. Both without trouble nor lag issues.
If you use the Ultrastudio Express, you can use the analog outputs (via breakout cable) to monitor the sound. If you use the Mini Monitor you ‘ll have to use the headphone output of the FSI, or connect the HDMI output to an AV receiver or preamp (Denon DN500AV). This has the added advantage that you’re then able to monitor in surround if you need this.
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Not true Shane, Avid’s compositing tools are quite good: tracking and stabilization, keyframeable garbage mattes with bezier splines etc.
What you need to do:
– put the background on V1 and the foreground on V2
– stabilize the foreground using the Region Stabilize filter. You should be able to completely lock the foreground element otherwise things will get difficult
– alt drag the 3D warp filter on V2 and the select the tracking module
– track the background using one or two tracking points. The second one is necessary if also tracking rotation or scaling
– enable the tracking and reposition the foreground element on the background
– crop your foreground element. If you need a more precise crop, alt drag the animatte filter and create a custom shape
– this shape can then be tracked as well, if necessary.To my knowledge, Avid is the only NLE that enables this kind of composition work without leaving the software
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I keep my projects in my Drop Box sync folder. That way there’s always a Back-up available.
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Honestly, I think it’s very useful that Avid doesn’t undo bin events. After all, how many times do you delete a sequence by accident ? You also need to confirm the delete, so this only happens if you’re very distracted. And the attic is very reliable.
What happens more often though, is the following situation which you no doubt already experienced. You’re doing some modifications and tryouts on an edit. Suddenly the director asks you if you’ve saved the previous version, which of course you haven’t. No problem, you just duplicate the edit in the bin and then undo all the modifications you have up to this point. So now you have two versions: the original and the modified one.
If Avid would undo bin events (like FCP), the only way to achieve this would be to undo your modifications, then duplicate the sequence, and then redo all modifications after having first memorized them. Not very practical..
Also, excluding bin events allows for an uncluttered and clear undo list.
Maybe it should be an option, like the ‘undo only record monitor events’ toggle which I also have enabled.
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It’s a question of priorities. You want the keep your schedule, the editor (and director) doesn’t want to feel pushed by the postproduction team. Also, an editor thinks in terms of a movie being much more than just a collection of shots. Every shot is related to the one that comes before and after and it’s his job to make sure everything is cut together in an organic way. So if a certain shot ends up in the film and not the alternate take, there’s a reason for it. Whereas postproduction tends to think more in terms of individual shots that make up a film. Especially if a whole team will be working on the film.
But unless everyone is stubborn as hell, there’s always a compromise to be found.
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Honestly, I sincerely believe an editor’s loyalty lies with the director, especially if he or she is being paid by him. You did the right thing asking him if he would like to do 60″ cut to make it easier for you, but if he didn’t accept, he probably had a good reason to. As an editor, I also encountered some situations where I delivered some ‘temp’ shots that ended up in the final cut, because the post on those shots was already done. And that annoys me to the point I would also refuse this kind of requests.
But what I don’t understand is that you didn’t start to work on the 2′ version. IMHO that would ‘be been a good compromise.
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I thought about that too, but although the Paint effect has transfer modes, it can’t apply them to the image, just to a solid 2D colour box or polygon
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If you use locators (you can chose the colour aswell) don’t forget to open the Locator Window. You can then see all locators of the active clip or sequence, very handy. Can also be printed or exported.
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OK that did the trick, thanks !
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ok thx for your help everyone!