[Andrew Mckee]

When using the trial, Avid also looks at the age of project and can give this save and quite message if it is older than 30 days. A little weird, I know. Are you running a project that you got with the official curriculum? If so, you just need to create a new project, open the bins from the old one and move the sequences and clips over. This should resolve the issue.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

Avid will only scan for files in Avid Media Files -> MXf -> 1 (or 2,3,4 etc). When you open Avid it scans here and creates an mdb (media database) file for all the clips in that folder. One way to import all the mxf files in a folder is to import that mdb.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

Errr… no you didn’t as you paid more than the RRP. Meaning you would have paid less to buy it from a reputable dealer, rather than some guy on Craigslist. Avid’s only cost silly money if you buy a computer, software and hardware package.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

That’s insane. They only tested this amazing feature with 720p23.98 footage? Is that even a format that anyone shoots? I think the working around for now is to do a compound clip with the footage manually sunk (synced? what is past tense of sync??) and then edit that into the project.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

Over on the Avid site forum Avid employees have said they are working really hard to get it approved and have hinted it will be a 5.5.3 update for Lion, with no charge. But Lion has been out, what, about 2 weeks? Considering the differences between the beta and the release version its unsurprising that they haven’t got it yet. I don’t see why are so impatient. I remember getting Windows Vista and not being able to get a driver for a midi keyboard I owned for about 6 months. For a midi keyboard! Avid need to approve half a dozen pieces of software and hardware and support for 3rd party hardware.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

I’ve used the same method Shane has and it works well. Been a while, but I thought that just exporting ProRes straight out of Avid removed the gamma shift for me and made things a little easier to handle. Can’t remember the exact workflow I ended up with now.

Andy

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

I usually just embed the files (as WAV 48KHZ 24bit) in the folder with the AAF and it’s always worked fine for me.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

Not as far as I’m aware. Pitch and speed changes were always done in the audio suite which didn’t have any keyframes. But I have not yet done much playing with the RTAS capabilities of MC5, so perhaps someone else knows a way to achieve this.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

A little more info. If I open up the synchronised clip in the timeline I can get the two to roughly sync up by retiming the audio to 96%. Which is the difference between 24 and 25 fps. So I would guess that is the issue. But how exactly do I force FCPX to interpret the audio correctly at 25fps? It seems to do it right when editing it into a 25p sequence but not when putting it into a 25p synchronised clip. It also insists on rendering every time I create a synchronised clip, why?

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

Sequence is set to match video at 1080p25 and in the sequence they stay in sync. But if I select them both in the event library and choose synchronise they are out and if I double click on the synced clip it loads up in the timeline and even if I line up the claps, they drift out of sync, both visually and audibly.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net