[Andrew Mckee]

I can’t answer all of your questions but might be able to help a little bit. Here’s the thing. Whenever you playback footage it has to be decompressed/decoded (whatever you want to call it). You cannot watch compressed video. The compression/coding of video footage is only done in order to store it, when you want to access it you must reverse whatever you did into to get a full video stream. Think of a zip file. You select a document and tell your computer to zip it. It encodes the data in the file (translates a series of 0s and 1s into a shorter series of 0s and 1s) and then stores it. You can then keep it on your computer forever or email but whenever you want to read whats inside you must first unzip it back into the the long series of 0s and 1s. If you just open the zip file then you unzip it temporarily to your ram or some temp folder, if you unzip it, it create the original file and stores it permenantly on your hard drive. So whenever you hit play on a camera it is having to uncompress/decode the footage. In the case of a i/o device the camera then sends that uncompressed/decoded signal down a wire and and into the device.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Anamorphic aspect ratios stretch footage on display so they are wider than their native pixel count. So to get 2.35:1 you would take an image that is 3807×1620 and then squash it down into a 2880×1620 image horizontally.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Not sure about how to get the option up in the import but I would questoin weather such a codec is suitable for multicam editing. It’s gonna make your processor struggle. Personally I would flip the project over to an SD project, transcode to whatver option has an m next to it (its 8:1m or 10:1m in PAL projects, not sure about NTSC) do the edit and then flip the project back and relink.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Even though Paragon etc do allow you to access NTFS drives I would never put anything on there that is constantly being written to and changed like a project folder. Have you tried simply moving the project folder onto a Mac formatted drive and opening it from there?

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Not sure about your specific situation but the general rule of thumb is if you want an effect on top of the current one then option drag the effect onto the clip and it will autonest the current effect, if you want it behind the current effect then step in and apply it there.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Hold Command (Ctrl on windows) and Shift and it will contrain the movement to vertical only.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

If you copy the entire BPAV folder structure over to a folder on your media drive (eg Card 1,2,3 etc), then inside Avid you should be able to go to File->Link to AMA Volume and then point to the Card 1 folder and it will look inside see the BPAV folder and link to all the XDCAM footage inside. Alternatively you can just pop in the SxS and then consolidate from that. Avid will rewrap the files into Avic Media Files folder as MXFs but keep it in the XDCAM codec.

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

[Andrew Mckee]

Also, look at the resolution setting. Its the little button below the timeline that is (by default) half green and half yellow. Click it and it becomes solid green and you get full res in your source/record monitor. This effects text more than anything else.

Andrew McKee
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Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
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[Andrew Mckee]

The only time the attic isn’t put here is if you are using ISIS, in which case it goes to the root of the ISIS drive that the project folder is on. But buying an ISIS wouldn’t be a particularly cost effective way of solving this problem.

Andrew McKee
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Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net

[Andrew Mckee]

Are the files still in the orginal folder structure they were on the P2 cards?

Andrew McKee
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Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net