[Ann Foo]

Mads, you don’t have to tell me that I’m meant to be the boss and the assistants and assembly editors are meant to be helping me. This whole company has been wild.

Trying not to go on a rant, as an Australian living in Canada, things are done differently here. There’s cultural differences which get in the way of communication. The culture is non-confontational and one of agreement. You’re meant to fit into the system, NOT try to improve the system. Trying to make improvements will label you a troublemaker, and that is why I spent almost the whole of 2024 unemployed. Trying not to repeat that experience.

I’m desperately trying to find the compromise between small improvements which will save my sanity, and not being blacklisted for correcting their process. I’m not timid, or a pushover. But North American work culture is bullying and petty, and they don’t care how good you are. They care more that you fit in their system and don’t embarrass them by identifying the things they’re doing wrong. And in this situation, I am the freelancer and all the assists, assembly editors and DIT are full time employees, so whatever goes wrong, I am the easy scapegoat.

Sorry, I’m not understanding what you’re suggesting…

The RAW res is 7680×4320. They are giving me 1920×1080 proxies. But the clips still read as 7680×4320 in my project because they are displaying the RAW clip properties instead of the actual proxy properties.

Are you saying they should make the proxies 7680×4320, same as the RAW? Then the only different will be they are Pro Res LT codec.

And my Offline Edit project should all be in 7680×4320 (despite actually working with 1920×1080 proxies)?

[Ann Foo]

It doesn’t just scale pictures and GFX, It scales video too. I find it very useful because we are increasingly living in a world of mixed mediums…. multicam shoots often use different cameras. Iphone footage is often incorporated for an experimental look.
Typically on a feature, the DIT should standaradise all the proxies to 1080 for me, but that’s not hapening on my current gig and I don’t understand why. Some stuff is coming in at 4k, some 1080, some a weird format which requires it to be scaled up 115%. Needless to say it’s doing my head in but this automatic scale function is a great way to get around the problem

[Ann Foo]

Brilliant, thanks so much!!!

For anyone following, this is for PC users. For Mac users, this setting is under the Premiere Pro menu, Settings > Media, and choose the option ‘Fit to Frame’.

[Ann Foo]

I’m an Offline features editor, usually working with 1080p proxies. So from what you’re saying, sounds like the free version could handle a feature length 1080p export to sound (AAF) and grade (XML/EDL) handover. Thanks!

[Ann Foo]

UPDATE: Weird simple fix: had to expand the timeline window to reveal the scroll bar before horizontal scrolling keyboard and trackpad shortcuts work. Talk about your weird softward quirks!

[Ann Foo]

UPDATE: Weird simple fix: had to expand the timeline window to reveal
the scroll bar before horizontal scrolling keyboard and trackpad
shortcuts work. Talk about your weird softward quirks!

[Ann Foo]

This is easy. Avid has this nifty feature in the timeline, there is a button in the bottom edge of the timeline window called ‘Toggle Source/Record in Timeline’. Meaning, you can toggle the timeline to display either what’s in your record sequence, or in your source monitor.
You just need to drag and drop the sync sequence from the bin into the source monitor, toggle the timeline to ‘view source’, (I have the toggle function mapped to my keyboard), set precise mark in/out points, and then edit into your record sequence.

[Ann Foo]

UPDATE: I noticed my external hardrive was making a weird noise. So I ejected, plugged in again and finally exporting successfully!!! This is really weird, since I already did a machine restart and had already unplugged the drive before. But don’t look a gift horse in the mouth….

[Ann Foo]

Do you have a networked system, where different computers are accessing the same bin, from different projects, at the same time? Avid has a built in safety mechanism – if multiple users are accessing the same bin, only the first user can save the bin. The second user will only have read only access to the bin. So, try closign the bin in the new project (and any other project the bin is open in) and see if that helps.

Another option – .pmr is a database file. These corrupt all the time. Try quitting out of avid and deleting the database files. Next time you boot up avid, it should ‘scan’ media and rebuild new database files.

Good luck!

[Ann Foo]

I think people get a bit obssessed with the theoretical capabilities of the software, and forget the real-world limitation of the hardware of their machine. If your hardware can’t handle it, no amount of troubleshooting software is gonna help.
I’m glad it works for you, and a little jealous 🙂 Just not jealous enough to drop fat bank on a mammoth workhorse when the highest resolution I typically cut as an offline editor is 1080p 🙂 Hopefully I’ll be back in the proper office soon anyway and these home office issues won’t be a thing 😉