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ProRes of any flavor will give you better quality. I saw some discussions in the AVID forums about how the H.264 codec changes gamma levels.
the ProResHQ is equivalent to DNxHD220. Approximately the same bitrate. The latest Media Composer should be able to AMA link to the ProRes Quicktime files just fine. (I believe MC 5 and up should be able to do that as long as the ProRes decoder is installed on the AVID workstation)
Is the AVID on a MAC or PC? The filesystem of the portable drive is OS dependant, not application dependant.
If the AVID is on a MAC, you are done. Just copy over and move the drive.
If the AVID is on a PC, purchase and install the latest MacDrive on the PC. The PC will then be able to read and write HFS+ formatted drives. You will have a 4GB filesize limitation with Fat32. And FAT32 is not as fault tolerant as HFS+ or NTFS.
We use the latest MacDrive to share drives between MACs and PCs on a regular basis.
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the Backdrop needs to be on a track lower than the overlays. If I understand what you are describing correctly, you want the backdrop on V1. Everything else lays on top. You are exactly backwards. 🙂
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The correct NVidia driver is located in (assuming you are on a PC) Program filesAvidUtilitiesNVidia folder.
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I was having some issues with the Paragon software writing to HFS+ drives. Went to the latest MacDrive and have had no issues. Everytime I wrote to a MAC disk using the Paragon, Disk Utility needed to repair the filesytem.
Just something to think about.
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Here is a very important lesson for anyone, first year student or not.
Look first in the Help menu. If you can do a Google search, you can use the help menu.
Look second in AVID’s knowledge base. I have found 90-95% of my answers in one of these 2 places. Be creative with your search terms if you you don’t get the results you are looking for.
IF all else fails, then go to the forums.
That being said, the colors.
Full yellow is draft quality. Lowest resolution display for fastest editing.
Half and Half is a compromise between quality and performance.
Full green is high quality. Better picture, requires more hardware resources for performance.
Digital cut ALWAYS uses highest quality for output. Just a simple play in the record monitor uses the timeline quality as indicated by the colors.
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And store it in 2 places. Hard drives fail. Filesystems can get corrupted. I am constantly drumming the adage “If it doesn’t live in 2 places, it doesn’t exist.” into the heads of our producers.
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Ah. I see I didn’t pay attention to the whole question. /) My bad.
I don’t know if you can do a re-direct of those storage locations from within the AVID. If you can find a way for the MAC OS to redirect those folders to another volume, that may work.
I know how to do that with Windows and Linux, but not specifically with OSx. I would think some method similar to Linux would do it as OSx is UNIX based, but Apple does a few things in a different fashion than most UNIX implementations.
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When you create a project, you will notice 3 types. Private, Shared, and external. All 3 point to different locations. I’m not exactly certain of the actual file paths for the first 2 on a MAC, but the external option gives you the ability to navigate to any accessible storage location for your project folder/files.
When you open or create a project, notice the box with the folder icon to the right. Click on that and you can navigate to any volume and the external option will be set. If that volume is not accessible, it will automatically reset the location to the Shared Avid Projects folder until you navigate to the new external location.
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That I don’t know. I would imagine it’s possible to get the ATTO to rebuild the array, but whether or not the data would remain intact, or if it would be able to rebuild is a good question.
sounds like you don’t have much to lose. You can’t access the drives without the old system. If the drives lose data during rebuild on a new system. Both of those scenarios have the same end result. Lost data.
If the rebuild succeeds you are a miracle worker.
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At a guess, it sounds like they were striped using the ATTO Raid adapter BIOS. That means those drives were striped using hardware raid. I don’t know of a way to rebuild the RAID volume without attaching them to the same raid controller.
I don’t know if you can use your raid adapter to rebuild the striped set without destroying the data that resides on the drives.
Is it possible to connect those drives to the system they were striped on and transfer the contents to a portable drive, or over the network to the new system? That would be the safest thing to try…although more time consuming.
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