Bill Ravens
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alternatively, can’t you export to a lossless digital intermediate codec, like SHEER or CINEFORM? Then import the rendered file into FCP
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whaddaya mean? didn’t you know, we ARE the beta testers.
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As a relative newcomer to this business(I never cut celluloid), I hesitate to add my .02 to a topic that has caused more disagreement than a discussion about politics. Nevertheless, I would like to say, as many others have, that no NLE is flawless. Each seems to have its own peculiarities that, once learned, allow the editor to be fairly trouble free. Problems are platform agnostic.
When I first started this business, I felt that ease of learning the app was the most important feature. As my skill and business grew, I learned that ease of learning is something useful only for beginners. As my skills grew and my demands on the software grew, two things stand out as critically important.
Firstly, an application must be reliable and dependable. As an editor, WYSIWYG is very important for artistic creativity as well as for business timeliness. No customer will return if I keep making excuses why I haven’t met his schedule. If an application fails, hangs, crashes or produces unreliable results, I have no use for it.
Secondly, because I push applications to their limit, it is critically important that there be a strong customer support base, which included forums such as this one, with experienced user willing to help without letting their egos get wrapped up in their answers. Just as important is a strong manufacturer presence and desire to satisfy the needs of their customers. Again, I have no use for an application that doesn’t provide efficient technical support. The more complex an NLE is, the more difficulties that will arise. Without that technical resource, I’m just shooting in the dark, to put it politely.
I’ve never used FCP, altho’ it is on my educational list. Of all the NLE’s I am proficient with, Avid stand out as the most flexible, the most accomplished, the most dependable and the one with the best customer support going. You may feel differently, this is only my opinion. Admittedly, Avid is difficult to learn. But, once mastered, it is an outstanding product that truly fits the definition of “professional”. There are very few other NLE’s that fit this category, despite their popularity with beginners.
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I think you’ll find that if your destination format is SD, 720pwill give the best results when downconverting.
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huh?
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This is a very complicated issue. I would try to uninstall MC, then re-install. Audio compatibility with MC is problemmatic. Do you have ProTools installed on the same OS?
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I have a JVC GY-HD110. Importing native m2t files into Avid is problemmatic, however, there’s a number of very acceptable workarounds.
1-If you purchase Cineform NEO, you can transcode the m2t files into avi which import into Avid very easily.
2-If you have a transcoder, like Procoder, Squeeze5, or TmpGENc, you can transcode the native m2t to standard m2t. This is just an odd transcode because it happens very quickly and the data really isn’t transcoded. It’s just “corrected” from what the camera wrote to what Avid is expecting.Hope this helps you decide.
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OIC. I didn’t know you worked for the state. That explains a lot…;o)
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Perrone…
If you cut in AVID, you wouldn’t be having these probs. In Avid, you can drop a timecode burn in to the timeline, which can easily be switched off and on. Then if you output using QTReference files, which take very little space and export almost instantaneously, you can then import the QTref file to your transcoder of choice, be it Vegas, Procoder, Squeeze, or whatever.
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…and color timing?