Bill Stephan
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Is there an NTSC/PAL switch on the back of that VTR? Is it set correctly? Are you trying to capture an NTSC tape into a PAL project?
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Symphony Nitris can upconvert to 1080 (or downconvert to standards-def) during Digital Cut.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
A video underrun means the hard drive storage is not running fast enough to supply video & audio data to the output.
Make sure that you close all bins except the one with the sequence. Also close all tools (effects, mixers, eq, etc). All these things eat CPU resources when they are open.
If all else fails, you will need to output your project in smaller segments.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Nero will burn your DVDs with the empty Audio_TS folder (as long as you are not in Nero Express). Check their web site to make sure your burner is compatible.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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It’s tough to assist when we don’t know what authoring software you are using.
If you exported from AE with an anamorphic squish, probably something in the authoring is not flagged correctly as 16:9 or Wide. It sounds like you are in Pan/Scan mode, which would cut off the sides upon playback.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Is there a manufacturer name on the box or the board inside? If you can track down the manufacturer, maybe they have the part you need. Many PCI expansion boxes used in various video systems came from SBS Technologies.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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Total conform means that whatever you build into your off-line using any version of Avid software — effects, audio levels, eq, color correction, nesting, etc. — will be understood and recreated at the on-line resolution.
Any 3rd party plug-in effects used during off-line must also be installed in the on-line Avid.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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The Avid DNA (I/O box) is somewhat similar to an Aja I/O, but the Avid box provides additional computing power for the effects and multiple streams beyond what the PC has. An Avid system without any hardware box (such as software Media Composer) needs to render almost all effects and can handle one stream of video.
An Aja box on a Final Cut Pro system gets you really good input/output, but you need to render just about everything, as the Aja doesn’t add any processing power to the system.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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If you think of the old Symphony that runs much faster and does HD, you pretty much have the idea behind Symphony Nitris. You get Spectramatte (which works much better than Ultimatte), tracker/stabilizer, secondary color correction, Marquee that is actually usable, Timewarp & Fluidmotion effects, BCC plug-ins, ability to work with the newest video formats (P2, XDCAM, etc.).
One major omission is the ability to use the frame rate metadata from DVCProHD. Avid wanted us to buy a copy of Media Composer to run on the Nitris to solve that problem (at $5,000 additional), but I have my own solution for that. Don’t tell anyone, but I run Varicam footage through Final Cut Pro. The boys in Tewksbury get somewhat upset over that.
I haven’t tried DNxHD-36 yet (we pretty much do on-line finishing), but it should be the ultimate solution to off-lining for HD as it is 16×9 and works in all the HD frame rates. It eliminates the problem of off-lining a 24P project in NTSC. You can conform the final master in any HD format/frame rate.
The Symphony Nitris is a good, solid and stable machine that I recommend to those who need its capabilities.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
The most efficient way to deal with massive amounts of subtitles is to use someone who has captioning software (which also does subtitling) hooked up to a Chyron Codi. The captions and time codes are programmed into the caption software, then one pass through the program in real-time and you’re done.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City