Bill Stephan
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What does your on-line editor have to say about all of this? All of what you posted needs to be dealt with during the Avid on-line process. You can’t expect to put in video that has wide blanking, crushed blacks & whites and other technical problems and expect it to pass QC. Also it is pretty much a universal s.o.p. to have the first frame of program start a tc 1:00:00:00.
Also, if you have lots of substandard archival footage in your program, you may need to “sell” it to the technical people at the network.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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To elaborate on the previous gentleman’s answer, it’s very easy to use the same effect and have the parameters match every time. In effects mode, there is a small effect icon at the top of the window where you set parameters. Drag that to any bin, and you’ve saved the effect with all its settings.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Morten,
Scratch removal is designed to fix only one bad frame at a time. I would try to use a picture-in-picture (or 3D warp) to shift the picture slightly and crop it down to the smallest possible size to cover only the bad pixel.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Maybe having a matte key on your V1 is causing the problem. A matte key effect needs to be over some background on a lower track to function correctly. If your background consists of a graphic over black, you might try moving everything up a layer, so the matte key keys over something.
Our company does those Vonage spots that are all over the place. If you look at one that has a white card at the end with store logos, you will see a soft-edge wipe (supplied as an animated key window) to a graphic with 4 store logos and a web site/phone number graphic. The master spot is supplied to us with the soft wipe to the end graphic already built-in, so we need to soft wipe-on the store logos and URL/phone #. The main spot is on V1 with no EFX. V2 is left empty. V3 is 5 nested matte keys created using the collapse tracks effect, and V4 is the animated key window with a matte key effect applied. If I do not leave V2 empty, the matte key does affect V1. Leaving V2 empty does leave V1 untouched.
One other thing to check is that you unselect “downstream key” on all your effects when building complex composites. That definitely will screw up the logic.
I hope some of this helps.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
To keep the P-I-P effect from affecting everything under your submaster effect, leave a blank video track between the track containing the submaster and everything else under it.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Canon HDV is 720P. Sony HDV is 1080i. Panasonic doesn’t do HDV — it does DVCPro HD (DVCPro 100MB). Welcome to the world of HDTV!
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
You can only do a crash record using Firewire deck control. For real insert/assemble editing, you need RS-422 control.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
I believe that Grass Valley 4.1 format EDLs will go over 1000 edits. The edit system will, but I never tried it in Avid EDL Manager.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
[FischTale] “How much of the quality of the video is product of encoding versus authoring?”
100%[FischTale] “What is the next logical step up from simple software encoding in Encore that will give me acceptable playback of HD projects downconverted to SD DVD?”
Many high-end shops use the Cinemacraft software encoder.[FischTale] “Are there some hardware encoding options that don’t cost tens of thousands of dollars?”
Sonic SD500 encoder.[FischTale] “Even if I have better quality encoding, will it even matter if I’m still authoring in Encore, or should I step up to better software as well, like Scenarist?”
Depends on how complex your authoring needs to be and how deep your pockets are. Also don’t consider Scenarist unless you are willing to get professional training, because full-spec DVD authoring systems are highly complex. Plus you need to know the limits of the DVD Spec.Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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I absolutely would not even consider EVER mastering a DVD-9 project on a DVD+/-R DL. That said, when the replicator’s Eclipse recorder is importing your source data, if your disc throws an error, the replicator should not go forward creating the glass master. Mastering from DVD-R sometimes causes errors to creep into the replicated discs, and the replicator needs to be extra careful to watch out for this.
The fact that the replicator is trying to blame the authoring software is an indication of a cover-up, and they may be trying to hide their own defective manufacturing.
Try copying the DVD to the hard drive on a PC. If the copy fails, that is a pretty good indication that the DVD contain PO (parity outer) errors. That usually results from bad molding or a damaged glass master. You might want to have the replicated DVDs analyzed to determine what kind of errors are present. Also the replicator’s reports from the Eclipse recorder may indicate where the problem is.
Did you get a check disc before the job was run? You shouldn’t approve starting a replication run until you obtain a check disc and check it thoroughly. You would have seen this problem on the check disc.
Next time use a DLT to master a DVD-9 project. That is a bulletproof method of getting the data to the replicator.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City