Bill Stephan
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If the file you ripped is PCM audio, it’s very simple to import that into audio editing/mixing software or a non-linear editor to fix the level. Then use the new audio file with the MPEG-2 in any authoring software.
If the audio file you ripped is Dolby .ac3, then you need something that can deal with audio in that format.
It might be easiest to just play the DVD in a set top player while digitizing into an edit system. Fix the levels, export the audio and encode it.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Are you using SCSI or Fiber Channel storage? If you are on SCSI, are you sure that your storage can run fast enough to feed Symphony? Avid went to Fiber Channel with the introduction of Symphony because SCSI wasn’t fast enough to support multiple streams of uncompressed video.
Your symptoms sound to me like a misconfigured or malfunctioning SCSI bus, which can cause all kinds of grief similar to what you are experiencing.
Check for proper terminations (also correct type of terminator — LVD, HVD, SCSI-2, differential, etc.), no duplicate SCSI addresses.
We had a Sonic DVD Creator that lost its media & needed to have the drives reformatted every half hour until the correct terminator was installed on the SCSI bus.
I hope some of this points you in the right direction.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Or check out the book “DVD Menus”.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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You can group more than 4 camera angles, but you can see only four at a time. You can change which 4 angles are displayed. I haven’t done any multi-angle editing in a few years, so I don’t remember how to change the angles.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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You’re burning +R discs on an A04 burner? You need at least a Pioneer 108/A08 burner to do that.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Aside from the question of mixing frame rates in the timeline, which Avid does not yet do, what kind of master do you need to create? If you are mastering to DVCPro 50 at 23.98fps, then you need to convert your 29.97fps material to 23.98fps, which is a nasty conversion. If you are mastering on an NTSC Digital Beta, then you should be editing 29.97fps, and the footage shot at 24 just needs to get 3:2 pulldown to make it work.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Use the animatte effect to create a painted matte. Create the matte and select Key In or Key Out to key or to mask the area you painted.
Have you tried a simple luminance key on your lens flare transition? If all you need to do is drop out the black background, it might work.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Simon,
You design in Photoshop or whatever, then you resize to non-square pixels. After importing the image into your Avid, the image will look correct on the video monitor.
Why does Avid allow you to export with square pixels? To solve the opposite problem. For example, let’s say that you have made a freeze frame in Avid from a video image, and now you want to take that image into Photoshop to add a circular logo. You export with square pixels (768×576) so the image looks correct on your computer. You add the circle logo. Then you resize to D1 non-square (in Photoshop or let Avid do it on import). When you look at the logo in video, the circle is still a circle. If you make a circle in a 720×576 Photoshop document and import that directly into Avid, your circle will be displayed as a slight oval because of non-square pixels.
These issues are explained in great detail in books such as “Photoshop for Non-Linear Editors”.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Adrenaline and Symphony are native D1 format editors, so they digitize 720×486 in NTSC and 720×576 in PAL. There are no square pixels in either standard because of the way the pixels are mapped to the monitor’s scan lines. In NTSC pixels are higher than they are wide, and in PAL they are wider than they are high.
In NTSC, D1 format video is lower field first, and I think it is upper field first in PAL (but I’m not 100% sure).
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
You can move media using the “consolidate” function.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City