[Carl Amoscato]

I know a quick and dirty way to fix dropouts which may work depending on how pretty you want your end result to be. Also, this only works on frames with portions dropped out and portions that are still good. If you’ve lost entire frames, this won’t help.

Edit the frame before the frame with the dropout onto V2 above the frame with the dropout. Add a picture-in-picture effect to the frame on V2, scale it to 100%, and crop the picture-in-picture to show the good portion of the frame on V1 while covering the portion with the dropout. (You can also try it with the frame after the dropout covering the bad frame if the frame before doesn’t work.)

On shots with little movement this works really well. On shots with lots of movement, it works less well.

good luck,
Carl

[Carl Amoscato]

If nobody comes up with a better answer, you could just burn it to a CD (as a CD audio file) and import it from that.

good luck,
Carl

[Carl Amoscato]

Don’t worry. Everyone else does the same thing the first time they try and do a dissolve. Welcome to the fold. 🙂

[Carl Amoscato]

Hi,

Here’s what’s causing your dissolve problem. You have two clips, and we’ll call them clip A and clip B. They are both 5 seconds long. If you want to make a sequence that has clip A, then a dissolve into clip B, you have to leave a little extra video at the end of clip A and the beginning of clip B for the system to use to make the dissolve.

If you put all 5 seconds of clip A on the timeline and then all 5 seconds of clip B after it, there is no extra video for the system to make the dissolve from, and it only gives you 0 as a choice for the duration.

So instead, lay the first 4 seconds of clip A on the timeline, then lay the last 4 seconds of clip B. Now add a dissolve and you should have no problem.

good luck,
Carl

[Carl Amoscato]

Hi,

I’ve used the chroma keyer in Boris Continuum Complete (on MC Adrenaline 1.6) with great success using Beta SP footage and a somewhat well lit green screen. I recommend it highly.

I’ve also heard good things about Ultimatte, but have never used it.

good luck,
Carl

[Carl Amoscato]

“…i have the video background disabled.”

I think this might be your problem. With the video layer disabled, I don’t think the title background is transparent. Try saving your titles with the video layer enabled and see if that works.

good luck,
Carl

[Carl Amoscato]

Can you export the bin info (clip names, tape names, timecodes) as some sort of tab delineated text doc and then bring that into Avid and batch capture it? Just thinking aloud here, but I don’t think there’s a quick or easy way.

good luck,
Carl

[Carl Amoscato]

You’re welcome. I didn’t realize there was a match frame button on the source side, because I don’t display the second row of buttons. Looking at the online help, it doesn’t make much sense on the source side anyway. Match frame works from the record side to the source side, and reverse match frame works from the source to the record, which is why match frame on the source side doesn’t really do anything. (As you pointed out.)

adios,
Carl

[Carl Amoscato]

“I am still curious why the actual Match frame button (when clicked on) seems to do nothing.”

You mean the match frame button on your record side? If so, do you have all the right tracks selected?

good luck,
Carl

[Carl Amoscato]

Hi,

I think you have to map the modifier key also. Go to Command Palette>Other tab and drag the “Add Alt Key” button onto the button you want to be Alt+Match Frame, and I think that’ll do what you want.

good luck,
Carl