Chaz Shukat
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That’s a loooong video. It’s gonna be a big file no matter what you do to it. To get it small is gonna take every means of degrading the quality you can think of. Why don’t you try exporting it in sections of say 20-20-10? Or even 5-10 min. sections? That way you can keep the quality up and the file size down.
Chaz S.
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This one sounds good, I may get it myself.
Chaz S.
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I’ve never used a raid set so I’m just gonna take a shot in dark here because from what you have already tried and said in your email, this doesn’t seem like the answer but it’s something you haven’t mentioned, sooooo….. How is the set striped? FAT32 OR NTFS? Could that have something to do with it?
That’s the only thing that comes to mind at the moment.
(It’s frickin’ aggravating isn’t it?)Chaz S.
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To get the audio waveform, go to the hamburger menu on the left bottom corner of the timeline. About midway up you the menu you’ll see 3 choices you can try to see which one suits you best, but you probably want “sample plot”. But first you’ll probably want to expand the width of the audio tracks like Jon suggested so that you can see the waveform more clearly. You do that by placing your cursor between audio tracks numbers on the left side of the timeline. When the cursor turn to a black line with arrows pointing up and down, click and hold as you drag down or up to expand of contract the track width. Avid doesn’t have “hotkeys”, that’s not an Avid term. We call them keyboard shortcuts. And for Pete’s sake, there’s no reason to feel stupid ya big dummy! This forum is for the basics.
Chaz S.
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That’s one hell of a project you are tackling there, especially for a student. Not easy for any editor. It’s beyond my experience but I can tell you that since you won’t be going back to film, you don’t need to worry about Matchback. Whoever answers your question will probably need more info regarding the pulldown rate in the telescine transfer. What frame rate was it recored onto the HDCAM & DVCAM? Try to use a workflow where you stay with the same frame rate so no conversion is necessary. That’s all I’ve got. May the force be with you.
Chaz S.
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THAT,is funny! But remember, Beethoven was deaf and the Beatles couldn’t read music, so they are in good company?
Chaz S.
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You can create as many sequences as you want in a project. Yes, they are made from clips. You could construct the entire project in one sequence if you want. Or you can take sequences of sections of the project and lay them all out into one sequence to create the completed project.
Chaz S.
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I don’t have experience with Xpro HD but here are some possibilities. For one, it’s always preferable to digitize from a deck rather than the camera. 2.Sometimes the capture window is a little screwy and doesn’t show the video. You need to fiddle with things sometimes, like click on the window, toggle the video track off/on, sometimes you need to come out of capture and then come back in.
3. Make sure you video input selector is set to the right input. Have you tried to capture a clip anyway to see if it’s getting into the Avid even though you are not seeing it in the monitor?As for the audio, the only thing that comes to mind is what type of project did you set up for, NTSE or PAL? Maybe you have PAL tapes and selected NTSC for your project and not PAL.
Chaz S.
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OK, I’ve never been an Avid assistant, so don’t take what I’m saying as the last word in being correct, but here’s what I believe to be the situation.
No, Avid does not change media file names even though you change them in the bin or even change the name of the bin. Each file has it’s own unique alpha-numeric name and that’s how Avid locates it. So it knows what clip/bin it is even if you changed the name. If you want to find out what unused media you can delete, you open your media tool from the tools menu, select your project and drives that you want to be searched,etc., the click on your current sequence and select find media relatives from the bin menu. This will highlight all the omfi files being used in your current cut. (If you have all your bins open, it will highlight them in the bins as well). You then select “reverse selection” from the bin menu and now it highlights all those clips that aren’t currently being used. You can either delete those right off, or you can look at each of them to determine if you think you might still need them later on, de-select those you want to save and zap the rest. That’s how Avid is set up to thin the herd so to speak. The method you used, copying omfi files in the directory, creates duplicate files, which is not desireable. You can use this method to copy files to another drive (or use consolidate media in Avid), but I don’t recommend it for moving files within a drive.
This is not my forte so there may be additional ways of doing this, which is usually the case with Avid.
Hope this helps.
Chaz S.
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Let me give you a direct answer to your question. No. I don’t think the sound designer should change the music selection or how it’s edited. If you missed a beat by a frame or something and he can hear it because he’s better set up for such detail, OK, but re-edit or change, no. He’s there to add sounds if I’m not mistaken.
However, in the end, neither of you have the final word, but he/she should not change what you have done, because most likely, the producer/director/client has signed off on what your music selection and your edit.Chaz S.