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Colin Edelman
May 25, 2012 at 3:46 pm in reply to: How to convert AVin video format

This solution did not work for me. Did you ever find a workaround Ed? Or anyone else?
Thanks

Colin Edelman
Colin Edelman
December 23, 2009 at 2:09 am in reply to: Tiff Sequence with Timecode? Sony XDCAM to Color Correct

By original XDCAM clips, do you mean the ones I converted within log and transfer?

Either way, there would be a lot of manual labor after I completed the cut. For example, I have a :30 with 24 cuts in it. Here I would go back to the original clip which is minutes long and I need frames.

So the big issue is if I can preserve timecode after a cut has been put together.

While the person who said that may have making a generalization, the fact still remains that there isn’t a smooth workflow for XDCAM cam that retains timecode.

I understand that people jumped all over the RED camera because it was making so many waves, so now you have programs like Crimson that read XMLs from Final Cut and refer to the Raw Red files to make a DPX sequence with timecode. However, I was hoping there was an equivalent program for Sony XDCAMs.

Colin Edelman
Colin Edelman
June 17, 2009 at 3:29 pm in reply to: Clear In Out Points on Multiple Clips

Hey Colin,

Here’s the trick:

Highlight the clips in the browser, then right-click any of the timecodes in the In column, and select “Clear In.” Do the same on the out column.

Best,
Colin

Colin Edelman
Colin Edelman
July 23, 2008 at 5:13 pm in reply to: Webcasting

I exported an mpeg-4 straight out of Avid today, and it produced a .mov file (that has Apple mpeg-4 decompressor codec when I got the info within quicktime).

When I tried to change the file extension to .mp4, it produced an unrecognizable file to quicktime.

My hangup is that I just don’t trust an mpeg-4 that is in an .mov extension even though quicktime says it has the mpeg4 codec.

Is there an essential difference between an .mp4 and .mov with mpeg4 codec?

Colin Edelman
Colin Edelman
June 30, 2008 at 10:52 pm in reply to: NTSC to PAL necessary for quicktime or mpeg-1?

thanks for the response.

I had forgotten to respond earlier to my own post, where I would have said:

This has already been answered and with a better title too:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/983202

but thanks anyway!

Colin Edelman
Colin Edelman
June 19, 2008 at 2:18 pm in reply to: 24 fps Animation interlacing in a 29.97 sequence

yes, I tried a mix down as well, but this didn’t help.

I would think the process of going out and then back in through a digibeta would work because the Avid is ingesting a whole new file without effects (since they are inherently in sequence) which seemed to be causing the problem in the first place.

Colin Edelman
Colin Edelman
June 17, 2008 at 9:47 pm in reply to: 24 fps Animation interlacing in a 29.97 sequence

Thanks for the response, Michael.

When I imported the 24fps animation with the console command “ignoreqtrate true,” it definitely looked smoother than when adding 2:3 pulldown in After Effects.

However, I still needed to add a speed up to the animation and when I did, the interlacing was still apparent on a DVD on a TV after running the exported uncompressed Quicktime through compressor. (When the speed up wasn’t there, the interlacing was gone).

The workaround to this was making a Digibeta of the entire cut, reimporting it 1:1 into Avid, and then exporting it as an uncompressed QT. This solved the interlacing issue on a DVD seen on a TV.

The lesson learned was that Avid couldn’t handle 7 video layers with effects on almost all of them. I suppose the workaround was similar to the process of baking the files when going from Final Cut to Color.