Dave Schweitzer
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The Consolidate command in Avid is designed to collect media files from all over, trim off the unused footage, and put everything in one location. A key setting is to skip files already on target drive (I paraphrase). If you’re still working on the program you may want to wait until your sequence is locked. This is usually one of the things to do after your show has been delivered. Consolidating the final sequence will create new media for every clip in the sequence (except ones already on the target drive). You can set the handle size as big as you want when trimming off the unused material.
Beware on new versions of a bug that will require you to delete all Avid titles out of the selected sequence before consolidating.
Copy your final sequence into a new bin (I put CONS in the bin name). Consolidating will create new master clips and put them all in this new bin. You can then use the media tool to delete all OTHER media if you want. -
Sorry, from what I’ve read there’s no back or forth with Avid Free.
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flip4mac offers several tiers of their WMV tools for quicktime on the Mac. With flip4mac installed you can open WMVs in QuickTime and if you have QT Pro you should be able to export something usable.
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Whoops! just read your profile (kudos to you for filling it out). I see you’re not on an Intel, but I personally have had conflicts with the Cin
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Do you have an Intel Mac?
If so, you’ll need to download the Avid codec, and to view Avid QTs, open Quicktime under Rosetta.
Soon the universal binaries will be out, but for now that’s the way to go with Intel inside. -
I use this one:
https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
MPEG Streamclip works as advertised, and it’s FREE!
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And this will REALLY show my inexperience to all these acronyms…
IIRC?
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If you’re doing your own projects, Xpress Pro is very powerful and can function very well for most all projects. It’s what I use for all the projects I take on myself. Media Composer has more powerful features available, especially where effects are concerned. After Effects, Motion, and Photoshop will see more use with Xpress vs. MC. If freelancing for other companies it will be a benefit to know how to use the added features.
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Hmmm. Usually when I see overrun or underrun errors it’s due to an underperforming storage setup. But obviously your hardware should be up to snuff, so let’s look at the software. What flavor of Avid are you running, and what version? Also, what version of quicktime and are you having any difficulty at all playing quicktimes at the Explorer level? It may also be helpful to peruse the Avid forums to see if this is a common problem with whatever software combination you’ve put together.
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Are you capturing to the internal system drive or dedicated storage? If dedicated, what kind of drive and how is it hooked up? And is there plenty of space available?