David Braswell
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If you mean Marquee, yes you can change default saving location in its preferences. You can also choose where to save using “save as”.
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A followup: I’ve confirmed that P&Z is not rendering both fields properly. The worst looking shots are simply one field repeated which looks like crap in a zoom. 🙁
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Looks like the latest driver may have been the culprit. A clean uninstall and reinstall didn’t help. I rolled back to 6.1.7-3 and all seems to be well again.
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Never mind, found the answer.
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If by “reset” you mean dumping your MC State file, you have bigger issues than dropped settings. You shouldn’t have to toss that daily. My MC5 forgets output settings, and annoying habit it picked up about V4. Try making your audio setting a site setting.
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I have a colleague who beats his G-Techs up more than we do and he has had one or two fail as well. We’re conscious of the issue but haven’t been bit yet.
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If you can sync the cameras quickly I tend to find multicam feature more efficient than A-B’ing two sources. For three or more cameras it’s definitely more efficient.
Haven’t used ScriptSync and have not repurchased it with MC5 upgrade.
I have perceived a slight drift from time to time in sync, even with both cameras fed from the same source. Sometimes it seems to be there and then upon subsequent playback it plays in sync. I’ve never figured the cause and have only had it happen once in the last few months.
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Various and sundry here as well. We’re still using our original Avid Media RAID from Adrenaline days. We also have a Wiebetech (sp?) RAID that works well. And we sometimes use G-Tech RAIDs. All work flawlessly. The only issue we had was the Wiebetech did not like to be partitioned. Since we made it one volume it works fine.
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1. How well does MC5 integrate with Photoshop?…
Avid and Adobe work well together, just don’t espect to be able to “roundtrip” your workflow (edit in one program and have it update automatically).
2. I’m a bit confused about the file system….
Let the Avid worry about where it puts footage; that’s what it excels at. It’s actually a very good database manager. You tell it what drive to store media files on and it does the rest… by the way, if you switch, never defrag your media drive! There are several media management tools in Avid so you can sort your footage out from within a project, even though it all dumps into one folder. Avid “imports” media which converts it to its own MXF format.
3. In my playing around, I imported some HDV footage and was trying to use the QT reference export…
I haven’t worked with HDV a lot, but from memory you just choose to import it using another codec. When you capture from tape you have several codec and compression options to choose from. The Avid really wants to work with “I” frame only footage. Others can chime in here.
4. I use firewire to capture my footage and I found that if I am working in a HDV setting and my deck is switched to DVCAM, the timeline won’t play…
Again, not an HDV expert. But Avid can be a little finicky about working with HDV. We consult with a municipality that uses HDV cams and a Sony deck. As long as they choose the right project type, ingesting and playback/editing happen just fine. Search the boards for problems related to HDV.
5. When you export anything besides to tape, is there a way to see a preview of what the final will look like?
Render a short section before the longer render 🙂
6. One last question, if there is anyone out there that made the switch from PPro to MC5?…
I cut on Cube, Affinity, Premiere, Toaster before moving to Avid. Wished I had done it sooner. I was comfy doing simple (no to few internal effects, no crazy trim modes) edits within a day or two. Having experience on other editors helped, but here’s the key. You have to approach the Avid as if it were your first piece of editing gear. Learn how Avid wants you to edit first… as you progress you will hopefully understand why certain features (some say bugs) are preferable to other editors. But if you continue to try to do things the way you did them in Premiere (or Media 100, or FCP, etc.), I promise you will want to eat a bullet after a few days. Let the past go, hang out at the great community here and on Avid’s own site, and eat the elephant a little at a time.
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Actually, if it is a permissions problem you’ll have to solve it on the Mac once the files or folder is transferred. If it’s a file, highlight the file and hit Apple (Command Key) + I, for information. At the bottom of the information window you should see permissions. You may need to click on a “lock” icon and set the permissions to allow you to modify the file. Read the page here for this method:
Changing Ownership/Permissions in OS-X Finder
If that doesn’t work then you may need to investigate “changing ownership” of the file using the Mac OS terminal program located in Applications/Utilities (from memory). Note: this method is very geeky and dangerous stuff which is why OS-X “hides” it from you. However, I have had to do it. If it comes to this, research well before trying it.