David Braswell
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The Avid preserves the aspect ratio fine, but it will be up to you to “correct” the footage when you export. Right-click in the source or record video monitor and choose 16×9 to display the footage properly on your computer screen. This will also ensure any Avid created titles are the correct ratio. If you’re exporting through a Mojo or Adrenaline you’ll have to reformat the video for it to display properly. You can use “pan and scan” under the reformat tab in effects. Or you can collapse your final video tracks and simply resize the height to 70% (will letterbox).
If you’re going to author a DVD or file for computer playback, simply choose 16×9 when you export your movie or reference movie. I was a bit confused by how Avid handled anamorphic SD as well, I think it’s pretty swell now as I have the choice of how to represent it when I make my final masters.
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Yeah if you’re exporting from a PC the gamma goes screwy. You can tweak it on export though. First, export using “RGB” setting. Next, go into the Quicktime panel’s custom settings (not the Avid exporter’s settings) and in the “filter” section change the brightness and contrast. Try “-6” for brightness and “+4” for contrast to start with. Render a short section and compare it to the video in your record window. Adjust as necessary. It’s a kludge but it works and doesn’t seem to affect export quality.
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Thanks Michael,
I won’t have a Mojo, and the DVCPro ref mov I sent out displays white when I open it (QT Pro is not installed, thinking that’s the reason). So I think I’ll just transcode when I move as you suggest. A quick test of that worked well. And without a BOB I really don’t need to stress the proc any more than needed.
Thanks again
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Our Avid dealer is keen on this product: CatDV. It looks like it will handle the cataloging and archive functions, as well as allow you to preview proxy footage and read all the metadata associated with P2 files. We’re an HVX200 shop as well. Our current offline storage medium is Quantum LTO 3 tape. It’s a bit kludgy trying to find a particular B-Roll shot, and unfortunately Panasonic (unlike the Sony XDCam system) don’t seem in a hurry to solve archiving/search issues.
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Darn I shouldn’t have read this. Now that pixel is all I see when I look at the header!
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If you have QT Pro you can just export the audio for each movie as an AIFF and place them in the sequence.
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In short, no you can not stack multiple audio effects, at least not the Audiosuite effects. And Audiosuite is where you’ll find the real tools for working with audio (compression, 7-band EQ, limiting, reverbs, etc.). If your editing needs are so narrowly tailored to audio and you’re on a PC, you may want to consider Adobe Audition or Cakewalk Sonar for audio work. Avid is better suited to video editing which works fine for the movie workflow the product sees so much of. But Premiere is miles ahead as far as using audio effects on the timeline.
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If you consolidated the media from the PC Avid or OMFI MediaFiles folders, you should be able to drag it to the corresponding Mac MediaFiles folder, let the database rebuild and relink in MC. Search the help file for the “relink” command.
If you didn’t consolidate or export an AAF file with linked footage, your project may be referencing media that truly does not exist. Did you check your copied MediaFile folder after the transfer?
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Also be sure to enable playlength so the Avid doesn’t have to “build the pipes” for the entire sequence before playing.
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Touche. Much video 24fps looks like crap as the shooters don’t understand (or the producers don’t care) safe pan speed.