David Braswell
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Change your sequence back to SD, choose the clips you want and transcode them to your desired codec.
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Thanks Michael,
I’ll try that. I suppose the machine may not have liked all the unrendereds and color correction. I use a template for P&Z where I collapse the filler track (with effect) and an empty track above for color correction. I cut this into sequence when I need to change pics. Strange perhaps, but usually works well. Will definitely try rendering more often.
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As far as I know, there are gamma conversion issues when exporting directly to DVCPro. The only way around it I’ve found is to manually adjust brightness and contrast in Quicktime’s “filter” setting before you export. I have to do this for a client who makes web video from DVCPro files.
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You didn’t indicate if the two WD SATAs were going to be RAIDed for your media drives. If you’re going to push HD around (especially in flavors other than HDV) you’ll want a RAID setup. And as Michael Hancock indicated in a similar thread, heat buildup and portability are factors to consider when deciding to keep your media drives internal. Beyond that, sounds like a really nice PC 🙂
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Thanks Grinner. I normally do, but AE isn’t a great app to put a client in front of to watch an 80+ photo and video slide show. I ended up restarting the computer to flush RAM. I also turned playlength on. Combined with the video cache setting that solved my issues. Got through the rest of show with no problems.
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Determine the clips you need from your final sequence. In another bin, transcode to DNxHD from the original P2 media. Copy your sequence, highlight the copy and relink based on “highest quality” in the relink dialog.
This works for me. I’ve done a few P2 projects where I start with a DV25 transcode to do a stringout (soundbites for instance), and then relink to HD online media. Here’s a great video of this workflow by Bob Ruisso.
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If you RAID the 4 internal SATAs you should have a nice box, particularly for pushing SD DV25/50 around. External SATA is not just for Macs 🙂 A client of mine is having a blast on a Dell workstation with external 2TB G-Tech. I highly recommend the combination. He usually cuts in DV25 and HDV.
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I think the short answer is no, not in the way you’d like to switch between them. But you can load the old sequence into the source window, sync it with your current sequence and switch between them in the timeline. Also, when I’ve needed to reference a previous edit I sometimes create an extra video and audio tracks and lay the older sequence into my timeline. A bit painful, but perhaps oen of the two solutions will help.
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A typical method would be to create a “decompose” bin and decompose your sequence, which will create a new master clip for each of that sequence’s video clips. I’m not sure how trustworthy decompose is with P2 “virtual clips” though.
I would most likely open all bins that contained used clips, then highlight your final sequence in its bin and go to the hamburger menu and “select sources”. Copy all of the highlighted sources into a separate bin then load media from there.
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I don’t remember if your deck has an LCD display or not, but it sounds like you need to check your deck’s settings. If it does have a display does it show your footage as letterboxed? How are you capturing? The anamorphic flag is carried over firewire so your deck may automatically be formatting the video as letterboxed 4:3 on the output side. I would start by checking the deck’s output settings.
I cut on 2.8.3 MC and have done widescreen DV and DV50 from tape and P2 cards. The Avid really doesn’t “assume” 24P footage is 4:3. If you’re importing from P2 it brings the footage in as anamorphic and let’s you decide how to crop (letterbox, center cut, fullscreen, pan and scan, etc.). If you’re capturing from tape the format decisions are made in the output settings of your deck.