[David Lewis]

Thanks for your reply.

Well, no, my PC is not slow or “duff”, but it simply had some glitches with the Avid program for some reason.

I edited all my programs, up until recently, on my PC with very minor problems, such as when opening the program it would for some reason take a long time to finally open; I could not hear the audio scrub when in trim mode- doing frame-by-frame trimming. There were a couple of other things that escape me now, but never stopped my ability to edit.

Don’t quite know what the “Lion dance” or “bus segmentation” issues you refer to, but I’ll keep an eye out for Mac glitches.

Frankly, the only reason I went to my Mac (which for a while had FCP on it for a long-term client, and why I bought it in the first place) was that I had some files from a project I needed to edit on a Mac formatted drive that just wouldn’t be “recognized” on my PC.

It was simply easier to “jump” over to the Mac to edit the programs. I still have Avid loaded (just not “activated” on my PC and will probably return to the PC once these few projects have completed.

It’s a shame there isn’t a good Mac option for creating DVDs straight from the MC6.

Thanks for your input.

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[David Lewis]

Thanks to all the replies above about the blurry image fix.

I do not have BCC8. I have what came with my last AVID MC 6 purchase,which I acquired in January. I don’t want to go and purchase more items now.

I may download a trial version to see how it works, as recommended above for these tools.

AVID FX, indeed is a tool I have, though I haven’t delved into it too much. I see the Unsharpen Mask filter, and I’ll have to experiment with it, so it seems. Not too familiar with how to move around this program, but time and some internet inquires should help be get going.

Again thanks for all the input.

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[David Lewis]

Hi Job:

Thank you for your response. I’m very hopeful now!

I’ve looked for this in my Effects Palette and I don’t see a heading with this name. Can you tell me under what heading in the Effects Palette this plug-in is located? I am working with Avid MC6.

All the best.

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[David Lewis]

Michael-

Thanks reminding me about the multi-cam option. I had forgot that AVID had it. I’ve never used (or needed to use) this option before and was going to do a slightly more complicated and no-doubt less efficient method than this one.

Due to the nature of the shoot, I will have a LOT of separate multi-cam sequences created (some of the takes were rather short, but all are slated). I assume I can just connect my final scene choice cuts into one new sequence combining all those individual scene sequences. Do I have to modify the various scene sequences I create or just in-out mark and insert the clip into the new sequence?

Again thanks for your time and input.

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[David Lewis]

Hi Hector!

Things are good, thank you for asking. No doubt things are going well for you!

Thank you for your input. I will try DNxHD 90. I’d like to keep as much quality as possible with this project as well as end up with a proper codec.

I will double check, yet I think you are right in that I do not have 10-bit material.

All the best,

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[David Lewis]

Michael, I appreciate your input and suggestions, thank you.

As you suggested, I think I will start editing with the AMA link, as this project is very straight-forward match cuts between cameras/audio file.

Perhaps any FX I need to do (transitions or open/close credits) I will add at the end after I transcode at the end.

One last question- I see there are a variety of DNxHD codecs to transcode to… how do I choose which one for my project. What is the variance/difference between the end numbers?

Again, thanks for your time and input.

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[David Lewis]

Michael:

Thanks for your input.

If I understood you correctly, if I continue to edit to AMA linked files, in the end I can simply transcode the final edited sequence into a (consolidate first?) DNxHD file/sequence? Another option,again, if I understood you, is that I could NOW transcode all the raw AMA linked files into DNxHD files and then edit from them (new files separate from the original files).

Regarding the audio, it’s like this. I recorded a piano in a recording studio using three cameras AND a separate audio recording on the studio’s sound board (excellent recording quality). I could not get a feed, so I “clack” slated each camera’s audio as reference and the high quality audio, which I will now edit together. Since I will be cutting between cameras I thought it might be easier to mix down the camera cuts I do so I have one video mixdown clip to sit over that final high quality audio. I’ll have to see how that works once I start editing… I might not need to in the end.

But my main issue is handling the editing. On a project I did awhile back I took the HD XDCAM material and transcoded it to DNxHD and edited that way… I just saw this new AMA linking and figured it might be an easier way to edit/save space.

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[David Lewis]

Hi Ricky:

As I look over my documentation… I do see that prerequisite. I don’t think I may have done that!

I’ll check with my “computer guy” who may be able to get me through this.

Thanks for your input and suggestion.

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[David Lewis]

Thank you for the reply Ricky.

I’m not sure… so, I guess I’d have to say the answer is “no”, as I don’t remember doing this type of set up.

Can you let me know what I need to do? I am operating on Windows 7 (64-bit) Professional OS.

All the best,

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[David Lewis]

Hello Job ter Burg-

I thank you for your reply.

Well.. that takes care of that issue…. I frankly hadn’t looked at MC5’s compatability with W7… since seemed to operated fine on my XP OS I didn’t think to check the bit rate.

No doubt I will have to already up-grade to 64 bit and re-install everything. So close and yet so far, and a costly mistake. Yet at least I know what should be the problem.

All the best,

David

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions