[David Thompson]

Thanks Pat, this makes a lot of sense. I’ll do as you suggest – pick the most sensible framerate for each cut based on the footage it contains, and outsource creating the variety of deliverables to a better-equipped facility.

Thanks again for your help,

David

System: Freelance, so various Macs inc. iMac and MacPro
Avid MC 8.5.2
Adobe CC
Final Cut Pro 7 (inc. cinema tools and Compressor)

[David Thompson]

Hi Shane,

Many thanks for your detailed reply – it’s extremely helpful.

The trouble with the project is that it’s being sold to a lot of different clients, all over the world – as well as containing archive footage shot and telecined in every format and process known to man. Fortunately, it’s broken up into short-form chunks, so thinking through your advice, I think I’ll edit each individual one in the format most of its footage is in (or can be easily conformed too) – either 50i or 60i, and leave Pal/NTSC conversions to a facility with the right hardware.

Thanks again for taking the time to reply – very much appreciated.

David

System: Freelance, so various Macs inc. iMac and MacPro
Avid MC 8.5.2
Adobe CC
Final Cut Pro 7 (inc. cinema tools and Compressor)

[David Thompson]

Hi Frank,

I know this is a very old thread, but just found it and can’t tell you how useful your tip is – thanks so much for taking the time to post it. Just used it to create an “extract clip under playhead” shortcut that I’ve always wished existed…

Gratefully,

David

Macbook Pro
2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB ram
Final Cut Studio 3

[David Thompson]

Hi Michael and Shane,

Thanks so much for this, I really appreciate it.

We waited for it to finished, which fortunately was in good time.

I’ve now had chance to do testing, and can confirm in case anyone else has a similar situation that you were right: Aborting makes AD delete the .aaf file, leaving just the .mxf media. And it creates the media left-to-right on V1, then V2 etc.

Thank again for taking the time to reply!

Best wishes,

David

[David Thompson]

Hi Shane,

Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly – much appreciated!

I reckon any of those orders will be fine, it should be 95% done, so plenty of media – but in your experience, is the .aaf created first – and will it relink to the .mxf media it’s already done if aborted? If the .aaf is not created first, do you think we could abort and then export a new .aaf through Automatic Duck that’s set to not create new .mxf media, and then connect that in Avid to the .mxf files from the export I have going now (or even an EDL from FCP)?

I don’t know much about how Avid links to media (AMA and all that) so not sure if it’s as easy to reconnect to media as it would be in FCP.

Thanks again for your help,

David

[David Thompson]

Thanks both!

I have Flip 4 Mac, so yes that does sound a good option, I’ll push for that.

The only trouble is, apparently business versions of Vista don’t come with Windows Media Player, so for my poor hedge fund investors with their ‘download software and you’re instantly fired’ policy, so there may be no solution…

I’ll try MPEG streamclip too, looks like a useful tool.

Thanks again!

Mac Pro
2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Final Cut Studio 2

[David Thompson]

Hi David,

Thanks so much for getting back to me!

I suspect that they just said AVI cause they’d heard of it, and you’ve just saved me hours of sending stuff backwards and forwards!

What format/codec would you recommend for streaming video so that it will play on any PC on slow broadband, where video quality is not a big problem, but they want sound to be good?

Thanks for your help!

David

Mac Pro
2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Final Cut Studio 2

[David Thompson]

Hi there,

Thanks for the tip – I looked at the OWC site and when I selected the new Macpros they seem to have two brands of RAM – one approved by Netlist and the other presumably not:

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory

Since one is $659 for 8gb and the other is $399, is there a difference? It the more expensive one faster or more reliable in some way?

Thanks for your help!

Also – I emailed Crucial and they said their RAM for the new MacPros is still being tested, not currently available.

David

Mac Pro
2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Final Cut Studio 2