Dennis Kutchera
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Version 12 is the same, but only 8 bit. But it is more complicated than software. It requires Meridien III boards and she likely has Meridien I. It also requires a new CPU – Compaq EVO W8000 if you have a Genie DVE board. Good luck finding one. If you are prepared to buy the Mercedes DVE board, then you can use an HP XW8000, which is also out of production. And there is a danger that the system will work very poorly after the upgrade. Mine did and I sent it all back.
Also, colour correction is not learned overnight. Forget about the “one step” auto correction. If a picture is bad, it makes it worse. It already has to be near perfect for auto correction to work.
Best Regards,
Dennis Kutchera
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Hey, while you guys were having breakast by the pool in Vegas at NAB, I was freezing in a fur hat near the Arctic Circle. I was in Russia for 2 months working as a Christian “Media Missionary” or as I like to call myself, a “Media Mercenary”. I had a little time in Finland in the middle of the trip. I may have posted then; I don’t remember. Prior to that trip I have been recovering from treatments for my second occurance of prostate cancer in 4 years. Now I am home and I am working as a technical editor on an video editing tech book.
I might sound like an old guy with my cancer, but I am under 50 and had it since my 30s. It has made me re-think what is important and re-invent myself. No more long grind in the edit room. That was a large contributor to my health woes. I am trying to figure out how to capitalize on my head knowledge and get more involved in education between trips to Russia and other places where I can make diference.
I am passionate about editing and still do it if the situation is to my liking – film with redeeming social value, reasonable people, reasonable hours, reasonable rates. But no more nights of the long edit for this guy. It’s only TV and no one dies if we don’t keep pushing past normal working hours.
I looked past the mountain of cancer and decided what I was doing with the time I had left. I decided to spend a big part of my time using my skills in TV production, working to spread the Love of God in parts of the world where people do not usually have the opportunity to hear. I work with people native to those areas, offer them training and work beside them. As soon as I was recovered from treatment, I went. And it was only a few days before I left in March that I found out that my mountain had been cast into the sea and I was cancer free.
If you want to read about my adventures, email me at dennis(nospam -replace this with a dot between my names)kutchera@gmail.com.
Best Regards,
Dennis Kutchera
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I don’t care who switches to it. They have to match or exceed the media manangement of Avid and come up with a better integrated real time colour corrector. Avid has more than one way to achieve many things and with fewer keystrokes than most.
Best Regards,
Dennis Kutchera
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Too much aliasing and loss of detail.
Best Regards,
Dennis Kutchera
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You guys are missing an important point of online that has been vastly improved with Adrenaline – colour grading. Online is all about quality control. The bar has been raised since 1999 with the colour correction that is now readily available in most editors. Even if you never throw one effect on the show, without the more recent Avid software, you will not be able to remove colour casts, match cameras or re-balance the image, never mind make it more beautiful. CBC does QC the tapes for colour balance and quality. Compression, unless artifacting is not relevant, but video levels and colour is important. Your senior editor is senior for a reason – EXPERIENCE. He is right. All you guys telling her to not do an online are dead wrong. There is more to an online than 1:1.
If you ever need a good colourist to sweeten your images, give me a call.
Best Regards,
Dennis Kutchera
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You need to stop thinking Media 100. On Avid, as Charlie said, select a duration of filler and insert it where you want. That moves everything downstream. Be sure you have all your track locks on so that you do not throw sync by only inserting filler on some tracks and not on others.
Best Regards,
Dennis Kutchera
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I dont know if it will work, but try reversing the phase on a copy of the swear word and mixing it in only for the duration of the word. Because the word will likely be mono centred pan, it may reduce or cancel the word with minimal damage to the music. Try playing the end result back both with centred pans and left right pans to make sure it sound ok in both mono and stereo.
Best Regards,
Dennis Kutchera
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Is it hilighting between your in and out marks? That is a setting that you can turn off.
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Dennis Kutchera
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We gave up on Avid for Arabic text. It used to work in Xpress (Meridien) up to around version 4.5 on OS 9. But later versions, including PC Media Composers gave us problems with spacing and kerning. Avid could not find a solution, so we moved Arabic production to Final Cut Pro and have no problems with text in Arabic.
Best Regards,
Dennis Kutchera
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My first bit of advice is to let go of the way Media 100 does things. Neither Avid nor Final Cut Pro are Media 100. I have used all three. There are things I like about each, but overall, Avid works out best for me. But…being familiar with all three, I would say that you may find the transition to Final Cut Pro easier because it is more Mac than Mac Avid and some of the tools may feel more comfortable to you. Eg, the ablility to trim on the timeline by dragging on the transition with no special trim mode. Realistically though, FCP and Avid are more like each other than Media 100 and FCP. If you have not used Avid, you will not miss the features that keep me in this camp.
Have you considered the new and improved Media 100? There are probably attractive upgrade paths. Or on second thought, maybe not. I own a Media 100 still and I have received no communications on upgrades. I used to get offers all the time under the old regime.
Yeh, I suspect you’d like Final Cut Pro.
Best Regards,
Dennis Kutchera
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