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Drew Reynolds
March 11, 2012 at 5:23 pm in reply to: AVID MC5 – Split Stereo Track To Mono PROBLEM!

[Brendan Maghran] “clip>modify>set multichannel audio- and then click on the little circles that should be colored green. This is how you make stereo tracks when diging”

I have the opposite problem. I would like to combine mono tracks to stereo in the timeline of a (partially) edited sequence. Is this possible? (I can see how to split stereo to mono in the timeline – but not the other way round.)
Drew Reynolds
March 9, 2012 at 4:12 pm in reply to: importing Pro Res into AVID 5.0.3

[Shane Ross] “Play it back from start to finish…without stopping. Does it skip or stutter?”

No – it plays flawlessly. It is 20 and 30 minute assemblies of rushes – ProRes422(HQ). At first I tried viewing via USB2 and it was virtually unplayable – jerky and out of sync. So I transcoded some and that played okay – as you’d expect. I then upgraded to USB3 and found the original untranscoded clips and sequences play perfectly. It’s just talking head – don’t know if that makes a difference.

From what I’ve read AMA has not been plain sailing – so either I’m just lucky or things are improving.
Drew Reynolds
March 8, 2012 at 8:19 pm in reply to: importing Pro Res into AVID 5.0.3

[Shane Ross] “You must convert it to DNxHD. I wouldn’t even trust AMA of ProRes QT in MC6 for layback to tape.”

Excuse me for chipping in. Can you expand on that? I have ProRes 422HQ stuff which certainly plays okay in MC6.0.1 on a MacBook Pro from a USB3 drive. Are you saying that isn’t good enough to guarantee successful export?
Drew Reynolds
March 4, 2012 at 9:36 pm in reply to: Adding numbers to source/record with MacBook Pro generates error

I also can’t type the + sign on my 17″ MacBook Pro, MC6.0.1 – it was the same on MC6. But I can type it on the number pad of an external keyboard – but again not on the main keyboard. Very odd.

I don’t have a problem with adding audio keyframes. You have selected your tracks I assume.
Drew Reynolds
March 4, 2012 at 9:08 pm in reply to: Accessing media files in different root folders?

Thanks Hector – some useful tips there. Perhaps it doesn’t matter if everything is in folder 1 – if that’s where Avid prefers it to be. I suppose I was likening Avid media to all my photos, music, and documents – I wouldn’t want them all together in one enormous folder. But I guess that’s the wrong analogy, and the Media Tool should allow me to access even individual files in folder 1 if I needed to – no matter how much stuff is in it. You’re right – mastering Media Tool is the key…

I may be back with more questions when I start the job!
Drew Reynolds
February 22, 2012 at 12:15 am in reply to: linking old mxf media to new empty project / making new master clips

I’m starting a new thread for that last question…!
Drew Reynolds
February 19, 2012 at 7:54 pm in reply to: linking old mxf media to new empty project / making new master clips

Thanks.

This is what I ended up doing – finding that .MDB file and importing it into a New Project bin. (I also tried deleting it and found that Avid automatically recreates it when you restart MC. Useful to know.

Not sure if this should be a new thread: I am going to be importing existing projects together with their media to cut something new in a new project. Does all the media from those projects have to be put together in ‘Avid MediaFiles / MXF / 1’ or can I keep the media files for each of the old projects separate in, say, 1,2, & 3 etc. (for house-keeping purposes) and still access it all within my new project? How would that work?