[Erik Peterson]

There are several conditions for your DPX files to play in realtime, see below. Your Sequence settings have to match the DPX files frame size and frame rate. One workaround is to edit at the 2k res and switch before output. Either way there is a render.

Taken from the Avid High Resolution Editing Workflow Guide:

Real-Time Playback for High-Res Media
Linked files will be real-time for DPX and R3D formats if:
• The resolution of the high-res files are supported for realtime playback on your system
configuration—see the Avid DS support website at https://www.avid.com.
•The high-res files are on your local videostorage that is large and fast enough to support high throughput.
•The format of the high-res files exactly match the format of the current sequence.
•The current sequence storage bit-depth is set to 10.
• For DPX. The data in the DPX files are correctly aligned. This should almost always be
the case. If not, the FixDPX utility can fix any misaligned data DPX files—see
“Aligning your DPX Files” on page 115.

Good Luck,
Erik

[Erik Peterson]

Good Key results often take multiple keys combined to get those good results. Pull a key that keeps the nice hair detail, don’t use erode it will only hard clip your edges. Select output matte. Pull a second key for the middle area, use erode here. Select output matte. If you have something like Gen arts sapphire you can combine these using layer selecting a blend mode. Or you can use paint on top of the matte output to get a similar result. Place a matte key on top of these and now you should have a key with greater edge control. Add as many as necessary. I agree other programs make this process easier. Some keyers have this functionality built in. It’s that balance of how quickly vs how good.

Best of Luck,
Erik

[Erik Peterson]

Right click on audio track in timeline. Select track properties. Under general tab change format setting to mono. Or under mixer menu map stereo audio track channels to outputs 1 & 2. Either way could output split channels just depends on how you want to work.

[Erik Peterson]

“Is it possible to unlink this footage, manually modify the TC to the proper value, and then happily recapture the footage with the right pulldown? ”

Make a copy of your sequence. Decompose copy. Highlight source clips and right click to modify. Select Increament or Decreament to adjust TC offset. Choose pulldown setting under film and 24p settings. Recapture.

“Is there anyway to capture SD footage in an HD project? (or do we have to change the format to accomplish this?) ”

Assuming you are in a HD 23.98 project then change format tab to ntsc 23.98. Set pulldown. Capture. Switch format back to HD. Drop clips onto timeline.

Hope this helps.

[Erik Peterson]

Hi Scott,

First if these are film transfers and you were given an ALE file use this to batch capture from and all your 3/2 cadence issues will be solved.

If you are capturing “on the fly” you should be able to set cadence once for each source tape.
Each tape that you capture from should have a continous cadence so you may never have to change untill you change source tapes. This may not hold true if the source tape is a clip reel or some other form of differing elements. Remember if you see mixed fields while capturing then your cadence has changed.

Standard film based project should have the Film A frame on the 0 and 5 frame of the NTSC sequence. Yes that is true.

Hope this helps,
Erik

[Erik Peterson]

I assume you mean a 23.98 ntsc sequence. Change format tab to 1080p. Right click sequence and select modify format to 1080p. Avid makes copy of sequence at new frame size. Decompose new sequence and you are on your way.

Best of luck,
Erik

[Erik Peterson]

Check out page 31 recording format from the ops manual.

ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/Panasonic/Drivers/PBTS/manuals/OM_AJ-HDX900.pdf

If you were set to 1080 then it was 24p over 60i( with 2-3 pulldown).
Some decks will not do the 2-3 pulldown on the fly from a 1080i recording via the HD-SDI output. Possibly they had to remove the 2-3 cadence and output the processed 24p Footage to a new master tape.

For future note I have had good results with the 720p59.94 24p recording playback with the AJ-HD1800 vtr output to 1080p 23.976 via HD-SDI workflow.

[Erik Peterson]

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[Erik Peterson]

Try the Avid web site for Media composer and the DS Support site, aviddssupport.avid.com, for current manuals in PDF form.

[Erik Peterson]

Hi Jeff,

Are the offline clips you are recapturing in the clips folder originally quicktimes that you are now “pointing” to the DPX’s to replace? It should be applying the colorspace preference in the capture settings, Media Capture, Input Levels setting to any imported files. Although once it sees the dpx file the lut menu should come up, Does for version 10.1.1. Do you get the same result if you recapture from the timeline? Maybe try creating a new sequence then recapture from the clip folder.