[Fazz Powell]

Yeah we’ve already encoded the file in Sorensen. How can I tell Encore I don’t want it to re-encode it?

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Thanks Peter. I upgraded and still no joy. As soon I drop Boris CG onto the sequence the top layer turns to about 50% opacity and the video layers are visable underneath. Very weird.

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Yeah I was totally blown away when I found this ability buried in this non-discript and cheap burner, I’ve been searching for months, as we’ve gone through hoops to letterbox our 16×9 jobs just for the proofing stage. I bought this unit as a default and when reading the manual thought it was a misprint it would record 16×9. On the Avid boards I’ve recieved replys the Sony GX3 and HX710 also record 16×9. (HX710 also does a 15Mbps datarate…nice) Those appear to be UK models, and I don’t know if I want to deal with a grey market unit.
They list Firewie as “DV in”. It’s on the front panel. I’m going to test the tomorrow.

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I’ve been seaching high and low for a 16×9 DVD-R for making client proofs before encoding the master on our Sonic SD-1000 encoder. I’ve stumbled upon the Toshiba DR-400 it records the 16×9 flag correctly, whereas if your DVD playback is set to 4×3, it will be letterboxed, if your playback DVD is set to 16×9 it plays back widescreen. And this puppy has a firewire input. The default “menu” is kinda ugly and I’m trying to figure out how to turn it off all together, but for burning 16×9 proofs this is a winner!

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Bob and Laura – I have to thank you both for steering me to the Adreniline over the Nitris. I met with Avid and the dealer today and your advice was right on the money. I’ll send you the 50K saved and you can split it amougst yourselves. Many thanks to everyone for all your valuable input on this thread!

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I was just inferring that in edit*/Inscriber, very routine/common tasks were really easy to do, and no other NLE ever has matched their intuitive inferface design and usability, esp. with character generation. Yeah we own 2 CMX-Omni850’s and a Abekas 8150 w/DVEOUS (now never used) and I have an Edit 6.0 with the “10 minute” Abekas board, (plus an edit 6.5 sdi and edit 6). So I understand where your coming from. FCP is close, but not quite there. I’m an old-school hardware acceleration guy who loves the Targa2K and 3K boards and have some blind faith that an Avid has to be more thought out than FCP. We don’t work for Networks, we have a higher price per finished minute income for corporate work, which is Character Genorator heavy. Unless I don’t get it, FCP does not have a decent CG, and there are a lot of other short comings. We do about 1M a year in post and for us FCP ain’t the tool.

Anyway – thanks for the food for thought on an Adrenaline. The Avid forums are addement that Nitris is worth it. The Cow forum says: Adrenaline. Everyone has made valid points. I’d love an BMW Grip Truck for my camera gear. I’m confused as hell and appreciate all the honest input. Maybe Adrenaline now and the next generation of Nitris/Symphony down the road??

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[Fazz Powell]

You can just digitize/ingest the DVD from a DVD player as you would a tape source. Obviously component would be best.

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Laura – You hit the nail on the head on every issue. As a die-hard edit* fan I’ve felt like a lone ranger amoungst the sea of Avid folks. Yeah, just “slipping n sliding” or triming seems like an ordeal on an Avid. I’m just freakin’ floored someone hasn’t been able to develop an NLE comprable to what edit* did 10 years ago. FCP has many “issues”, and since we’re a post house we need to offer something way beyond what my clients can afford to go out and buy. Kills me to spend 90K on something I’ll probably hate, but I rather do that than 25K on a tricked out FCP rig. XPRI-is a no go, eQ-too propratary, Maxtrox AXIO-Premiere interface and anybody who does Titling is Photoshop is nuts. 🙂 – uggg

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Bob/LJ-I guess my hang up is that I’d like to have the ability to do uncompressed HD, which I understand Adrenaline doesn’t do. Most work will probably be in DNA145/220, but from what I understand the hardware accelration is handled much better in Nitris, plus color correction and more real time stuff. It’s not uncommon to do 3 sessions in a day in one suite, so we like to run as much real time as possible. I’ll have 3 Edit*s to run into the ground for SD, but this will be our flagship NLE, so Nitris Symphony seems to be the overly expensive way to go, it will take us 3/4 years to pay for it, if I’m lucky I’ll get 4 more years of use on the back-end. As our Edit’s die, we would add Adrenalines.

LJ-Love the endering discreet refernce. Do you run Marquee? or Boris Continuium? anything close to Inscriber?

Good news about XP stablity – thanks!!

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Thanks for the input. Yeah, I can’t go with Smoke. After what Discreet/Autodeck did with Edit* I can’t trust them to be around a few years from now to support it. Do you have any feeling of using Nitris DS instead of Symphony as a primary editor?

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