Geo Cohn
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Somebody on another forum pointed out that you can use the “subst” command to map a directory path to a drive letter. That is much simpler than what I was doing, namely sharing the directory on the network and then mapping it as a network drive.
geo.
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During the shoot, copy each P2 card to its own folder. Afterwards, fire up the P2 viewer and set up each folder that has P2 card information as a virtual P2 card. Then create a new destination folder and set it up as a virtual P2 card. Set up the Primary Bin to show all virtual P2 cards. Set up the Secondary bin to show the destination folder virtual P2 card. Then just select all, drag, and drop.
Then proceed to step 3 from my earlier post.
geo.
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I haven’t been able to find much useful documentation. Here is how I have been doing it:
1. During a shoot, copy each full P2 card to a separate folder and erase the P2 card. You can basically select/cut/paste everything from the P2 card to a new folder. Just make sure it is a fresh unique folder each time. Doing a cut ensures that all files get erased from the P2 card. When you put the card back into the camera, the camera takes care of reinitializing the card with a new Contents folder, etc.
2. After the shoot, use the P2 viewer to consolidate all of your P2 card folders into a single, huge virtual P2 card.
3. Set your new virtual P2 card folder up as a shared drive, and then map it as a network drive. It will have a Contents folder and lastclip.txt at the root.
4. Bring up Avid, making sure it is configured to see media on network drives.
5. Use the media tool to find your clips and bring them into the project.
One of the benefits of doing it this way is that you preserve your metadata. Another thing I like about it is that it handles clips that are split across P2 cards. I shot a continuous 1.5 hour clip a few weeks ago by hot swapping 2 8 gig P2 cards, and it shows up in Avid as a single clip.
geo.
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I’ve always had great luck with the QuickTime reference files. Use TMPGEnc to encode them, then import the resulting .m2v file into Encore along with the .aif file that came with the QuickTime reference, and Bob’s your uncle.
geo.
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What part is not working? The quad split? If you have more than 1 video track, make sure you enable the one with the group in it and disable the others.
geo.
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Right-click the timeline, select “Remove Match Frame Edits”
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Just use a font and size that are more to your liking. Encore lets you do this easily.
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Upgrade to Encore 1.5.
There are some settings in the internal tables in the DVD files that are done differently between 1.0 and 1.5. The DVD player looks at these settings to determine whether it should automatically build a letterbox image of crop the sides of a 16:9 image when you are using a 4:3 screen.
With a DVD authored using Encore 1.0, some DVD players crop the sides unless you go in and change the player’s settings.
You could also use applications such as ifoedit to make changes in the DVD data prior to burning the DVD.
hth,
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Impression is no longer in play as near as I can tell. I was able to find some discussion forums for it out on Pinnacle’s website, but otherwise it doesn’t look as if they acknowledge it as a product.
The fancy buttons looked OK, but menu performance was pretty pokey on most settop boxes I tried it on. Eventually I went back to highlight menus. You can still do cool stuff within that paradigm.
Of course you can do the same thing manually that Impression was doing automatically by using Dave Friend’s suggestion from earlier in this thread.
geo.
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Your DVD Authoring company were probably using Pinnacle Impression Pro.
geo.