[Glenn Sakatch]

1-800-800-AVID will get you through to technical support. There is (i believe) an option there for
a purchase. I called 2 days ago to get a license re-activated and was on hold for 3 mins.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Typical Broadcast NTSC SD is 720 x 486.
If you were to offline in Avid, you would be working at 720 x 486.
Basic NTSC on Final cut is the same. You can create a 720 x 480 sequence in final cut that is more
“DV” file size. I’m sure Resolve is simply creating a project based on broadcast specs. Not sure if you can change to a custom size or not.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

it only gets easier

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Craig the attic has nothing to do with your media or its data bases. It is simply the holder of your Autosave files. When Avid saves your bin, the previous version is saved in the attic. As soon as you deleted the attic, you lost all those original autosave files.

The rebuilding of the databases is useful when the box is not seeing media it should be seeing, but will have no effect at all on your attic. As you move forward with this training sequence, you should see your attic increase in size as your saves occur, but that is all it is there for. Being able to call up an old version of your bin, prior to a change that you want to undo, but don’t have enough undos available for.

Am i understanding your question correctly?

As for your final statement
Though i guess getting the basic organization structure and what can go wrong is worth the pain.

In my opinion, the best tutorial in the world is one in which something bad happens, and makes you realize that i should’ve done this, or shouldn’t have done that. “perfect” tutorials are a waste of time.

Edit sessions are never perfect.

hope some of this helps. I started on Avid in ’95, and started using Final cut in about ’06, and am currently trying to learn premiere as well, so I feel your pain.

Glenn

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

All depends what you want to use the quicktime for as well

A quicktime for approval, that a client wants to play on there laptop, after downloading from an ftp site, probably “shouldnt’ be the best quicktime in the world. It’ll most likely be too big to download, and quite possibly stutter on playback, which will cause the client to panic and call you up saying the show is not working properly.

When we get asked to output quicktimes, our first question is “what is it for”

If it is approval, we usually do H264, knowing the blacks might not be exactly the same, but good enough for approval, and playable by most client computers.

If it is to go to another suite as a “master” we would probably do uncompressed, or animation codec. Possibly an Avid compressed format, depending on the length of the program. 30 sec commercials at uncompressed are quite a bit smaller than 45 min broadcast length programs.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Hi Craig. When you say “retrieve a clip after you changed it” I’m assuming you mean call up an old version of the sequence? If you went into the Attic and couldn’t find an old enough version, check your settings tab…(not infront of my machine right now, so guessing the actual tab) Bin settings? There are Attic settings, where you can set the number of items in the attic, and the number of copies of any particular sequence in the attic. Make sure your numbers are high enough to allow for several copies to be saved.

When I bring in stuff from the Attic, i usually copy 2 or 3 to the desktop, rename them something like “oops”, “oops2” and “oops3”. I load each one individually into the program to decide which is going back far enough. Then i can delete my original bin – that “oops” is going to replace, and rename oops to its original name. I like keeping my bins clean, with no duplicates.

As far as project management. For Tutorial purposes, the easiest thing would probably be to simpy make a new project, and start again.

Im assuming by getting back to normal, you mean square 1?

It sounds like you did the correct sequence to delete your project…

To delete a project, you don’t really need to delete the attic, although keeping things clean is never a bad idea. You should be able to run your media tool, to help you identify the media associated with the project, and delete that media. You could also simply select the media from within the bins of your project, and delete them right there. Make sure to select all the delete options, or you may just delete the clips in the bin, but not the actual media associated with it.

The actual project can just be deleted by finding your Avid Projects folder on your hard drive and deleting it right there. When you reboot Avid, that project will no longer exist…and you can start again.

If you want to do an uninstal, there is an uninstaller in the application section. It will help you do a full uninstall. You shouldn’t need to reinstall just to get a project back to the basics though. Again, if nothing else, just create a new project and call it Version 2.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I just did a music video …xml from FCP to resolve. There were plenty of time ramps, in it, and they did come across. They were set up as two edits. One for the sped up shot, and then cut to a normal speed shot. A couple of times i had to slide the edit to get the match frame to actually match.

This one also had a second layer of additive keys that were done in Final Cut. The second layer came across fine, except for 1 shot that the editor had done a picture flop to. I had to manually move it in resolve. The Additive aspect of the keys actually came across for me. I didn’t have to tell the second track clips what mode to be in.

I didn’t round trip back, I just rendered out a final movie for them, but I am going to do a test round trip back to see what happens.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I’ve been having the same problem. It is a bit flakey, but this is how it usually starts working.

Don’t turn on Davinci until the Eucon icon in the top corner is done it’s “spin” boot up cycle.
From here you can turn on Davinci. If the panel is not showing the proper control labels, then go into your
Eucon panel and make sure the panel is in both the left and right windows. Quite often i have to manually add it to the right side window. The last time i did this, all of the sudden my panel showed the control labels.

If it still doesn’t work, you have to go into preferences in Davinci and tell it “none” under the panel type, relaunce davinci, go into preferences, tell it MC Color under the panel type, and relaunce again. Sometimes it seems to need a kick in the ass.

If it still doesn’t work, you can try going preferences, Single click on the Eucon icon to call up the services page, and do a manual stop and start of the service….then go back to step 1.

It’s a pain I know. I’ve had it work after 5 seconds, and sometimes it seems to take 5 minutes.

I guess score 1 for the wave…usb just works.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I used to have my dongle plugged into a hub. Since Version 8 it has to be directly in the tower, or
i get a “no licence” error.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I spend most of my time on a DS, and am having the same problem with items shot by an outside company. Offlined in Avid MC, but online in DS. Have to manually capture the shot.

When we have control, and know a multicam shoot is taking place in the evening, we routinely ask the crew to take a 10 min break around midnight.

Glenn