[Glenn Sakatch]

try updating Eucontrol

Mine (windows 7) says 3.2.2

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Tell them to download the free 30 day trial for Avid.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

For the most part it is used as a review function. I wouldn’t want to do a session with a client who wants to debate every edit. (don’t know that I’d want to do that with them in the room:)

But for reviews, it does allow for instant changes and approvals.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I didn’t know DVCpro would play DV. (not that i have much use for it anymore…but i do have two decks)

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

i’ve done it in the past.

I did 1 session using slingbox, but setting up the client to connect to my slingbox account(and download the app) just seemed cheap and a huge hassle, so i moved on to plan B.

For me, i found first of all you need a second box for the stream. Trying to stream and edit on the same box just caused issues. This was a few years ago, so things may have changed in all the tech out there.

Second, the speed of both yours and your clients internet connection is obviously quite important. Remember you are uploading, which typically, is slower than their download, so the stream settings you choose are partially based on your upload speed.

Here is my setup…(this is from a few years ago, and I know the telestream product names have changed)

I bought Ustream producer pro for the streaming. I ran this on a macbook pro, with an Matrox MXO2 that i already owned connected to it. I fed the MXO2 with the HDSDI output from my Avid, which again, was a different box.

Ustream has free streaming (with ads and some other restrictions, or paid streaming…which seems a bit expensive for the occasional user. I did find using chrome as the viewer box, with ad blocker turned on killed the ads ?

As opposed to slingbox, i sent the Ustream to my website, and created a live stream page that i could give the address to clients as needed. This created a small level of security, as it was a bit obscure to find. With the paid streaming service, you can create password protected streams. Depending on your project, this may or may not be important.

In the end i found we were on a 5 to 10 second delay, from when i hit play, to when they saw and heard the piece. I could usually hear the piece playing over the phone, so it wasn’t hard to know what they were talking about when they said stop. I would also have a timecode window on the piece to help them identify the section they wanted to talk about. I got pretty good at making small talk to cover the time delay from when i hit play to show them the change, so it wasn’t that big of a deal.

The first few changes are a bit odd, as they say….right there…but by the time you stop, and the delay kicks in, the picture is way off…you sit on the shot you know they are talking about, but they won’t see it for 5-10 seconds…so they are saying “No, the other shot!” and you are saying “yup, i gotcha” but they still see the wrong shot..and say “no the other shot” Once they figure it out, it goes pretty smoothly

I’ve actually upgraded my internet since then, and have waaay faster upload speeds, so i’d like to give it another shot one of these days.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Thats what was confusing me…you were mentioning a panasonic DVCPro deck, but talking about Sony HDV tapes.

Thats like trying to play vhs tape in a 3/4 inch deck.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

try keeping your RED footage at 23.98. If you convert it to 25 (Low Res) and edit in Avid, you are telling Avid to create a list of this material at 25fps. Then that list goes to Resolve, and Resolve is looking at the original 23.98 footage, and saying…hey where is this clip with the frame count up to 25?…skip.

Try 36 dnx at 23.98. Bring that into your Avid 25 project, cut a test, output a list, and go back to resolve. See if Resolve can now see the originals. (Make sure you have your reel name settings correct in Resolve when you do the inital 36dnx transcode.

Your other option would be to create High res 25fps media in Resolve, and call it your new masters, but this is not the best way to work to preserve all your color information.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

EDL might work as well

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

are you selecting the individual files, or the enclosed folder?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

You should feel pretty safe. Any effects that 6.5 doesn’t have, obviously won’t come back, but I can’t think of anything off the top of my head that would trip you up.

If any issue were to arise with the project as a whole, you would be able to open individual bins in old versions of Avid.

In all honesty, I don’t think you will want to go back. AMA is 10 times better. New timeline functionality, browser window…lots of good stuff to make you want to stay.

I don’t think you will find any underpower issues either. Avids shell is pretty much the same. (playing ama might be the exception, but that would be tied to your drive speed as much as anything.)

Glenn