[Glenn Sakatch]

Timelines that contain alpha channels can now be exported as Quicktime DNxHR files. Using a third-party application, you can create QuickTime wrapped DNxHR movies that contain an alpha channel and Fast Import or link these files into Media Composer.

I’m not so sure about this. just tried it with a keyable quicktime into Avid.
Exported both DNXHR and DNXHD out of avid with uncompressed alpha channel turned on in the export settings. Neither one displays an alpha channel when reimported into Avid or Fusion.

I’m questioning the wording of this statement anyway. Part of me thinks they are saying i can export it..the other part of me says this statement says i can import it..if it is made in a third party application.

If i have an element with a keyable element that was created in a third party application, why do i need to export it out of avid as a keyable element? Its already a keyable element.

If i put it on a full piece of video, it would now export with full screen alpha anyway. (i would need a way of exporting the source clip, not the comped timeline) From what i can tell, Avid’s timeline always has solid alpha on the output.

In my attempt, i put the clip by itself at the end of the timeline, so there was no video under it, but it still came back with solid alpha.

Like i said…i’m not so sure about the wording of that statement. Importing alpha is nothing new…but they seem to go out of their way to say that the alpha needs to be created in a third party application, and then it can be imported.

If anyone does get it to work, i’d be interested to hear what your settings were.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

anytime i have difficulty with avid scanning a drive or a folder, i create a new title, or import a still to that folder. Avid will create the proper folder structure. At that point you can move your media into that folder, and rename it afterwards to reflect the media that is in it.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

sorry, that should say I”ve “never” thought of it in terms of moving audio vs moving video..its just moving a clip

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

It really shouldnt be that hard…you are basically grabbing the clip and moving it. Ive thought of it in terms of moving audio vs moving video. You grab your ted arrow from the tools bar…click and drag the clip you want to move.

The only thing that might cross you up is if youve locked your audio tracks…or the stereo vs mono that i talked about earlier.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

In 8.5 Avid will automatically create a new audio or video track for you, in 8.4 I believe you had to do this yourself, if there was no track available.

If the audio you are trying to move is dual mono, and the available tracks are stereo, you will have to make a couple of mono tracks before you can move the audio.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Might be best to simply monitor the top track..and turn off the upper track that they dont want to see. Duplicating the timeline seems like a weird way to avoid clicking a button on the timeline.

Any changes made would have to be done to both timelines.

Just my opinion…but we all have our own way of working.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

what are your sequence settings?

What type of internal drive are you using?

I still think this is a drive speed issue.

Did you try reducing the monitor to yellow/green?

Not sure when Avid came up with the ability to adjust the amount of ram for your system resources, and the ability to flush it out..might be in 8.5, but that could help as well. I think it is now under a setting called memory?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I’m not sure i totally understand.

If you turn off the “auto monitoring” switch, and then monitor the top track on your timeline, it will always stay there, until you turn it to something else. Not sure what duplicating the timeline has to do with this.

If you duplicate it, and the monitor somehow jumps to the lower track, put it back to the top track…again, if you setting is correct, it will stay there.

If you want one version on the lower track and a duplicate on the upper track, and the 1 second it takes to switch them over when you load the other sequence is too much time, then there may be a different issue 🙂

unless i’m totally misunderstanding your question.

Glenn

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

are you talking about the icon that dictates which video track to monitor? If so you can turn off “auto monitoring” in one of the settings tabs. This way the monitoring just stays where you put it.

Not in front of avid right now, but I think its in the timeline settings…maybe under an “edit’ tab?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

what is your source material? If it is a ton of AMA, that might be why you are stuttering.

If it is all Avid managed media, where does it live?…external drive, internal drive, raid system, shared storage?

I wouldn’t automatically blame my settings for poor playback. (its probably the last thing I would blame)

If you want to export your settings, there is a way of doing that in your settings tab.

I personally quit bringing my keyboard setting with me on the road years ago. I just spend the 2 mins it takes to rebuild them.

As for bins, you can copy bins from one project into another at the finder/explorer level without issues. I’ve actually done it with avid running the project in question many times with no issues…including yesterday, I swapped out an old bin, with an updated one that an assistant worked on at home. Of course I made sure the bin itself was closed before I tried to remove the old one, and copy in the new one.

Glenn