[Grinner Hester]

for the record, I specialize in story-telling. Longform is my bag but I do need to produce finished shows, not just an offline for sombody else to finish on a better box. I online as I go and I do need to composite, animate and design sound in each piece I create. I also, as Bob mentioned, have to create DVDs and provide web content. I’m literally a one man band. I have no tech support to call on, no authoring dude to lay stuff on and no graphics department to lean on. My clents were familiar and comfortable with Avid’s interface and all of this played a role, along with price, in my decision to go with AdrnalineHD. It boasted it’s HDV nativenss. Perfect for me as I shoot with an FX1. It bragged about it’s 10 bitness and many assumed that would fix the aliased DVE. It came bundled with Avid DVD and many of us thought we could just export a quicktime reference and bust out some DVDs.
Now, I won’t get into the superbins that are’nt that super, the in to out renders that dont render or even the massive increase in overall crashes coming from the meridien line. I can say that I am highly displeased with the fact that its not HDV native, still has the same aliased DVD it came out with in ’95 and can’t handle a simple export of a QT reference without a phat mixdown of my 90 minute project. I don’t like being lied to and Avid’s advertising of Adrenaline (not HD) has done nothing but that since they bastardized the Media Composer with it.
Now, I understand your point on how you’d rather I just answer a question and leave out the comma with a tidbit of personality or opinion but please understand that I owe over 20k on a box thats worth half that while my competitors paid 10k for a box worth twice that. My bad? hell yeah, man and it surely wont happen again but for you to hop on here with 70 posts and start yelling remove the angry hippie, dude thats pretty lame.

[Grinner Hester]

dang, man. I feel your pain.
I think it’s on setting/map thats making it fussy. Try mapping one key at a time and import a test after each one is added. When it does it again, thats your candidate. You can then maybe map it a bit differently to work around this.
just a shot in the dark in the name of trouble shooting.

[Grinner Hester]

try closing the bin your sequence is in then reopening it. Sounds wack but it seems to wake this bug up.

My question is when it fakes this render and doesn’t actually render it… even taking the time to do it, do those precomputes eat drive space? and, could this be why sometimes media tools wacks out and doesn’t show any media when it certainly resides?

[Grinner Hester]

[fallen avid] “_____……..
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thats seriosly the best descriptive I have seen here, man.
😉
I’m not sure about this but try a video mixdown of your entire sequence. I have only had interlacing woes over precomputes but the mixdown does fix those.

[Grinner Hester]

[Ted Levy] “Sounds more like it’s a “you giving up on Avid thing.””

well dont fault a brother for that, man. Shoot, what version is Adrenaline up to? I don’t give up easy but thats more than enough chances. Upgrades in the Avid world use to be just that… new bells n whistles. Like, you know, a freakin upgrade. Now they are bug fixes, often adding other bugs. We pay to beta test these bugs for em and thats straight up bogus. I’m glad your diggin’ the product you purchased. You have no cause to gripe then. I do though. The product I purchased still isn’t ready for a version one release. It’s a downgrade from the old Symphony I had before. It’s basicly Xpress Pro with animatte and a cheezy tracker. This is not bashing. I’m just tellin’ it like it is, dude.
If you have any technical questons, I’ll be happy to take a stab at em. Outside of that, you are simply pot-stirring with this thread… the very thing you seem to be trying to stop.

[Grinner Hester]

I’m sorry some of you see my posts as Avid bashing sometimes. I just call em how I see em. I can’t tell you how many “Avid freakin’ rocks!” posts I have made in my day. Thats back when they rocked though. The way I see it, they could easily just do a good job. They either elect not to or have become too poor at their gig to. Either way, I myself have felt the burn and so have many other loyal Avid fans. I answer questions and sometimes ask them here. I throw in my two cents worth of opnions becaise this is a discussion forum. I always state facts with my opinions so people know why I’m saying it before they ask. This is not a Grinner vs Avid thing. It’s simply an Avid giving up thing.

[Grinner Hester]

no

[Grinner Hester]

It only hurts the Avid guys not learning FCP.
It does hurt the Avid houses who are still financing. Competitors having better tools for less money can easily put a dent in things.
The bottom line is any freelancer should know all the tools they can. Makes em more marketable. Every post house has to be looking ahead to their next purchase. Avid not having anything new and all other NLEs changing with the market makes it pretty easy to weed out at least one company next time around.

[Grinner Hester]

the default settings are the most common. Your keyboard has the icons on the keys for this. You can always just map your own real quick so ya know exactly whats what.

[Grinner Hester]

dang. I just paid a guy to haul mine off. They were in perfect condition.