Hans Sieber
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Hi Arica,
you are working on a mac or pc? As John already mentioned the effect only works with stills. I got the same result using pan&zoom on a mac based avid. Next weeek I´m with this client to work out the problem. As far as the web told me there might be an issue with the pan&zoom plug in. It should have been fixed with the version 4.05. You could try to install the older pan&zoom effect plug-in of your 3.0 version. There is a problem with the newer (4.0…) versions.
Maybe this helps in your case.Hans
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Hi Lola,
sorry it took me so long to answer. Been stuck in a rather heavy project right now. As mentioned in my earlier post I`m not that experienced in film projects but maybe I have a if not perfect but viable solution for your problem. If you capture a whole tape and then do the subclips you could try to export an ALE of these clips and then edit the ALE in a text editor with the correct KN numbers. Don`t know if that helps…
Sorry I that I can`t offer you a more elegant solution.
Hope you get that project done without loosing your mind…Hans
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Glad the cow could help!
There are sometimes problems with different Avid versions and ProTools. Sometimes omf or aaf exports don`t open in ProTools if the version is much younger than the avid version.Hans
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Hi Benny,
I don`t have a solution that will look nice but you could ditch the broken field by either using a 100& motion effect with duplicated fields checked if the broken filed is not the first in your chosen Project (Upper for PAL lower for NTSC). Otherwise you could create a bw mask in e.g. After effects which consists of the correct number of lines (PAL 576) and make the lines (field) you wanna loose black. Then you import this file to your avid using a matte key and apply a masking to your footage to retain the good field.
Here`s a link that might help you.
https://avidscreencast.com/page/5/Hans
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As stated above there`s no fix for a bad recorded audio. As grinner mentioned you could try to use the EQ to reduce some of the rather large wind noises. Usually wind noise is rahter heavy in the extreme lower spectrum of sound so try to use the eq to cut the frequencies below 50 Hz. That could reduce some of the sounds but will not make it go away.
Hans
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Hi Lola,
sorry to say but your job seems quite a mess. I don`t have answers to all your questions but I hope I do can help you with some of them.
First of all if I get you right you got the OMF Sequence of the final cut with its media files. So you have the last version of the cut online on your machine? To your first question. Your OMf Sequence references to your consolidated media files not the original captured dailies. So at first there is no link to the once, now lost, captured clips. Were the dailies captured in large clips and then subcliped for syncing? So if your editor wants all the dailies online you`ll have to capture and sync them all over again. You could then try to put your omf consolidate files to another folder avid does not see (put an x to the Media files folder) and then try a relink to a captured daily that was used in the cut. If that works (relinking is not very reliable) you could recapture all dailies by hand and relink them to the cut.
Once your editor has assembled the “final cut” of the movie you can create a new EDL of the cut which should be fine with the neg cutter. I don`t think you need to export a new ALE. There should be no black holes in your EDL.
For your final question I`m not sure as I`ve not done a lot of 24p projects. Normally your avid adjusts the speed of your sound files to the 24p format. Your dailies should be 25P as they come from a Beta tape. As far as I know in the end the “conversion” from 25 to 24 frames is simply done by ramping the material by 4%. Not like in NTSC land where you have to use the 3:2 pulldown.Hope I could be of some minor help. Let us hear if you succeded with the relinking. Good luck!!
Hans
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Hi Alex,
on the top of your project window you have different tabs. One is labeled Format. Under this tab you can change your Project settings temporarily. Don`t worry you can change them back and forth as often as you want. When you have changed you project to a SD NTSC project you can switch your media creation setting from mxf to omf. Once you have done that,you can perform an OMF export. In your export settings you then can check the three boxes on the lower right of your options window. There you can tell your avid to transcode your mxf files to omf during export. You can also change the sample rate and bit depth to your liking.
Hope this helps.Hans
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Hi Folks,
well I was very astonished to read some time ago that Avid was opening it`s former Highend Application Avid DS to Aja Hardware. Right now they are selling their premium product with a NON Avid hardware. Avid`s been always up to seeling high priced hardware. That has been their way of doing business. Right now it seems that Avid has realised that you don`t need some specialized hardware to do the job. Don`t get me wrong, I like the Avid workflow but in nower days you can`t charge someone 10K`s for Hardware that is doing the same stuff as a AJA kona HD Dual link. That`s why they are selling the DS with exactly that card. A little more than 2 years ago you had to pay more than 90K´s for a Avid Nitris hardware (not the DX series). In the end it boils down to what you are used to. In times of tapeless workflow cheaper hardware seems quite alluring.I love the the Avid workflow for its consistency but it has it`s flaws (AMA mode in Version 3.5) I hope that Avid keeps up the robust engine with all its flaws and opens up to new hardware. If not we are all going to edit on FCP due to cost money.Hans
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Hi Alex,
I don`t think I can be much of a help, but I experience Audio Export problems every now and then. First of all, you can export an OMF2.0 even if you editing in HD. Simply use the transcode option in your export settings. Use OMF2.0 and then check the options for transcode to .omf wave end e.g. 24 bit. this works quite well in my workflow. I sometimes have some problems using AAF or OMF exports when the corresponding ProTools version is too new for the used Avid version. No experience using Logic though. The painful way would be to trim your audio clips like doing a tape playout and then export simple wave files for each audio track in your timeline.Yours sincerely
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Hi Jared,
as far as I know you can`t choose the resolution of your Media when importing from XDCAM. You can actually choose any compression in your import window, but avid is just rewrapping the footage and keeps the original 50 mb compression. It`s just a copy process. If you want to edit in e.g. DNXHD 220 you need to transcode it in your avid. Best way to do that would be using the AMA mode for opening the clips on your disc and then transcoding them to your raid in the codec you like to work with. I wouldn`t do the import because of the time being lost during that action.
Hope I could be of some help.Hans