[James Beattie]

Not sure if you are looking for Mac or PC.

According to the Avid ReadMe (found with your installer, or here).

Panasonic P2 driver (Windows XP and Vista) Driver
version for P2 devices: v2.09
(Macintosh) Driver version for P2
devices: v1.33

https://eww.pass.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/content/download/EN/ep2main/pcdriver_e.htm

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[James Beattie]

Are you able to drag them to the trash? If you hold down the option key when you choose to empty the trash, will it kill those files?

The next option is to do do it from terminal, but that would not be my first preference.

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[James Beattie]

The Avid has had paint effects for years. Go into image in the effects palette and select the paint effect.

This tutorial will get you close. Instead of doing the blur, you would make a black box full screen with opacity so that the rest of the frame is darkened, then the circle you create will subtract the black box, thus giving a highlight with or without feather.

You can also motion track your object.

This is a powerful tool. The Animatte tool is the same functions, but they key from one layer to the other.

https://community.avid.com/media/p/363679.aspx

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[James Beattie]

There a few more variables here than meet the eye.

First, we need to open your project in a later version of FCP.

Then we need to export an AAF of your final sequence into Avid.

Then we need to confirm that it will link with AMA files (Not entirely sure all formats are supported with AMA in Avid 5.0). Or batch import the QT files (AMA will be infinitely faster and efficient).

What was your project shot on? If your footage is in Prores, there is a fighting chance. If you shot HDV, and ingested it in that format, then your options may be limited.

I can’t offer much, but I can try to help you move it forward a bit.

You can contact me at avidmedic@gmail.com and we will see if we can get any of this to be successful.

I am willing to offer a few minutes to try, if nothing else for my own curiosity.

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[James Beattie]

Can you try a QT refernce to the desktop and see if you get this factoring?

Is it a tearing?

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[James Beattie]

I am sure you have this figured out, but maximize your window, then Select Composer window (source record), Then go under windows and choose home.

Michael’s Idea of workspace windows should work as well.

When in doubt, create new user settings. It is a dirty way to do it, but worth a try.

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[James Beattie]

Here is a link to MDV Avid that is more friendly.

If you are looking to copy the files from one system to another, what you should do is right click the root of your drive f: and share it. Make sure it is READ ONLY to the other users. Then you can copy your project file over to your other system and you would be able to open the same footage on both editors. You are limited by bandwidth.

The other option is to simply copy your Avid MediaFiles to your other workstation in the Avid MediaFiles folder using a tool like synctoy to sync the 2 media directories at specific times. This will keep parity if you wish. Since the Avid has databases, it should be done when you are not editing.

MDV Avid

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[James Beattie]

Avid captures it’s files into the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1 folder by default. AMA would allow you to link to QT files just like in FCP, however with longer sequences, it is accepted practice that you should consolidate (move those files into the MXF folder if they native to Avid), or transcode them to an Avid file.

Avid will eventually create a Avid MediaFiles/MXF/2 folder. After 5000 files. This is due to an OS limitation that you cannot have 10k files in a folder. So, Avid plays it safe and creates a new folder at 5000 files.

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[James Beattie]

I can’t imagine it is the facilis, but it is worth ruling it out. Consolidate media to a local drive, then disconnect the facilis and confirm. I haven’t seen this behavior, but it sounds like a playback buffering issue.

Open the console (Tools->console in the Avid app), and see what it says when this occurs.

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[James Beattie]

The biggest variable is whether you mac is 64-bit capable or not.

After that your processor speed makes a huge difference, especially if you are using AVCIntra material or long-GOP material.

Here is how you can tell if your machine is 64-bit capable. Surprisingly enough I have found many that are not after the upgrade.

https://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_check_and_see_if_your_mac_runs_64bit

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group