James Patterson
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If the mxf’s are in the Avid MediaFiles folder and in a numbered folder inside the mxf folder, a database for the clips will be built when you load avid. If you look in the folder that your clips are in there should be an mmob file, if you create a new bin in media composer and drag the mmob file into the bin it will populate the bin with all the clips in that folder.
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What flavour of DNX is your footage? How are you exporting the h.264 from avid, are you choosing a bit rate or selecting good, better, best? Have you tried using squeeze? Bit rates of between 3000 and 5000 usually give a good balance for web, but what people see as good quality can be subjective. You should be able to get an 8 min vid to 500mb.
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What is the destination of the file? You can can export a h.264 from Avid but if you’ve got squeeze (which is included with avid) on your machine you’re best exporting same as source or a QuickTime ref from avid and encoding it via that. There are some good h.264 presets in squeeze and you can increase the bit rate within the preset until you’re happy with the size/quality balance.
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It usually means a corrupt clip somewhere or even just a one frame. Have you tried bringing the last 13 one at a time? Does it crash no matter which one you bring in?
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By default avid automatically links to ama but you can turn this off in the ama settings.
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Paddy
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Don’t see why not, the movement doesn’t seem that subtle. just try it and see. You might have to have to play with the smoothing controls but a lot of the time you get good results straight out of the box.
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Paddy
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You could rip the film from youtube, bring it into avid and use the stabilise effect as i explained above.
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Paddy
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If you make a bin called ‘quick transitions’ and put custom transitions inside they will be added to your list when you select ‘quick transition’ it’s not one button but it’s a good way to have a batch of options at hand. if you do drop a 12 frame dissolve down on a clip the next time you open quick transition it should remember what you just used.
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Paddy
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A nice way to add natural movement to a shot is to use the stabilise effect on a shot that has the kind of movement you’d like to recreate. Once it has corrected the clip you can drag a copy of the effect to a bin. Now when you apply the effect to another shot instead of stabilising, it will add the movement instead (This works particularly well when you want to give a shot a handheld or sniper quality). As for film grain and noise i thinks it’s best to find alphas to use instead of plugins.
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Paddy
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We’ve had this in the UK for over a decade with one of our biggest chains Cineworld, it’s called the Unlimited card. It’s £16.95 a month and it’s not limited to just one per day you’re free to watch as many films as you want. It’s definitely true that some people sign up and never use it whilst others just live at the cinema. If you watch more than at least 2 films a month it’s worth it.
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Paddy