Jayasri (joyce) hart
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In a similar situation, if I am not going to be using all of the material from the old project in the new project, I simply File>Open Bin and find the old project under Avid Projects, then open the bin that has the stills I want to use in the new project. I just leave the old project bin in the “Other Bins.” If I want to disconnect the old project bin, I Alt+Drag to make copies of Master Clips into a bin in the new project. Of course, this assumes your old project and media are on the same system as the new one.
Hope this helps.
Joyce
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Hi Shane!
You always have the answer. Thanks. Do you know if any of the Media Composer 2018 User Guides has this information. And if so, in which chapter?
Best,
JoyceJayasri (Joyce) Hart
Los Angeles, USA
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Dunno. Makes me wish she’d done a podcast.
Jayasri (Joyce) Hart
Los Angeles, USA
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Hello Evan,
Are you still checking into this forum? I just purchased iZotope RX 5 Audio Editor to work with Media Composer 8.6.5. Will the 2014 edition of Repair & Enhancement work for version 5? It seems to have some things that the RX Cookbook doesn’t have.
Thanks for listening!
Jayasri (Joyce) Hart
Los Angeles, USA
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Thank you very much, Job & Josh.
I had looked at the same lists but a slightly earlier version. I need something with a smaller footprint (and cheaper) than the Z840 or even the 440. I would also prefer my storage to be external RAIDs, now that I can use Thunderbolt I/O speed.
I agree with you, Job, about the screen size. Being mostly an offline editor for broadcast, finishing only for web-delivery projects, I thought I might get by transcoding to HD 720 for editing. What I would save on the G3, I could spend on a second monitor and, possibly, an Artist DNxIO with Media Composer bundled. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Josh, I got a couple of quotes from Melrose Mac (I am on a Mac Pro for FCS 3) and Keycode Media, but I could certainly use some advice. So I will contact you offlist. I have an old dongle (last used for MC Version 4, I think), but that may not be of any use now.
Jayasri (Joyce) Hart
Los Angeles, USA
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This is a question I would like answered too. I believe HD (including HDV) has a higher video sample rate than SD
https://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=C%26section=11%26tasks=true
Now how much of that translates into a better-looking web image or more latitude in color grading, I don’t know. I am currently finishing a video shot on DV and any difference I see between its images and what I shot on HDV may be attributable to the quality of the lens. In that respect, the two Canons you mention are comparable, right?Jayasri (Joyce) Hart
Los Angeles, USA
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Any decisions yet? If not, is there an archive of the earlier threads?
Jayasri (Joyce) Hart
Los Angeles, USA
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Thanks, Rafael. This is important for us to understand.
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True–I am beginning to understand codecs. Before I read your message, I read Shane Ross on the subject and tried his workflow for mp4:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1175068
MPEG Streamclip produced the best result!
As for CBR, I thought that since my short video didn’t have too many variations in video material (eg. high action, motion graphics etc) I could get a faster encode and the same quality.
Now that I have your attention, let me ask about a You Tube tip I read in Jan Ozer’s article “Encoding for You Tube How to Get the Best Results”(https://www.streamingmedia.com) In the footnote, I found: “It is ideal to use constant quality encoding. This will let you create a high quality variable bitrate file, at the speed of a single pass. It will maintain a consistent quality throughout the file, rather than trying to allocate bits to an arbitrary bitrate, which can easily undershoot or overshoot, and with two pass, take extra long to create.”
The tip seems to be from Colleen Henry, Video Hacker, Google Video Infrastructure. I’m not sure what “constant quality encoding” refers to. Your answer might be helpful to other Forum folks.
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Thank you, Nick and Rafael. I converted to 8-bit Uncompressed for the reasons you give, Rafael, saved to an internal RAID volume, and since the cut ended up even shorter, processing was no problem. What is interesting is that a same-as-source self-contained QT export from FCP 6 ended up looking better compressed to mp4/H.264 in Squeeze than “Export to Compressor”–and produced a smaller file. I used CBR Max datarate 2500 for both. You Tube is processing. I’ll know the final result soon.