[Jeff Greenberg]

Scott,

So, anytime I pick up a nugget like this, I do some heavy research – thought I’d share.

From the symph effects manual:
Using Filtering for HD Titles
Titles created with the Title Tool or Marquee in an HD project might display undershoots and overshoots in the SD signal after you downconvert and output a sequence. This problem might also occur with imported animated graphics that contain an alpha channel (except for QuickTime imports). You can avoid this problem by using a console command to filter HD titles and imported graphics.
The HD title filter is disabled by default, and entering this command enables it. Note the following:
• Enter the command before creating titles or importing animated graphics. The command does not affect media already created.
• Using the title filter might result in a slight softening of sharp transitions between dark colors and light colors.
To turn on HD title filtering:
1. Select Tools > Console.
2. EnterHDTitleFilter.
This command works as a toggle, so the filter remains on until you type the command again.

It seems to knock down the quick filtering for SD; interestingly, the documentation seems to talk about invoking it causes softening.

It’s use has title in the name, so I’m assuming that you’d have to recreate title media; which also probably means this has to be on prior to import. Meaning a batch re-import.

I’d love to have your exact graphic to see (and then I’d like to ask some people at avid about it.)

Say hi to Dan P and Rob L for me!

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[Jeff Greenberg]

It’s a parameter behavior called Audio.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

You’re best to post this over in the Boris forum – AvidFX is Boris Red. I can’t recall if Red does “offset” tracking, which is what you’re looking for it to do.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I haven’t noticed this before – I’m on the current version (and willing to test it here with my system if you like.)

My only question (off the top of my head) is: is your avid in full quality (or yellow/green)…and what media compression setting did the graphics come in at?

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[Jeff Greenberg]

The avid version of trash preferences:

Create a new user
Trash (move to the desktop so you can move them back if it doesn’t fix) MC State, Site Settings, Site Attributes

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[Jeff Greenberg]

If you’re on Vista or later, your best bet is exFat – Disk utilities can format the drive like this for you.

Unlike Fat32, exFAT allows greater than 2 GB sized files. It’s readable by both current Macs and the PC.

I’m a big fan also of installing on the PC MacDrive and then you can access HFS+ volumes.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Apple used to have uninstall instructions on it’s website. I can only assume it was embarrassing – because they took it down. To have you a enter something along the lines of 20 or so instructions of terminal prompt.

Meanwhile, the utility you want is here: https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsremover/

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Welcome Eric.

Generally, one ingests the entire clip – and then has the option to use sections of it multiple times during the editorial process.

For example, I have an interview from an camera that is 3 clips…but 10 questions were asked.

It’s likely I’ll bring in all three clips, possibly make ‘subclips’ – a virtual representation of just part one clip – say each interview question and build a bin of original clips (the 3 clips) and 10 subclips the interview questions.

There’s a more nuanced version of this answer, but I figured this was a good place to start.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[Hagop Goudsouzian] ” Would it create conflicts if my blu-ray had 2 docs in H264 and one in m2v?”

Or you could just do this ‘right’ rather than workarounds. 😀

[Hagop Goudsouzian] “AME while I see the plug-ins load I cannot access them I only see gaussian blur”

If you use the blu-ray settings out of Adobe Media Encoder it should work fine with encore…
Yes, Adobe Media Encoder only has a gaussian blur filter.

Why don’t you fix the blacks in your editorial tool? If it was FCP and the finished version was a ProRes file, dump it into Premiere Pro, fix the blacks there and send directly to encore – no render needed (it’ll compute it when it does the compression to h.264)

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Jeff I. Greenberg
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[Hagop Goudsouzian] ” have also read AME is not that good either”

It’s using the Mainconcepts MPEG4 codec – which nearly everyone other than apple uses.

[Hagop Goudsouzian] “m2v, which to my understanding for BD it should be mpeg-4”

Blu-ray can be MP2 or h.264 M4v.

[Hagop Goudsouzian] ” I began experimenting with Handbrake”

You can’t really trust it in this use – it’s not necessarily going to create a BluRay compliant file. Encore might see it fine…or might recompress it all over.

Go with the highest values you can stand in Adobe Media Encoder.

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Jeff I. Greenberg
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