Jeff Greenberg
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MC does a great job of having bin/media compatibility. Just make sure it’s a different user (don’t transfer the user across versions.) But yes, more than cuts come across.
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[Craig Hirshberg] ” Just curious, anyone else having problems with Media Composer 6 on Mac OS Lion not saving their export settings? Every time I quit Avid and restart, my saved export settings are nowhere to be found, like it’s a new program all over again.”
Sounds suspicious. Have you tried a new user?
[Craig Hirshberg] ” Also the timeline settings default to having the “Show Effect Contents” checkbox selected, which is very annoying. Same as above, it always defaults back to it.”
Do you have anything in the Site settings (under the special menu)?
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Reasonable price is the problem, isn’t it? I’d suggest craigslist etc. I saw the prices on ebay and likely, it’s a seller’s market.
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[Tangier Clarke] ” FCP X does not: Have a means to gather PORTIONS of clips (to my knowledge). The “Duplicate Project + used Clips Only” take PORTIONS of clips.”
This is because (a guess, of course) that since FCPX works with native (and transcoded) material, it doesn’t know how to appropriate lop off part of a GOP structure. It’s far safer (and zero damage) to just take all the necessary raw media to preserve quality.
[Tangier Clarke] ” Perhaps most of you have (whether personal or for you company) endless cash to buy hard drives as need and the infrastructure (software and personnel) to maintain the contents of those drives”
Now, this is closer to the real issue. Build the archival cost into the cost of a project as a line item. Two hard drives are good. Tape is better.
There’s the “Good, fast, cheap” rule, pick two…I’ve worked in post where they archive off the HD uncompressed that was used (at 6 gigs/min.) So, $100 for a TB HD doesn’t look like much (or $200 if you buy two.)
If you’re being hamstrung by your employer, I’d suggest figuring out how much time you’re wasting in the archival end and show how quickly that money adds up.
As to search/find – solutions like CatDV make low res MP4 copies of the media for you to search. There are other tools, but that scales pretty well.
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[lilia zar] “format-QT
Codec-H.264
5 min
DV pal Wide screen 720*576
fram rate -25
field tips- lower first
Audio- 480 Hz, stereo, 16bit.”You mention two codecs there. h.264 …but you also mention DV Pal.
And I’m sure that’s where the problem is. You’re compressing as DV, which will run about 25mb/s or about ~5 min to the gig…and the slider won’t change anything.
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Angelo nailed it.
I downloaded the clip, it shows as 720×576 natively (but yes, QuickTime will stretch it to display correctly as it has non-square pixels.)
Premiere Pro isn’t detecting that the pixels are rectangular. Use the modify command as Angelo said and it should fix the clip(s).
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Have you tried adjusting the interface settings in preferences. You could make it much brighter if you wanted…
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In windows, the app data is hidden. I’m not around a windows box at the moment, but to get to app data you have to navigate to your win user…and then click in the path bar and add “AppData”
So for me, it’s C:/Users/JeffGreenberg/AppData
That should reveal the user application directory in windows.
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As long as they keep the same relationship (if the project was on the folder outside of the media, put both in the relative same place) you won’t even need to do anything.
If you somehow screw it up, Premiere Pro will ask you to find one of the clips and then try and relink all the relative path.
Don’t take my word – do it on a project with 3 clips!
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Jeff G
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You could bring all the clips into Adobe media encoder and transcode them to ProRes.
To bring them in, all you have to do is drag and drop.
You’ll want to build a custom QuickTime preset that matches your footage size & frame rate and uses the ProRes422 codec.
If you do this, the resulting files can be edited in FCP7.
There are other conversion utilities that have these presets prebuilt, but why bother when you already own Adobe Media Encoder?
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Jeff G
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