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MediaLog won’t allow capture, it is meant for logging. You assign a tape name, and create master clips in an Avid bin. Take the bin to MC, open it, select the master clips you need to work with and choose Clip->Batch Capture.

If they use any other type of logging software, they might be able to hand you over an ALE file, or a file that you can convert to ALE using the Avid Log Exchange application. Then you import the ALE into a bin in the Avid and batch capture the clips you need to work with.

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I doubt they are using Avid LogExchange to log footage. Likely, they are using MediaLog. Avid LogExchange is a conversion utility that performs conversions between various logging formats (like FLEX from Telecine) into ALE (Avid’s shot log format that will easily import into Avid).

MediaLog is in the MC installers. It runs without a dongle. It is basically the capture tool without the ability to capture, just log. It produces Avid bins, which you can use to batch capture in any Avid.

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Dan,

I don’t want to be rude, but reading your questions I cannot help but think that you are going to need some very basic NLE training before you proceed with the tasks that have been assigned to you. Find someone in your neighbourhood to walk you through one or two projects, then you’ll feel much more comfortable.

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[i]a bug was introduced that adds interlacing to any and all precomputes[/i]
Huh? Can you elaborate on this?
Are precomputes not simply in their same-as-source mediatype (p/i)?

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Nope.

The decompose process will make all decomposed elements “offline” (no media). If you choose to decompose only the captured clips (not imports), all the captured elements (from tape) are going to be “Media Offline”, but all the imports are still there (with media), at their exact place in the sequence. The Batch Capture process will “fill” all the (captured) clips that have no media in the duplicate sequence.

You manually add ALL audiotracks of your original sequence onto the duplicate sequence.

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[i]so i don’t need to manually place the music and others in the duplicate[/i]
Yes, you DO need to splice them in manually after the batch capture.

If you choose to decompose, you can choose to select to decompose the captured clips, so you will be ignoring any of the imported images (those can already be 1:1 during import). Or, if you imported those at lower resolutions, you can select “imported clips” in the Decompose dialogue box as well and Batch Import those consecutively.

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Common offline-online workflow:

– Tapes arrive
– In the Capture Tool, select 10:1 when capturing
– Capture V & A from the tapes
– Edit
– After locking the cut, DUPLICATE the sequence (CTRL-D in the bin), then delete all audiotracks from that copied sequence.
– Select the duplicate sequence, and choose Clip->Decompose. You can choose handles, I’d go for at least 10 frames
– Select all decomposed clips, and choose Clip->Batch Capture
– Set the Capture tool to 1:1x MXF.
– The Avid will search for all video material used in the cut, and capture that without compression
– Copy the sound tracks from your locked cut, and place them under the duplicate (hi-res) sequence.

You don’t have to recapture the sound, since that is all still there, at the nicest quality it can be. You will only be recapturing any used video footage from the tapes. Then you can playout to tape without compression.

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Yes, there is a Quick Transition button. It will allow you to do fades, dissolves, dips-to-color, fades-to-color and fades-from-color at any length, and in the dialogue box you can either type in numbers or drag/move the position of the effect. No need to use Effects mode for any of those.
I think the default mapping has the Quick Transition button under the Backslash key on your keyboard.

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Check out Vice Versa Pro if you need to copy large amounts of files. I also use it to do incremental backups on current projects.

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Not (yet).