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What is distorting where? Are your levels clipping in MC or on outputs? Broadcast levels tend to leave headroom, whereas commercially released music tends to be normalized at full 0dB digital peaks (waaaaay above where broadcast peaks would be).
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Also make sure your mediafiles are living in the exact correct folder on the root of the media drive. So that would be X:/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/n (where ‘X’ is any drive letter and ‘n’ is any number). A simple typo or subfoldering will hide the media from MC.
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Avid only supports Digi002, Command|8, Avid Artist Control and Avid Artist Mix. They used to support the Yamaha 01V (but not with flying faders) and some JL Cooper device, but I don’t see these listed in the Help files anymore.
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Like Michael said, it may work, but not for all intents and purposes, e.g. on-set smart slates would have already been at 30fps. Changing the BWF TC stamp afterwards then works for the BWF, but won’t change the smart slate code. Not a problem when you start at round seconds, of course, but what if you don’t?
And again, Avid can track these codes.
Old habits die hard, which is why many folk stick to 30fps TC for sound (and 25fps in the PAL world even on 24p shoots), even though it makes hardly any sense in an all-HD workflow.
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You are of course correct, Bouke.
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At what frame rate? 1080 would 48GB/hour, according to the Estimated Storage Requirements in the Avid manual (AVC-Intra 100).
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Michael, wouldn’t it be easy to convert the TC stamp to 24 using something like Wave Agent, then?
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Zoe, this implies they shot picture at 24.000fps, but then transferred at 23.976 with the intention to post at 23.976. Fairly common for US productions.
Sound was shot 48048, then slowed down to 48000 during import (Avid can detect pulldown sample rates and import them sample-by-sample). This slows the sound down by the same percentage as picture is being slowed down.
The 30fps is just the timecode. Doesn’t make much sense in HD projects to have a 30fps timecode, but Avid will allow it.
After that, everything is to be treated as if it were shot at 23.976, and is to be posted at 23.976.
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There’s a trick that lets VLC player play back Avid MXF media files (free): https://michaelkammes.com/avid/play-avid-mxf-for-free/
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IMHO: no, Symphony’s tools were pretty nice 10 years ago, but are nowhere near other tools today.