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Won’t it just do a blended interpolated motion effect from progressive to progressive? I’d think blended frames would show up, right?

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Michael, the OP was talking about a 29p project, so that would not be any form of 3:2 pulldown, would it?

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The latest incarnation of version 3 of MC is much less than 10 years old. Avid has absolutely changed for the better.
Download the free (yes free) 30-day trial version of the current MC 5.5 and see how many improvements there have been the last few years.
Then visit the Avid Community Forums and see how much tighter the company is involved with its user base.

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The databases are read and built by Avid. If you delete them, the Avid will rebuild them.

When I was discussing moving the files and renaming the folders, that would be at finder level.

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O, one more thing: the subdivision of mediafiles can also be done by third party applications like Random Video’s MediaMover.

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Avid will only read/write media in the default filepath for media. Most people consider that to be a good thing, but it does limit you in subdividing media. Some thoughts, though:

The path for local storage is always X:/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1/, where ‘X:’ can be most any drive, but the ‘Avid MediaFiles’ folder needs to live on the root of the drive, not in a subfolder. But that last number can be most anything, as long as it is a number. Some people use that to label their media by shooting date or capture date. So for today, the folder would numbered 110704. Anything the Avid will create, however, will be put into a (newly created) folder ‘1’, unless that folder has more than 2500 files, in which case the Avid auto-creates ‘2’, etc.

A lot of people manually manage their mediafiles, by renaming the Mediafiles folder per project, and only activating the media for the current project. For example, you would have:

X:/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1
X:/Avid MediaFiles Coke/MXF/1
X:/Avid MediaFiles Pepsi/MXF/1
X:/Avid MediaFiles Test/MXF/1

The only active set (that the application will see and be able to use) is the first one (without the project name added). If you rename that folder, you will hide it from the system. Then you may “un-rename” the Pepsi or Coke set, for example, so that becomes active.

Another option on Windows is to use the ‘subst’ command, which allows you to create virtual drives in folders.

You could also partition drives, but that’s a little more cumbersome.

Hope this helps.

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I think all you need is to use the promo code (SWITCH).
https://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201107/070111AdobeSwitcherProgram.html

If you live in Europe, you’re still scr*wed, as Adobe’s pricing here is 40-70% higher than in the US. Also, unclear how this affects people already owning Master Collections.

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As for Apple ‘entering’ the NLE market, they simply bought Final Cut from Macromedia. They did not develop it originally.

As for the Trim Tool, did you ever check out the new Smart Tool and its trim features in Avid since last year’s release of MC5?

As for working in DNxHD 1080p, that works, and in realtime. So I doubt you need a proxy.

If you do want a proxy, there’s a great ‘offline’ HD codec (DNxHD36). If you’re coming from file-based sources, it’s fairly easy to bring in the files, encode them to 36, edit, then hide the 36-files from the system, open up the originals, and all will relink to the orignals. Works with R3D, XDCAM EX, Quicktime, etc.

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I don’t think these tool menu items can be mapped, no.

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Haven’t used the auditioning feature. Script Based Editing in MC does allow you to select a bunch of takes for a single line, and play them sequentially. ScriptSync is just the speech recognition part of the Script Based Editing feature; it allows the software to ‘read’ your audio tracks and match the clips up to any scripted text.