Joe Womble
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Don’t know what you have and have not tried yet. Have you deleted your .pmr and .mdb files yet and let Avid re-build the databases?
Regards,
Joe Womble
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Apparently at the 25 mbs setting, you can use the Sony utility and transfer the files to MXF and import them into Avid. No joy for the 35 mbs files yet.
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Joe Womble
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Tim,
I haven’t noticed this on my systems, but I will give it a shot to see if it happens to me as well.
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Joe Womble
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An absolutely beautiful solution to this is SyncVue.
It will let you hook up a Skype video line for the face shot you need and let you work with the video or graphics via QT files and make annotations and notes in real time.
Regards,
Joe Womble
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Well, I’m sad to say that I couldn’t get any answers today on the Avid workflow at the Sony demo. Not from the demo artist, and not even from the Sony people. They were showing the footage imported to FCP, and it worked impressively well with that software (on a MacPro laptop). I shot some footage and loaded it into FCP using the Sony utility without a hitch. Probably a bit quicker loading the footage and transferring it with Mac and FCP than my HVX200 on Avid PC.
The camera looked great, maybe a bit better on depth of field than the HVX200. I wouldn’t want to shoot a lot of handheld with it unless all of the shooting was at waist level based on the left-side-heavy nature of this camera. Regardless you always need to use your left hand to balance the camera, unless you have a shoulder or chest brace. Otherwise, leave it on the tripod and you can make pretty pictures. All of the footage I shot was 35 mb/s, by the way.
My reseller did offer to allow me to demo one for a couple days to try it if I want.
Regards,
Joe Womble
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Do you have Boris RED on the Avid? They have a great filter called motion that can do what you want.
https://www.borisfx.com/html/products/red4/tutorials/motion_key/MotKey.html
Regards,
Joe Womble
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I’m using the deck with Xpro 5.7.7 on an xw8000 with 2.5 GB RAM and an nVidia FX1100 card.
I’m using RS-422 control.
It works, but is problematic with digitizing and print to tape. It seems that with every newer version of Avid, successful work with the deck gets harder to achieve.
As much as I have really enjoyed using the deck over the years, I would now have to suggest you look elsewhere. I am in the process of doing the same.
I’m lucky (?) in that most of my footage comes in via P2 files. Yes, that has it’s own set of difficulties. But clients still show up with DV tapes, and I need a means of capturing via a deck (won’t use my camera as a deck!).
Regards,
Joe Womble
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I’ll certainly ask at the demo on the 13th.
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Joe Womble
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You should ask some of the guys at the Avid users group:
https://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/thread/289210.aspx
One of the guys said he was going to have his camera in today. I am attending a demo of the camera on 12/13; I will get some footage to play with and see how it works for me.
Regards,
Joe Womble
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If you’re using the plug-in version of Moving Picture, the parameters should be set for the project size, etc. You just need to scan a photo at no larger than 8,000 X 8,000 pixels and import it. From Stagetools web site:
“MovingPicture will accept images up to 8,000 by 8,000 pixels in size. Most scanner software have an option to specify the image size by pixels. In general, 1,500 to 2,000 pixels is the best size to use for most shows, unless you are really zooming in very tight. As a rule of thumb, you want to have at least 400 pixels to preserve image quality. For example, you could safely zoom in to one-fifth of the picture by using a 2,000 pixel image. This is somewhat subjective though, as some images hold up better than others.”
I use RED a lot for moving on still images. Works great for me. Again, using it as a plug-in sets the parameters within the program based on the format of the project I’m in. Then I just scan a picture (very large if I’m going to do a lot of movement, not so large if not) and RED takes care of making sure it will work with my project settings from there.
You should do a quick test in your project by scanning one picture, doing a move on it and playing back to see if it’s what you had in mind. If not, let us know and we can guide you from there.
Regards,
Joe Womble