Joe Womble
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Avid’s open timeline approach will let you open a 1080 project and let you either capture SD footage or, by opening a bin with the SD sequence, open the SD sequence. You will have to determine how you want to treat the SD footage. Either use the uprez capability or letterbox the image and maybe apply a graphic background, for instance.
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Joe Womble
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This makes sense if you are taking it to After Effects for your other compositing work. Another option would be to consider using Boris RED (Avid FX) for your keying. I have found the quality to be quite good for my greenscreen work. Boris will export movie files with straight or pre-multiplied alphas, as well.
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Joe Womble
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Good idea, Grinner. You can get away with that once in a blue moon, but yesterday was a blue moon!!! 🙂
One thing I would ask you to do with the original tape is to play it back on the device it was recorded on. Sometimes a head alignment issue, etc., will cause playback to be an impossibility anywhere BUT where it was recorded. If it works, then capture from that recording device.
Sorry to be away for so long, guys…jobs have taken me all over the country and all over the world since the end of March. Glad to be back and finding the Avid list going strong!
Regards,
Joe Womble
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Have you tried encoding it as a SD Quicktime movie in Sorenson Squeeze? Or even Quicktime Pro. Then you can import it into Avid.
Regards,
Joe Womble
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Jim,
The HVX 200 is my camera of choice; I do 90% of my shooting with it.
Avid reads MXF files natively and does not require any rendering or conversion. If you have an Avid system older than x.7, just copy the audio and video .mxf files to the Avid MediaFiles folder on your data drive. Then open Avid, watch as it rebuilds the database for these drives, and then open Media Tool. Drag the files into a folder in your project and start editing.
If you have version x.7, it gets easier and better! Read this:
https://www.avid.com/content/10541/README_XpressPro.pdf
Regards,
Joe Womble
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Hi, Stasia, and welcome.
Take a while to read the fine manual, as well doing a search on this forum. I think you will find both to be a great help for questions that will inevitably pop up.
As for your first question: I am assuming the media was captured on an Avid. If so, you should be able to delete the media databases in the OMFI MediaFiles folder (the .mdb and .pmr files). Then Avid will reindex the files in the folder and make them available to you again.
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Joe Womble
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No, it will not affect other projects. I allow the databases to update themselves when I add media all the time, even with Avid running. I usually minimize Avid, add media, and then when I maximize Avid, the databases update themselves. Maybe a safer way would be to close Avid, add media, delete the databases, and relaunch Avid.
Let me qualify that by saying that this method is with local drives. If you are on networked drives, there should be a better workflow.
Regards,
Joe Womble
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My cheap, easy way to have TBC controls over analog material is to run all analog sources through my Sony UVW-1800 Beta SP deck. I have the TBC remote for it. Upon capture, I control the hue, video, setup and chroma levels of the analog sources.
If I need timecode from these sources, I have to dub them to a deck with timecode capability.
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Joe Womble
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I see! My Pioneer DVR-533H needs 3 minutes, and I think it’s approximately the same for the LX-1. Seems to be less if you have a smaller amount of free space left on the DVD.
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Joe Womble
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You could always go the route of FW out of the Avid into a DVD recorder. It will give you the DVD in real time.
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Cre8tive