John Baum
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What Avid settings would make a difference?
The avid stuff behaves fine on the ppro2 timeline, and when exporting to other formats besides mpeg1.
I am going to have the avid operator send me a rendered file so as to bypass the tape capture and see what happens. -
It was a real “WTF?!?” moment the first time I tried to change fonts in AE7. I thought for sure that font support would have ben enhanced in this version. This is an Adobe product after all. But instead, it seems worse! WTF!?!
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One reason you would get this is if you have a Decklink capture card. It is a known bug and a fix should be available soon. The only workaround at the moment is to capture aa something other then 8bit avi. 10bit will work fine.
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But they apparently don’t fix the issue with 8bit footage in After Effects 7. It still crashes on import.
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It would appear to be the 8bit AVI codec that is the culprit. Files captured with the Decklink capture program which uses Quicktime are fine, as are 10bit AVIs captured in Premiere.
I noticed a post in the AJA Xena forums about the 8bit AVI codec that premiere captures in being kinda non-standard. Its the same one that is used with BM cards. Its some kind of UYVY codec.
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Just checked and footage captured in PPro2 also has the same result.
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I think I may have the same problem. AE7 seems fine til I import an existing project done with 6.5 which all contain BlackMagic footage.
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I actually started out editing in Vegas and found the switch to PPro difficult because of the workflow differences.
I was forced to switch from Vegas to PPro because I bought a new system based on the Blackmagic card. But I found Vegas 6 to be very buggy when using this card so I switched to a copy of PPro I happen to have had and stayed with it because it was so much more stable.
As far as, is it worth the effort to switch, I’d say over-all Vegas is faster for editing if you can change your habits to work the way the program was designed. Its very timeline oriented and the scripting capabilities can work wonders on repetitive tasks.
If you adapt to new interfaces quickly or haven’t been editing long then I would suggest trying Vegas, theres a good chance you’ll like it better.Otherwise it will take a fair amount of patience to unlearn old habits and benefit from its workflow design.
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Never found a use for regions before but this is a good one as it is a task I have to do every few months.Thanks for the tip!
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I’d say yes to the bitrate.
Haven’t done any 5.1 shows yet but your theory sounds plausible. It may need a 5.1 system to playback at the same volume.