John Demaio
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Thanks for the help. As it turns out, I found a plug-in that was exactly what I needed. In case you might happen to need something like this in the future the plug-in is called Glitch, and is part of the Core Melt Motion Pack. It does exactly what I needed it to do. I also added a Strobe effect and now the video looks like a troubled digital video stream. Thanks again!
John
John X. DeMaio
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Are you saying that your scratch 1 drive is taking a long time to show up on your desktop? Do the other drives (scratch 2 and scratch 3) show up before scratch 1 on your desktop?
I had a similar problem with an internal and I was having all sorts of problems with final cut. It was a bad drive. It was brand new – inside a brand new mac pro 8-core and it drove me nuts!
If your project file exists on that drive too then that might explain the issues – but I would think that you might want to troubleshoot the drive.
Others smarter than me might have some other advice, but that sounds like exactly what was happening to me. The drive was slow to mount and it had all sorts of read/write issues that drove fcp -and me – completely crazy!
John
John X. DeMaio
Blackburst Entertainment
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I want to say that I have seen this before. I think a buddy of mine had this issue and resolved it. I’ll send him this link and see if I can get him to check out this post.
What exactly “glitches” with the video? Is it a stutter in the video at the transition or is it a luminance shift?
John X. DeMaio
Blackburst Entertainment
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That is exactly how we do it. I don’t know if it is preferred and I’m sure that there are better methods but when I need to get a file over to my partner on the Avid, I’ll just send him a quicktime using one of the Avid codecs. If you google “avid codecs” there is a link to the files . . . I think it’s the second one down – Avid Quicktime Codecs LE 1.60. The file is for Mac/PC so you will be able to read files from Avid into FCP just as easy.
I also started sending ProRes files to him after installing the codecs on his system. Works just as good, but he prefers the Avid codec files. Just a preference. Doesn’t work as well going the other way – Avid to FCP using ProRes. I’m pretty sure the ProRes Codec is read only.
I’m sure more people will chime in. Good Luck!
John
John X. DeMaio
Blackburst Entertainment
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Yes, I did a test with a BetaSP deck and I realize that I will have some babysitting to do. This stuff was all transfered to Beta so I copied a sequence and batch digitized from that.
I just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing anything – now I know one thing I’m missing is a TriSync generator. Thanks Shane! I wasn’t sure if I needed that or if a regular SD would work.
Anything else that I overlooked?
John X. DeMaio
Blackburst Entertainment
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It looks like you have an older version of quicktime for your version of Media composer. For 2.8.4 Avid recommends that you upgrade to Quicktime v7.3 – here’s a link to the readme for your version of Media composer. The info for quicktime is on page 33 of the readme file – its a pdf.
If that doesn’t work we’ll go from there.
John
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A couple of things: What version of quicktime do you have installed and what version of Avid? Please include if it’s xpress pro or media composer.
What are the settings that you are using to export in After Effects and what is the setting for your project in Avid?
John