Jon Zanone
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When you start up Media Composer / XPress, in the pulldown box for ‘user’, there is an ‘import user settings option. Navigate to your flash drive settings.
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver -
Adobe will say the latest version is the best.
🙂
Are you comfortable with a particular version? I found the difference between 6.5 and CS3 managable.
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver -
Quicktime uncompressed to him.
Animation codec to you.
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver -
Sorry for the slow response. I’m geussing one way or another, you got this to work?
What version are you on? OS? I had a lot of problems with XPressPro, so I upgraded…
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver -
Try this:
Put an in point on your clips at the same place (cymbal hit, a speaker blinking, a camera flash).
Go to clip-group clips (cntrl + shift + g) and select ‘in point’.
Your clips are grouped – load the grouped clips into your source monitor (forget about your source clips – you don’t need to do anything else with them). Lay in your master clip. I usuall select the one with the best audio (there is a pull down menu at the top of the source monitor which allows you to select the audio source, as well as whether to use audio-follow-video).
Go to multicam (shift+control+m). Keep in mind you can only play all sources if you digitized your footage in an ‘m’ resolution. You can still multicam at higher resolution, but you can’t play your source realtime. At least that’s the Avid line. I’ve managed to get DV25 to play in 3 streams (2 source and the record monitor), but its glitchy and prone to crashing the system.
With this method, you don’t need to match frame anything. When you load your multicam sequence and enter into multicam mode, your grouped clips will come in as well. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll wonder why you don’t shoot multiple cameras all the time.
HTH,
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver -
[Kevan D. Holdsworth] “Might we be able to expect to record to P2 directly at DVCProHD/24p and the post house be able to use this natively in their Avid Nitris?”
Yes, as long as you use the right file format (OMF v. MXF – my hunch is use MXF, but check with them)[Kevan D. Holdsworth] “Will they need a card reader or other hardware for the P2 card?”
Yes, but if you can send them a DVD / USB drive with the file structure (just copy the ‘contents’ folder from the card), they should be able to use it.[Kevan D. Holdsworth] “Would I need to convert the P2 media (or Firestore media) to a specific format that will work in the Avid?”
No – as long as you use the right format (OMFI v. MXF), they should be able to ‘go native’ – no conversion.
MXF is really the way to go. I can’t imagine they are using OMFI, but I’d check to make sure.Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver -
What is your frame size when you start out in Flash? What version of Avid are you using? Is there a reason you don’t use Photoshop to create your graphics? Exporting as a .png will create an alpha channel.
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver -
Are you working in old school OMFI because you are on an old school Avid?
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver -
Thanks! I’ve edited a lot of video projects, but never film. I ‘de-mystifies’ some of the things I had heard, but never experienced.
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver -
When you drag and drop graphics, Avid will default to the last settings you used whilst importing. So, check your media creation tab under settings. Make sure your settings match your project (I believe it defaults to RGB color space, for sure).
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver