Jon Zanone
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The FW you have on that machine is almost certainly 1st generation FW400 – maybe fast enough for offline storage, but no where near fast enough for editing.
Your best bet is to stick with SCSI or fibre. You can still find LVD160 drives on ebay for decent prices.
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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Start here –
https://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/thread/4408.aspx
Scroll down to the ‘How to DVD’ link.
The basics for interlaced NTSC products are this (keep in mind this is from memory; if something is letter perfect, interpolate!) –
Right click your sequence>send to> encoding>Sorenson (assuming you have Sorenson installed)
A window will pop up – set your destination, and click options. Select Quicktime reference, native dimensions and 601/709
click OK, then again, and Sorenson will open (again, assuming you have Sorenson). Under MPEG2, select and drag the LG_DVD_NTSC setting to your job window. Double click on the setting, make sure your data rate doesn’t exceed 9000kbs(?). I’ve had great results with data rates as low as 3000 and as high as 6000. Select either program (embedded audio) or elementary (seperate audio and video files) Select 6 i frames. Under the filters, double click the first one (it doesn’t matter – your going to change it), uncheck everything except normalize audio. Make sure auto-deinterlacing is OFF (Sorenson does a horrble job of deinterlacint video). Save the preset as ‘auto deinterlacing OFF’, and apply that as well. click squeeze it. I use Reel DVD, but I won’t bore you with those details unless you want me to.
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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I’ve heard good thing about SeriousMagic’s DV rack…
jz
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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No – you’ll need (and want) external scopes. Avid scopes are not real time, to the best of my knowledge.
If you look at the digitize tool, you’ll see a little vectorscop icon. Click on that and you’ll get a vector/WFM you can use on analog sources. Since you can’t usually adjust the video levels via a TBC using SDI or Firewire, you won’t have the option of using a scope.
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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Apparently answered at the Avid forum…
Jon
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Are you sure your project will be shown ONLY on 16:9 displays? If not, you may think about having two shows on your disk – one native 16:9 and the other letterboxed out of the Avid (throw a 16:9 reformat effect on the topmost layer).
Just make sure your encoding software is capable of handling 16:9AR.
Jon
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Although Chaz is funny, smart, and a heck of an editor…. 😉
Duplicate time code would be appropriate and easy to manage in the context of, say a multicamera shoot – AS LONG AS you’ve named your tapes differently. Avid not only uses TC and tape name, but date created as a way to differentiate between tapes (and something else I think, but the coffee hasn’t kicked in!). So you COULD have BB-001, with the exact same TC, but because one tape had a different date created, the Avid would know the difference. You’d have to figure it out at that point.
Dashes in an Avid are OK – the PC side doesn’t like things used in file names, which is an OS thing. Macs don’t particularly care what you name your tape.
Chaz is absolutely right – whatever you name your tape, it must make sense to you. You must develop a naming convention that makes sense to you and any other editor working on the project.
If indeed you have TC breaks, you can set your settings/deck preferences/ignore TC breaks – that should do it.
Jon
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[Chaz Shukat] “he is also very wise, observant and funny and gives grrrreeeaaaattt!”
One of these days I’m gonna’ send you the money I’ve been promising you…
Jon
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It’s not about networking – XP Home will not give you the permissions you need to run Avid. Yes, there are people who insist they can (and do) run XP Home, but upon closer inspection they are the ‘under the OS-hood’ kind of people. Unless you want to get extremely intimate with your OS, stick with Pro.
Jon
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Well, there are a lot of questions here!
First off, how much money do you have to spend?
How experienced of an editor are you?
Are you planning on making any money on this venture, or is it for experience?
As much as I love Avid, it’s just a tool. If you are new to filmmaking, my suggestion is learn how to tell a story. Learn how to pace your edits. Storytelling is not about how many CGI (computer generated effects) you have per second of film (although pretty much any movie these days is quite the opposite!).
Buying an Avid is an expensive proposition because it’s a professional tool. I would suggest using something basic, and as you build up your skills, you can progress into a toolset that is appropriate.
Please don’t take this as a slam – video is a very expensive hobby. If you don’t have the income to support your habit, you can find yourself very frustrated!
If you have the money, I strongly urge you to buy from a reseller (or buy a computer that matches Avid specs). Unless you enjoy hours of frustration, OS twiddling and hair pulling, of course!
Jon