[Ed Cilley]

Is MC open when you are trying to unmount?

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[Ed Cilley]

Brittney,

The best web files are created by a third-party product, not a video editing program. Some tweaking of the settings may be necessary to obtain the best look.

Ryan’s comment above is certainly a path many people take – Sorenson works very nicely. I use a variety of products but they all start with Exporting your sequence from the Avid and making a .mov file.

There are many options out there. I like Adobe Media Encoder. It has some presets that can be tweaked and it makes a nice file. If you have After Effects you can also create an FLV from there – but that is kind of like using a sledgehammer to tap in a nail.

Ed

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[Ed Cilley]

Alan,

Another option is to charge a Set-up Fee, something like $75. Since you have scripts running the process, you don’t need to sit and load each clip, modify settings, chose where to save, etc. You set it up and let the computer churn them out. So the majority of your time is spent getting the files loaded and started.

Of course you need to figure out how long your computer takes to process the clips and then base the remainder of the charge accordingly. After the Set-up fee, you could charge $15 a clip – for instance. Your mileage may vary. You may also want to have a scale for longer clips and short clips. You need to decide if this works for you.

The thinking here is that if a client has a habit of sending me a clip to encode and then two days later another, and then another, it is taking a lot of time for me to get the computer set-up to run these clips. If you can reduce their cost by doing these in batches, then everyone’s time and money is better spent.

Hope this adds some fodder for the Cow community. 🙂

Ed

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[Ed Cilley]

Bouke is correct. You will have more material with several angles to choose from. However, you should not expect that every take and every line will have 4 cameras to choose from. Actors, even good ones, will not have every body part in the same place for both takes.

Cut the audio as your base. Timing/pace all the things that Bouke mentioned above. Then go back in and add other video cuts. Sometimes you will find you can replace audio and video from a different take and get the same feeling but allow you to match lips, etc.

I’ve done this sort of thing over the years and the concept is to speed up production and allow more creativity in the edit suite. Sometimes this works. You also have to set up the camera angles very carefully so you aren’t duplicating the shot one take to the next. Plan this all out. You don’t need a CU on actor 1 or WS for both takes. Plan it out. Give your camera men scripts with shot selection marked on the script.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

Ed

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[Ed Cilley]

David,

I did some checking with Genarts and got the following response from them…

_As you maybe aware, Sapphire V1 is no longer supported, but it should work in MC 4._

Ed

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Lauren,

One more thought. I heard a presentation from an editor who cut a concert of a well known artist. He was working in a room with two Avid’s set-up next to each other and, of course, audio was an issue. One editor would turn up the volume and the other would try to compete. One finally settled for headphones the majority of the time. The difference here is that he had a track to edit to and did very little adjusting of the audio.

My point is, if you are forced to work in a less than ideal situation, make the most of it. Wear the headphones when you have to, listen through speakers/monitors when possible, and jump into the screening room when ever you can to listen to your mix. And as mentioned above, sweetening should be done elsewhere – not in headphones.

Hope that helps.

Ed

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[Ed Cilley]

David,

From Genarts website,

We ceased development of Sapphire version 1 for Avid Systems in 2006, so the vast majority of our customers have upgraded to version 2 or version 3. Hence, it is no longer economically feasible to support a version this old.
https://www.genarts.com/support/sapphire/avid/v1eol
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With that being said, the short answer is no.

Sorry.

Ed

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There is a Mac version

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/product/accounting-software/mac-accounting-software.jsp

Ed

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[Ed Cilley]

There have been times when I have had issues with QT Reference. As Michael mentions, select “Use Avid Codec”. But this doesn’t always fix the problem.

If one clip in your sequence has different settings (title, graphic) then a QT Ref might have problems figuring out what format to use.

Try a mixdown – or even just a short test to see if that helps. If it’s a long program a video mixdown is a pain, but will certainly work to get the job out the door.

Ed

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[Ed Cilley]

Lori,

So let me see if I am following what is happening…

V2 – Graphic Title (not nested)
V1 – Video (interview)

If you have a lower third on V2 and nest another title (title tool), it will look below to the bottom layer. Un-nest the effect if this is what is happening.

Is the lower third a Matte Key, or are you adding effects to get the key?

Ed

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