Justin Gray
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David, which version of MC are you using? If not MC5 Avid has a special upgrade price available for a couple more weeks. It’s well worth the investment especially with any file based workflow. Native support on Quicktime, XDCAM EX, R3D, and many more through AMA.
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MC5 handles natively via AMA.
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Info please…
How are you acquiring the footage? Camera? Stock clips? Tape based camera or file based? HD or SD? NTSC or PAL? Frame rate? Many many things can cause these issues.
Since you saying it is giving you more noise on horizontal movement shots it sounds like you editing footage that is originally 720×480 in a 30i project. And a 30i project is 720×486… This will assuredly give you this problem you describe. If this is the case, when importing your footage, make sure to click your “options” tab. Then select “Crop/Pad for DV scan line difference.” That’s where I’d start.
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For those of you following this post I would like to expand a bit on Michael’s excellent suggestion for merging HD progressive footage into an SD interlaced project.
Along with being able to import/digitize the HD footage in it’s native format within a project, then opening that footage in an SD project and letting Avid handle the frame conversions, you can also apply this to entire sequences.
I experimented in a 1280×720 24p project by cutting a few clips together into a native sequence… all shot on a JVC Gy-HD700. Then, started a test 30i project. Instead of opening a bin from the HD project and simply cutting with the the raw footage I double clicked the HD sequence itself within the 30i project. Avid then prompts you by saying the sequence frame rate does not match the project frame rate, (24p vs. 29.97) and asks if i wanted to load a copy of the sequence that has been modified to match the project’s play rate. IT WORKED GREAT!!! With a little work with the “REFORMAT” effect I got an awesome SD conversion of the entire sequence.
Now why would one want to do this? Two words… BetaSP Dubs. Edit in HD but still spit out your analog tapes with no exporting, no transcoding, no worries.
I hope this helps anyone who is having Workflow Woes like I was.
-Justin Gray
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Michael, you’ve saved me yet again. Your method works brilliantly. I threw the Reformat 16:9 onto the clip with the converted frame rate and it looks great! Thanks a bunch. -Justin Gray
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Paul thanks for your response. Our local avid rep and I was discussing just this issue a few months ago with my local avid sales rep. This evening before leaving the edit suite I purchased and downloaded the latest media composer…4.05 I think. It’ll be ready to rock on the nitris dx tomorrows. Thanks again Paul.
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In you import settings under the image category set you Frame Import Duration to .5 secs. Hopefully your frames are numbered sequentially. Import into bun. Right click “name” in bin and select …”Sort Ascending.” Select all clips and drag into timeline. Voila!
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I’m having precisely the same problem here. Irritating as hell.
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Still even though you can change to colors in you Interface settings there is no way to differentiate the colors between “marked” clips using in/outs, and “selected” clips using the segment mode tools. Am I missing something? I use to have a different color for each of these selection methods.
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