Kenton Vannatten
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As I mentioned before, just find a rental house that has a deck that will play DVCPRO tapes, then you can do the capture yourself.
Kenton VanNatten
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I didn’t think about the “international implications” when I offered… lol :)\
The bigger trouble is that since he’s only provided you with .mov’s that you have to now import is that you lose ALL of your TimeCode info from the original tapes. You did say that you were wanting to use this footage for logging, but without TC how can you do that? Much less, be able to create an accurate EDL, or even re-capture the footage for an online/up-res process.
By capturing the footage in FCP and giving you the resulting .mov’s he’s basically screwed the future of this project. Sure it’s fine for just viewing some clips, but down the road is where I bet you will see problems.
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I also wanted to add that the reason you’re seeing it “fine” on the Avid screen is because even though that’s a computer monitor, Avid only displays single field. So in short, the image is not being played back as interlaced from Avid.
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Where are you viewing the exports?? On a computer monitor or TV/broadcast monitor?
Computer monitors are Non-Interlaced, TV’s/Broadcast monitors are Interlaced. If you’ve exported it with LowerField First, then you’ve got Interlaced images and if you’re viewing that on a computer screen then you will see the jaggies.
To overcome the jaggies on a computer monitor, export as Non-Interlaced.
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I think it would’ve been easier for you to rent a deck and captured the tapes yourself.
But, the extensions that you get when importing the files into Avid are the Avid media files extension (.omf/.aif) Every bit of footage that you import or capture gets these extensions regardless of what it started out as.
Secondly, in some of your posts you indicate you thought the files should have “.DVCPRO” as the extension, codecs don’t determine the extension, the file types do.
I’m with the others on this one and believe the person who captured this footage for you did so NOT on an Avid system (or more frightening didn’t know what they were doing).
Had you gotten it captured on an Avid, the capturer would’ve created some bins and captured the footage. The footage would then live on your hard drive with the .omf/.aif extensions and Master Clips that are representations of the Media Files would live in the Bin. You would NOT need to import anything after the capture process.
You would simply attach your hard drive, and launch Avid. Then open the Bin that contained your Master Clips. This would work regardless of Avid version or tape format.
Where are you located? I’m between jobs right now and could do the job (right) for you… 🙂
-k
Kenton VanNatten
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[Dave Schweitzer] “believe the attic is a repository for copies of bins, not the whole project”
That is correct, Sorry I misunderstood the problem,
The short answer is The Attic Folder is just that a Folder that hold “attic copies” of your bins. The Project Folder is seperate and can only be backed up manually.
You can’t open the Attic Folder inside Avid, follow Dave’s suggestion of adding the .avb extension to the attic files, then using Open Bin in Avid open them up. Create New Bins and ALT+drag the contents of the “Old” bin to the New one.
personal note: Whenever I’m dealing with Attic Bins, I like to keep the revision# as part of the new bin name. For example, “BinName.15” becomes “BinName_15.avb” This helps keep the bin names unique as well as provides a visual cue as to which newly named bins were the most recent from the Attic.
Kenton VanNatten
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To get an Attic bin to open you have to add the .avb extension.
To get it back into the Attic just copy it back there.
Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire) -
Well actually… the user *could* upgrade to XDV4.6 (which no longer requires a dongle…btw, it is the only Avid product that does not)
BUT the disadvantages for upgrading from v3 to 4.6 far outweigh it’s advantages.
For example, the 4.6 XDV doesn’t have many of the features that were included in the 3.5 and lower series, so it’s like a step backwards.
And if the user ever decided to upgrade to XpressPro, the jump from v3 is $495, the jump from 4.6 is $995.
Also, I haven’t heard any recent news about a version XDV5, so it would “appear” that 4.6 could be the end of the line. (NOTE: it is already a few years old)
If you do have a dongle upgrade to XpressPro, but if you don’t….
Kenton VanNatten
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Did you upgrade anything recently?
What happens if you do a Dongle Dump? (DongleDumper.exe)
You could try to email warranty@avid.com
Also check this posting on the official Avid site: https://avid.com/exchange/forums/thread/72.aspx
Kenton VanNatten
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AFAIK it’s not possible.
What you’ve done is taken a whole orange, sliced it up and put it all on a plate and now you’re trying to tell the person you’re serving it to that two of the slices are bananas, some are kiwis, and the others are apples.
What you may be able to do is subclip each shot back to a bin, rename the shot, then replace the shot in the timeline with the renamed subclip.
It’s going to be a lot of work.
Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)