[Kenton Vannatten]

So, you’ve got a bin with all your info in TEXT view and you export the bin as a txt file (Tab Delimited) and you don’t see anything in the txt file?

What happens if you try to open the txt file in Excel?

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Kenton Vannatten]

Glad you go it sorted out… like I said, I was doing it from memory.

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Kenton Vannatten]

Then you don’t need to convert the OMF files at all. These are your media files from the originally captured material.

Export the sequence as a QTref and then encode that to mpeg-2 using a 3rd party encoder such as Sorenson Squeeze, Canopus Procoder or other.

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Kenton Vannatten]

First, could you explain why you need this conversion?

What’s it’s purpose and what is your workflow?

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Kenton Vannatten]

Okay… sorry, I was doing it from memory. It may be “Export”

As for getting the TC’s to match, do this:

-put all your stuff in the B-Roll Sequence.
-Create a new bin
-Mark In/Out on each shot
-do a Sub-sequence

This will put each shot into the new bin and because each shot is a Sub of the original sequence it’ll retain the TC info of the original sequence.

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Kenton Vannatten]

But as a general guide I’d roll for 15 mins or so every 30 mins??

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Kenton Vannatten]

I think it would depend on

a) how long the construction will take (is it only going to be the 8 hrs? or will it be multiple days?)
b) how long does the client want the overall Time Lapse to be in the final edit
c) will you be speeding up the footage or just showing a bit here and there in real-time?

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Kenton Vannatten]

Set up a custom bin view in TEXT mode and have it display whatever columns you feel are important. Clip Name, Start/End TC, comments, etc..

Then with the bin active, you can either set it to Print or Save Bin As… there you can select a .txt

Bring the .txt file into Excel and you now have a searchable document that you can set up and format however you like.

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Kenton Vannatten]

Which version of XDV do you have?

At some point, Avid added 3D PIP to XpressPro, they may have also added it to XDV. Otherwise, I would use After Effects.

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Kenton Vannatten]

Actually, I upgraded from XDV3.5 to Pro5.2, so I bypassed the 4.x series altogether, I knew JKL/extend was included earlier, just wasn’t sure exactly when they added it.

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)