[Lili Chin]

Thanks for the advice. Is this a typical problem with avid? Should I have made the text files from Illustrator, which is vector based, or make the titles in AE even though I’m not animating the text?

The problem with making the PSD files is that I have 1 single file to generate separate TIFFS, I can indeed go back and make 20 psd files (1 for each title card) but do I really have to do that? I guess I’ll try 1 psd and 72 dpi file and see if that changes anything. But is the problem really with the fact that I used Photoshop to generate text (which is raster based?)

What are the precise settings for importing text/ graphic alpha channel files into avid media composer?
thanks
lili

[Lili Chin]

Hi jerry,

thanks for getting back to me. Essentially I have 5 cameras – 3 shot at HDV (two with a 1 chip, one with 2 chips) and 2 cameras shot at SD. I’m consolidating them into a DVCPRO HD timeline, I think that is the best codec to conform the formats to.

I’m rendering all of them directly in the timeline, but each time I need to do an edit, I have to wait hours for it to render. An impossible workflow.

so question:

a) am I correct in wanting to conform all the video formats to DVCPRO HD?

b) is the easiest way to work with this by exporting all different formats to DVCPRO HD and then working with them ‘natively’ in DVCPRO HD?

thanks
lili