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Lucas Howe
February 17, 2008 at 12:33 am in reply to: XPress Pro P2 media severe sound problems

Hi Grin,

Thank you so much for the response.
The tricky thing with these clips is that it is not really an *import* — they are native MXF from the P2 card.

The “Import from P2” function doesn’t work so I am forced to manually bring the media files into the Avid MediaFiles folders. The Avid sees them, synchs them up — and plays them all distorted and terrible. Even if I bring the audio way way down it’s still totally distorted — unusable audio.

The same audio clips come into Final Cut perfectly so I know it’s not a media problem. I just need the Avid to be forced to interpret them as media from a P2… There must be some automatic adjustment that the Avid should be making but isn’t.

Any ideas?

Thanks again to everyone…

Lucas

Lucas Howe
Lucas Howe
August 21, 2007 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Problems capturing from Sony J H-3

Thanks to David and Jeremy!

I always leaned on Toast for this kind of thing and often suffered for it.
Will definitely use DVDSP and/or compressor for the quick screeners.

Quick question which is on/off topic.

I have a film which is shot largely in cross processed 35mm — the colors are really wild and saturated. (though still legal) I found that DVDSP would throw them off but Toast would keep them true.

Is there some kind of automated color management with DVDSP? If so is it possible to turn it off? Someone told me that the earlier DVDSP version 2 didn’t have this issue.

Thanks so much for the time and the help guys! Really appreciate it!

Best,
Lucas
Lucas Howe
August 21, 2007 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Problems capturing from Sony J H-3

Hi David,

From my experience if you want to make a quick DVD without hours of reformatting it’s always nice to be able to spit out a source compression quicktime and drop it into a program like toast for a quick screener. (film will be about 2.5 hrs)
If the offline materials are already NTSC there’s no long reformatting or funny frame rate issues.
If there is a nice fast way to be able to get NTSC DVDs from FCP I would love to know!
Usually I send these things out. Do you have any advice?

Thanks!
Lucas
Lucas Howe
August 21, 2007 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Problems capturing from Sony J H-3

Hi Mark,

Thanks a lot! We actually had switched that and still no joy.
What our solution is now is we have just removed the pulldown
and are working with prorez.
So our offline will now be 24. Ah well.

Thanks for your help!

Lucas
Lucas Howe
January 30, 2007 at 10:48 pm in reply to: Change project from 30 to 24p for online edit…

Thanks so much! I ran it through and it looks like it’s going to work.

:o)