[Mark Baird]

and after more closely reading your post. If the clips.bin file is actually corrupt, then you need to fix it.

It has been a while since I delt with this but there may be a way to fix the clips.bin file using a utility from NLTek called Paktools. (try it in evaluation mode to see if it works. you don’t want to buy it if you can help it. )

If that doesn’t do it my experience has been that the tech support guys over at NLTek will bend over backwards to help you out. But you are on the right track with brining in the clips.bin file. that is how you import from a field pack.

MB

[Mark Baird]

Copying won’t actually work nor will AMA work. There is a very specific way you have to deal with the field packs. I am assuming you have a field pack reader connected to your editor and you are working from the original field packs? If not… If the footage from the packs has been copied to another disk drive that’s a whole other problem. Let me know and I can go into that. One important thing is the field pack has to be LOCAL to the editor… you cannot do this over a network share.

Now that said, once the field pack is in the reader and your computer recognizes it go into MC and create a bin for your new files. Right click in the bin and select “import”. Now you want to change the “file types” drop down to select “CamCutter files (*.bin, *.spl)”. Once this is selected navigate to the “bin” folder on the field pack and select the clips.bin file. This will open all the clips on the field pack into your bin.

You can work this way, but if you need to clear the field pack off for other shooting then you need to consolidate the files from the field pack over to your local or shared storage.

Hope this helps.

Mark Baird
ACSR (MC, Unity, Interplay)

[Mark Baird]

Yep… That was it… I thought there was a tool like that. I was just looking in the settings and couldn’t find it.

It’s things like this that make me wish I spent more time editing. I can pass the ACSR class all the way through interplay and I still dont know the basic 101 interface things. (But I know what the crock and the odile are and where to find the firebase card.) Oh well.

Thanks so much for the help.

MB

[Mark Baird]

Thanks for the help Joe. I am not 100% sure inside express where to set the video output to S or composite or whatever. I have checked the video display setting but it has none of those options. I originally thought it looked like a component/composite problem but couldn’t find a way to change it so I assumed all ouputs from the mojo were active. It is an Analogue mojo.

Currently, I am using an S-Video cable, but I have also tried composite. It could be the cable, or it could be the monitor, I did not switch cables in the test. The S-Video is black and white, the composite doesn’t show much video at all… Kinda looks like really bad reception with mostly black and torn sync signals in the image.

[Mark Baird]

I meant to mention that I had already trashed the preferances and that didn’t work. However, on your advice I trashed MC State and that fixed symptom one and two. I still have black and white out of the mojo, so that looks like a seperate issue. that won’t block my CC since I am not trying anything critical. I am just rough matching cameras to each other, not trying for a broadcast picture (not that I have that great a monitor hooked up.

Any further thoughts on the b/w monitor issue would be appricated, but for now I can work again.

Thanks big time.

MB

[Mark Baird]

From your drawing I don’t see any huge “gotchas”. it should work. The only reason you would need to define the deck in your capture tool is if you had some method of controlling it via serial connection.

If your DVD is not serial controllable, then it doesn’t really matter to the AVID what it is. Just set the video and audio source to the correct setting in their drop downs and be aware the you will have to wild capture everything.

If you do have an industrial type DVD deck that has a 422 control port, then set the drop down to whatever type deck you have. The only DVD definition I have seen in the deck type dialog is the Pioneer SDI deck (that we use), but admittedly, I havn’t gone looking for anything else. But all this drop down does is tell the AVID how to talk to the deck for control purposes.

FWIW the avid does a great job of “Digital cut”ing to the Pioneer deck I mentioned above. We can do that as easily as digital cut to a bsp or digibeta. You just have to remember to tell the Digital cut tool that it should ignore time code. otherwise it will try to get TC from the DVD you are about to print to and that of course is impossible.

MB
ACSR

[Mark Baird]

I’m know this is obvious, but it’s worth saying that the more the light hits the screen directly on as opposed to raking the screen from the sides, the more any stubborn wrinkles will disappear, especially in NTSC.

[Mark Baird]

Oh, I got it. I use those in digital fusion. I just didn’t know that is what they were called.

No. I have never seen those in AVID, nor have I seen pluggins that do that.

MB

[Mark Baird]

Ummm… I was just color correcting on an AVID yesterday and doing it with hew curves. They come with the MC software. Are you on some older system maybe that doesn’t have it? They come standard with MC/Express Pro.

I’m not in front of an avid right now but from memory go to tool sets/color correction then you see the three familiar color circles. There is a curves selection somewhere on that screen.

Sorry I cant be more specific, I am an engineer not a regular user.

MB