[Matthew Skeris]

Here’s the original…
https://landmarks.utexas.edu/projects/video/jonas
https://www.lyoutube.com/watch?v=r4eNDk-q71g

[Matthew Skeris]

You’re welcome, Jeremy. How did it go finding that needle in a haystack? Seems that sorting Sequence copies
by Duration (then disregarding those greater than 10 mins) and Creation Date (disregarding recent ones) would come in handy too.

[Matthew Skeris]

Hi, I have an idea and it goes like this;

Make a new bin and set the Bin Display to also Show Reference Clips.

Then open Custom Sift and type the unique Names of two of the three the clip names in the two separate Criterion input fields.

Then go through your Sequence bins haystack and Alt+Drag (to Copy) a Sequence into that Sift-ready bin. This ought to be able to narrow down those Sequences that contain 2 out of 3 of those clips. As long as you copy Sequences into the bin, you can delete them or ignore the
ones that show no results.

I suppose you could also have an additional new bin ready to Sift for that 3rd clip’s Name, which would make that Sequence a candidate as it contains all 3 clips.

Seems like a bunch of Alt+drag and dropping, but maybe this is a help.

Or perhaps there are advanced search tools in Avid Interplay or another Avid product that can do this search automatically?

[Matthew Skeris]

Hey Micah, No chance yet to seriously try it out– I did download
the GoPro Sample from that link and was able to use the program once, easily.

Based on their forum, revision notes, etc. it seems the support is there and they would be able to assist in troubleshooting if you
need it.

I would offer to try out your footage, but I am not using v6
at all- just v5.5 and v7.0 Good luck. I think for the price,
I might get it, just to have a way to remove GoCrap footage prior to
transcoding to DNxHD.

p.s. does that old MPEGStreamClip freeware program on the Mac/PC work on GoPro files? Maybe you can try that.

[Matthew Skeris]

I looked for and found a windows product that may help you– I am going to check out their trial. Here’s a link to their support forum:
https://www.fame-ring.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7308

Good luck.

[Matthew Skeris]

Thanks for the suggestion, Mark. That’s a good
idea.
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[Matthew Skeris]

Thanks for your report, Bill. I think I will try it,
unless I hear some horror stories.

[Matthew Skeris]

Have you seen this set of free lessons?? https://www.promax.com/s-130-edit-to-the-future.aspx
Steve Holyhead is clear and has a great deal of experience sequencing Avid concepts for FCP-refugees.

[Matthew Skeris]

Okay, Thanks Bill. I should be able to do that with
a calculator.

[Matthew Skeris]

Thanks Michael, I don’t really have decent monitoring on my software-only system, so I am
relying on a technical reason to go with one mode or another.

If you think field-based is a bad move, I guess that
leaves me with the Blended choices. A small test is
a good idea, especially if I can mixdown & then pull out single frames to inspect.

Maybe this is overkill- I just don’t know. I want the final shot to be around 5-15 seconds.