[Micah Haun]

If you’re at all familiar with Protools, you should find most of the effects looking quite familiar (for a reason). As already said in here, Avid is unfortunately not particularly great for audio effects and mixing, mostly because they assume that you’re going to finish in protools for anything beyond some level adjustments.

That kind of attitude is nothing uncommon with Avid. It’s not a problem if you are going to work the way they expect you to; but if you want to do something a little better than a mockup early on, or don’t intend to use thier higher-end stuff it gets to be irritating quickly.

[Micah Haun]

I can recreate this in MC 3.5.4. Seems like a bug. New features tend to frown upon A3+ (like AMA audio). I tried throwing the effect on a higher video track just for fun (V3+) and to the actual audio track with no luck (though it’s not an audio effect so I guess that one makes sense). I’ll head over to the Avid forum and report it. Burn-in isn’t used much for audio so that’s probably why it’s gone unnoticed this long.

[Micah Haun]

“MC Soft” is just an abbreviation for Avid Media Composer with no Adrenaline/Mojo/Nitris/DX acceleration M(edia) C(omposer) Soft(ware only). From the sound of it you already have that.

If you’re on Windows or Wine, you could try these guys out:
https://www.amberfin.com/mxfdesktop/

[Micah Haun]

That would work to, but would require resetting each clip one at a time. Paste/remove attributes allows adding or removing of effects/properties from many clips simultaneously.

[Micah Haun]

Well, someone did have to say it didn’t they?

The last thing I worked on I did something kind of like that. I exported a proresHQ quicktime with an EDL and used the EDL to make a cutlist from the QT like it was a piece of tape and I was doing a tape to tape correction. It worked okay, but the transitions go a little chewed up, and something in the export process left everything washed out and a bit green (it wasn’t a 709/RGB mixup either, I checked that. I think some codecs just don’t cross convert well). I did a 30 second spot the way I’m suggesting and it looked much better (and graded much easier because I wasn’t constantly cleaning up after the conversion)

Basically I’d like to stay as close to my camera media as possible in terms of quality. I know you don’t lose that much quality with digital, but it is compressed, it’s 8bit color, and comes from a GOP based codec, so I’d like to hang on to any image quality I had to begin with and not be recompressing it too many times.

I’m working on two different projects this way, the first I’m offlining in DNxHD36, so directly exporting that for finishing let alone grading wouldn’t be a good idea, the other one I stayed in XDcam, so it’s still sort of first generation and so I could likely get away with doing that one cutlist style.

Would it be possible to make a macro to accept all my errors and continue re-connecting until everything is online?

[Micah Haun]

Select all clips you want to change, right click, select remove attributes. Remove distortion.

FCP automatically applies a distortion effect (under motion) to all clips of a different aspect ratio than the sequence. Now that you’ve changed your sequence to match your clip’s shape you will need to remove this distortion.