Michael Cheung
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Yes, it would be easy for him to do it. You should just be able to give .mxf files and an ALE for metadata and CDL info. He would need to copy the mxf to avid media files folder then drag the .mdb file into a new bin. Then import the ale to add the metadata. Otherwise, you’ll need Avid to do this yourself and give the bin. It may be better to do it yourself so you can make sure it’s done correctly so that you don’t run into any problems if you are involved in pulling data for the online.
Michael Cheung
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As a VFX editor I’d test these things with your VFX vendor. It’ll probably save a lot of time if something was wrong.
Michael Cheung
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This usually happens when something is stopping the trim because there’s no more media available in one of the layers selected or perhaps by trimming the gap between two clips on a different layer means there’s no more space and so nowhere for the two clips to go.
Try deselecting the sync marks on other layers you don’t want involved in the trim..
Or maybe avid is playing up and you need a restart.. 😉
Michael Cheung
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That sounds like a horrible task. I’d use a separate program to transcoded into your preferred DNxHD flavour as it’ll probably take a long time to import long h264 clips straight into Avid.
Michael Cheung
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After going to Z books I don’t think you’ll go back 😉
Michael Cheung
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Stability is the reason I moved to a high end PCs – but that’s another story.
Firstly, I have come across this regarding permissions..
“With the release of Mac OS 10.7 Lion, 10.8.x Mt. Lion, and now Mavericks 10.9.x the default permissions for the root level of the system drive of the Mac are now set to “Read Only” for all users.
You will see the drive grayed out in Media Creation settings or as an option for import, mixdown, render, and consolidate/transcode or see an error “Segmentation Fault at 0x0″
For customers that don’t intend to use the system drive for media, they can leave it as is. This is ideal in most cases. For those that need to use the system drive, they should take the following steps to change permissions:
1. Click on the system (Macintosh HD in most cases) drive to highlight
2. From the File menu select Get Info (cmd+I)
3. Click the lock icon in the bottom right to make changes
4. Click on the “Read only” text in the Privilege column next to Everyone and set the privilege to “Read & Write”Customers should now be able to see the system drive as a valid media drive. Note: repairing permissions on the system drive will reset and they will have to repeat this procedure.”
Secondly, I copied this from avid for OSX Lion, it’ll probably work on Mavericks. Maybe the crash log will give some useful info…
1.Bring Finder into focus by clicking on its icon in your Dock.
2.Click Go > Go to Folder.
3.When prompted, type ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports, and click OK.
4.The crash logs are named according to which program crashed.
5.Select the crash logs that you are interested in, right-click on them and choose compress.
6.A .zip file containing your crash logs will now appear. Zipping the crash logs makes them easier to handle, and also helps to preserve data integrity.
7.Repeat this process, using this folder in step three: /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports.Michael Cheung
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I think you’ll need to provide some more information. Are you in a unity / Isis setup? If it happens only when scrubbing you could try turning off Fast Scrub in timeline settings. Is your media local or external? Do you have any IO devices… Such as Black Magic / Matrox. Are they normal sequences with no effects? Are you using all mxf or some Ama?
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Sure, just follow the instructions in the link that I sent. Force the geometric settings to be 1920×1080.
According to Canon the following camera settings are available:
AVCHD (all modes variable bit rate, 4:2:0 colour sampling)
MXP: 1920×1080, 24Mbps;
FXP: 1920×1080, 17Mbps;
XP+: 1440×1080, 12Mbps;
SP: 1440×1080, 7Mbps;
LP: 1440×1080, 5MbpsI don’t know what MXP and FXP stand for, but looking at the data rate I’d say that is the one you want.
Michael
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So, looking here..
https://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Camcorders/professional/XA10/#p-specification2
It appears that you have the choice to record at full HD or at 1440 (HDV native). But that won’t help you now as it’s in the can.
What may help you is a step by step guide on converting in compressor. Compressor has its faults for sure but usually does the job pretty well.
https://slugfilm.ucsc.edu/production_support/?page_id=4523
Hope this helps and take a look at your cameras settings to ensure you shoot at 1920×1080.
Michael