Michael Hancock
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When you import any file into Avid it converts it to OMF or MXF media (depending on your Media Creation settings). It leaves the original file alone (this does not include Avid’s new AMA function, or the Import P2 files if you’re not on Media Composer 3.5.x). This is one of the reason I love working with Avid–when it makes its own media is basically creating a backup and leaving your master file alone.
Having a disk full of graphics, audio, and movie files that you import into your Avid shouldn’t affect performance. I have 2 500GB drives in a RAID0 for my Avid media, a 500GB external for backups, and a 250GB and 1TB internal and 120GB network drive for my graphics, AE renders, photoshop and illustrator files, logos, etc…. They don’t affect performance at all.
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[Bryan Roberts] ” Is version 4 going to be a radically different interface or anything?”
Those that know can’t say, and those that say don’t know (or they’re breaking their NDAs).
3.5 just came out a few months ago–if Avid releases 4.0 in the next week I’ll be incredibly surprised (and really happy). You aren’t finding any information about it online because it doesn’t exist. Avid is a publicly traded company and has to play by certain rules, and one of those is that they don’t announce release dates for their software.
Michael
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Start a daily exercise regimen. Even going for a walk every day for twenty or thiry minutes will help.
I also try to get up from my desk every hour to walk a lap or two around the office. It’s just enough to get me out of my chair and get some blood moving.
Michael
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There’s currently no way to tell if there will be any problems since the OS isn’t out yet, and I’m 100% sure that Avid doesn’t get a prerelease copy for testing. So when it drops tomorrow, don’t expect it to be an approved OS.
That said, maybe it will work fine, maybe it won’t. Can you do a dual boot with an Avid approved OS and Snow Leopard? I’ve heard that you can’t roll back the OS on new Macs, but that could have been false.
Either way, you’re going to want to upgrade from Avid 2.x to 3.5. It will stand the best chance of working on Snow, if it works at all. 2.x is an old version at this point, and I believe the upgrade price is only $300 or $400 dollars, and the improvements are worth every penny.
Michael.
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And so it is. I completely missed it. Ignore my previous post then!
Thanks Abraham. Keep up the good work.
Michael.
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Nope. You can map the standard keys and Shift+standard keys, but can’t map Cmd+Keyboard, Alt+Keyboard, or Ctrl+Keyboard. In this way, Avid is less keyboard mappable than FCP.
That said, I highly suggest you start with the Avid default keyboard layout and get used to it. It’s been refined over the last 15 years or so to reflect the most commonly used functions and is, in my opinion, much more logical than FCP’s. Plus, there are commands in FCP that don’t translate to Avid and vice versa, so it’s typically best to learn it the Avid way then change it if you don’t like it. Because if you try to drive Avid like you drive a FCP system you’ll go insane.
Michael
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[Shannon OBrien] “Project is NTSC SD. 720×486.”
If you’re in an SD NTSC project, your file is interlaced. It’s the nature of NTSC SD video. YOu can’t judge whether it’s a field order issue or just typical interlacing if you’re watching this on your computer monitor. You need to bring the file into FCP or another NLE and output it to an external monitor that can properly display interlacing. Computer screens are progressive, so interlaced stuff always looks bad.
Michael
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The Avid Codecs LE 2.0 is only for Leopard, WinXP and Vista. Here are some links to older versions:
I believe you have to go back to 1.8 for Tiger support.
Michael.
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I think it’s time to divide and conquer. Mark and In and Out on just the first half of your sequence and try to export. If that works, try it with the second half. If you get the error there’s corrupt media or another problem there. Divide that half in half and export. If that works then you have corrupt media in the other half. Divide that in half, export. Etc…until you find out what where the corrupt media is.
Also, are you giving these files a new name every time you try to export? I know on the old Meridien systems I had an issue where I’d get an error on export, do something to fix it, and if I exported with the same name I’d continue to get the error. If I changed the name on export it would go through. So maybe try that too.
Michael.
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We used to have a lot of issues with emailing clients low rez spots for approval, including the day and time we have to hear back from them to make changes (if any) to meet their air date, and we’d hear nothing in return.
The counter this, we’ve taken to sending the spot via email or uploading it to our server and sending a link, then calling a few hours later to ensure the file went through and remind the client that if they don’t watch it and get back to us we’ll have to push their schedule back and their spot won’t run when it’s supposed to. Almost every time they stop what their doing and watch it while we’re on the phone with them. This works great for two reasons–we know they watched it, and the can tell us the changes immediately rather than type it. Or give us an approval over the phone.
I like email, but if something is time sensitive it’s a phone call every time. Plus I’ve found a client’s response may warrant more questions and it’s easier to just ask them those questions while on the phone rather than playing email tag all day.
Michael
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