Michael Hancock
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What version of Avid are you trying to run, and what version of Vista do you have?
To run Vista, you need at least Media Composer 3.0. Any previous version won’t run. Regarding Vista, you need Vista Business 32 or 64 bit. Anything else and you’ll likely have problems.
Also, who sold you this computer? Was it an Avid reseller? If so, call them and tell them to fix it–they lied to you. If it was a box store–they’re idiots and don’t know the first thing about editing systems, and you unfortunately got burned by it.
Michael.
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Your project should open fine. To be absolutely safe, make a new project by the same name in Xpress Pro then bring just the bins over.
Note–any effects you use on Media Composer that aren’t on the Xpress Pro system will not carry over unless you render everything in Media Composer and bring the media over too. Then you will have the render files that your sequence will reference. If you do anything more to your sequence to throw those renders offline the effects you don’t have won’t show up.
Also, Xpress Pro only supports 1:1, DV50 and DV25 resolutions (well, it supports 15:1s, too, but that’s an offline resolution). If you transcode to resolution different from these in Media Composer it won’t play in Xpress Pro. It will say Wrong Format on your Source/Record monitors. So keep that in mind when you transcode in MC.
Michael.
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I don’t edit with them, but I’ve worn them for an eight hour shoot of a corporate event. Had them on my head for about 6 of those hours and never had a problem.
They basically cup the ears rather than rest on them, which is nice.
Michael.
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I have two pair of the Sony MDR-7506. Love ’em, and I’ve seen them highly recommended in the Audio Pro forum here on the Cow and other sites.
Michael.
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Shut down Avid, go to your internal drive and open your media folder. Sort by date modified and select the most recent files (if this is the most recent thing you did). Otherwise, select the files who’s date/time correspond to when you captured them.
Once you have these files selected, cut them and paste them into your media folder on your external drive (E:\Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1). Put them in the numbered folder.
You may want to delete the two database files in your external media folder, then launch Avid. It will rescan your external drive and should automatically relink your footage.
Then, go to your Media Creation settings and check to “Filter out System Drive”. This way you can’t capture to your internal drive anymore.
Michael
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Unless you have a fx1700, start with just the OS. Your graphics card may work fine so there’s no reason to spend money on a new card.
However, if you have a 1700 available, switch it out too. Otherwise your system looks nice. The biggest issue with Avid’s are the CPU (Intel only), graphics card (nVidia – Quadro preferred), and OS (XP32, Vista Business 32/64).
Michael.
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Windows XP 64-bit is not an approved OS. You need Vista Business 64 bit or 32 bit, or XP 32 bit. XP 64 is a no go.
Your 9600GT graphics card may also be to blame. Avid prefers Quadro cards, but there are people using the 8800 with success. I believe they soft-mod the card using RivaTuner or something to make it appear as a Quadro.
Definitely change your OS, though. I’ve never heard of people successfully running Avid on XP64.
Michael.
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[Perrone Ford] “Call me crazy, but some people don’t necessarily want to finish in Avid, or would like to collaborate with non-Avid people.”
Export a self-contained quicktime or image sequence. Give that to the people you’re collaborating with, or give them the raw tapes.
[Perrone Ford] “Essentially, the idea was to take an image sequence, add Metadata, timecode burn for editorial, and then match that back to the online. However, I am not doing that in Avid.”
I don’t follow you here. You have an image sequence that you added metadata and timecode burn-in via MetaFuze, which left you with MXF files for Avid, but you don’t want to edit in Avid? If that’s the case, you need to find another program to add metadata, etc… that will output in format that’s friendlier to your NLE of choice.
Or do you mean you edited that in Avid now you need to online in another NLE? If that’s the case, you don’t need to convert the MXFs. You need to recapture from the original tapes based on what you used in your master sequence. Or I’m completely getting this wrong. Am I?
[Perrone Ford] “But if I want to take the video sequence and cut it on FCP, Premiere, Vegas, Edius, etc., it’s impossible.”
Recapture. Programs like Automatic Duck can translate your sequence, then batch capture in FCP, Premiere, etc…
Michael
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You want to convert an Avid MXF to another file type? I’m not aware of anything that can do that.
MetaFuze (PC only) can convert certain files to MXF (there are frame size and frame rate restrictions), but I don’t know of anything that can convert an Avid MXF to another file type.
What are you trying to convert them to? The biggest issue I can see is that you’d get video or audio only. The audio and video are captured separately in Avid, so you’d have to have an app that could join the two.
Michael.
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OMF is for SD media only. It’s Avid’s older media format. It’s being replace by MXF (which can be HD or SD).
Your Avid editor wants MXF. It’s the only Avid-native format that supports HD. They’re just confused.
If you shoot with a Panasonic P2 camera (HVX200, 200a, 170, 500, etc…) you’ll shoot directly to MXF. These can be loaded into an Avid and edited immediately.
Michael.