Michael Hancock
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Or open the Title Tool, turn off the Video button at the bottom middle of the title tool, and set your background color to whatever you want.
Michael.
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Legally, Walter, the production company owns the footage unless there is a contract that states otherwise, or there’s a work-for-hire contract.
So if someone hires you to shoot something and ownership is not specifically spelled out in a contract, you own the footage. You’re limited in what you can do with it (basically edit it for them or stick it on a shelf), but you have no legal obligation to give it to the client should they choose to go elsewhere. I’ve seen it played out between legal teams and in the US, without a contract stating ownership, it falls back on the production company, not the client.
Having said that, it’s up to you to decide what to do.
Michael.
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The After Effects EMP plugin is so you can monitor your After Effects comp on a broadcast monitor through your Avid Mojo, MojoSDI, or Adrenaline box. Unless they have an Avid, the Avid hardware, and a broadcast monitor–it won’t help them.
Otherwise, like Jon suggest–uncompressed Quicktime from you, Animation Quicktime back.
Michael.
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If the audio is recorded at 32kHz, you won’t be able to capture it at 48kHz unless you have a way to dub it to another tape, converting the audio in the process. Avid reads the sample rate off the tape, so if this is offline/online, it will change your Audio Project sample rate to match the audio it’s capturing for each tape.
Either way, it won’t matter quality wise. Once it’s recorded at 32kHz, converting it to 48 won’t improve the quality. It’s like capturing at DV25 footage at 1:1–the file quality is still DV25, you’re just wrapping it in a much, much larger file.
If this is offline/online, though, there’s really no reason to convert the sample rates. Just go to your Audio Project and make sure you have it set up to convert sample rates on the fly. Computers are fast enough now to handle the conversion in realtime. If you’re going to cut back to DV tape, though, you’ll need to convert them so all audio matches.
Michael.
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Honestly, I’m not sure of any hard and fast rules for effect stacking. I can typically get what I want, but I’ve been using Avid almost exclusively for the last 3 1/2 years, and 2 years of that were doing news promotions which were very effect heavy. A lot of trial and error for sure.
Can you give us a rundown on what you’re wanting to achieve? I may be able to offer some tips on effect order, or make a quick tutorial. One thing for sure–Avid needs to update its effects handling.
Michael.
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Color effects need to go directly on the clips, before other effects. Otherwise they will effect the background. If you already have other effects in place, step into them until you get to your original master clip, then apply your Color effect.
Michael.
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Capture Tape01, which we’ll say has a sample rate of 48kHz.
Pop in Tape02, which we’ll say has a sample rate of 32kHz, and Avid asks if you want to change the Audio project settings. Select Yes. Capture Tape02 at 32kHz.
Continue until all footage is in the system. When it is, change your Audio Project back to the sample rate you want (say 48kHz), then select all your clips with a 32kHz sample rate. With all those clips selected, go to Clip–>Change Sample Rate. Choose Sample Rate: 48kHz, Quality: High, and check the Delete Original Media box. Choose a drive and hit OK. It will change all the 32kHz files to 48kHz, delete the original 32kHz audio, and associate the new 48kHz files with the video.
If you don’t choose to delete the original media you’ll have video with 32kHz audio still, but Avid will make new audio tracks at 48kHz. This means you have to match the 48kHz audio to the video and sync them up. Choose to delete the original media and you avoid that mess.
Michael.
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You may need to go into BIOS to disable the onboard audio. Otherwise it may default to using that, even with your soundcard installed.
I have the Creative SB X-Fi card in my system running Media Composer 3.05 and it works fine. It should work in your system, but again–check that you’ve disabled the onboard sound first.
Michael.
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Creative Cow has a Classified’s forum. You could try posting it there:
https://forums.creativecow.net/forum/cowclassifiedsforsale
Michael
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What version of Avid are you using? If you’re using Media Composer 3.0 or 3.05, they just released 3.1, and in the release notes it mentions fixing aliasing with Quicktime imports. Maybe an upgrade to 3.1 would help?
Michael.