Michael Hancock
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If the audio and video are part of the same file, subclip the video and try to consolidate that.
Otherwise, if you’re getting adequate performance via AMA, just leave it as AMA. This doesn’t sound like a complicated edit so you’ll probably be fine.
If you’re going to transcode, either set it to transcode to ProRes and have it run in the background so you can keep working while it chugs away. Then once the edit is done, do a little more testing to try to figure out what’s wrong with the ProRes files off the KiPro. I’ve never used one so I don’t know why it’s not working.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “But show me where you find any or all of the infos pertaining to color profile, camera ID, manufacturer infos, date of import of a clip, lyricist for an audio track, tempo, key and/or time signature, which encoding app was used, camera angle and/or name, copyright infos, ISO speeds etc. etc. etc. in PPro (which has a lot of that, yes) let alone in Avid. I don’t know Avid in its latest incarnation so wouldn’t know where to look… but I also don’t believe it even has it to begin with.”
Here’s a sample of some of the metadata that Avid sees from the Arri camera, and this barely scratches the surface.
I have multiple bin views set up for specific editorial actions (logging/editing/conforming, etc…). So I can choose to see just take/framing/description/comments/location, etc…, then another that tells me frame rate/resolution/codec/CDL info, etc… It’s pretty powerful if you spend a little time getting to know it and setting it up. Plus it’s sortable and searchable.
Now in regards to music, I don’t know if you can show lyricist, tempo, key, etc… Does FCPX show all of that for every music track it brings it? That’s pretty slick if it does. But I assume if that info isn’t embedded in the audio track it won’t be available, will it? You’d have to add it manually.
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It would probably be easier just to recapture from the camera originals into your new NLE.
If that’s not an option you could download the trial of Avid 8.x. You’d have 30 days to export files of all of your media before the trial expires. You could export standalone quicktime files of every piece of media. It would be time consuming but, depending on how much media you have, you may be able to get it done in the 30 day window.
Otherwise, try bringing them into Premiere Pro. It kind of supports Avid .mxf files. But realize that the video and audio streams will all be separate .mxf or .omf files so you’ll have to create merge clips for every piece of video that has matching audio tracks. Honestly – it would be faster/cheaper just to download the trial and if you need more time rent Avid on a monthly basis. I think it’s $75/month without a contract.
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Download a program like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. Plug in an empty external and clone your system drive to the external drive. It’s pretty easy, and the programs have good help menus to guide you through it.
When the clone is finished you try to boot from the external. If your system boots up off of that drive you’re good to go.
I clone my system drive every few months or prior to any massive changes. It’s a great habit to get into.
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Thanks man!
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There is a trick you can use to save a nest of effects to a bin.
1. Put all of the effects for your clip on a blank track above that clip. Nest them in the order you want them.
2. When your effect nest has been built, apply a Submaster effect. This “collapses” all the effects inside the Submaster.
3. Open the effect editor and Alt+Drag the Submaster effect to your bin. It will save it as Submaster (With Src)
4. You can now load “Submaster (With Src)” into your source monitor. When you want to apply that nest of effect to another clip just edit it onto a blank track above it and it will apply your nest of clips to that track, which will in essence effect the clip below it.—————-
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Right. Never mind that I said “for years” and not “just weeks”. And that the Avid subscription is… how old? 😀 At the time you couldn’t even get as much as an incremental update for Avid for that much, so it’s rather a matter of perspective. Not sure how today’s cost is in any way relevant to what I said.”
You said years ago and you used FCPX? So, in the last 3 years?
Dashwood – $799
FCPX – $299
TOTAL: $1,098Avid: $999
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Michael Hancock
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Apply the 4:3 sidebar to an empty track above this clip (you may need to do an Add Edit to the filler so the effect doesn’t go on the entire empty track). If you do that the 4:3 won’t be affected by the stabilization.
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Try holding Ctrl+. for a while. I’ve heard people reporting that it works if you just hold it for a bit.
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[Theodore Davids] “Here’s hoping that they offer existing users an “upgrade price” on the new software when it comes out.
– I can dream, right?”
Avid doesn’t sell upgrades anymore. If you purchase a new license of Media Composer it comes with a year support contract which gives you all updates and upgrades during that year. So if you buy MC 8.0 tomorrow and the next day they release version 9, you get the upgrade to 9 for free since you’re under support. Then you buy a new support contract every year for $299 to keep getting the upgrades for the next year.
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