Michael Hancock
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Select the timeline and the new clip. Right click the sequence and choose to relink and in the relink dialog choose to “Relink to selected clips”. See if that works.
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I think your way is the fastest since the TC burn-in is a realtime effect.
But if that’s not an option, I’ve always exported a Quicktime Reference (which comes with a render time wait) and use Adobe Media Encoder to compress the MPEG DVD files, and DVDSP to burn the disk. I’ve found Media Encoder faster than Compressor and Sorenson. Since that’s not an option, though, I’d go with Compressor. The presets are guaranteed to work with DVDSP, so no re-encoding will be going on there. If DVDSP doesn’t like the Sorenson output it will reprocess everything, and the last time I used Sorenson it was buggy and not that fast. I don’t even install it anymore.
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I just looked it up – the hardware toggle was added in 6.5. I thought it was there before that.
If you upgrade to 7 you’ll be able to toggle the hardware on and off. Plus you get FrameFlex, source side LUT support, and a bunch of other stuff. I’ve been happy with MC7 and recommend it.
Question for you though – how do you like the Mini Monitor? I’m about to order one for an iMac we just got. Any issues with it? We’ll be using it to output from Avid, Premiere and Resolve.
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I think this was added in v5.5 or 6. Can’t remember. What version of Avid are you running?
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If Avid is set to output through the mini monitor it outputs both video and audio – can’t run audio separately like you can in FCP. In your timeline, though, you can disable outputting through the mini monitor (it’s called the hardware toggle button, I believe), and then Avid defaults back to your default system output (I think – haven’t tested it in a while).
The disadvantage of this is you are no longer monitoring your video on your broadcast monitor.
If you can run audio from your monitor to your speakers (or a mixer) then you can just leave the monitoring on and you’ll get your audio out of Avid with your video monitoring.
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What state are you in? I doubt it’s illegal, unless the woods you’re shooting in are on the restricted list of where you can conceal carry. Federal buildings and schools, bars, etc… are common exceptions to where you can conceal carry. Woods – not so much. Call your Sheriff – they’ll know.
If they’re just conceal carrying then I wouldn’t worry about it. You could make it a part of your contract that they won’t conceal carry while working with you, if it bothers you.
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[Nicholas Zimmerman] “I’d be really surprised if Red didn’t bring out a thunderbolt RedRocket. Same goes for the vast majority of PCIe cards.”
Red Rocket X (the next iteration of the RedRocket) is x16, so Thunderbolt already doesn’t have enough bandwidth for it. I’m sure you can put it in a chassis and run it via Thunderbolt, but that’s like boxing with one hand tied behind your back. What’s the point?
Thunderbolt is great for some stuff, but it doesn’t replace PCIex16 slots. Not this iteration, at least. Maybe when (if) it goes optical.
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Your test file opened fine and played on my system. It’s the Avid JPEG 2000 codec that it was exported to, and had video and audio.
If you set up a custom export to a DNxHD Quicktime, there are a couple of things to look out for in the export settings.
1) Uncheck “Use Marks” and “Use Enabled Tracks”, unless you have specifically activated only the tracks you want to export and set an In and Out on just the parts you want to export. If you’re exporting your entire program, then uncheck them.
3) Since you’re probably choosing “Custom” as your export settings, click the “Format Options” button and make sure both video and audio are checked in the box that opens, and set your output codec (DNxHD).
2) In the main export settings box make sure “Video and Audio” are checked. Click the “Video Format” tab and set your export settings there. Click the “Audio Format” tab and do the same.
Do a Save As and name your export (this saves it for future exports). Then export!
Hopefully this fixes your issue.
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Michael Hancock
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What are your export settings? You might have to set up a custom export and choose DNxHD as your codec option.
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Michael Hancock
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This will probably work for you:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/69/avidmxfcreator
Converts your footage directly to Avid MXF files, and you can run it on any system (don’t have to have Avid installed).
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