Michael Hancock
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[Kannan Raghavan] “Don’t really want to pull out a GFX card:-(“
I think you’re going to have to. You might get lucky and Avid will simply ignore one of them, but I’m guessing it won’t run.
I’d pull the card first, try to reinstall – if it fails again then I’d download the installer from Avid (it’s a 2GB file so it may take a while).
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Michael Hancock
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You have two graphics cards installed? That might be an issue, or you might have a bad installer. Try downloading the 5.5.3 installer from the Avid website, and you may need to pull a graphics card to get Avid to work.
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Michael Hancock
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Was this picture imported or is it an Avid generated title?
If it’s imported, you need to Batch Import the original but point it to the new file. It will update with the new import everywhere it’s used.
If it’s Avid generated (by the title tool), you’ll need to make a new graphic and cut it back in everywhere.
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Michael Hancock
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From FCPX – the use of metadata for clip tagging and searching, but without the automatic smart collections or abandonment of the bin.
The skimmer, activated by a modifier key perhaps, but without the abandonment of the source monitor, and defaulted to being off.
The timeline index on steroids. It would great to select a graphic in your bin, do a “Show in Timeline Index” and have it highlighted everywhere it’s used in the sequence, and be able to do a Replace like you do in After Effects.
Don’t stop playback when adjusting effects/audio.
From FCPX: Copy/Paste effects and motion parameters (although Avid doesn’t have motion parameters built into each clip, so I guess just Copy/Paste effects).
I’m sure I’ll think of more, but I’d rather wait for MC6 to drop, play with the trial, then see what else it needs.
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Michael Hancock
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There is no real nesting in Avid like FCP does – you collapse tracks which applies a submaster effect. You can step into the submaster to see all the collapsed tracks, or you can go into effect mode or segment mode (both are a keystroke) and double click the submaster effect. This open the “nest” in your timeline so you can see everything inside of it in relation to your entire timeline, and you can make adjustments inside the submaster and see how they affect everything outside of it to.
So you have a choice – step in and lose context or expand and maintain context. Note this is with video only – there is no collapsing audio. You do a mixdown for that, which creates new media that has no relationship to the original audio tracks.
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Michael Hancock
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Open your Command Palette and look for Match Frame. Map it to your keyboard or add it to your button palette in your timeline. Park on the clip you want to load to your source monitor (make the the track is active) and hit Match Frame. It will load that clip into the source monitor and mark an In point at that frame.
If you don’t want to mark an In on the frame you’re matchframing but instead retain the original In point you’ve marked on the clip hit Alt+Matchframe (on a PC – probably Cmd+Matchframe on a Mac). This will load the clip without changing the In point.
Note – if you matchframe and your clip in your timeline is a subclip it will load the subclip. Hit matchframe again to go from the subclip to the original clip.
There’s also a reverse matchframe that matches from the source monitor to your sequence, if you’ve used that frame in your sequence.
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Michael Hancock
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[Rafael Amador] “Hi has all the right to do it because he couldn’t know that the info was released by mistake.”
I don’t know if you saw his original post Rafael, but this is what is started with (direct quote – I have a copy of it in my email):
“When Avid refreshed their website for the PT10 announcement, for some reason, there was a little mistake made on their website. And the Media Composer pages suddenly had info on the new Media Composer 6 application!
I’ve copied the complete text of this ghost page:”
He knew it was a mistake, got excited, and posted it. The Cow pulled it, he cried censorship, the rest is history. But he knew definitely knew it was a mistake on Avid’s part but posted anyway.
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Michael Hancock
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[Sam Cole] “Have I missed something here? Where was he ‘unauthorised’ in accessing an on line web site?”
It wasn’t supposed to posted on Avid’s website yet – it’s not officially released info. I’m not saying he hacked the website. He got lucky and did some screen grabs when a mistake was made, but just like the guy that found the iPhone at that bar – he doesn’t have the right to post it everywhere.
[Sam Cole] “My take on Avid taking it down was they noticed some errors and had to re-work it . . . . maybe?!?”
Media Composer 6 isn’t released yet – you can’t buy it, it isn’t shipping, so it wasn’t supposed to be posted. If there were mistakes, that’s not why it was pulled. It was pulled because it wasn’t supposed to be up.
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Michael Hancock
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That’s awesome that you were able to turn the project around so quickly. Nothing like surprising a client in a good way!
Now if I can play devil’s advocate here – what did FCPX give you, in this instance, that another NLE couldn’t? Namely Premiere and Avid since they seem to be the two main choices for people evaluating their options. This job sounds like it could have been accomplished just as easily in any of the major NLEs.
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Michael Hancock
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I believe you can check “Use Preview Renders” or something like that and it will use the renders you’ve already done while working. It speeds up exports enormously if you’ve done some rendering as you go (when you take a coffee break, grab lunch, etc…).
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Michael Hancock
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