Michael Hancock
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What version of Avid Xpress does your school have, and where is your HD source footage coming from (HDCAM, Red, P2, XDCAM HD, etc…)?
I know the last version of Xpress Pro could handle HD footage, particularly P2. Xpress DV is obviously DV only, in which case your method should work fine. Test it with a small sample project to be sure, but what you’ve outlined is basically the proper workflow for an HD offline on Avid.
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The only accurate way to monitor HD on your Avid is to upgrade to Media Composer 4.0 and buy a MojoDX or NitrisDX (and possibly update your computer, if MojoDX and NitrisDX won’t work with it).
You can run your computer card to your HD monitor and enable Full Screen Playback, but it’s not an accurate enough representation for color grading and quality monitoring. For that you need the Mojo or Nitris box.
Michael
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Video on V1. Add a Picture in Picture effect. Move it to the left/right/top/bottom (however you want to do your split screen). Either scale it or crop it.
Video on V2, directly above V1. Apply a Picture in Picture effect, move to the other side of the screen from V1, scale or crop.
That should be all you need to do.
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You could send your editor the raw media, have them install the Media Composer 4.0 trial (good for 30 days), bring in the footage via AMA then transcode to Avid media and take that media back to their 2.8 Avid. It would be faster and easier than all the importing, exporting, importing, etc…you’re currently doing. Plus, they’d have timecode. Your current workflow is stripping the timecode when you send them the quicktime files to import.
Michael
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Beautiful spot.
We’ve done the same thing, and it also helped land the client. If someone has a hard time visualizing the script, a video storyboard or animatic can go a long way in helping sell your idea to them.
The only issue we’ve had is getting some clients to understand that the storyboard is just a rough idea of the expected visuals and in no way exactly what the final spot will look like. Some people latch onto the animatics/video storyboards as nearly finished spots.
We don’t do it for all clients either. But for the bigger clients it seems to be worth it.
Michael
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Possible OS updates? Windows defaults, I believe, to having automatic updates turned on, as does Quicktime. Check both to see that those are turned off.
Also, do a fresh boot of the computer then pull up your Task Manager to see what’s running. If anything looks out of the ordinary, kill it and see if your system speeds up.
Is the system overall running slow, or just Avid? If it’s just Avid, back up your projects and reinstall. It doesn’t take more than 20 minutes or so. Try making new user settings too. Yours may have been corrupted.
Michael
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Double check your Quicktime Reference export settings.
If you have DVCProHD footage anywhere in your timeline you will have to export using the AvidDV codec (it will autodetect your source footage and export as AvidDV100).
Otherwise, mixdown to DNxHD and export a quicktime reference of that to get past this issue, until you can track down the cause of it.
Michael
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Select everything in your bin and try dragging it to your timeline.
You have to enable being able to edit directly from your bin, but I can’t remember exactly where that setting is.
Michael
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It may be script view – I haven’t used it in a while. Although I’m thinking it will work in several different views. I know you can JKL-scrub your clips in Frame view, so I was thinking maybe you could mark In and Out too.
Michael
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Does the Quicktime Reference play in Quicktime player? Open it in Quicktime and hit Ctrl+I if you’re on a PC, CMD+I on a Mac and tell us what codec is being used. Even if Quicktime can’t read the file (white screen), it will tell you the codec.
When you say you digitized to 1080i, was this through a MojoDX or NitrisDX? Or is this from P2 or XDCam? In your timeline, you can set your clips to show the resolution. Check that to see if you have any DVCProHD listed, and check what your media creation settings are set to render to.
Michael
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