Michael Phillips
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Media Composer has had pop-up monitors since v1 in 1989. Option-double/Alt click source clip and it will becomes its own viewer/monitor. You can have as many as you want. You can drag other clips into those if you only want to have a set number of them available. I have also ganged different takes together when performances are close (faux multicam). But for scripted dialog editing, nothing really beats using ScriptSync. https://www.avid.com/US/products/scriptsync
Even if you don’t purchase the automated syncing, you can still align takes to the script as needed and sync manually. May not be beneficial for a lot of scenes, but for the more complex ones with lots of coverage, it is fantastic.
Michael
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Yes, that is what consolidating is – reducing the source clips to what is used in the timeline with whatever number of frame handles. I need to poke around as to why you are only getting 6 frame handles.
Michael
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Where is the project file with the bins? If they erase the main drives, then you should also have your project folder (with Avid bins) on that drive as well.
Michael
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oops! Pat is correct – had a brain cramp on extensions. Sorry about that – AVB. 🙂
Michael
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Are you sure the bin file is not corrupt? Is it an .avs extension? I know of people who have opened bins from the original Media Comoser v4 in the mid 90’s with recent software.
Michael
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Is your sequence DNxHD or AMA linked or some other codec other than DNxHD?
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Can you open the reference movie in MoviePlayer and play it? If there is no video, check your settings again on export from Media Composer. If the clips are still AMA linked, it will not work. A refernce video references Avid media, so transcode sequence to DNxHD, then export the transcoded sequence as a reference.
Michael
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Were you able to export a QuickTime Reference Movie? Form Export option, select QuickTime reference, then “mastering”. Export entire sequence and you will have an audio track and a movie file that is only a few Kb in size. For quick encodes, I drop the .mov file (the video one, not the audio) into MPEG Streamsclip and encode from there.
Michael
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I usually render everything and export an QuickTime reference. From there I use a third party program as needed for the delivery.
Michael