Michael Phillips
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In he FIND window, go to the last tab for settings and make sure indexing is turned on.
Michael
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If you are running MC v5.5 or later you have command-F or control-F which allows you to search any column in any bin, even if it is closed.
Michael
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Was there not a duration defined in the TAB file itself? It may be only as feet+frames or frames which shows its legacy issues when moving to a digital world. I have seen some articles online on how to create timecode calculating fields in Excel. May be worth a Google. You could then do an END-START calculation.
Michael
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On a related note, I am working on an update to my mus.ID reporting application that currently creates these XLS files as a drag and drop operation for any flagged columns, not just those flagged with my AMA plug-in at the start of the process. If you want to see what that looks like, the reporting demo is towards the second half of the demo video: https://www.mus-id.com/
The update will let you define which metadata you want to track and create a similar list from a drag and drop operation.
Michael
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FilmScribe was designed for film based workflows where lists are created that required going back to a workprint or a film negative for cuts and effects that were supported by whatever technology was introduced over the years. One thing it did not support was the concept of nested effects as its myriad of relationships to other layers was not well defined with the nest to be laid out for a film VFX process. Limitations were put into place to ensure successful and accurate lists. For example, even though the film Se7en was not edited on Media Composer, its opening title sequence was. I was at Pacific Title (when it existed) and he showed be the multilayer optical list generated and how it only took him one pass to create on a their very high end optical printing machine.
But aside from a walk down memory lane, As digital technologies overtook film (still being used though, but in a different process), Avid’s interest in updating FilmScribe for functionality waned to other than supporting OS and major bug fixes. An example of that is if editing via linked (AMA), the entire list is an optical. Which it is not.
With 8.3, the embedded EDL Manager and FilmScribe into the application – there are advantages and disadvantages to that depending on where you are in the workflow, but one good thing is that at least both tools got some TLC as part of the process. EDL Manager got most of the love, but hopefully the “cutlist” tool will evolve to being as useful it was for film based acquisition for all digital workflows. Just because it is shot on an Alexa does not mean you don’t need a change list. 🙂
These issues have been brought up in the beta process – when and what is up to Avid. For now you got what you got as far as functionality.
Michael
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What does MediaInfo show on the file as far as metadata? And in the case of being tagged as PsF (more a transfer protocol over signal based systems), Avid should interpret that as Progressive. If it is not, then perhaps the AMA plug-in being used is not properly reporting it. Which AMA are you using?
Michael
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Source setting can change associated color space, aspect ratio, and frame rate, but does not allow for changing whether the clip should be treated as progressive or interlace, or override that in any way. It would be a nice add to the functionality.
Michael
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The TAB list is part of FilmScribe in pre-8.3 versions of Media Composer, not in EDL Manager. The new List Tool combined both EDL Manager and FilmScribe into the List Tool.
Michael
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I’ve seen this happen with MTS format before. All I know it was reported to Avid during beta. Don’t know what the status might be at this time.
Michael
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DNXIO could very well be released at IBC in September and the MC|First in the October timeframe. But then again, we’re all guessing.
Michael