Mike Jeffs
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These are all great suggestions and ideas!!!! Thank you! I made sure to keep it a little vague was to what I am working with to hopefully get the most info from you.
But FYI it is a longstanding PBS TV station sound stage (largest in the region) with all the bells and whistles. I will definitly make sure to Highlight a lot of these things you have given me.
If I may as a follow up when you do look for a rental where do you turn?
Internet Google search, some sort of agitator like Production hub
Magazines or publications
word of mouth?
My guess is these days most people would turn to a simple Google search first maybe there is value to also going with a site like Production hub or even here.
Thoughts?
Mike Jeffs
Production Services Manager
KPBS San Diego -
And that Avids logo is plastered on every lanyard with you badge 🙂
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
“The characterization of old film editors holding Avid back is quite far from the truth. Take a look at the make-up of the boards for the Customer Association. If anything these are skewed in favor of enterprise users.”
I have to completely agree with this!
Now when it comes to enterprise which my facility is apart of a large enterprise that’s has spend hundreds of thousands in avid development. The notion that they don’t want to be on the bleeding edge is also far from the truth. I know this isn’t true with all large enterprise. It certainly is in our case, we have used just about everyone of media composers new features that have saved us tons of time and money from background transcoding to frame flex to many others. Sadly features that are a god send to some are completely irelavent to others. Such as media composers cloud editing they are showing at their booth we don’t need it but I’m sure others will love it.
There are lots of people and organizations who have sway( even more so with the ACA) that want features and updated to help us do our jobs better. But as Oliver said earlier stability and reliability are also majorly important because face it time is money and if you don’t want to have even more headaches if you don’t have to.
Obviously nothing is perfect and software is software and problems happen.
Lastly just to be clear that I’m not some koolaid drinking evangelist we use adobe and Fcp and now with BM announcment we will toy with the idea of resolve being used to edit some stuff. It’s all about the right tool for the right job.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
So this seems to only work if you timeline setting is defaulted to insert edit instead of overwrite. I like having my default be overwrite but I guess this is the price of admission to do what I want.
Thanks
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
So what I ended up doing is I made a new dummy sequence which I copied the segment with the effect from my original timeline into the new sequence did a video mix, which created a new clip and new MXF media, and then edited that mixdown back into my original sequence. Rinse and repeat for all my clips I needed to make sure had baked in effects.
I know that resolve has a decent scene detections but I guess I just didn’t want to chance anything. plus this way there is still a small ability to reposition some of my edits.
Not ideal but it worked. Thank you all for the help.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
How exactly would I do this kind of a mixdown. If I just do a video mixdown then everything gets flatten into one file. I don’t mind being locked into my cut as it will not be changed at this point.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
This is where i wish avid would implement some sort of Muitcam cam mode that allows us to group sequences together as angles. That would be ideal.
Doesn’t FCPX and Premiere CC have something like that now?
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Just a side note.
When resolve creates a MXF DnxHD clip it is creating it as a op-atom MXF clip, which is the type that Avid creates and puts in the Avid Media files
The AMA plugin for MXF is looking for OP1a versions of MXFs such as found in the XDcam Codec or DnxHD clips created with a external video recorder (NANO FLASH, PIX 240 ect.)
Resolve does this because it is assuming that you are round tripping your color grading process and just want to skip the need to import the new media, because you would want to relink these new color graded clips to your old sequence clips in the AVID timeline.
I hope that makes sense.If you really want to use resolve clips and just AMA link them in, not round tripping a project but just doing a quick color pass before edit, then your best bet is to export out of resolve as DnxHD MOVs and then AMA link into Avid and either start to edit, or background consolidate/transcode(consolidate will be much faster and give you more robust relinking and file management).
hope this helps just a little bit.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
Thank you this link is exceptionally helpful
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
[Michael Phillips] “Are you:
1. Linking to highest resolution?
2. Linking to a specific resolution?
3. Linking to selected?”YES YES and YES i have tried all three.
After spending all day what I have come to think is this workflow doesn’t work with mixed rate clips.
I started a new project 1080 60i and AMA linked a 1080 60i clip background transcoded and then the relinked worked. When I again tried my original DSLR footage which is 1080 24p it did not work. I’m guessing that when this footage is transcoded avid loses any relationship data with those clips because of the change of frame rate to the project setting, and so they will not relink no matter what.
I hope there is a way to fix this or a work around because in my mind this totally breaks a key feature in working with mixed rate clips.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho