Nathan Grout
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We’re testing the trial version now. So far so good.
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[Peter Amies] “and with a little playing around and trying a few different commands (‘cp’ vs. ‘rsync’ for copying, for instance) I’ve found a workflow that I REALLY like.”
I know this post hasn’t been active in a few months, but could you elaborate on this? Which command do you use and why?
[Peter Amies] “I’ve pulled the data back off for a spot-check verification, and everything seems perfect.”
When you spot-check, how do you verify the files? Are you using a checksum comparison application, or are you comparing file size? Something else?
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This sounds really great. Thanks for the review. I hope to make an LTO-5 drive purchase soon.
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Where your playhead is on your After Effects timeline matters when pasting in the keyframes. It needs to be on the first frame of the clip. I’ve forgotten this a million times, so when I see Mocha tracking that doesn’t line up, this is always the first thing I check (and it’s usually the cause).
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Oh, that’s why I didn’t see it. It’s greyed out and not an option for the AVCHD AMA clips that I have imported. Don’t know if it’s just that flavor of AMA that’s a problem or what, but it’s not letting me try it.
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If nothing else, I guess I can apply color correction to a track of filler above my work and set the black point on the master curve to (16,0) and the white point to (235,256). It gives me the look I want in Avid as long as I remember to turn it off for export.
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You should be able to do this through the menu bar.
Windows>Workspaces>Save CurrentorWindows>Workspaces>New Workspace...Hope this helps.
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No one has mentioned AutoSync, so I suppose I will. While this won’t go the whole way to doing what you want to do, it will let you combine a video clip and an audio clip from another source into a new subclip. This can be very helpful when working with sync audio and video from different sources. Since you can’t AutoSync based on timecode, you’ll have to manually set matching in-points based on your slate and use these in the AutoSync.
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I tend to not use AMA because I’ve had much better results with Avid’s codecs and I like being able to do fast Quicktime Reference exports. However, I’ve grabbed an AMA clip to try to do what you’ve described. I can’t seem to find the option that you describe when I right click. What exactly is it called?
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In short, it has changed.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I have successfully done a fast import of ProRes footage in Avid 6 on my Mac. If you go to https://www.avid.com/US/products/media-composer, you’ll see that at the top of the second column of new features it says, “Get full native ProRes support on Mac (encode and decode) and Windows (decode only) for easy integration into any ProRes workflow.” It simply isn’t packaged with the Avid codecs, just as XDCAM and other supported codecs aren’t packaged with Avid’s codecs.
As I mentioned, I’m on a Mac, but since Windows machines can decode ProRes, and no encoding should be needed for a fast import, it should still work.
Mac Pro (Mid 2010) – 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Processor – 10 GB 1333 MHz RAM – ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB Video Card – OS X Lion 10.7.2 – Avid Media Composer 6.0 – Adobe Production Premium Suite CS4 – Final Cut Studio 3.0