[Nat Jencks]

Agreed with everyone’s frustrations above. I can’t imagine the motivation for this.

Should be drop dead simple and have a few ways of doing it… e.g. right clicking on a timeline should show “Duplicate timeline”… in addition there should be obvious options to Duplicate Timeline in the dropdown menus.

It’s hard to imagine this was intentional to make something so basic confusing… Perhaps its just a UX bug that slipped through the cracks with 15.2 which was a big overhaul for various UI elements.

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-Nat

[Nat Jencks]

You may just be running out of space on your target drive? Resolve can give errors like that when it runs out of space or something similar?

[Nat Jencks]

Back when I was running a Mac Pro tower this happened to me a few times. Some research indicated it was the result of the power supply being overdrawn.

Not sure if thats the issue but if so you could look at 3rd party power supplies… good luck

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[Nat Jencks]

I’ve never been able to get that to work either. It should, but it doesn’t. Very frustrating. I now get all title sequences delivered as Prores4444 with embedded alpha or as a continuous tiff sequence with alpha.

But it would be great if it could work as you describe which is how it should work.

Anyone from BMD monitoring this, please consider this a bug report / feature request 🙂

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[Nat Jencks]

Hmm, yeah I can’t get it to work at all. Is there a way to get TIFFs with alpha or transparency out of Avid? I swear I’ve done that before but it doesn’t seem to be working now.

Any advice on EXACTLY how to get tiff with transparency out of the avid and into resolve?

Thanks
-Nat

[Nat Jencks]

To show what I’m talking about here is an example of what text exported as DNxHR with embedded alpha looks like when I import it into resolve. It looks as if the alpha matte is not being properly pre-multiplied against the fill.

[Nat Jencks]

Does anyone have any more information about this? I’m a colorist working in resolve on a feature that would like to deliver me subtitles from the Avid. DNxHR exports with alpha have major artifacts for me when importing into resolve. The edges of the text have lots of crazy noise, like perhaps an issue with the alpha not being pre-multiplied? But resolve only lets me choose pre-multiplied.

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[Nat Jencks]

After a bit more poking around it looks to me like the ability to manually set the amount of pre-allocated memory is new to version 12.5 is that correct? Or perhaps version 12? I’m running v11 for this but have a machine set up with v12.5 that I can test with the memory manually set higher.

Thanks
-Nat

[Nat Jencks]

Thanks Rohit, I might be missing something obvious but what do you mean “set the preferences memory to 12GB”? I have 64GB of RAM. No noise reduction at all.

Thanks!
-Nat

[Nat Jencks]

Not possible. But you could export your audio as regular PCM Stereo or 5.1, and then I think you could use Adobe Media encoder to transcode using the SurCode plugin from Minitonka Audio. At least I know that works for Dolby Digital encoding. The SurCode plugin may be End Of Life though as I think Adobe built much of its functionality into Media Encoder.

good luck!
-Nat