Nick Hennessey
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Thanks Chris! That basically did the trick!
The only issue I now have is there is a thin outline around the key. I tried setting the Edge Feather as high as possible, but it’s not removing the outline. Any ideas for that?
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Thanks for your responses. The project files were always contained on the Shared user in AvidMediaComposer so that rules out Job’s suggestion about External and Private. And the install of 6.5 didn’t create a new “6.5” folder within the AvidMediaComposer folder, so that rules out Glenn’s suggestion.
I think this is going to be one of those mystery occurrences for us where we never really find out what happened, since Avid Support wasn’t able to suggest anything.
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Glenn, the DP recorded to XD CAM discs, which I believe contained MXF files, and then I believe those were transcoded with NanoFlash.
I tried a straight import, and it worked on one of our systems, but not on the other. On both systems Linking to AMA Files skips files when brining them in, and Linking to Volume doesn’t work.
Thanks for your help, we are in the process of trying to figure out our issues by speaking directly with Avid Support.
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Thanks much Glenn. When you say native files, do you mean the XD CAM files as they were prior to the NanoFlash conversion? I’m not sure if I have access to them.
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Has anyone found a solution for this? I need to make a 9 minute scroll and the longest it’s letting me create a title is 4 minutes. I’m on version 6 of Avid.
I find it slightly absurd if Avid doesn’t have a solution for this besides “make your type bigger and add more spaces.”
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Just in case anyone references this: the Pixel Motion effect in AE looks good in some instances but looks pretty bad a lot of the time too. Similar to the pixel bunching you see in this example: https://jonscottsupport.com/2012/02/15/super-slow-motion-in-for-adobe-after-effects-using-pixel-motion/
What looks by far the worst is just slowing the clips down in FCP. The best result seems to be slowing down in Premiere without any effects to get around the “ghosting” I previously experienced. The motion is actually really smooth by itself in Premiere.
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Thanks a lot Juan and co. You’re all right that slowing through frame rate won’t work because I did the math wrong. But I really appreciate the explanation on frame rates.
I’d really like to avoid reshooting so I will attempt the “Pixel Motion” effect in AE like Juan suggests. That’s different than the “Frame Blending” effect Richard Harrington suggested in the thread I originally linked to, correct?
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/280/3201
Because Juan, you’re saying “Frame Blending” is actually the problem here, not the solution. “Frame Blending” is what is causing the “ghosting” – or double, slightly transparent images in each frame – and the “Pixel Motion” filter (or Optical flow in motion/fcpx) will for lack of better word unblend the frames, correct?
I understand this will likely produce a lower quality result than reshooting with the proper frame rates/music speed ratio, but I’ll try it out tomorrow and keep the thread posted.
Thanks again!
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Hey, so if anyone else ends up with a similar issue, what worked for me is setting the “Field Order” parameter to “None (Progressive).” It had originally been set to “Lower.” Since the source was shot in progressive the MP4 was getting confused looking for two separate rows of pixels when there was only one. At least that’s the explanation I got from a much more experienced colleague.
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Chris – Yes I was set up with Component Analog. I know it was set up correctly because I used FCP to capture from Beta right before to make sure the deck was online, and that worked fine.
Tom – Interesting, I will look into Walter’s writing on this.
Thank you both!
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