[Nina Lucia]

I agree with everything Richard Sanchez said above.

While you think Avid is missing features, I think it’s a much better way to work. I hate the way FCP has all those timelines open, too much room for error. Plus, the way Avid works, and Lightworks did when I used it, you put your source in the source monitor and cut in from that. You don’t get a nested section, you get the actual clips that were in the other seq and you know where you’re cutting from. The FCP method makes no sense to me.

It comes down to preference, not Avid being behind the times. Personally I don’t see why Avid it changing things to try to please FCP users because it’s annoying to me. The “smart tool” isn’t so great. I don’t know why locators are now called markers. They’re not markers, they’re locators!

It has to do with what you started on and what you’re used to. To me Avid is so much more streamlined than FCP. I do know someone who likes FCP better who started on Avid but I also know someone for whom the reverse is true. Ultimately you just have to use the one that gets the job done best for you and your needs.

[Nina Lucia]

I export from the Avid as Same as Source then use MPEGStreamclip on the desktop to convert to whatever I need depending on who I’m delivering to.

This way it takes less time to export (I don’t use Sorensen so maybe it doesn’t for that) and I can convert a reel at the desktop level while the other reels export from the Avid, using less time to get them all done.

[Nina Lucia]

I think I just found the magic combo! CMD + SHIFT.

[Nina Lucia]

Well, going straight to DVD is working. Not sure why the img ended up too big???

Anyway… I’m set for now.

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks for the quick response!

I’m using a QT export that’s sitting on my HDD, so the black isn’t an issue.

By check my assets, you mean after it’s in Compressor? I’m just using a QT, so I’m definitely not dropping anything in more than once.

Here’s what I’m doing.

-Open Compressor and select Create DVD from the default template selection that comes up automatically.
-Take my Avid output QT, 25.21gb, and drop it over into Compressor so it now shows the DVD MPEG-2 info and DVD Dolby Audio info.
-I go to Inspector, choose Hard Drive for Output Device and give it a title.
-Hit Submit.

It always just makes an img file that is able to be burned. Today for some reason it’s making it just too large to burn.

[Nina Lucia]

As far as finding the clips, if you want to find all clips in the project that are at 23.98 you can show the FPS column and it will tell you the frame rate of the clips.

If you only want to see the audio used in the sequence, put the sequences in a bin and “Set Bin Display” to “Show Reference Clips”. Then you’ll see all the clips in those sequences. Display your FPS column and you’ll see the frame rate. You can use copies of the sequences and get rid of the video tracks so there’s less clips showing in there.

As to fixing it, I’m not sure about that. I don’t see an option for changing the frame rate when you transcode on my system which is running 5.5.2.

[Nina Lucia]

So you are using the old media and the old bins but in a new project? Was the old project on a different version of MC? Any reason you aren’t just using the old project as well?

Do you have “Relink only to media from the current project” unchecked?

I’ve have hardly had any issues relinking. I would point to the correct drive, uncheck the above, and see what happens.

Also, are you saying the the clips that come up in Media Tool are linked but then the clips in the original bins are still not linked? Did you try opening an original bin/sequence while the Media Tool bin is open and see if that links them?

[Nina Lucia]

Okay, thanks.

Grabbing 5.5.3 now.

[Nina Lucia]

I’m exporting shots for VFX work and I’m exporting using “Current Settings” and when I check the QT in Quicktime Player 10.0 it shows this in the info box: “Apple ProRes 422 1920×1080 (1888×1062)”.

I’ve read this thread and another (https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1138433) and I’m not certain I understand this.

Is it just that this happens only when using Quicktime Player? So can I turn these quicktimes over to the VFX artist and they won’t have a problem? I do not want to have any degradation in the image. Should I do anything differently?

My system is running Snow Leopard, Quicktime Player 10.0, FCP 7.x.

Thanks.

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks very much Shane, appreciate it.