[Nina Lucia]

I use hyphens all the time without issue from MC 5 through MC8.

You can have spaces too if you like. So if you don’t want to use the underscore you don’t have to.

(Why is it so hard to find how to edit posts on here??? I have done it recently but usually I just give up because it seems like there’s a secret door to find the way to do it.)

[Nina Lucia]

I’ve used hyphens all the time without issue since Avid first started being widely used.

[Nina Lucia]

Yeah, I did the Pro-Res mxf option. No way to do it in the background and it doesn’t change the file size.

I went ahead and transcoded in the bg and was able to organize the scene bins while that was happening, and got much smaller file sizes so I was able to put them on an internal drive.

Btw… both options changed the color a bit, it came in less contrasty than the original Pro-Res QT, but both methods matched each other in the Avid. I assumed the Pro-Res was 709, maybe it was RGB? Anyway, most of the color looks fine, even better at times since it’s not as “video” looking with less contrast.

Thanks for the input!

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks for that info!

[Nina Lucia]

I found something about fast importing Pro-Res and tried that but it didn’t seem any faster, forgot to try to see if that’s something I can do in the background, so I just went ahead with transcoding. I think the DNx takes less drives space too unless the import shrinks the file size as well.

With both I lose the color the DIT put on it in Resolve. I don’t know the LUT used and some of it was dark so in the interest of trying to get started and cutting I went ahead and I’ll just put a color layer on in the sequence.

I did upgrade. I tried to do it officially since I bought the upgrade in March, but somehow my System ID is lost/unusable so until they fix that I’m running the trial of 8.3.1.

As to audio, the DIT said the audio tc matched the pic tc, and the burn-ins of both are exactly the same, though the burn-ins are the same for the day it was supposed to be different, so I don’t think the audio burn-in is actually reading the sound tc. However, if they jammed sync I figure I can fill in the audio information manually, the sound roll and then copy the start time of the clip into the sound tc column and they should be able to auto conform if needed, right? The audio has remained 24 bit and I have all tracks on each clip so I’m not sure they need to rebuild anyway, I think they could just use the AAF media? The mix tracks were put on the last open tracks rather than always on 1 or 1&2 so I’m just going to cut all tracks over and move the ones I don’t use down to muted audio tracks. So the sound editor will have everything built to go to.

Thanks for the input!

[Nina Lucia]

They have a new, free version, Media Composer First. I don’t know that much about it since I just heard of it, but I know it doesn’t have all the features of the full version but it will give you a taste of what Avid is like.

[Nina Lucia]

Your user folder that starts with “z” will be inside your project folder at the finder level where your bins are. It should be your computer name with z in front of it. Quit MC and then navigate to where you keep your projects and go inside the project folder this is happening in and find that folder and delete it. It will rebuild when you restart MC.

For the MCstate settings go to Applications > Avid Media Composer > Settings. First just try trashing only the MCstate file. You can just drag it out to your desktop if it worries you but it will rebuild. That won’t change things that you’ve set up in your project (window layout, fonts, etc… stuff like that, can’t remember exactly what). That may fix it.

If you’re still having the issue, you can try trashing Site Settings and Site_Attributes. Drag them out to the desktop so you can put them back if that doesn’t fix anything since these will change things you’ve set up.

Good luck!

[Nina Lucia]

That is weird.

Did you try making a new user setting? Does it do that in the default user setting?

Also, you can try deleting your user folder at the desktop level when you are out of MC. The z folder in the project folder. It will rebuild. That can get rid of funky behavior.

And then there’s trashing the mc state settings and site settings which will rebuild but you will have to reset some of it. So you can copy them to the desktop and if it doesn’t fix it just put them back so you don’t have to redo anything you’ve set up.

If you find a solution please post back with it!

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks Nina!

[Nina Lucia]

How long did it take to transcode the Pro-Res to DNxHD36?