[Nina Lucia]

Thanks Shane!

We’re using DNxHD36 Avid media so it will have to be onlined later. So as long as I can open all the bins and manually color I should be fine? I added color correction on an empty video track above and it seems fine for the whole thing so that was easy.

The Dailies bins all have “kem rolls” in them of all the clips so I can cut into the sequence from those to retain the LUT from MC8 so if it goes back to an MC8 project for anything in the future it will be there. Does that sound right?

[Nina Lucia]

I’m not clear on what you’re matching back from and to and why you are needing to do it, but if you load the sequence you want to match back to in the Source Monitor, you can match to it from the one in the Record Monitor by using “Reverse Match Frame”. Make sure you have the correct video tracks highlighted that you are matching from and to.

Why is it that you can’t simply change it in the sequence you are working on?

[Nina Lucia]

You’ve probably already dealt with this, but you can try to delete your user folder and let it rebuild.

To do this, quit MC. Then on the finder level, go inside your project and find the folder named “zYourUserName” (z followed by whatever your Avid user name is) and then go back into MC. That folder will be rebuilt. I am not certain it will fix this particular issue but it does clear things up for me at times when things are acting up.

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks for the tips!

I did the copy/paste thing, measuring each scene to be (somewhat) sure what I was cutting in was the same as the edit (I made a copy of the edit to work on so I can check it against the original). I did find 3-4 nests that were not the same length, so I’m going to try your tip to get the “sub-nest” to match what’s in the cut. I can still copy/paste that, right? I have the rest of the edit already done but for those stragglers.

I thought the whole point of nests is that they change to match what you’ve done in your edit? Why/how would they be different?

Also, how do you rename the nests? Do you have to know where they are in the browser and do it there or can you do it in the timeline? I guess you have to know where they are in the browser anyway to drag them to the timeline. Supposing you can’t find them, is there a way to get them to a bin from the edit? I noticed that after I double click them in the timeline and replace them in the edit they disappear from my timeline and only the built edit is there. That seemed a little odd since it’s supposed to be a separate entity to begin with.

[Nina Lucia]

I feared as much. Thanks for the quick reply! My chocolate chip banana muffins will help me get through this…

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks Shane. Figured as much.

I have used FCP7, much prefer Avid, but hey, I feel that I need to learn Premiere at this point anyway and would like to get familiar with it, so we’ll see.

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks for the tip Alain.

One thing though, I do not want to stabilize the fg. That shot is good as is. Is there a way to do the shot without that step? Stabilize the bg then track it to the movement of the fg shot?

I have time to play around with it now so I’ll try what you mentioned without stabilizing the fg and see what happens.

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So I ended up manually keyframing the bg and for a 307 frame shot I have 59 keyframes. It jiggles a little bit but it’s not too bad!

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks Shane!

Don’t know After Effects yet so we’ll see what I come up with. Maybe 567 key frames. 🙂

[Nina Lucia]

Also, go into your settings in the project on each system and go to Media Creation. Set all items to put the media on the external drive. You can also check filter out system drive and filter out launch drive (I think that’s what they call it) so that it won’t go to the internal hard drive.

Now all your renders and motion effects you create will be written to the external drive so you won’t have those offline if you switch systems.

And even though Avid should create a new media folder when there are 5,000 items in the current one, it is recommended to keep that number at around 1200. So keep an eye on it, and when the folder inside the MXF named xxx.1 gets to 1200-1500, lock it off by changing the .1 to .2 and then Avid will create the new .1 folder the next time media is written. If you have recently rendered or imported anything make sure the two nonmedia files, the database ones (can’t remember the extensions offhand) are of a newer time than the media files so that they have all the media files indexed or the newest ones might appear offline.

If you do get an OMFI media folder, iirc, the current folder has no .#, so put a .1 at the end and then Avid will create the new folder when you create more media.

[Nina Lucia]

Curious why you are choosing pan and scan in the first option.