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Hmm…. This should be really smooth. Do you see any colored lines over your timeline? If so, this indicates you need to render, which means that your media doesn’t match your sequence settings. Make sure you have the right sequence setting by using one of the presets before editing any media to that timeline. Do the individual clips play fine in the viewer before you edit them to the timeline?
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Oliver Peters
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What type of media are you playing?
What is the media format?
What is the sequence format?
Are these SATA drives internal or external?
Drive speed?
Striped or RAID?Please send more details.
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OliverOliver Peters
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As usual, a pretty stupid thread. I can give you tons of reasons why Avid is better. I can also give you tons of reasons why FCP is better. It’s all subjective. And BTW, I also work with a client who hates Avid, had FCP and is now dumping it for Premiere Pro (Axio) because he is sick and tired of the software real-time issues. So see … there’s something – or nothing – for everyone! 😉
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>>Are Avid’s resolution independent now<< Avids are not res-ind, but you can use the Pan & Zoom plug-in to work with higher-res stills on the TL. You can drop in RT stills with alphas if they match the TL resolution. You have "dynamic" RT to mix Avid codecs and DVCPRO 50/100 codecs as well as RT mix/up/down conversion on the TL (preview) of SD/HD on some of the software based systems. Symphony Nitris (hardware) does this at true broadcast quality without rendering. For what it's worth, Axio also does this at a lower price point under Premiere Pro. Sincerely, Oliver Oliver Peters Post-Production & Interactive Media Orlando, FL http://www.oliverpeters.com
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Yes, that’s correct – single drive (NOT dual boot). It’s probably not recommended, but has worked for me so far, except at the change to Tiger and AXP 4.3. With AXP 4.8.1 things have been fine.
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OliverOliver Peters
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I ran a test with XM|Edit’s Traffic tonight and it does exactly what you want, which is to paste CC filters on all clips with a given name, such as Cam 1. One caveat is that it doesn’t seem to work with the Apple XML output from a multi-clip sequence. When I exported using the Automatic Duck XML export instead, it worked correctly.
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OliverOliver Peters
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Orlando, FL
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You might look at XM|Edit’s Traffic (www.xmedit.com). They are node based and one of the nodes is a filter copy/paste function. You can set clip trigger parameters, which means that you can apply a specified filter to all clips in the timeline with the criteria you define. It’s XML in and out and works quickly and easily. Might be worth trying for this situation.
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OliverOliver Peters
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[BRussell] “darn it — FCP handles this easily, you just tell it to ignore breaks. Yes, there can be sync issues, but who cares when the breaks are at the end of clips. I wish there was some way to force the Adrenaline to keep the material. Oh well, there goes all my logging. Stewing…”
Well in all fairness, this isn’t totally accurate either. Most NLEs (maybe all) don’t actually record the TC signal. They grab the first frame and make comparisons from which they generate interpolated code. If the in and out TC matches, then the interpolation is accurate. If you choose to let FCP ignore TC, the warning indicates that batch captures will be wrong. For example, if you have 5 TC breaks in a clip and you tell FCP to ignore the TC breaks, all portions of that clip after the first break will have the wrong TC. If you are working offline/online this is disasterous, because you cannot consolidate and batch capture accurately.
On the plus side, Avid does a far better job of pre-rolling across TC breaks (FCP won’t) and automatically breaking clips into new segments at TC breaks. Have you tried the latter approach? I don’t remember if this works with batch capture/digitize, but maybe it does now.
Unfortunately you are encountering a known issue with Sony camcorder recordings.
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OliverOliver Peters
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Orlando, FL
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The obvious question is whether of not the sound edits track the picture edits at all. If you have a V-only timeline, simply changing this to a straight cut version that is VA1A2 will most likely be wrong. Or are you just wanting this audio for reference? Or is this a re-edit?
The EDL idea is probably the best, though you could actually do that yourself from the same tapes and project files. No Pro Tools needed.
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OliverOliver Peters
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I’m running both on my PowerBook (plus all the other apps) with the newest OS and QT versions. No problems yet. Maybe there are some issues with that G5? Have you uninstalled the Avid apps? If so, do things work correctly?
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OliverOliver Peters
Post-Production & Interactive Media
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com