Ozzie Alfonso
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Jon,
In the interest of bringing closure to this thread – I tried exporting the same material a second time with nothing added – no enlarging of the screen, no noise reduction, no color correction – NOTHING – and the time was dramatically shorter. As I recall, it was more like 3 to 4 hours.
Thank you all for the help and patient guidance. Lesson learned.
Ozzie Alfonso
Terra Associates
NYC
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Well Oz, either you are not asking the right question or no one has a suggestion. I’d bet on the former.
Why not ask it this way: What can Premiere Pro 2 do for me that Avid can’t? Cost issues aside, what are the salient features that make PP2 stand out over other popular software based editing systems – e.g. Final Cut Pro, Avid DV Xpress Pro?
So sit back and relax, some one is bound to give you his or her two cents worth.
Ozzie Alfonso
Terra Associates
NYC
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I succeeded in importing an Avid OMF file by exporting from Avid to a reference Quicktime video. That video will then import to PP2 using the same media from Avid. There might be other ways but this is one that works for me.
Ozzie Alfonso
Terra Associates
NYC
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They are but the problem shows up before we ever get to Encore. The effect shows up on the referece Quicktimes we make right out of the Avid while still in the system. Note that it does NOT show up IN Avid, only in the QuickTime. It only gets worse with subsequent coding and decoding. The shitter speed that ematerial was shot and the fps sre standers NTSC – 29.97 at 1/30th (or is it 1/60th?) and interlaced.
We have never experienced this problem before – at least not as pronounced.
Ozzie Alfonso
Terra Associates
NYC
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That is correct – these are NTSC 29.97 interlaced frames. The cameras used were Ikegamis digital cams. The digitizing was from a DVCam deck straight to the Avid Xpress Pro 4.6 at full resolution for on-lining.
Which field do you suggest? We’ve tried both but only on the exporting end, not as we digitize.
Ozzie Alfonso
Terra Associates
NYC
http://www.terramultimedia.com -
Jeff, although I haven’t found a solution to the problem, I did stumble into something curious – when I export clips or sequences to Sorenson’s Squeeze they play and sound fine. These are the same sequences that display only as stills in Avid. By the way, I’m now up to v 5.1.5.
Ozzie Alfonso
Terra Associates
NYC
http://www.terramultimedia.com -
Unfortunately no. I was directed to a site that specializes on kludging NVIDIA drivers to work with Avid, but the ones I was recommended do nothing. It
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Any suggestions from anyone? I’m sure I’m not alone with this problem.
Ozzie Alfonso
Terra Associates
NYC
http://www.terramultimedia.com -
In fact version 5.1.4 is the one I’ve been trying to run. I had it running fine in my older Vaio laptop – V505ACP. My new Vaio has more ram, a larger and faster internal drive. The sound chipset is not the same – I had to resort to an external SoundBlaster USB card, but the video should be no problem, and it isn’t except that it won’t display in anything other than still frames.
I was wondering if it might be a setting I’m forgetting to change either in the BIOS, in XP, or in Avid itself.
Ozzie Alfonso
Terra Associates
NYC
http://www.terramultimedia.com