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Paul Allen
June 5, 2011 at 9:17 am in reply to: Dual layer DVD in Avid DVD / Sonic DVDit

Thanks a lot Jeff,
Paul

Avid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme CPU QX6800 2.93GHz (4 CPUSs). 2030MB RAM. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe
Paul Allen
June 5, 2011 at 8:53 am in reply to: DVD subtitles into scenarist

Thanks Rob, that’s very helpful. There’s a surprising lack of info out there about subtitling and the process involved – I’m really having to piece it together. That’s good news about using normal subtitle files – that’s exactly the route I was planning to take, saving a basic txt file with an extension that Scenarist recognises and then playing around with them once they’re in the program. Any other advice from Scenarist users much appreciated…

Thanks,
Paul

Avid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme CPU QX6800 2.93GHz (4 CPUSs). 2030MB RAM. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe
Paul Allen
May 8, 2011 at 9:32 am in reply to: Dual layer DVD in Avid DVD / Sonic DVDit

Hi Peter,
Yes, I had a similar thought but when I go through the menus nothing seems to come up asking about layer breaks. Haven’t actually gone as far as burning a dual layer DVD as yet though so will see what happens when I do that. Dual layer DVDs are in the post so will let you know how I get on…
Cheers,
Paul

Avid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme CPU QX6800 2.93GHz (4 CPUSs). 2030MB RAM. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe
Paul Allen
May 4, 2011 at 11:59 am in reply to: Dual layer DVD in Avid DVD / Sonic DVDit

Cheers Peter. That sounds good to me – any tutorials would certanly be useful. I think one of the problems is that the same software has a few different names so it falls between two stools.
Cheers,
paul

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Paul Allen
March 29, 2011 at 11:08 pm in reply to: authoring DVD in AVID DVD by Sonic

No probs Lori, glad you got it sorted in the end. I know the pain of DVD authoring from first hand experience!

Paul

Avid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme CPU QX6800 2.93GHz (4 CPUSs). 2030MB RAM. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe
Paul Allen
March 28, 2011 at 9:44 pm in reply to: authoring DVD in AVID DVD by Sonic

Lori,
My feeling is that I don’t think you’re conceptualising the DVD burning process right. Even if you compress in Sorenson, Avid DVD still needs to specify a bit rate for burning the DVD. If this is too high, even a 10 minute film which is 50MB could theoretically go over the DVD size limit. Size on disk = length of video x bit rate. I’ve had exactly the situation you describe before and couldn’t work out why the video wouldn’t fit when it was way below the 4.7GB limit… and then realised that burning a DVD for video playback isn’t the same as just burning files to a data disk. Try setting the bit rate really low and you’ll hopefully it will work ok.
Paul

Avid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme CPU QX6800 2.93GHz (4 CPUSs). 2030MB RAM. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe
Paul Allen
March 28, 2011 at 9:09 am in reply to: authoring DVD in AVID DVD by Sonic

Lori,
When I’ve had this problem in the past I’ve gone into ‘File’ =>’Project Settings’=> then clicked the tab which says ‘SD Transcoding’. In here you can specify the data rate for the video so that it will fit on a DVD. Under ‘encode style’ you have the choice of CBR or VBR – for the purposes of simplicity I’d choose CBR and then change the ‘Target Bit Rate’ – just keep lowering it till it tells you it will fit. To check, click ‘Apply’, and then take a look in the bottom left corner of the screen where it tells you how much space you have remaining on your disc. As long as you’ve got a positive number you’ll be fine (i.e. it’s not red),

Paul

Avid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme CPU QX6800 2.93GHz (4 CPUSs). 2030MB RAM. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe
Paul Allen
March 28, 2011 at 9:01 am in reply to: Keeping date info on consolidation

Thanks Job, I wasn’t aware of that method – I think I know the old import P2 clips options which you’re refering to.
Thanks as always for your help,
Paul

Avid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme CPU QX6800 2.93GHz (4 CPUSs). 2030MB RAM. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe
Paul Allen
March 27, 2011 at 6:05 am in reply to: Keeping date info on consolidation

Thanks Bouke – very useful idea. Will give that a try.

Hector – yes, I can definitely see the benefit of that work flow. I normally go for the consolidate option as I’m used to having all my media ingested and am a bit scared about the posibility of me moving something by accident! At least if everything is in the Avid Media Files folder then I know I won’t move that by mistake. I probably need to train myself in the new ways of Avid more though…

Many thanks for your help and advice,

Paul

Avid Media Composer. PC with Intel DP35DP s775 iP35 ATX motherboard. Core 2 Extreme CPU QX6800 2.93GHz (4 CPUSs). 2030MB RAM. 256MB Nvidia Quadro/FX1500 PCIe
Paul Allen
August 18, 2010 at 9:18 pm in reply to: Duplicating sequence sync issue

Just in case anyone is having a similar problem, I’ve found the solution…

Basically I had fades or disolves which crossed over each other – Avid was somehow interpretting this as requiring extra frames, thus putting it out of sync. If anyone is having problems look at your disolves and work from there – if you remove the effect then it will hopefully solve the problem.

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