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The lack of responses is because the people who really understand this stuff are few and far between and earn six figures somewhere under a NDA.
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I tried to import a MXF into Premiere 5.5 and it gave a “this file has an unsupported compression type” error. Audio MXF files work fine.
I suspect that the AVID HDV codec is not supported. Question to the group is… does Premiere 6 support it?
If not, is there a “transcoder/re-wrapper” that can make them compatible?
– Paul
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Autodesk Smoke and Flame do not export AAF or XML. They are finishing tools, so why would you… right? Well, except when it comes to color grading. Autodesk products only export EDLs and the only other way of moving a timeline from Smoke to color is to buy a Lustre.
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Agreed. However, if you have a transition on a V2 layer, you need to transition from SOMETHING. Resolve adds a black slug, which does not reveal the layer below. This is the fundamental problem… Transitions.
If there was an easy way to select all black events (what I call filters), then I could delete them all (or disable them). Problem is there is no tool for this. You can’t expect someone to manually select all the black events and delete them. This is not a viable solution.
In addition, when a V2 transitions from a gap (i.e. black), the black slug the resolve inserts is hidden behind the transition and is impossible to select without removing the transition first.
Possible solutions:
1) Have a preference setting to treat BL events as gaps. Gaps would reveal either the layer below or a background color, which would be custom defined (ie. Black 0 or Black 64). This would be my preferred solution as it solves two problems at once and is very intuitive.2) Resolve can load or preconform EDLs and have the option to place them as a layer above (V2 or greater) another already conformed EDL. When doing so, it would treat BL events as gaps.
3) Have the ability to “stack” EDLs. If a user stacks a series of two or more conformed EDLs, the upper layers would replace black with gaps.
4) The resolve would recognize the REEL ID of GAP and treat it as a gap. Just as it recognizes the REEL ID of BL and treats it as black. Admittedly, this is not a very good solution.
Currently there is no documented way to build a multi-layered timeline using EDLs. Although there is a workaround.
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XML and AAF are not an option. Not until Autodesk gets on board.
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I suppose Apple just ended this thread with the latest FCP X.
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Seems simple enough.
Not.
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For a short term overnight solution… Try rendering in batches to frame sequences. That way you can pick up where you left off. Once completed, convert the frame sequence to whatever you are delivering.
Long term. Go with a 64 bit OS to take advantage of more RAM. Even with a 32 bit plugin you double the RAM available.
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No, never did.
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To convert 4:3 to 16:9 you need to “center cut” the video. Scale it up 133.33%. You will, of course, lose 25% of the top and bottom of the image. You may need to “pan and scan” on a shot by shot basis to re-frame shots that no longer look right (cropped heads, etc.).
Just know that your image quality will suffer since you are “blowing up” your video. Anything past 115% begins to fail the “acceptable” quality level for me.