Paul Peltekian
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Why don’t you export 32bit TGA sequence. His inscriber system should be able to convert those into AVIs that he can use.
-paul
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well, whether you’re working on a media composer or xpress pro, 16:9 is handle exactly the same way. it comes in stretched, and it’s edited stretched. if you want to output a letterbox version, you need apply the 16:9 effect to squeeze it back down. otherwise, your external monitor must be able to handle 16:9 by squeezing the image back down for you. by right-clicking or cmb clicking in your record monitor, you should be able to select 16:9. and that will physically squeeze your video only for preview and editing. it’s not what your final out will look like.
hope this helps with that.
as far as your problem with the video not playing but the audio does, could be a number of issues. can you give more details…
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In an ideal world this would work.
However, your post says Avid Xpress Pro 10.2. I’m all most certain there isn’t a 10.2 version. Are you talking about Media Composer 10.2?
Backwards compatibility isn’t always going to work. From my own experience, Xpress Pro work great with the Adrenaline. You can go back and fourth between those 2 setups day and night without isssues.
However, to go between an older Media Composer and Xpress pro doesn’t seem promising. I would do a test. Copy over a couple clips to a drive. and create a short sequence and send it back to see if it opens up. I’d be very curious to hear your results.
-paul p.
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Capturing directly into the avid via component from your DVD player into the MOJO is probably your best bet. It’s certainly A LOT faster and you won’t notice any degredation in quality. However, if this is a critical project that you plan on uprezing for online later on, I’d highly suggest you copy the portions of the DVD over to DVCAM, BETA SP or whatever you choose, so that I you can capture with frame accurate timecode.
If for some reason, you absolutely must rip and import your DVD’s, I’d throw caution to the wind that it’s a rather convoluted process that works, but takes several steps to achieve and double the time of capturing directly.
If you’re running AVID on a PC i know of several programs, all freeware, that will allow you to rip the VOB files off the DVD and convert them into .d2v mpeg files. From that you create an AVI wrapper file that will point to that .d2v file. You then import the AVI file in the AVID and it wil re-convert into the OMF codec of choice.
-paul p.
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Send back the monitors and get 2X20″ LCDs. Not worth the hassle.
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Hey Tim-
Glad to see you’re happy with your Adrenalines. I too am very happy with AVIDs in general. I’m currently working on a show that’s running 7 Adrenalines and 10+ Xpress Pro systems all from a unity. The Xpress systems are for the story dept and producers. They peek at our cuts every morning and they use it to also create new rough cuts and search for shots for us (so we don’t have to do it ourselves!!).
It’s a great marriage between the two systems. Aside from the once-in-awile crash with the Adrenalines, they seem to work just fine. We’re running v1.6.6 which is probably why it crashes so often.
Anyways.. glad to hear you’re going well! Shoot me an email if you ever need some AVID tips.
-Paul P. aka “Editor formerly known as ‘other NLE user'”
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I doubt it is your Hard Drive. What I’d be more inclined to look into, would be the timecode of both what’s on the tape and what’s already been logged.
Sometimes what’s on the tape could be dropframe and what’s logged could be non-drop frame and this could cause sporadic problems. Or as you said, the deck continues to play on but the system hangs… Seems to me that maybe there are not timecode breaks where the logged timecode says there is. Is this the only tape you’ve tried batch capturing with?
Try this. Throw in a tape that you know has at least 10 minutes of continuous, uninterupted footage. NO TIMECODE BREAKS! And quickly log 20 or more clips. then try a batch capture. see what happens.
-Paul
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Im not much of a MAC user. However.. from my 20 years experience with computers… All I can say is, when it don’t work. Re-Install. No way around it really. Just reinstall.
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Try restarting the software and re-opening the AUDIOSUITE tool.
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On a show that I am currently working on, we have Adrenaline systems for all the editors, and we have Xpress Pro systems that the story dept. uses to watch and create new sequences for us. It seems that those two systems are backward compatible, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work with Newscutter.
-Paul P.