Perrone Ford
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LOL! Yea I know. But in case you hadn’t heard, there’s a recession going on and I work in state govt. We’re losing jobs, in a hiring freeze, and lost 20% off the top of our operating budget this year. Little hard for me to ask for Media Composer right now.
So I am trying to do my best with what I have.
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Downres with a Lanczos scaler. Problems magically disappear.
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Ok, lets try again.
I cut in Vegas. I have to collaborate with the local news/film folks who cut either in Avid, Edius, or FCP. I made the choice to go with Avid’s DNxHD for all my HD work so that I could trade with anyone on either platform, and they could trade with me.
However, occasionally I get things that need a timecode burn, and I’d rather not tie up my NLE half the day. So I tried Metafuze. Unfortunately, it only spits out Avid MXF files, which are apparently incompatible with anything else.
Based on what I’ve seen, it appears you are correct. I need to find a different program to handle that. I was just hoping that for the sake of my Metafuze stuff, and for dealing with anything else that might come from Avid folks, that an Avid MXF was not a dead end. But it appears it is.
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Call me crazy, but some people don’t necessarily want to finish in Avid, or would like to collaborate with non-Avid people.
I am aware of the Metafuze which is how I got into this mess. Essentially, the idea was to take an image sequence, add Metadata, timecode burn for editorial, and then match that back to the online. However, I am not doing that in Avid.
Metafuze creates Avid MXF ONLY. And it’s nearly impossible to get that information out. I’ve never seen any format that is so hard to convert.
I don’t really care about the audio. I’ve got that. But if I want to take the video sequence and cut it on FCP, Premiere, Vegas, Edius, etc., it’s impossible.
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Lots of good ideas here. And I think you guys hit the nail on the head. Sometimes we do have to put our creative juices aside, and just give the customer what they need/want. In this case, not only does the customer want certain forms on-screen, but there is a requirement to do so, even if it is boring!
I was just trying to find a way to do so that was a bit better than what I’d seen in the past. Given the responses here, and what I was already playing with in my head, I think I have what I need, and I thank you all for your thoughts.
This is a terrific site. Now on to more pressing matters, like how to convert my library of video from the past year over to DNxHD!
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I was gonna send you a quick link. But no prob. I appreciate the thoughts and ideas. I wish I was at liberty to try at least some of them out. I especially like that greenscreen one. I’ll have to put that in my back pocket for another time.
I guess I need to build a greenscreen wall!
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Well, I am confident in saying it’s not the machine!
Looks interlaced to me. Would you be willing to send me a few seconds of it to have a closer look?
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Mark, I’d like to send you something privately. Can you send me your email address?
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Craig, and the risk of sounding less than generous..
We are talking about $300 in cards, $70 in adapters. About $400 all told with the shipping. For FOUR HOURS of 1080p recording.
On SxS thats $744 x 4 = $2976
On P2 thats $2499 x 4 = $9996
On HDCamSR = $102 * 4 = $412With this solution, we are now shooting tapeless for the price of tape. And we are doing it for 4% of what it costs our Panasonic P2 compadres, and 13% of native SxS cost.
It doesn’t get much better than this… I mean I know it will over time, but if someone had told us 3 years ago that we’d be shooting 1080p video for $100 an hour on tapeless media, we would have laughed at them.
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I’m actually curious what quality difference you see. Can you qualify it at all?