Peter Simpson
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Hello Cyrus,
I have all the clips in one master project. We use Prelude to log the shots and have a system for renaming the clips based on who is in them and where they are then add comments (which can have duration) where appropriate. Prelude has a send to Premiere function which will add it to the open project. Then when we are looking for shots with a certain character or location we can search for that. I have the comments tab open so clicking on a shot loads the comments into that tab and then clicking on a comment takes you to that point in the clip in the viewer. Seems to be working well so far. Project is stable although I have a pretty good machine (Z820 16×3.1GHz core, 64GB Ram etc). My footage all comes off EX cams and F3’s (same codec) so no syncing involved and just editing off the native files. Can take a bit to load when I first open it but once it has it runs fine.
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For what it’s worth like Tom I made the switch to an HP Z820 a few months ago. Windows 7 is like a rock, really, haven’t had a crash that I can remember? Editing a major 90 minute doco on Premiere Pro with hundreds of hours of footage. Put it through Prelude first which has been a godsend when used in conjunction with the hover scrub function in Premiere. No more double clicking into the viewer to scrub through a shot. Saving me a lot of time and running smooth as silk. Quite happy. Of course if Apple does come out with a kick ass mac pro won’t be afraid to switch back 🙂
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Sadly I jumped ship from Avid to FCP a couple years ago due to Apple being a more progressive company in terms of their NLE. Now it seems I may have jumped too early. MC5 includes support for Matrox MXO Mini (ie 3rd party hardware) which seems like a major shift amongst many other features, CS5 has many new features also including the mercury playback engine, XML, AAF support. Apple laptops lagging in terms of hardware uptake (although that may change in the next few days). I don’t know. Feel a little left out too 🙂
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Hi. I am not actually a Vegas user (am thinking about it though getting tired of slow final cut updates) but I would say Vegas is mis-interpreting the field order on your hdv clips. All hdv is upper field first as far as I know. Does Vegas have a shift fields option? I would say try that if you haven’t already.
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16:9 pal footage exported is anamorphic, that is it is 4:3 but looks stretched vertically. As stated above if put into DVD Studio Pro you can set the track to 16:9 and it will look correct when played on a DVD player. If you are just viewing the file on a mac open it in quicktime, go to window->show movie properties, then click on the video track and you will see an option down the bottome “Scaled Size”. Deselect preserve aspect ratio and change the 720 number to 1024. This will now display the video in it’s correct 16:9 aspect. Save the file when you close it and it will always appear this way.
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You could also apply 3 way color corrector and then use the limiter function to hone in on the shade of red and desaturate a little. Have found quite a lot of DV has red channels that are almost glowing and this seems to help.
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I second this post (sorry to highjack), especially the Color part. Am very interested in the Multibridge myself.
Any one using one with Shake? Can you get preview out of it (I heard Blackmagic cards have issues with this).
Anyone capturing to 1080 ProRes through it? Does it work well in this regard (obviously with a fast enough machine).
Thanks for any answers.
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There is a link on the front page of CC to an article on this explaining their new initiatives etc. The funniest thing is there is a link down the bottom of the article
https://www.avid.com/we-are-listening ”
to sign up to recieve emails about these initiatives. Problem is the “we are listening” link goes to a page that cannot be found (at least it did when I tried it). Is this the definition of irony? -
Hi Joshua,
Thanks a lot for the quick reply, appreciate it. As for the Insensity Pro, unfortunate that it is out of your hands. It is a perfect fit for what I wanted to do with our University suites which are unfortnately G5’s. Wanted those component in and outs. Thanks again.