[Phil Byrd]

Hey guys & girls,

I found the error of my way.

We all know better than to try editing on Christmas morning.

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA

[Phil Byrd]

Thanks Terrance.

But what about the upgrade policy for next 4 years- is it the same as for the academic version. I can’t find anything about follow-on upgrades anywhere on the web. That’s my question.

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA

[Phil Byrd]

Peter,

I am not on the system this morning and haven’t had a chance to check your finding. But the “absent” tracks indeed have no audio at the head. I think you’ve solved my problem.

phil

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA

[Phil Byrd]

I do render with the DVDA widescreen template. But when all is done, I have a widescreen frame with pillarboxed anamorphic pictures. I think I have checked options in the template for 16×9 format. But this is what I always get.

Maybe I’m missing something in the template setup.

Thanks.

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA

[Phil Byrd]

The simple explanation of my project is this- I’m shooting a project for a big public television shop. That shop is a big FCP user. But I have Avid Media Composer on my laptop for offline. The offline will be very straightforward. And I just want to move my sequence as painlessly as possible to the FCP system for color correction, titles, effects. The CMX 3600 EDL has been recommended and is certainly something Avid can do.

Thanks for the many recommendations that have included dumping Avid and moving all my work to FCP. And thanks for the memories of some of the painful ways we used to edit.

And oh by the way, I’ve got a very nice Convergence ECS-195 in the basement. And the 3/4″ machines to go with it. Haven’t been turned on in years. But there are some things you just can’t let go.

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA

[Phil Byrd]

Sorry Scott. You have not really suffered unless you have been forced to work with the RCA “TEP” editor and a couple of TR-70 quad machines. Ampex Editec was a dream compared with TEP. Holding your breath through at 14 second pre roll could be very painful.

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA

[Phil Byrd]

Thanks Grinner.

I’ll use the CMX 3600 option as I’m in the PC world in my shop.

But you can’t believe how many of many of my colleagues say I should get FCP. But they aren’t interested in buying me a MAC on which to run it. And the IO box, etc, etc.

The good news is that my timeline will be simple, only two audio tracks, and small reel numbers.

Do we all remember when we put our EDLs on big 5.25″ floppies and took them to a CMX 340x which would choke if there was a reel number beyond 340? Things have changed!

pb

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA

[Phil Byrd]

Thanks. That’s what I was looking for.

phil

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA

[Phil Byrd]

Michael,

My problem was with a sequence full of straight cuts (initial sequence for a one-hour music special). I managed to isolate the problem to audio tracks, all from the same source tape and all recorded at the same time. No motion effects. No effects of any type.

I’m still scratching my head about this one. But we’re back in business after the workaround.

thanks

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA

[Phil Byrd]

We’ve solved the immediate problem by using match frame and replacing audio in the offending clips. And editing continues.

But I’m still scratching my head about the “insufficient media” warning when there was no shortage of media whatsoever.

Any help with this mystery appreciated.

Phil in NJ

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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
Montclair, NJ USA