Pierre Paré-blais
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Resolve Collect seems like a really useful tool for this kind of situation. The export project is really too obvious, I don’t know how I missed it really… I guess I don’t open the file menu often enough… đŸ˜‰
Thanks to you both!
Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
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Update:
I managed to solve the problem, but in a very tedious way…
adding handles solved the problem partially in the sense that the media out from resolve matched the length of the original source clips. However the new aaf still read each clip in exactly the same way the previous attempt with too short media did, so the same error appeared. This time, because the clips had the require lengths, I could manually go through each dissolve and make sure the were implemented correctly, constantly referencing back to the pre-resolve sequence, to make sure everything still lined up properly timecode wise.
very tedious indeed in a 52min doc with 100+ dissolves. But in the end it worked and everything is good to move on to final finishing, titling, etc.
I would still like to figure out what went wrong here and how to avoid it for future work… if anyone knows.
Thanks!
Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
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Using Balanced cables should solve your problem… at least it did for me. a balanced cable doesn’t necessarily mean a stereo cable, stereo is just one of the popular ways to use the connection pattern in the cable. as I have now learned all decklink audio connection require balanced cables. As for the connection to the speakers, in my experienced I’ve never needed to use TRS, but I am unfamiliar with the particular hardware you are using here. definitely the first step would be to change the cables coming out of the decklink, I suspect this will fix your issue right away.
Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
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and that got rid of it for me as well!
thanks.Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
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Thank you both, your simple remarks have help narrow down the issue I’m seeing. when I put my comp viewer to 100% and full resolution (the 100% was the key here), the fonts look fine on my computer display, So all is well, the font is not the issue you were right, simple mistake I should’ve known this. however on my broadcast monitor things keep looking jagged, and it is displaying HD 1080i60 10-bit from my my decklink (1080i60 is what I will be delivering for broadcast). Am I not to trust what AE sends to my ref monitor?
just to give more details, the comp is Hd 1080 29.97.
Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
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don’t take my word for it, but I was told that one could grade a 4k job in lite (from your small basement grading studio for example) and then take the project over to a full davinci facility to output 4k. I have never tested this my self so I can’t guarantee this info, but the person who told me this was a seasoned davinci colorist, who was giving me training at the time.
Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
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Hi Paolo,
Took me some time to reply, cause it turned out I didn’t have any TRS->XLR adapter after all so I had to make some out of spare connectors I had in my scrap drawer… anyways… it works now! So that really was it. Problem solved!
Many thanks for your help!
Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
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I’ve done the Avid to Resolve workflow a couple of times now, based on what your saying I am assuming your files are brought into Symphony with Avid AMA system right? in other words, avid is looking at the original mp4 files to avoid having to transcode. However, in order for the AAF to work properly in resolve, you need to either transcode the media or consolidate the project to DNxHD, ideally the 10-bit flavor that corresponds to your project (220 for 30fps, and 175 for 24fps projects). Resolves does not support native XDcam footage, it only supports the quicktime rapper (which you get when transcoding in Final Cut pro). Once you’ve gone through the transcoding process, you make the aaf with the “reference media files” option and not “copy media”, you then bring in the AAF into Resolve and point resolve to the media drive that contains the mxf media for your project. Everything should link up just fine, so long as there are no timecode conflict. I’ve done quite a few time but coming from Media Composer 6 and it always works fine for me, although at first I had to fiddle around quite a few time to finally get the right kind of AAF for resolve.
Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
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Thanks Paolo,
Let me verify with you, the poster in that thread seems to suggest that all the audio connectors of the decklink require TRS cables, I was under the impression that in the outputs only the output 3-4 (which are joint on one output cable) required TRS, and that the 1 and 2 output (being individual mono outputs) only required TS connectors? If that is the case then that might be my issue, since my xlr jumper/adaptors are both TS to XLR-3, I’ll have to try with some TRS adaptor cables, which I think I have in my cable drawer, when I get back home.
Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
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Thanks Sacha, this is very helpful info I will look into.
Pierre P. Blais
Multimedia performance and VFX artist
Pierre P. Blais Productions
Perception Films
https://www.vimeo.com/user1771129