[Ra-ey Saleh]

Peter,

Thanks for getting back to me.
I’ve literally tried every conceivable config of the settings (QTs and AVIs) and get the same result.
Here are example settings for a Quicktime attached.

I’ve even tried just exporting video with no effects on it directly out of Boris and the same thing happens when I select Upper Field First. When I say ‘None’ there is no problem at all. I’ve also experimented with the ‘Deflickering’ and ‘Best Quality…’ buttons, and still the same result.

Please let me know if you need more info,

Thanks

Ra-ey

[Ra-ey Saleh]

You can do as Grinner suggests, but the Mask parameter is actually a really powerful tool in Sapphire.

Move your shot to v2 with the sapphire effect on and the Mask set to ‘1 Track below’.
Now put a Paint Effect on the Filler on v1. Draw a shape around the area of the screen you want to effect and change the color to white. You have now made a Mask that Sapphire will look at and only apply the Rays to. The cool thing is now you can Motion Track the shape if you wish.
The book mentioned by Terence is excellent.

[Ra-ey Saleh]

I remember reading this on the Avid forum:
BLKDOG:
‘Educational users actually have a very sweet deal for an upgrade. If you buy the educational assurance for $124, you get the upgrade to 3.5 and a year of support. A very nice deal.’

[Ra-ey Saleh]

There’s been issues running the most uptodate driver of Wacom.
Download an older version from the website, I think it’s ‘608-4A’.

[Ra-ey Saleh]

2 things:
Experiment with your import settings:
They’ve changed in description, but essentially change the Field Order settings and see what happens. It will depend on how you made the original files.

There’s another thread recently that shows where you can get the uptodate Mac/PC Avid codecs.

[Ra-ey Saleh]

1) The white image means that the codec you made the QT in is not installed somehow.
Open the QT in QT Player and press Control/Apple ‘I’. This will tell you what codec the file was made in. Make sure that this is installed on your machine.
2) There is a button you can map that will step through field by field, but the keyboard shortcut is: ALT + ‘1’ will step back a field; ALT +’2′ will step forward.
You’ll know it’s doing it by looking in the top right-hand corner of the composer Source or Record window, as a little number “2” appears when you’re on the 2nd field.

[Ra-ey Saleh]

Ha, it’s actually both ways (a very versatile lasso!).
And, a pleasure.

[Ra-ey Saleh]

This is really a two-part answer:

To Remove Effects on a certain area, you can’t Mark In and Out, you have to enter Segment Mode and do it. Easiest way is to ALT + “lasso” (left to right) over the area you want to remove effects from which automatically puts you in Segment Mode and selects those clips), and hit the Remove effect button (note: this will only Remove the top most layer of effects, so if you have nested effects, you may well need to do this a number of times to be safe).

Now, to remove Dissolves is a little trickier.
Weirdly, you have to be in Effects Mode. Select a Transition, then “lasso” (left to right) over the area BUT MAKE SURE THAT YOU START LASSOING ABOVE THE TIMELINE, NOT ON IT. This selects all the transitions for tracks selected. And hit the Remove effect button.

[Ra-ey Saleh]

ps.
Also, it’s just occurred to me and i don’t know if it’s of any use, but you could also map the ‘Cycle Picture/Sound’ button (in the edit Tab of the Command Palette).
This ‘cycles’ through All Video/All Audio/All Tracks/No Tracks.

pps.
If you want to ‘reverse’ your track selection (i.e. deselect selected tracks and vice versa), just drag from just above the Track icons down to the bottom of the TC Track.

[Ra-ey Saleh]

I’m running BCC5 and in there it’s in the OpenGL tab, called BCC Damaged TV.