R. Hewitt
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Don’t forget also that the wedding ceremony music played in church is also copyright. A license can be bought, it’s not expensive and keeps the lawyers off your back.
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I would like to try the PCI-Optimiser but there is no link on the post.
I’ve had similar problems but a re-install of Premier and the Matrox drivers seemed to help.
Richard.
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As Tim mentions, the output channels are usually selectable on the camera.
Capture the video and tracks 1 + 2 first and then rewind the tape and capture just the audio tracks 3 + 4. The timecode will match the first capture so you’ll be able to line them up ‘sync’ them correctly.
If you are using a VTR deck to capture the material you’ll also need to change the output tracks (usually a menu or switch option).
The Firewire standard allows for just two audio tracks at a time.
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Craig’s link will probably help but there are a couple of other reasons.
LCD screens with their slow refresh rate often show what appear to be artifacts similar to interlacing when the image is fine when viewed on a CRT display or external monitor.
The other issue is that for some reason, and a few people here in the UK have found this, that the latest Matrox driver install (UK) sets the interlace to lower field first for PAL (should be upper field first) but the project remains correct for the PAL or NTSC version leading to reversed interlace fields.
I ended up having to individually change the field order, clip by clip, on 70 clips to correct the field order. As soon as I get the chance I’ll change the settings to correct this on ingest.
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Okay,
Which Avid application and version are you using?
When does the problem occur?
Which tool are you using when you get the error?
What platform? Win/Mac?The only one I’m aware of is a problem relating to the Title tool in Avid Symphony. This relates to a corrupt Avid user account. In this case quiting the application (forced if needs be) and create a new user setting and work from this rather than the existing user setting.
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It’s a pleasure!
Always glad to help others. My background is in broadcast engineering for a large UK broadcaster but I also shoot with Sony broadcast & professional cameras.
I think it’s only fair that those with years of experience and who have learnt the trade the hard way, pass-on assistance to those that follow or who are keen to learn the ins and outs of the industry. After all that’s what fellow Cow hearders are here for!
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The Re-sync command will look for projects on Unity and compare to those that Media Manager is aware of. Anything else will appear in the Catalogs section under Dissasociated Media. This is because Media Manager is unaware of the project that the media should belong to. This is where you should find your missing media.
Open two copies of Media Manager. In one select the Projects tab and add the exact names of the projects as they were named from your Avid edit boxes. In the other, select the clips that relate to each project (one project at a time) and drag them to the opened project in the other copy of Media Manager. This should copy your media into the correct project and Media Manager will now be aware of it.
One possible problem you may encounter is I believe the media will be copied rather than moved and if your Unity is full, that’s a problem.
What was the error message you mentioned?
Richard.
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You’ll need to be very careful with the music as it is copyright even though it was played in a public place and played by the quartet. The wedding march music played in the church (if it was used) is also copyright but you can by the rights to it.
The simplest effects are always the best. For a single chip camera you can add a very small amount of additional colour saturation as these cameras nearly always produce a slightly washed-out image. This will make it much easier to match the colours with the Panasonic camera, which will give more realistic colour.
A slight soft focus effect can look good with the bride before she enters the church but use sparingly and don’t cut between the bride in soft focus and the groom without soft focus – something many feature films did in the 50s and 60s and it looks dreadful.
You may be able to add a touch of softening with shots of the rings (if you have them) and perhaps as they couple leave in their wedding car.
It’s worth doing an edit of the entire wedding without any effects and using just straight cuts and disolves to which effects can be added later to experiment.
Audio wise, unless the audio is captured well with no breaks in the music, it’s best to go with CD versions if possible. However, you may have problems with the original music in the background being audible.
Do you have any friends that have had a video done recently for their wedding? Always worth a look for ideas.
Hope this gives you some pointers.
Cheers,
Richard.
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When you say 2hrs 30-mins to encode in Premier, do you mean to render all the effects? There’s no need to encode twice. Stage one is to render timeline and stage two, in Encore, is the MPEG2 encoding for the DVD.
A Matrox RTX100 card will help here. The hardware on the card will render almost all of the Premier effects in realtime and can export to MPEG2 or AVI back to the hard drive in realtime too (just make sure it isn’t going back to the C: drive or the same drive the media is stored on unless you have very fast drives). However, Realtime MPEG2 encoding is never as good as a multi-pass version, which will analyse the video images both before and after the current frame to improve motion accuracy and reduce artifacts. Encore supports multi-pass encoding.
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Mac2Win is a porting tool used by Avid to enable the Mac and Windows version of the application to share common code. This looks like a memory allocation failure.
There are a couple of possible causes. A bug, although there is no mention of this error on Avid’s Knowledge Base. A bug within the Mac2Win code. A bug within Mac OS – which version are you using? Or a memory related hardware failure on your Mac.
Is this project larger than previous ones?
Have you done any hardware or software installs or updates recently?