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Richard Ladius
November 16, 2009 at 1:32 pm in reply to: Avid MC 4 not importing P2 audio?

the P2 files are in the correct hierarchy. I have this problem regardless of whether or not I’m importing directly from a card or from the contents folder copied to my hard drive.

For now I’ve gotten around the problem by booting back to XP (thank God I set up a dual boot…), importing the P2 stuff, and then consolidating it so that Win7 will simply look at the Avid Media Files folder instead.

If anybody has any other tips though, it would be very helpful, as restarting my computer every time I want to ingest footage is rather annoying.
Richard Ladius
June 14, 2009 at 12:14 pm in reply to: 24p and 60i in same timeline

When you say 60i, do you mean 60 fields per second or 60 frames per second? Slowmo stuff would ideally be shot at 60p, so that you have 60 full frames per second, rather than 30 (as with 60 fields per second). Getting avid to reinterpret the timebase of the footage is annoying, so you might want to try bringing your ‘slowmo’ footage into a program like After Effects where you can manipulate its playback speed more easily.
Richard Ladius
May 8, 2006 at 3:14 am in reply to: Sorenson Squeeze problem

alright, I have it working now. I am encoding as PCM Audio at 1536 kb/s (same as before). All I did however was re-export from avid without selecting video tracks. I’m not sure what this did differently since the audio was already a seperate file, but Sorenson is compressing it perfectly now. I have the DVD made, and all is well. Thanks again for the help guys! Long live the Cow!
Richard Ladius
May 7, 2006 at 11:33 pm in reply to: Sorenson Squeeze problem

I’ve already put the show to master and brought it over to a new system. I recorded into avid from a DSR-45, and then exported as quicktime reference.

I got the video to compress fine by turning off the audio output. Now when I compress my audio file (it was exported from avid as .aif), I get the same error. I don’t know why a simple audio file (only two tracks) could create this kind of problem. Should I try exporting the audio as some other filetype? Would lowering the bitrate work?

Thanks for the help!
Richard Ladius
February 18, 2006 at 11:37 pm in reply to: Complex Camera moves. Is there an easier way?

I’ve tried to copy the mask and paste it into my camera’s position properties, but it pastes it into the X-Y Plane, not the X-Z Plane. Is there a toggle to correct this somewhere? Thanks for all the help!
Richard Ladius
February 18, 2006 at 10:53 pm in reply to: Complex Camera moves. Is there an easier way?

I’m sorry to admit this, but that went completely over my head. How would assigning seperate nulls to different types of movement (I’m assuming planes of position and rotating) be more efficient? Sorry, I’m still relatively new to Camera movement/animation.
Richard Ladius
February 18, 2006 at 10:50 pm in reply to: Complex Camera moves. Is there an easier way?

I was afraid of that… I was hoping I could draw a mask of some sort and have the camera follow that, but I guess I’m gonna have to fudge-n-smudge it. Thanks very much for the advice!