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Script Sync for free? That’s just cruel!
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I believe starting with OSX Lion (10.7) the system drive defaults to read only access at the root level where Avid writes media. You can either enable read & write access there, or use an external drive.
This thread goes over how to enable read & write access.
https://community.avid.com/forums/t/101235.aspx
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You can use AutoSync to make a subclip with the audio merged to the video. You can go by In Point, TC, Aux TC, many options.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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It all depends on how you plan to work. If you have a ton of footage and need conserve hard drive space, you should transcode to DNxHD 36 for offline, and then conform you footage at the end to DNxHD175. If hard drive space isn’t an issue, you can transcode to DNxHD175 or DNxHD115 and work at that resolution all the way through.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You’re the man, Michael!
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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In the case of dailies being provided out of house, where SoundRoll and SoundTC are being added via ALE, the individual audio timecode is lost in favor of the master clip’s timecode (Which is that of the video). It’s only available in a film project.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Before Avid supported 4k, you’d export your project with a cut list that would go to your finishing house. In the film days, your cut list would refer to the negative so that it could be cut and a film print made. Nowadays, you’re exporting an EDL that refers to the source video files. You can conform to 4k in DaVinci Resolve, Baselight, Quantel Pablo, whatever your finishing system was. That will be made to create your DCP. The Avid was meant to cut with offline media and then conform later. Even with 4k editing, it will be most practical in most cases to continue cutting at 1080p using DNxHD36 media and then conforming to 4k at the end.
Regarding transcoding versus working RAW, yes you’re losing a generation and therefore you’re losing some quality by transcoding. Since you mentioned MP4, that’s a format that is already so compressed that you’re probably not losing much more that wasn’t already lost in the camera’s compression itself. In the case of Alexa, now you can consolidate the ProRes444 directly into Avid so the footage is rewrapped but not transcoded. Again, if you need to finish in 1080p, even though DNxHD175x is a lossy codec, it’s a very high quality codec and projects finish on it all the time. If you need to deliver 2k and above, you’ll most likely be conforming in a system that can handle it. When you asked how do Hollywood editors edit at 4k, they don’t (mostly). They’ll cut at 1080, and then conform to 4K.
Also, just to nitpick, you mentioned RAW wasn’t compressed, but it’s very compressed. I believe most RED cams default to 8:1 compression and even at it’s least compressed variant, is still 3:1.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Transcoding resolutions in your media creation settings will be available based on your project format tab. On the systems that aren’t showing, are you flipped into SD when you should be HD or visa versa?
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Op Atom is a file wrapper, but not necessarily a codec. Op Atom is the type of MXF file that Avid uses, wherein each track is represented by a single mxf file. A video clip with four tracks of audio would be five mxf files. (1 video track, 4 audio tracks). For example XDCAM shoots to Op1 MXF, where one MXF file could house the video track and 4 audio tracks in one file.
In order to get the Avid to view those files, drag them into your AvidMedia Files>MXF>1 folder or if you’re on a unity AvidMedia Files>MXF>ComputerName.1
The Avid will database the files. After that, you can either use the Media Tool to identify the master clips, or drag the MDB file into a bin. As a trick, you can isolate those files. Instead of the default 1 folder or ComputerName.1 you can create 2 or ComputerName.2 folder. That way, it will only database those single files, and that MDB file will only represent those files. Hope that helps.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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There’s a slash in your file path. “DELICATESSAN / FERRARO” Get rid of that slash.
EDIT: Nevermind, it was mentioned above. I missed it on my first read through.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks