Richard Sanchez
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If you have your dongle, you can setup your Avid master account on their website and download the program. Make sure you download the version that matches your dongle.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Check the system Matrix. https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=267087
10.6.3 is qualified for MC 5, but not sure about the iMac.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I would urge you to talk to the person you bought the system from, because you’ll have to find a work around like this each time a new software revision comes out.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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If the XDCam EX files were transcoded to Pro Res 422, then the new Media Composer 5 is advertised to be able to read those quicktime files. I haven’t done it personally, but I haven’t heard of any issues other than you will eventually have to transcode to DNxHD if you want to kick out an AAF for audio mixing.
As far as converting the sequence, Automatic Duck is the way to go, but I’m not positive that it will retain the group clips.
Good luck!
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Nevermind, I’ll use Expert Decompose and tell it to not decompose those shots. All is good.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Honestly, I queued up the footage to import into FCP one night. Left the conversion going all day the next day, and then let all import into the Avid all the next night (because even with fast import, since the file sizes are large, they took quite a while). So I don’t really have an accurate timing on the process, but it certainly took a long while.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Do you mean you want to cut the program in Final Cut? The process is very straightfoward in FCP, just use log in transfer, point to the folders were you copied your cards, and it will pull up a list of the clips that you drag into a queue. It converted a little faster than real time (and I was using a first generation Mac Pro)
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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HMR-10? I just had a nightmare of a time bring that into MC4. What I did was, I imported the files into Final Cut Pro using Log and Transfer. This converted the files to Pro Res 422 Quicktimes. I then downloaded the Avid Codecs LE and created a custom preset in Compressor to convert the Pro Res files to DNxHD 115 files. It took a very long to convert, but it did work and I was able to fast import the files into Avid and they had original source timecode.
You should be able to do the same process with quicktimes created from clip wrap. The files are going to be much larger (like you mentioned) since AVCHD is a highly compressed Mpeg-4 derivative.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I used that plugin with Avid Xpress 5.7 a while ago, and I recently tried to install it on MC3.5 and it wasn’t even recognized by the program. It was great, but I don’t believe an updated version for MC 3.0 or above was ever made.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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SequenceLiner is great! Just like Avid’s autosequence!
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks