Ricky Barrow
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We just upgraded to MC6 on Win 7 – works great but the first time you launch the app you must do so as a user with Administrator rights. I do not know if this is your problem but is something to try. Unfortunately, if you did not run as user with Admin rights, then I “believe” you must reinstall and do so. Hopefully someone more knowledgable will jump in to help.
Ricky
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Did you open and run Avid the very first time as a user with Admin rights and privileges?
Ricky
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I use MAC, OS 10.6.5 or higher and erase/format all drives ExFat. This works great on 10.6.5 or higher and works great on PC back to XP SP2. This was our work around for NTFS on MAC and MacDrive on the PC’s. Ths issue we have run into has been others on MAC that do not have the minimum MAC OS.
Ricky
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Try burning the DVD and see if you have that issue on playback. I get that regularly but have never encountered a problem on playback
Ricky
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You should be able to go to the Attic, find the last modifed bin, rename extension as “.avb” and, 1) copy that into your project OR 2) open your project and import that bin. This has worked for me on a PC for all versions of Avid up to our current of 5.0.3r
Ricky
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Sorry but handbrake does make a file compatible with Avid – won’t be highest (professional) quality but it does indeed make useable files. 🙂
Ricky
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Oh yeah, more thought – we are doing all video in HD but at the moment are only authoring to SD DVD – IF in the future I want to go to Blu-ray, then since my video’s are already HD, wouldn’t I want my menu’s as HD (aspect ratio) 1920×1080 or 1280×720 so everything is simply ready as-is? BUT, I still ask why you would not at least do SD WS 16×9 menu’s for WS video’s and flag video’s as well as menu’s as WS, thus the menu should at least be 864×480?
Thansk!
Ricky
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I have a point of contention and a point of exception.
I do not understand why you would create a menu in 4×3 aspect ratio when your video is not 4×3. 720×480 in photoshop will be distorted in Encore CS4 if you select 16×9 in properties to match your WS video’s – to display just as WS video, then menu must be WS in Photoshop, yes, you may want to stay 4×3 safe but the template must be 16×9. I only contend with this because it “works for me” ONLY when I follow this procedure.
I would agree with transcoding to DVD spec before Encore but would ask the same as someone just posted in another thread – is Encore transcoding inferior to other programs … that said, my workflow sometimes is dictated by time – this means from the Avid I can export a QT Ref. file(s) and start authoring immediately and determine the bitrate inside Encore based on amount of video and ROM content added – thus I skip the step of calculating the bitrate beforehand (sometimes a time constraint) and can optimize the trancoding quality ‘last minute’.
I am not being argumentative – I am responding for discussion and dialogue to learn and improve my workflow! Thanks1Ricky
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Your HD videos should be widescreen, 16×9. As for menu’s, I believe there is a box to check or a setting to tell the menu it is 16×9 as well. Sry, can’t remember where that is. THIS is all me assuming you are going to transcode your HD videos as widescreen for SD – you must tell the transcode (edit quality presets) to transcode WS to get 16×9 – the “auto” transcode presets may do that – again, not sure. I do believe that the way the video is displayed in the monitor is how it will look with current transcode settings (either letterbox or widescreen).
Ricky
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I think you just lost me mentally, but I will tell you my workflow. If my video’s are HD 1920×1080, then that is my menu size in Photoshop. If they are HD 720 or SD 16×9 then I make menu sized 1280×720. If my video’s are SD 4×3 then i make 720×540 Photoshop menus. SO, if your videos are “film” 16×9 and they are not letterboxed on the DVD then a menu of 1280×720 will work great – if they are going to the DVD as letterboxed which is 4×3 then menus should be 720×540, IMO.
Ricky