Scott Simmons
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FYI on this issue: BLKDOG made a post in the mac forums today and said that Avid was going to add the full grouping functionality back.
“Good news! Avid has decided to reverse its decision and put the grouping limit back the way it was. We should see this in version 5.6.1 due out in a couple of weeks.”
This was in the Mac forum. We’ll see what happens.
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I’ve been running them both on the same Mac for a while. (shhh… don’t tell anyone. But on occassion I’ve even booted them up at the same time…… though not for long.)
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“how good the A to D converter is as well as control over the color and levels when capturing.”
That’s the big question to ask for component. I prefer to bring in my dv25 over firewire so it is exactly as it was shot, then do all color correction in Avid or (even better) on a DaVinci during tape to tape.
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I would certainly say that firewire would be the best option. DVCam (or any dv material) is already compressed when it goes to tape so the firewire “capture” is actually just a transfer of digital files. same when it goes back to tape, the quality should not change. I would think that to go component would require an analog conversion along the line and that could cause a loss in quality… though it would probably still look good.
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I find better success when moving from machine to machine when copying the OMF media at the finder level… though on PC it’s not called finder but at the root level. If media is a many different drives this is more difficult but if not, just copy it all over to external drive and then add that to the OMFI media folder on the new machine (and bring the project too) rebuild the databases if you need to and you should be good to go. The other way of course would be to consolidate the media from within the Avid software…
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It’s a bit of an involved process. You have to prestripe the tape using your deck. I’d look in the manual for that. Most decks allow this. Set the timecode to 00:58:00:00 and stripe past 01:00:00:00. The set the avid timeline. With the record monitor active hit command + I (i’m on a mac) and give the timeline new code, probably like 00:59:00:00 depending on what’s in the timeline. You import bars and a slate and all and start program at 1:00:00:00. In Dig Cut tool you have deck control Sequence Time and Assemble Edit. It matches the code on tape and off you go.
Again, it’s pretty complex but once you do it once not biggie. I’d read up on the digital cut tool and outputting in the manual and help menu. No one likes the manual but you can probably get it from there. -
Try this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321166493/102-0154688-1710536?v=glance&n=283155
I ran Avid on my Tibook G4 400 a few years ago and it was slugish. Now, I’ve had both Avid Xpro and FCP on by my G4 desktop and my current G5 with on problems at all. They are both way faster than the laptop and work great. Never any trouble running them both on the same machine.
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Carlos, if you are trying to master to tape I wouldn’t use the crash record function. The Digital Cut tool will do a proper assemble edit to tape if you prestripe a bit. Go under the settings > deck preferences > and turn on Allow assemble edit. I then lay my bars, tone, slate and all in the timeline with pic starting at 1:00:00:00, prestripe my tape as such and set my timeline to match. It seems like a lot more steps than crash record but it is the standard for tape masters and I’ve seen less issues with digital cut when I let the avid take over and do it all for me. Good luck.
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You should use the digital cut tool for outputing. under clip > digital cut. This give you all the transport controls and such.
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I would also suggest that if you do this then investing in Auto Duck is the way to go. i have heard many good things and from my experience they have great support.
The big issue I get between Avid and FCP is that Avid media becomes Avid’s proprietary omf format and cannnot be read by FCP unless you transcode to a quicktime file and from what I know..lose timecode. This makes it difficult to move media. With an EDL (and I’m sure Auto Duck) you move the list either way and redig. If you editor knows Avid then learning cuts and dissolves for a feature should be easy. I have posted my Avid like FCP keyboard at flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/editblog/216511828/
I could email him/her the layout if they want to give FCP a try. And I don’t think you can update and ancient Media composer to HD…. old avid’s seem to upgrade by buying new machines. Good Luck.
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