Stacy Lincoln
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I’d go with MC 6. It’s user friendly and industry standard. You can’t go wrong, really.
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I found a post from someone having a similar problem with a PC. Here’s his suggestion:
Do a search on your PC for QTCF.dll. How many copies do you find, and where are they located?
For example, on my PC, I’ve got one copy at:
C:Program Files (x86)QuickTimeQTSystemQTCF.dll
That’s normal.
He suggests you may have a dangling copy of an older version of Quicktime somewhere you need to delete. This search could find it. Worth a try! -
Avid FX are Boris FX. If you purchased the AVID software for your computer, you have to purchase the Boris effects separately, but it should automatically load into your effects pallette. Did you click on the pink square at the top of your bin to open them?
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That makes great sense. Will it consolidate at a lower rez? I’ve never tried that.
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I work with these files a lot. In looking here…it may be that you transcoded and did not consolidate. Transcoding gives you newly created files and will not link to the originals. At least to my understanding. Consoliating gives you new files within your bin…but will relink. In my experience, that is the difference. I’d like to hear from other pros as well! I never transcode because of this very risk.
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I work at a large cable company and this is how many of us export for air and for our clients. However, I think you hit upon a challenge facing all editors today. There doesn’t seem to be a single compression setting that anyone is using! And it’s tough to know which is best. We all wish there were industry guidelines.
Here’s what I do. I export my AVID timeline using the Quicktime movie setting/animation setting. Keep your frame rate Current.
Keep the size 1920 x 1080…and export this to your desktop. Of course this will be a LARGE file.
Then, make sure you have Quicktime Pro. When you open the movie on your desktop, go under File..export again…and THIS TIME…choose h264. When the box opens…you can choose not to restrict the frame rate. OR you can choose a different one. 10000 to 15000 is still a good rate…and your file will significantly shrink in size with pretty good quality. I usually will take that h264 into Sorensen Squeeze and use a WMV preset of 480 or 360 (16 x 9) for smaller versions that will play for clients. I make almost everything like this and these h264’s go on-air as is.
Now, AVID will export h264s and wmvs directly as well. I find they seem a bit fuzzy to me. That’s why I use this other method.
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I know everyone likes to be very technical on this site. But in plain English…no. It will always behave like this. You’ll just need to remember to park it back one frame when you jump forward to your out point.
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HD takes a long time…especially if you’re using the Animation preset. That’s HD. Forget the days of fast SD export. When you get your file to the desktop (which is what I do), you can open it and re-export this large beautiful file in Quicktime pro as an H264.
(Go under File/export when you open the file)
This will also take a while…but it will be significantly smaller.
You can export H264 straight out of AVID as well. But, I don’t always find the quality as good.
You an also export a reference file and squeeze this in a program like Sorenson. Reference files are fast. But sometimes Sorenson doesn’t like them in the squeezing process…especially long form.
Hope this helps. Just remember, HD will take a much longer time to export. We charge our clients for the time. -
I do the same….copy my media onto an external hard drive for backup. Then AMA link to it from there. All of the clips will automatically start coming into a bin. I then highlight the entire bunch, go under the Clip heading to Consolidate/Transcode and consolidate them. This puts a copy of each clip in your bin…each will say .new. Then, you can erase the original clips. This leaves you with copies in your bin you can edit with that never go away until you erase your project. Make sure when you consolidate you choose the option to “relink to the original” if you ever need to do that at a later date, for instance, if you need to bring the project back a year from now.
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I think folks are trying to be “artsy”. However, just because you CAN do something…doesn’t mean you should. Especially if it’s jarring to the viewer. I agree…it’s not a pleasing edit style to me either.