Steve Pankow
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Sure the manufacturers will recommend keeping current, but economics often dictate what gets used. I’m still on Avid MC 2.2.10 because to upgrade would render our Unity obsolete and we have no budget to upgrade that as well.
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Here’s the link to the latest codecs (I think) for 2.3.4
https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=392959
Why does Avid always make it so hard to find the latest downloads? There should be a giant ass “DOWNLOAD THE LATEST AVID CODEC” button on the landing page. The link provided in your post takes me to the 2.3.2 download page.
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Just highlight them in your bin and export them. Double-check your tracks and marks settings though.
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That I don’t know. As you can see I’m on a rather old Avid with just 2GB RAM and yesterday I had a SD timeline with maybe 6 P&Z plugs and the system began choking on .jpg files that were in the 4-8MB range.
Maybe memory management has improved since v2.2.
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The only limiting factor I see is how many P&Z effects you’ll have on the timeline and the file sizes of the original images you’ll be referencing. In my experience P&Z will choke and throw memory errors on large images.
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Window burns are a good thing – they keep people from stealing footage.
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Yes, but is the image quality preserved? You could export at your project’s native size and then take it into something that could generate a file that’s been cropped to whatever dimension you’re looking for I suppose.
I’ll have to agree with the other posters and say what you’re attempting is kind of non-standard. Avid is a tool designed around the needs of broadcast and film.
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You say it looks bad on your monitor – how did you import the clip into Avid? Maintain and Resize? Since it’s non-standard, try using Maintain Square.
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Thanks. I’ll pass this along to the bean counters and see what they say.
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I had a reseller suggest the JVC DT-V20L3GZ and the Panasonic BT-LH1710. Somebody else from the Avid Community forums suggested a HP LP2475w, but I wasn’t sure if that was their pick for a reference or desktop model. At roughly $575 I’m never going to get this place to bite on that for a desktop.
The reseller liked any mid-range HP model for desktop, so I’m leaning towards the S2251 or 2210M right now. We have no real standard for monitors here anymore. Our remaining Avids used to ship with NEC units, but we’ve since put in replacements from Princeton, Dell, Lacie, Viewsonic, etc.