[Terence Christopher]

Thanks Michael, I assume that you might have different arrangement of content for the different purposes that you outline. Do you then have a way of classifying and retrieving the videos by their content rather than just by their destination? ie by a supervisor with descriptive key words or some such device. Simply classifying by date and customer does not give an overview of the videos you have produced as things like subject , processing and many other aspects might make retrieval easier in the future.

[Terence Christopher]

Thanks Mark, It is important that the individual clips should remain intact. However my problem has arisen from the fact that I only detected problems with clips after processing them in Da Vinci and then have to back track to find where the problem developed. This then makes me need to change around the original file structures of the clips. It has been a nightmare.
Thanks for your help
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

Thanks I didn’t understand that It is exactly what I was thinking of doing. Can I then produce separate videos in this way from the same data and then store them in a folder as a group for independent viewing?
Is there some sort of naming convention that I should use to show this connection? eg Like: My movie 1, My movie 2 etc
Where should I look this up I did not see it in the manual?
on another subject I still do not have a good idea about the organisation of the videos I am producing and currently do it by the date of the shoot though there are many non filed cross references of subject, setting, people involved etc
I keep thinking I need a database reference system to classify this. How do you do it?

[Terence Christopher]

Michael I have found the videos and started using Keyframes. They are exactly what I was looking for. I just want to thank you for your guidance it was really great.
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

Michael Thanks for that insight. I did not see anything about static key frames in the help manual for 16.1 it is probably too simple for most users. I realised that it is essential to do something like this but was too ignorant. I will now push on to learn about it.
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

I have been studying the Keyframe, though they are not yet clear to me. My problem is that a video I have to edit has multiple scenes with varying lighting requiring different treatments.I was hoping that the Keyframes could be used to define these scenes for different treatment. Though I do not see how to limit each key frame to each scene. Would that work, or should I try to split the video into scenes each with its separate treatment?
Thanks
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

Thanks Michael, That is just what I needed
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

Hi George I have just tested another video with the same parameters, both with and without de interlacing. Unfortunately Both of these files showed a loss of sync when compared with the original. I had completely switched over to Pro Res. I don’t know what is wrong with my videos, but I think I will try your suggestion and switch to DNX
However I will sleep on it first.
Thanks for the suggestion
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

Thanks I will attempt that and try to find where the problem is. I have been working on restoring the synchronisation of the file in DaVinci 16 and its almost right. If I get it right could I save that back into my source? I will need to investigate the problem before charging ahead with more video and if I come up with anything I will report it back to you. Thanks indeed for all of your support. I am learning to navigate Da Vinci by bouncing off of the walls.
Terence

[Terence Christopher]

George Thanks so much for responding so promptly and running that test. Yes my video is an hour long and the problem showed up in the first few minutes when I had a full face video of my 2 1/2 year old grandson having a conversation. I had requested several of the options such as deinterlacing, constraining to 1080, and anamorphic as the video otherwise comes out as a 3X4 NTSC image. I will try different combinations of these to see if they influence the outcome and then try the wav test. Does that wav output come out as two separate files or is it still synced? I have not yet learned how to handle separate audio tracks
Thanks for taking the time to help me with this. From my view point it is well worth my time to solve the problem.
Graham