Terence Curren
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When you see those questions marks after a bin, one of two things is happening. You found out the naming convention issue.
The second is “permissions issues”. Go to that bin on the drive and right click and select security. You need to change the permissions to allow access on that computer. The fastest way is to take ownership locally. The best way is to add “everyone” with full control.
Once you do this it will show up as a normal bin in Avid.
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Two simple rules.
1: Avid looks from the top of the timeline down.
2: Inside of any layer of video, you can nest more layers in which Avid looks from the top down but then only presents the result to the surface layer.
There are two types of effects in Avid land. Single input and multiple input effects. To grok the difference, follow the steps below.
If you add a “one input” effect, like a resize for instance, on V2 or above you will only see the top layer and any resizing will only effect it. If you shrink it down, you will only get black around the edges, not see anything below it.
Step inside this effect and you will only see V1. that is your current layer.
Now remove that effect and add a “multiple input effect” like the simple Picture in Picture effect. If you shrink it down, you see the video behind it.
Step inside this effect and you will see multiple video layers. In the case of a PIP, you will see V2 and V1. V1 will be blank which means the next track down on the surface layer is coming through there. If you just monitor V1 you will see the combination of any tracks below coming up through this effect.
To prove that point, cut some other video onto V1 in the nest. When you step back out you will see your PIP over the video you just cut into V1 inside the nest and nothing below.
So V1 must remain empty in a multiple input effect for the rest of the tracks below to come through. Step back in and lift that video on V1. Now step back out. You will now see the tracks below behind the PIP again.
Let’s say you want to add color to the shot in the PIP, but not to the shots below. If you nested the color effect on top of the PIP, you would be looking through the color effect (a single input effect), at the combination of the tracks below. That won’t help you.
If you step in the PIP, and add the color effect to the video on V2, it will only effect that video. Now when you step back out you will see the PIP layer colored, and the background layer unaffected.
The next tricky one is the keying effect, which is a multiple input effect, like a title for example.
Create a title and cut it into your timeline on an upper track. Step inside and you will see three video layers. V1 will again be blank as it is the combination of the tracks below coming through. V2 will be the fill, and V3 will be the matte which is cutting the hole for the fill. In this instance you can add the color effect to V2 and change the properties of your title without affecting the background. It’s the same principal as above.
The next tricky effect is the Multiple Layer AVX effect with the ability to map which layer is affected. BCC effects by Boris are an example. When you apply some of there effects, and step inside you will notice there are multiple empty video tracks. This allows you to cut in different video there and use it to do different things. I won’t go into all this as there are plenty of tutorials on BCC and how to use it.
Hopefully this helped you get a better handle on what Avid is doing. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this would be easier to demonstrate graphically, but I’m not a graphic artist so you are out of luck there. 😉
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[Mark Suszko] “Now, the rules are different in every state, but when you make a campaign donation in Illinois, it is recorded and reported as public information”
Money or property you give to “Political groups or candidates for public office” Is also NOT deductible per IRS publication 526.
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[Sebastian Alvarez] “One question that arises from this is, what happens when instead of charging the customer an hourly rate you mutually agree to set up a price up front, then you request either one third or half of the payment up front, but then the customer changes or adds new content to the project, or changes their mind about what has to be included and what not? “
It is a good idea to put in the original contract a set number of revisions. Depending upon how many layers of approval there are in the company you are dealing with, this could be one revision or five. The more detailed your contract about exactly what you are agreeing to deliver, the better. Even down to quantities of elements and additional costs for more.
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Yes, open a new project, open the “media tool”. Select “master clips” and the media drives. You will get a window with all of your master clips in it. Just drag these to a new bin and you are ready to go.
For the future, backup often.
More importantly, keep your projects on another drive than your “C” drive. Avid defaults to the “C” drive with the “attic” contains the most reason versions of your bins. If your projects were on another drive and it died, you would still have the attic to bail you out.
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You’re welcome. 🙂
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[Sebastian Alvarez] “That’s what I would call really twisting my intentions for posting.”
Really?
[Sebastian Alvarez] “I recently worked on a video project for the non-profit organization I work for, however this project was not part of my daily job for them, but something on the side that I decided to donate because of the way the economy is in right now and the fact that money is more than tight in our local chapter. I will, however, make sure to write this off in my taxes come February,”
Seems like you are asking to write it off to me. Just to prove what a prick I really am, go to this link:
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p526.pdf
“Not Deductible As Charitable Contributions…
(SNIP)
…Value of your time or services”
Now you can continue to argue with me all day, I don’t really care. But when it comes your turn to argue with the IRS, remember this prick warned you for your own good.
Terence Curren
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Sebastian,
You came here looking for advice on how much to “make up” a bill so you could write is off on your taxes.
You were answered that you can’t do that. Then you said you think you can so would someone give you a price. Am I misstating what I have read from you so far?
If you think I’m being a prick, wait until the IRS knocks at your door.
Terence Curren
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[Sebastian Alvarez] “what I really would like to know, which was the point of me posting the description of my work, is how much would a small video production company charge for a job like this, which not only I need in case I’m able to write this off in my taxes, but also in the case I do it again for any company or organization and I charge for it.”
Rates for services vary all over the country and job by job. They also come under the heading of proprietary information for most businesses. I for one and not going to tell my competition what I get on specific jobs, but anyone can read my “rate card.”
As for the tax thing, you are not getting it. If you spent money on goods and gave them away, you’ve already expensed them through your business and the fact that you make no income on them makes them a wash on your tax return. But you can’t write-off what you “could have” sold them for.
I’m not a tax attorney or a lawyer, but it is very clear in the IRS rules that what you are trying to do isn’t acceptable. Granted you can put anything you want on your tax return. And you can even plead ignorance later on if you get audited. But the best you could hope for would be to have to pay the difference plus interest. Worst case, if they proved intentional fraud (which wouldn’t be hard with all the public trail here), you could end up in federal prison.
Is it worth that risk to ignore what we are telling you? If so, knock yourself out.
Terence Curren
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Doesn’t matter what you call the tape or codec format. Something is either captured in the exact same instant, Progressive, or else parts of the picture are captured at different points in time, Interlaced.
How you decide to record them cannot change that fact.
[Job ter Burg] “Even if your content is captured in 25p, they require rolls and crawls to be 50i, and 50i is what they broadcast.”
Exactly my point. Those titles are interlaced because they are created with each filed in a different point in time. If you record that interlaced titles to a “Progressive” tape, it won’t change the fact that they are interlaced. If you send them out to a “progressive” codec, they will still be interlaced.
This proves that the determination of interlace vs. progressive occurs at the time of creation, regardless of tape format or codec.
I stand by my definition. There is NO “progressive” tape recording format as all the tape formats break the frame into two fields to record them. But you can have progressive material recorded on those tape formats. Hence they call them progressive.
But you could create a 24 frame interlaced title in After Effects, then record it to HDCAM 1080P. Even though the tape format is called progressive, the source is still interlaced.
Or go the opposite direction, if you recorded a 30P source to 1080i 30 on tape, would that be progressive as that is what the source is, or would it be interlaced as that is what the tape format is?
There in lies the rub with this naming convention.
Terence Curren
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Burbank,Ca