Terence Curren
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[Mike Cohen] “a couple of other examples – watch most MTV reality shows, they blur out logos on peoples’ hats and tshirts. “
In the case of MTV, they need to get clearance of the logo from the manufacturer. In the case of ABC, they blur ALL logos as they don’t want to step on any of their paid advertisers.
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That is not technically a cross convert as you are changing frame rates. You will need a Teranex as mentioned to do a good job.
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the new systems are connected via a PCI card. This frees them from the firewire slowdown.
The only question is can you justify paying the higher price for the workflow savings over FCP.
And no, Avid products will never be the same price as FCP. Do they add value in your world?
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Adrenaline 2008… RIP… At last!!!!
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[grinner hester] “That would be the first round of purchasers, right? “
Isn’t that usually the case? The problem is that the beta pools rarely include people that honestly hit all of our workflows.
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The new boxes are PCI based at last. The pricing is finally right. Now we just need to actually get some of these boxes out in the hands of good testers and see what happens.
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Can you wait two days? If so, Avid will have had their big event in LA and we can hear if there is new pricing.
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What is happening is that your original footage has the 16×9 flag on it. Avid doesn’t generate the 16×9 flag, so any video the Avid is producing, doesn’t have this.
If you want to see what I mean, step to field two in your Avid project. Notice the white dashes on the top line of the screen? Those are the consumer 16×9 flag. That is where the TV and the DVD player look to know what to do with the 4×3 video signal. When that flag is there, the player or TV unsqueezes it if you have them set to automatically handle 16×9.
You will also notice that flag won’t be there on any Avid produced material.
You have a number of choices here. Inside the Avid, black the lines with the 16×9 flag. You could make a 1 or 2 line black title to cover it. Unfortunately, this means rendering everything.
Turn on the line vertical line blanking in your deck. Not sure if this is an option on DV streams.
Don’t blame Avid for this, it’s a consumer equipment problem. Avid is not a consumer level edit system. If Premiere responds to the flags in consumer video, that would be an issue in a pro workflow.
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Though I would wait until NAB before purchasing anything. Avid apparently has two sets of announcements to make still. The first will be in LA on the 8th.
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There is more than one way to skin a cat. If the Spectramatte / animatte combo causes this issue, drop a paint effect on the shot and draw over the are you want removed and fil it with the keying color. Now use Spectramatte as usual.
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