Terence Curren
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It makes perfect sense for what Apple is trying to achieve. The few users they lose will be overlay compensated by the millions of new users they will gain.
However, Avid and Adobe are going to get a few new users themselves now.
PS: I have been taking crap for over a year for predicting this move.
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As I stated above, you need to know what your delivery is going to be. There are no absolute standards so there is no way Avid can tell you exactly what to do. If the end user wants a 1080P 23.98 master, then you can look up or easily ask here for guidance on what to do, however, they may want an SD 29.97 master, or a 25P master, or an SD PAL master, or the 59.94i master, or maybe they want the 24P look delivered in a 59.94 master, or, they may even want a 720P 60 master (which is really 720P 59.94), etc.
Do you see the problem with what you are asking in a blanket question? Each of those would entail a different workflow and should be decided BEFORE production.
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You are asking for an enormous amount of combined experience. Since you are just starting out, you don’t know yet exactly how much you don’t know. That’s okay, we all started out at some point. But you will keep your head from exploding if you focus on specific areas to become expert in, and settle for a broader knowledge in other areas where you can use others who are more experienced.
So, my suggestion in general would be to figure out what YOU really enjoy doing and focus on that as your area of expertise. For example, you love to paint with light, become a Director of Photography. You love to create new worlds by combining unique sounds in new and creative ways, become a sound designer. I could go on this for a long time, but hopefully you get the gist of it.
Now to your immediate question. The best way to approach any project is to know what your delivery is going to be BEFORE you shoot anything. If you are going to make film prints to project around the world, you would do everything completely different than if you planned to just distribute on the internet.
With a broad stroke, for an infomercial which is going to air on TV in the US only, you would shoot 1080i 59.94. From there, I could go on for half an hour easily, but the better choice would be for you to hire folks who have already done it, or go get an entry level job at a production company that specializes in making infomercials.
Terence Curren
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FCPX, at least in this initial release, will not work in the traditional facility model.
This is a gift for Avid and Adobe.
As for NLE, Avid put it on hard drives. The others were using multiple copies of the same material on either, beta, VHS or laserdisks to achieve non linear access. Their was a CMX project using hard drives, but it was extremely expensive and very limited. I don’t know if they ever shipped one.
Terence Curren
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The problem with AMA is that it isn’t a solid as the native Avid media management. It’s fine for a quick edit (think news piece), or for viewing footage prior to transcoding. But for anything else, yes, transcode to DNxHD. Your life will be much better.
Terence Curren
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Unfortunately, Avid doesn’t let you export a self contained QT movie with more than two tracks of audio. You can export a reference movie with multiple tracks, then open that in QT player and save it as a self contained Quicktime.
Terence Curren
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Avid does handle both formats, However it handles DNxHD natively and therefore it will be much smoother. You can convert in some programs creating an AAF which allows you to drop the created MXF files into your Avid media folder, then import the AAF and everything relinks. this is the most bulletproof way to wok with media.
Terence Curren
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When you say you can capture, is the video there when you play it back? So the issue is play through while capturing? Or is the video just not captured in the file?
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What kind of deck?
Firewire or Nitris or Mojo or what?
Terence Curren
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Sorry if this is really stupid but…
Have you enabled the video track in the capture tool?
Terence Curren
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