Terence Curren
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Gonna step on Grinner just a little here. If you capture DV via firewire, and make a cuts only edit, and then output via firewire, he is technically correct. However, if you do ANYTHING to that timeline that requires rendering (motion effects, dissolves, color correction, etc.) you are going down generations in the low res DV quality codec.
On the other hand, a first generation beta SP tape, recorded on a well maintained deck (analog heads wear out and get worse with age), in componenet mode, will be of better quality than a DV recorded tape.
That said, you will probably never see a difference on a component monitor between the two.
PS: I can tell as the beta SP will actually be sharper than the DV as it maintains the high frequencies better. Just look at the hair on a person and you will see what I mean.
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The BEST workflow for P2 and Avid appears to be to open the media tool, grab the master clips from the source drive, consolidate them to your drive. Any workflow other than that seems to have numerous errors.
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Generally, shift + click equals 10. Have you tried that?
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Got to agree with Grinner here. Adrenaline is anything BUT stable. Meridien was far more stable. Yes, 2.7 is more stable than 1.0. So what! AJA products are as stable if not more for a fraction of the price.
The only two differences between the Adrenaline BOB and the AJA I/O BOB (besides a 10x price point) are A: the Adrenaline handles codec conversion (which is how Avid gets away with calling it an “accelerator”), and B: you can connect your camera via firewire to the back of the Adrenaline Bob. I/O has to be disconnected to allow you to connect to the computer’s firewire port.
Most of Avid’s resources in the last few years seem to have gone to the server side of the business. Interplay, Isis, Unity 5.
On the edit side, we not only aren’t getting new features, we are happy when we get old features back on the DNA line-up.
I’m glad to hear that one poster has a “troublefree” Adrenaline. That is not the experience of the majority of users that I know and speak to including my own company. Maybe he has a unique workflow that somehow just skates by Adrenaline’s many shortcomings.
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The laugh is that FCP editors claim their system is non modal and Avid is modal.
Let’s see, I’m in FCP and I want to work on some audio, go out to Sound Track Pro, come back into FCP.
I want to stabilize a shot, export to Motion, come back into FCP.
I want to color correct, export to Color, render out, come back in and relink.
Sounds pretty modal to me.
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If you folks think Grinner is bad, you should be happy I’m not here. :-0
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