[Tina Hedegaard]

hello Joe

I can think of a couple of things:

1) Is the cards folder structure correct?
2) Do you have any “wrong” signs-letters in the reel name? i.e. />:.
3) are the duration of the clips beyond an hour? I’ve earlier had a lot of trouble ingesting very long clips.

Good luck

Yours Sincerely

Tina Hedegaard
Editor | Final Cut Pro 7 | Media Composer 5.0 -5.5
Mac OS 10.6.7

[Tina Hedegaard]

Hi Dustin

I’ve been doing some testing with footage from this camera.
The way you should ingest depends on which version af Avid you have.

It records in AVCHD.
Avid 6 can AMA-link AVCHD, so that’s the way to do it, and then transcode it.
Avid 5 – 5.5.3 can’t AMA-link ACHDK, you can import the .mts, but I’ve got bad experience with it. I would recommend you to use clip wrapper – it rewraps the AVCHD-codec to H.264.mov, and then AMA-link (then you can transcode clips from several cards at one time – or you can import the .mov files.

Hope it helps

Yours Sincerely

Tina Hedegaard
Editor | Final Cut Pro 7 | Media Composer 5.0 -5.5
Mac OS 10.6.7

[Tina Hedegaard]

Which camera are you using.
I can see the a reason to this question if you are gonna use Alexa and if you want to edit in proves 4444, which I don’t think Avid is capable to run this without problems.

If you are using any other camera I would transcode to DNxHD directly instead of first converting to prores and then transcode the materials to something low res.

Yours Sincerely

Tina Hedegaard
Editor | Final Cut Pro 7 | Media Composer 5.0 -5.5
Mac OS 10.6.7

[Tina Hedegaard]

Hello

I just wanted to tell the ending to my AVCHD-trip.

Now I’ve started using clip wrap, and it’s what I needed to get a fast workflow with the AVCHD. It can easily spot the spanned clips.

I had though one clip with a lot of problems. The duration of the clip was 01:14:00:00 (AVCHD, 25fps, spanned in 8 parts), and I think to long, and perhaps the clip was corrupted in a way.
I had a lot of workaround with this single clip.

– Clip wrap:
ReWRAP: Something happened to the audio – a high frequency of noise came in the first 15 seconds – so that didn’t work.
Transcode to DNX: Again something happened to the audio and the video turned green in the first 15 seconds.

– Final Cut log and transfer.
It can’t handle such large clips, so I split the clip i 5 parts. It choked my computer, and it never finished the work.

– AVID 6.0 AMA – I downloaded a trial to my own macbook (OS X 10.7.2 – 2.53 GHz intel, 4 GB Ram)
The transcode stopped at part 4 in the spanned clip. I tried it several times. no luck

At last I found a H.264 encoder and converted the clip and then did the import. But it was a long work around.

Does any of you know a way of transcoding such large clips or should I try to convince the photographers to press the stop button on the camera and avoid such large clips.

Thanks in advantage.

Yours Sincerely

Tina Hedegaard
Editor | Final Cut Pro 7 | Media Composer 5.0 -5.5
Mac OS 10.6.7

[Tina Hedegaard]

I think I’ve seen that error message sometimes, when I forgot to turn on my monitors before turning on the computer. Then there’s something with the video card, I think that the computer doesn’t regonize the video card.

Yours Sincerely

Tina Hedegaard
Editor | Final Cut Pro 7 | Media Composer 5.0 -5.5
Mac OS 10.6.7

[Tina Hedegaard]

Problem solved.

Just as I had prepared myself for an allnighter transcoding a lot of spanned clips, I got that good feeling.

My client had started a new project, and then copied the bins into the new project. Unfortunately he had set the editing framerate to 29,97 (we live in Denmark, and all the materials are in 25 fps), so each time he tried to play a spanned clip, he just got black screen.

I was reliefed, I expected an allnighter and ended up with 5 minutes of problem solving. I must say that this was probably the only thing I didn’t ask him about, I know that till next time.
I am really glad that there’s not a bug with spanned clips going from 5.5 to 6.0

Yours Sincerely

Tina Hedegaard
Editor | Final Cut Pro 7 | Media Composer 5.0 -5.5
Mac OS 10.6.7

[Tina Hedegaard]

Hi Andrew and Brendan

Thanks for your replies.
It’s not possible to upgrade to MC6 at current time, unfortunately. So I guess import is the way to go.
Do you know how to spot the spanned clips, when you just look at the .MTS files? Or do you know if clip wrapper detect the spanned clips by it self? I am gonna give it a go today.

And have you met the error:
“Exception: NEMFileWriter::ExecuteInternal TIMEOUT – NEMFileWriter has detected upstream pipe stall..”
I’ve transcoded a lot this weekend (all AVCHD), from a remote destination though, and I’ve got this message a lot of times. The import stops, you have to press ok, and then AVID will continue importing the rest of the clips.

Yours Sincerely

Tina Hedegaard
Editor | Final Cut Pro 7 | Media Composer 5.0 -5.5
Mac OS 10.6.7

[Tina Hedegaard]

Hi Matt

I would suggest that you take all of your material into a sequence, put the audio in a1 and a2, sync it with Pluraleyes, link audio and video, do a batch export so that you keep your reel name and then just reconnect your edited sequence to the “new” linked material.

I’ve used pluraleyes a lot, and the new version is quite good and fast, but I’ve never tried it on a edited sequence.

Tina
Editor

[Tina Hedegaard]

Yes that would be the most easy thing to do. But the editor tried FCP and refuse to use it..so we have to find a way to get it into AVID.

– Do you know a way where we at least can get the reels to come to AVID?
– Or do you know Borisfx and how to relink it via the AAF. I just seems like the best solution so far..if it would be able to relink..

Thanks anyway Shane

Tina

[Tina Hedegaard]

Hi Peter

I am capturing from a deck (Sony DSR-1500P) and there is a ref sync (Rosendahl).

Tina