[Toby Hinger]

Yeah, I know that. But that’s no faster than selecting it from the menu.

Using the mouse slows things down, when most of what I do is keyboard shortcuts. If there was an alt-tab style solution it would be way faster when I’m switching back an forth constantly.

[Toby Hinger]

Hi Kris,

The media drives on the source Avid are in a bit of a mess, and I didn’t want everything on there (2TB worth of audio, precomputes, onlined media etc), just the shoot tapes.

Consolidate was the easiest way I could think of moving what I wanted only.

This worked fine with 15:1 clips, but some were in at DV420.

The drive I’m using to move the media is Mac formatted (connected via the MacDrive program). Consolidate didn’t want to move large files giving one of those incomprehensible Avid errors, but I think it has something to do with a 2GB file limit.

That’s why I ended up transcoding some of the media. I’ve since done another pass, and checking one of the audio boxes in the transcode dialogue box seems to have remedied the issue for now.

Thanks again.

[Toby Hinger]

Thanks for the responses guys.

I’m moving the media in stages as there’s so much of it, and the first lot has come across successfully. There was a brief panic when I couldn’t open Avid due to a “Segmentation Fault”, but deleting the MXF databases seems to have fixed that.

However there’s still a minor issue.

I’d been moving the media onto the portable drive using the Consolidate function which was working fine. However some of the media was at high-res, so I used the Transcode function for those clips.

The Transcoded clips have no audio. When I transcoded I didn’t check any of the Audio options. Should I have done so, or is there a quicker way?

[Toby Hinger]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your response. I took a closer look, and found the tab to change MXF to OMF was the very last one under Media Creation.

Should have taken a closer look before posting!

Cheers..

Toby

[Toby Hinger]

This is great. Slightly confusing at first, but makes perfect sense when you get it to work.

[Toby Hinger]

If it’s not for broadcast, try playing around with a few different codecs when you render out of aftereffects. H264 for example is pretty amazing at high quality settings considering the tiny file sizes.

If you have plenty of disk space and you’re not moving the files from station to station, you can always export the programme in segments and re-assemble them in the Avid as Jon says.

It might help to test 1 minute [or some easy multiple] exports in a variety of codecs and note down the relative sizes for future reference. Although with some codecs the sizes will vary depending on the ‘complexity’ of the content.

And of course, if it’s going to be a time-pressure situation when you come to delivering the final render, there is a lot to be gained by rendering and importing to the Avid an early unfinished test to gauge the time needed.

tt

[Toby Hinger]

Hi Jon,

Thanks for the responses. I tried the Default setting in the video tool, but it hasn’t worked. Is there anything more to it?

As for the RS422 issue, I actually didn’t realise that FW wasn’t supported. We are indeed using FW to control the deck. The reason for this workflow is that it keeps the audio and video in sync. If you digitise using RS422, export the OMF for the online and then redig the vision on a DVW500/Adrenaline setup, all the audio clips are six frames out of sync or something like that.

Obviously we could get the DVW to recapture the sound as well, but capturing the sound through FW means there’s no discrepancy in audio levels from offline to audio post. And it saves a lot of time when redigitising.

The J30 is only occasionally used to batch capture in the offline environment, but it’s irritating all the same.

[Toby Hinger]

Thanks Jon,

I do have Mojo, I’ll try it now. Any ideas with the batch issues?

tt

[Toby Hinger]

Hi Pete,

So what you’re saying is that renaming the Compressor file from .m2v to .mpg will do the trick. How is it possible to keep audio with the file, do you know? Or is Compressor not suitable for this. I’m pretty sure Cleaner could do that.

Or pehaps Quicktime Pro?

Thanks

toby

[Toby Hinger]

Thanks for that, the computer’s a mac. Any idea if that works?

Cheers..

Toby