[Travis Boyle]

I use transcoding applications like Sorenson or Cleaner to transcode to QT, then import mpegs into Avid. Minimal quality loss.

[Travis Boyle]

OK, we got past the blue screen of death- uninstalled the Nvidia 70.78 avid certified drivers for MCA, loaded the latest verson (90.xx?) and it fixed the problem…at least so far it seems as though it did. Fingers crossed.

Thanks for the input Mike, a driver display issue didn’t even occur to me. as always, thanks for the help here guys! That’s why I love this site and various forums.

~T

[Travis Boyle]

Yeah, tried that, no dice. I also tried moving the sorce/ record monitors to my other computer monitor to see if that helped… nothing. I also recently updated the Nvidia display drivers from 67.22 to 70.78 (unistalling the old ones first) and got the blue screen of death. Tried to boot in safe mode and lost know good boot, to do system restore or uninstall the drivers and try another version, but now it won’t boot at all. So it looks like we may have to do a full reinstall of windows, Avid, etc. Luckily I was just starting out with a project so I’m not going to lose much. What a hassle.

[Travis Boyle]

I have the Quadro FX 1400 with driver version 67.22 and I was wrong–just got to the office and our version of the MC software is 2.16

We’re trying to get the government to upgrade our service agreements so we can upgrade to 2.5 or whatever the latest version is, but nothing happens quickly with the government or the Army…at least when it comes to spending money. 🙂

Anyway, those are my specs. I just downloaded the Nvidia quadro Avid certified driver update- (70.18) and I’m going to try that out. Your thoughts? Thanks much!

[Travis Boyle]

Thanks for the tips guys, I appreciate it!

[Travis Boyle]

Thanks, I guess that one was a little obvious.

I’m so used to just clicking OK to close the window, I never really looked around for a hamburger menu.

[Travis Boyle]

If you’re using Avid, a training disc and book were recently made available by Genarts. We just purchased it, but I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet. Here’s the url:

https://www.genarts.com/training-guide-avid.html

[Travis Boyle]

I asked the same question a couple of months ago, I couldn’t get it to work. I ended up using photoshop to create the graphics and then importing the .psd files w/transparent backgrounds into Avid.

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=111478617913563&forumid=45

hope that helps.

-Travis

[Travis Boyle]

I’m working on the Media Composer Adrenaline and it’s an XP Pro system. I have Photoshop on the system, I’ll try that out. Thanks.

[Travis Boyle]

Yeah, I concur…on both accounts. Sometimes it’s best not to rock the boat, especially when there are viable alternatives to exporting and transcoding through Avid (I have both Cleaner and Sorenson on the system). However, with the workload I’ve had recently, I honestly don’t remember the last time I didn’t have two or three projects going at once. I do think I’ll wait to upgrade though, at least until things slow down a bit and/ or things start really going haywire with the software. The inablility to export as Windows Media is a minor issue right now that I don’t want to evolve into something major. Thanks for the advice guys.
Travis