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| | | | | MC6 or Symphonyby Danny Davis 2 days agoHi all, I used to online and grade on Symphony in a post house for about 10 years. I then went out on my own and went FCP and recently full version Resolve. I now want to return to Avid as I see X as | Re: MC6 or Symphony
by John Pale 2 days ago
Symphony and MC are the same except that MC has a hobbled color corrector. Symphony also has Universal mastering from 24p projects, if you have DX hardware. With Symphony being so cheap it would be fo
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| | | |  | NTFS disk now appearing as HFS+?by John Schwally 1 week agoHere's the strangest thing I've come across in awhile: We edited on AVID on the PC platform. We purchased 3 FantomHD Green Drives to deliver our tapeless files to the network. The drives come pre-form | Re: NTFS disk now appearing as HFS+?
by John Pale 7 days ago
Sometimes drives come with small partitions with useless software on them. Is it possible this drive comes with a small HFS+ partition on it with utilities for Mac users on it
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| | | |  | FCP to DVD - Different Formatsby Elliot Beach 1 week agoI need to burn a DVD to be played in a normal DVD player. I will be putting two separate short films onto the DVD one was filmed in Mini-DV and the other on a Canon 550D. For the Mini-DV footage I use | | | | |
| | | |  | Fluorescent lights stripesby Morten Schmidt 1 week agoI received a stack of video files shot on a Canon 5D, in 1080p, 25fps. Its shot in a factory where there have been fluorescent lights in the ceiling, multiple times with different blink rate, so many | Re: Fluorescent lights stripes
by John Pale 1 week ago
Both Boris Continuum and Genarts Sapphire have plugins to deal with this. Unfortunately you have to buy the whole suite...however the trial versions are fully functional for limited time. You can down
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| | | |  | Asian characters in my Mediafilesby Daniel Frome 1 week agoI am importing XDCAM proxies and noticing all my files have asian characters in the filenames. I've noticed this issue was raised before at the 6.0 release, but thought it had been fixed. Are there an | Re: Asian characters in my Mediafiles
by John Pale 1 week ago
This cropped up last week on another project in the same facility I was working with. The system was not running v6... It was running 5.03. They were having media database problems due to the Asian ch
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| | | | | Editing XDCam in Symphonyby Wendell Davis 2 weeks agoUsed to have a MC3D Avid system, but Avid got to be so expensive it seemed like I was working for them. Went with FCP. Now.... considering for $1000 going back to AVID - In many ways like the Avid bet | | | | |
| | | | | disk images not recognizableby Core van der Hoeven 2 weeks agohello, I have a problem: I downloaded MC 6.0.1.1 I uninstalled MC 6.01 then upgraded to OS 10.7.3 When I click on the disk images 6.0.1.1 Im get a warning:not recognized can someone help me Thanks, Co | | | | |
| | | |  | Raw footage from mini dv tape to DVDby Bob Greer 3 weeks agoI have a customer who wants the raw footage burned onto DVD's. The video was shot from a camera using mini dv tapes. I have all the video loaded in the computer and need to know the best file format t | Re: Raw footage from mini dv tape to DVD
by John Pale 3 weeks ago
If you really have now way of getting a definitive spec from the client, DV NTSC (or PAL..whichever you shot) will be easily worked with in FCP, Premiere and with Avid. If you give him MXF media, it w
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| | | |  | 23.98 - 25fps?by Christopher Travis 4 weeks agoHello all, What's the best way to get a 23.98 Prores Clip to be editable in a 25fps timeline without duplicating frames Is it really my best bet to speed it up by 4% or is there some other way Thanks, | Re: 23.98 - 25fps?
by John Pale 4 weeks ago
You'll be appalled if you watch some American programs in Europe. Often they don't bother to pitch correct.
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| | | |  | Resolve v9 - NAB 2012 Highlightsby Peter Chamberlain 4 weeks agoFor those not in Vegas we had a great day today and a chance to demo our Resolve v9. Here are some highlights. Peter Interface re-designed to streamline the grading process o Fast user login by enteri+1 | Re: Resolve v9 - NAB 2012 Highlights
by John Pale 4 weeks ago
Of course I just bought the tutorial from Ripple Training and they've gone and changed the interface. :) I'm sure much of it is still valid and give a good foundation to learn the new features.
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| | | |  | SD Dual Layer DVD Disappointmentby Lisa Laughbaum 1 month agoHello again, On my never ending quest for the highest quality SD DVD possible with my current equipment, I finally decided to burn to Dual Layer so I could raise my bit rate significantly... The resul | Re: SD Dual Layer DVD Disappointment
by John Pale 1 month ago
You can't raise your bit rate significantly, as 7 is about the highest you can go in a burned DVD and not cause playback issues on some players. Hollywood DVDs are replicated, not burned. Different pr
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| | | | | Desktop Video 9.2.1--any love for Avid?by John Pale 1 month agoI see 9.2.1 is out. Is this just more to get FCPX up and running for the thousands of post houses that have been tripping over themselves to adopt it, or did BMD sneak in some Avid fixes Maybe scrubbi | Re: Desktop Video 9.2.1--any love for Avid?
by John Pale 1 month ago
Juan Salvo "I suspect a lot of the Avid fixes will have to come from Avid. The way Avid set it up, they created the SDK the decklink hooks into... not avid hooking into BMDs SDK as is the case in oth
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| | | |  | Caps Lock Bug w/ Media Composer 6/6.01by Neil Goodman 2 months agoAny word on a fix for this Seems like myself and lots of others are having problems with the capslock key engaged when scrubbing or trimming on the timeline with numerous different cards. I myself exp | | | | |
| | | | | Media Express Anamorphic Captureby Justin Roseworn 1 month agoHi There, I was under the impression that once captured I should be able to playback an SD anamorphic clip in a 16:9 aspect ratio but I'm struggling a little and need help. Here's the details. I've go | Re: Media Express Anamorphic Capture
by John Pale 1 month ago
There is nothing wrong with your file. QuickTime player is dumb and does not understand anamorphic video. If you open the file in FCP or some other edit system you should be fine.
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| | | | | AVID transcode walkaroundby Nicolas Servide 2 months agoHello, I am working in a long documentary. I am importing the raw files (straight from the canon C300) using AMA, and then transcoding into DNxHD 36 AVID codec. But it takes for ever! How necessary is | | | | |
| | | |  | DNxHD exportby Greg Andonian 2 months agoI've read several posts on here that said PPro can export DNxHD simply by downloading the codec from Avid. That sounded like it could be very helpful, so I decided to try it. But no matter what settin | Re: DNxHD export
by John Pale 2 months ago
It most certainly can encode. You probably have made an error in settings. check every single one to. Make sure they make sense. Two other things: unlike Apple Pro Res, Avid DNX is only for HD. In add
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| | | |  | Workstations from a Post-PC Companyby Chris Harlan 2 months agoTwo things I got from yesterday's iPad release-- 1) A new iPad. The thing looks slick and I ordered it right away. 2) Tim Cook really made clear--repeatedly--that Apple is now a post-PC company. My ho+1 | | | | |
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| | | |  | E5 Xeon's officially launchedby Jeremy Garchow 2 months agohttp: news.cnet.com 8301-30685_3-57391758-264 intel-launches-e5-xeons-a-faster-mainstay-of-the-server-market part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 This article also includes a use of analogies, so be c+1 | Re: E5 Xeon's officially launched / HPZ820
by John Pale 2 months ago
Fair enough..... But if it keeps a facility an all Mac shop....often a post house or facility will also have MacBook Pros, iMacs, etc. in addition to their MacPros....and spares Apple having to build
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| | | | | Oscar ironyby Oliver Peters 3 months ago"Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Best editing Oscar to Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter. That's two-in-a-row for FCP "legacy". Hmm...... Oliver | Re: Oscar irony
by John Pale 3 months ago
Did kem, steenbeck and moviola keep score I would guess they still have a big lead.
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| | | |  | Mountain Lionby Andrew Richards 3 months agoPosted over on the OS X forum for topic's sake, but since all the action is here, dig this. This is a very different Apple PR move. Best, Andy+1 | Re: Mountain Lion not Mac OSX anymore!
by John Pale 3 months ago
Jeremy Garchow "Interesting idea, but do you think that will really happen " I do. I read last year several PC manufacturers expressed interest in licensing OSX but were rebuffed by Jobs. If Cook thi
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| | | |  | Mixed frame rate smoothing PP vs MCby Andy Sims 4 months agoI have been working on a project with both 720 25 & 720 29.97 material. The best way of handling seems to be use AE to do the standards conversion but the PP "frame blend" is a quicker, simpler but lo | Re: Mixed frame rate smoothing PP vs MC
by John Pale 4 months ago
Avid applies a "motion adapter" to mixed rate clips (clips that don't match the project rate). This plays in real time. The quality is decent, but to get the highest quality, you have to switch it to
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| | | |  | AVID MC6 using Kona 3G exclusivelyby Bill Nelson 6 months agoHi everyone, I installed the new drivers for my AJA Kona 3G card and installed the i o plugin for AVID MC6. It works like a charm. Quite happy with this setup. The problem I have is: I'm switching con | | | | |
| | | | | DaVinci Resolve Lite 8.1.1 on 2011 iMacby Boris Tivchev 5 months agoHi, Been running DR Lite on a 27", i7, 16GB, 6970M 2GB iMac for a few days. Coming from Color i find it quite unresponsive when 5-6 nods are applied. From there on there is substantial lag when trying | | | | |
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