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MY NEW EDITING SOFTWARE IS ADOBE CS6 PRODUCTION PREMIUM - THIS IS ANOTHER WORLD OF POSTPRODUCION.

ALL WORKS, REALTIME WITH 4K FROM USB DRIVE ! NEW INTERFACE, AVID KEYBOARD PREFS. AND CROSSGRADE FROM AVID AND FINAL CUT STUDIO. SLEEP IN PEACE AVID !

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I have done interviews with a photographer using Sony DV-cam PD 170. (Sorry, have no HD-camera yet.)

Now photographer's high resolution (3312 × 4416, and 4416 × 3312) photos in JPEG-format is a large part of the story.

How can I keep the magnificent clearity of the photos? I am working in PAL, and using the right import settings, but the pictures loose stoo much details. The loss of colour I can regain using color correction like saturation, contrast, brightness. 

But: Should I rather be aiming at exporting the interview video, and in that case, to what? Is it possible to keep the photos in high resolution for the final result? The film will be shown in galleries.

I have been working in MC 6 for several months now in an editing suite set up.  I have since tried to migrate my work to my laptop to continue working away from the suite.  Before purchasing the full MC package I wanted to download the trial to see if I could run it successfully on my machine.  I have quite a bit of media for a documentary I am working on and this system seems bogged down.  When I look in Activity Monitor to see the system usage I see that even while trying to play through clips or export a sequence more than half of my processing power is taken up by AvidPhoneticIndexer.  I assume this is indexing all of my clips for use in Phrasefind.

My question then would be -  Is this in fact what the Phonetic Indexer is?  And if so is there a way to disable it?  When I attempt to quite process it just comes back up moments later.

I am workign on a mid-2009 MacBookPro 2.53 gHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8 gigs RAM.

Thanks for your help!

1) I've been shooting and creating H.64/AVC files. The created ones with x264. Importing takes a VERY long time. So I tried AMA and it seemed to work fine.

BUT, as soon as I try to play a file -- one that plys perfectly in QT, FCP, iMovie, FCP X -- MC grinds to a halt. Sometimes the picture freezes but most of the time the video just turns into a smear.

So why does Avid claim AMA can support H.264 -- and this is only HD size -- when it can't actually play it?

Or, does Avid only support one of the old Profiles like Baseline when most everything now is Main or High?

It makes me wonder how good AVCHD plays if one pays for v6!

Lastly, I tried clicking the 5.0.4 .dmg under Lion. A message appears that says it can't be loaded. How does Lion know 5.0.4 can't run? That's got to be a hell of a surprise to someone who upgrdes to iCloud!

I know when I click new New Bin a SuperBin will open in some random location at some random size someplace on the screen -- even though I left a nice big opening for it.

So I waste the time to fit the SuperBin into the opening I have reserved for it. Thankfully, new SuperBins open in this area.

Thus, MC knows when a SuperBin is. It's location must be stored someplace -- one would think in a Bin file.

But everytime I start MC and open a Project, MC has forgotten where the last opened SuperBin was located. So once again I waste the time to fit the SuperBin into the opening I have reserved for it.

Is there any way to make MC smarter about Bin locations?

By the way, MC also forgets what mode the SuperBin was in. It seems to prefer Brief while I like Frame.

5.0.4 with 10.6.8.

After importing footage into avid, I noticed that two interviews have simular timecodes, which means when I select all of the clips and utilize the autosequence feature, some of the footage overwrites other footage. Since all of the footage was set for time-of-day timecode, how is this possible?

A transition that I like doing a lot is when clip A(outgoing) scales in (pushes in) and then switches to clip B which scales out (pushes out) all in one quick motion. Gets used on MTV all the time. Can this be made via the 3d Warp transition? I'm pretty sure it can't as there is no way to tell it to switch source at the mid point...you can only apply the effect to one of the sources rather than booth. Right? If so, I assume the fastest way to do this is to apply resize effect to the top layer and animate accordingly. It's a shame you can't save a segment effect like that to a bin. 

Hi,

For commercial work I do edit in Avid, grade in DaVinci and sometimes bring the material back in Avid or Flame for finishing - before mastering.

Davinci always work full range internally.

Q1:Do you guys check the "normal range"-button in Davinci to send a legal monitor signal to your monitor?
Q2:And if you do, do you then export the files in full range?
Q3:And if you do... does the mojo DX remap the full range file in Avid so that I see the same result on my monitor when working both in Avid and Resolve?

Q4: Does the mojo DX do the same thing as the decklink-card in Resolve - remap the full range file in avid to a 64-960 out on the monitor?

I want the black levels to be preserved as black as possible, and scale to legal range in Flame or in Avid when doing the final master.

Stig

Hie everyone, I'm new to avid, just made the transition because of the awful awful FCPX and I'm hoping to master it someday as I did with FCP. But that's not the point. I created a new project in Avid MC6 , format 1080/24p and I firste linked my files through AMA, some clips recorded on Nikon D7000, which are in H.264 compression and used some other material  in 1080/60i .I edited the project and it was fine until for some reason until I tried to export it and failed beacuse MC always got stuck in the "Make fast start movie"  window. I then transcoded all the material  to DNXHD 115 and 24fps, the thing is that the H.264 clips I used for some reason have  this motion blurred  strobe as if it was kind of interlaced(but that's impossible since the source and the transcoded material are progressive) since I can cleraly see two fields, but here's the weridest thing it only happens sporadically, within single clips,  it happens somewhere  in the middle while the beginning  is just fine. I have tried using the motion adapter with fluid motion  , nothing works and I'm getting really sick of it. I thought it was only beacuse many stuff wasn't rendered but no I have rendered everything and another weird thing is that the clips they all have have the green dots that indicate the mootion adpater kicked in however everything's already transcoded and I don't understand why if it is in 24 fps I got the green dots.I think it is some kind of frame blending but I can't seem to find where this happened.If someone knows the answer to my problems I will really really be thankful since I can't sleep right after this problems.