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Greetings - is there an effect that I can add to interview footage where I can put an edge or glow around a person to look like a bit of backlighting?  Thank you

I have also posted this question on the thread from Videoguys, but in case someone else knows --

I am helping my boss purchase a new iMac 27" i7 quad core 3.4GHz and she is willing to buy 16GB RAM.

Do we need it configured as 2X8GB or 4X4GB RAM because of the quad core (separate RAM chip for each core)?

If we need to down the road, we may purchase more RAM.  Does that figure into this configuration?  Does it make a difference in terms of performance which way we configure the RAM?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

Best,
Ceci

Looking for an inexpensive SDI solution to send HD signal to client monitor. I know 3rd party options have been all over the map performance wise. Can anyone give me their two cents regarding Decklink SDI with MC 6.0 or 6.5?

Thanks in advance.

I'm looking for something similar to the "Video Input" tool available in Media Composer Adrenaline - in which I could see scopes, and within the software, I could calibrate video accordingly.  Now, I'm using MC 6.5.2.1 on an Early 2008 Mac Pro running OS 10.7.5, using the AJA Kona LHi for I/O.  Video's coming in over SDI.  "Video Input" opens the AJA Control Panel, and I don't see that kind of calibration available in there.  If that functionality exists for AJA, or Open I/O in general, where can I find it?

EDIT: AJA says this doesn't exist - one must make the adjustments at the deck.

Hi:
I have a large scale project I've been working on for about a year.  I just got back from shooting the third section of the piece and am unable to link my new ex1 clips through link to AMA volume.  Nothing has changed in the program, but each time I try to link a volume nothing happens.  I don't get any error message.  The link AMA volume screen just disappears and I'm back in avid with nothing changed.  Other volumes which are already linked are still active. Does anyone know what's happening?  I checked the settings.  They seem okay. I've quit and restarted the program. Still no change.  

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Daniel

Hi everybody!
I'm working with two Avid MC 6.5.2.1 running on Mac, sharing the same Media (DNxHD 115 MXF) and the same project, which is stored on an EVO storage device. The project is stereoscopic.
Lately, I've been receiving some color corrected MXFs, so I left the old Media in partition "A" and stored the new Media in partition "B" of the EVO. In station 1 I've used the Relink tool to link old Master Clips to the new Media (in partition "B") and it worked great. The problem is that station 2 stays stubbornly linked to the old Media (stored on partition "A") instead of mirroring the station 1 relinked to the new Media (in partition "B").
Is there a way to "tell" station 2 to follow station 1 regarding the location of these new Media files without having to relink manually the Master Clips in station 2?
I hope I made myself clear, my English is not too good and this is a kind of difficult situation to describe in few words.
Thanks a lot in advance.

Hello Guys,

i wanted to master a movie in Apple ProRes4444 inside Avid MC 6.5.  Via AMA I linked to the ProRes4444 file and imported the mix from ProTools. A friend of mine told me that exporting a ProRes4444 file is just fake, it's actually a ProRes422 HQ , because MC is not able to handle it the right way. Is that true?

p, li { white-spac I am trying to upgrade an old Avid MC Soft dongle to MC 6.5 but I get an error message saying Unable to verify dongle update: Cell 0D = 178C expected 6890.

What does it mean?

Hi, i work at a small post production company in Denmark, and we are having a very weird problem with one of our projects in Avid MC. It is a documentary project with a lot of material in different languages, which has been translated to English by a translator using the subcap effect in MC. They did the translation and the adding of subtitles in Sweden, and we recieved the project here (Denmark), to have the editor edit it. 

The problem is that whenever the subcap effect track is visible, playback slows down to (sometimes) less than 2 fps. but when we turn the layer off and have the monitor below that track, playback is fine. 

I have tried looking for information about it, but it doesn't seem to be a common problem, nor does there seem to be a reasonable solution.

We tried re-installing the OS and the Avid on the computer, but the problem remained. We tried running the project of their own thunderbolt disc, still super choppy playback when the subcaps are on. 

The video is transcoded to DNxHD 120, we are running the project of a server (not a unity), that is capable of running DNxHD 120. The computers we tested the project on have these specs: 

Mac 1: 

Mac OS X: 10.6.8

Avid MC: 6.5 (latest version)

Processor: 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon

Memory: 8 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB

Mac 2:

Mac OS X 10.8.4

Avid Mc: 6.0.3.2 

Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce 675MX 1024 mb

The really odd thing is that the Swedish company who made the subcaps say that it works fine on their computer, which is less powerful than our computers.

I find it hard to believe that this is simply a matter of hard drive speed or processors, since we can playback much heavier footage with no problems. Or is the SubCap effect really that rough on the CPU?

I am sort of grasping at straws now, since i can't think of anything more to do, to try to make it playback in real time.

If anyone has tried this before or has an idea of what we can do, any help or suggestions on how to troubleshoot this would be greatly aprreciated.

- Patrick

TL;DR Subcap effect slows down playback to around 2 fps, but when that track is turned off playback is fine.

System: iMac 2.5Ghz Core i5 

Os: 10.7.5

MC Version: 6.5.2

Project: 1080p/29.97

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Hey everybody,

I'm really stumped on what to do here.  I've got a whole documentary shot on Canon 5Ds back before the firmware update that added 29.97 and 23.98 framerates.

So all of my raw media is 30.00fps h.264s with no timecode.

I thought the best workflow would be to transcode all of the video to DNxHD outside of Media Composer using QTChange, which adds timecode based on the file creation date.

When transcoding, I selected DnxHD 145 1080p/29.97 as the resolution and additionally picked 29.97 as the frame rate just to be sure it got the message that I didn't want the video to remain at 30.00.

Well, all of my video is still apparently 30.00fps.  But I imported everything as AMA volumes and it looks/plays great.

But I cannot get the field audio to sync.  Whenever I try to use the autosync tool I get the PMM_INSUFFICIENT_MEDIA error.

I tried importing the WAV files at 29.97NDF and 30.00NDF, 41k, 48k, MXF, OMF it doesn't seem to matter.

I can sync on the timeline and it doesn't have a problem playing the video/audio together.

That's my only option at this point, right?  This is going to be a mountain of work already and without autosync it's just gotten a lot harder.

Thanks for any suggestions/advice!