Hey everyone, I was doing some digging but really didn't know if this is something possible in the Avid system. I'm an AE on a show which the editor is doing multiple stabilizations, resizes, timespeeds, etc. He marks all the clips, in which I bring up and print to an XML and TXT file for the online. However, we wanted to foolproof our process and actually have the marker moments over the clips show as an overlay on picture for the reference file we send them.
I know I can create individual text slugs for each mark (there are a ton), but was wondering if there was a way to throw a filter over the sequence that would actually display every marker when it came up. Does this make sense at all?
I have the following mac listed below, and am having real trouble even opening MC. I downloaded the latest version (2021.2) and it repeatedly crashed while it was still opening. I never got past that screen. I couldn't find much about this online other than the idea of installing an older version. I tried 2019.11 and the installer wouldn't even open (it just kept crashing my Finder).
I have tried to export this type of file from all kinds of different software: after effects, premiere, resolve, fusion, nuke, etc and everytime I choose a DNx codec it comes out with a solid white alpha instead of the shape I created. I do the same thing with ProRes 4444 or Animation codec and I get the correct behaviour. I thought DNx supported alpha channels? As I said above, it does seem to carry an alpha it's just a full white screen instead of anything useful. Please let me know if there is something I am doing wrong here!
In January 2020 I was taking a curse in AVID editingat my local community and worked in the schools lab. Then Covid hit and I got a subscripton so I could work at home. I had conotinual performance issues and because we were isolated from each other, it made troublehootiing problematic.
During 2020 I used current versions of media composer but when the course ened I thought I could renew theh support on a perpetual license I had owned for the past 4 years.Then I found out about the change in policy for renewals. I discovered I had lost the ability to renew supoport and my license ended at 2016.8.
I had only a few things in mind to adjust in the edit and wa planning on using the short I edited for the final as a portfolio piece, so understanably I wanted to make the piece as good as it could be.
I was able to use my 209.8 MC to apen the projectso things were moving along necely untilI decided to clean up my media management hierarchy After moving media files and organizing I couldn't get the files to link.
It's been a nasty lesson trying to get files to re-link. I've tried everything I know how to do and I'm at the point where I'm about to give up. I can walk away from the project, figure out a way to finish it in Avid or recreate it in Preiere pro or using the editing features in Resolve.
Could anyone help me understand what went on under the hood in regard to handline quicktime files in MC between late 2019 and late 2020? When I moved the project from a current version of MC in late 2020 back to my 2019.8 setup, everything worked. The footage was all UHDquicktime using H264. How is it that simply moving my media and reorganizing it resulted in the footage going offine with most of the meia not relinkilng. A few clips have in a seemingly haphazard way.There has never been an editing technical challenge that I haven't bee able to overcome, but this one threatens to be the one that I can't fix.
There's somewhere between 6-7 hours of footage and piece I've made is about 7 minutes. I have some backups of the project I made at several stagesand because of the changes and interruptoins of last year, I used both Mac and Windows to edit. I'm only a little superstious but this project feels cursed. If I can't ultimately finish it, I may need a witchdoctdor, some EMT therapy or a hypnothist (LOL)! But I am stubborn and won't give up quite yet. Any suggestions how to troubleshoot and poceed?
-and a footnote, the only other project I've worked on that was nearly this unruly, was in the late 1970s, it might have been my first paid gig in fact, I was conforming 16mm film for a documentary at WHA studios in Madison, WI, when I discovered a substantial number of shots were missing and not even a psychic that the director hired out of sheer desperation was able to able to help loacate the footage in the vault of a large NYC lab
Hello,
looked everywhere, couldn't find this info anywhere.
I want to know what is the difference between REV.A and REV.B PCIe cable - 7070-20036-01 - for Mojo DX?
I have a little problem with the following setup:
HP Zbook 17 G2, Win7/64bit, MC 2018.12.6.1252120, MOJO DX.
When I connect MOJO DX via Expresscard, both cables 7070-20036-01 REV.A and 7070-20036-01 REV.B work fine.
When I connect MOJO DX via Thunderbolt2 - through original AVID DX Thunderbolt Adapter Part No. 9100-65501-00 (later sold under Sonnet brand), cable 7070-20036-01 REV.A works fine (Host Link LED is solid GREEN) but cable 7070-20036-01 REV.B doesnt (Host Link LED flashes GREEN/AMBER), according to the MOJO DX manual it means on PCIe level it communicates but on driver level does not.
So I was wondering what exactly differs between REV.A and REV.B cables? Also, there are other PCIe cables like PN 74546-0403 (???) for Nitris DX and maybe some others. I always thought they were all interchangeable but now it seems to me that's not exactly the case.
Please, can anyone explain the difference or tell me more about compatibility of different cable models?
MCDEV-11537 If you intend to use full-frame stereoscopic with an Avid Artist DNxIQ, you may want to remain with Media Composer v2018.12.x until the issues with Stereoscopic support are resolved in a future version.
Hi,
I've recently bought Avid for home use (version is Avid 2021.3) and the button for panning the audio in the audio mixer is completely missing for me. I've googled but no one seems to have this problem so hoping someone can enlighten me on this subject:
The button I'm talking about that has previously been there is a round button above every soundtrack in the audio mixer where you can adjust the audio to go left/right (pan). this button is completely gone from the audiomixer in my avid.
I've been working from home for most of the last year, as have many, and I'm finally getting around to writing this post. I'm using an HP Z2 Workstation, but my monitor at home wasn't great so I've been using 2 televisions instead. For my main monitor I'm using my Samsung 1080p TV that has great color controls and a decent contrast ratio (much better than my old monitor). Input lag is a thing if I ever try to play games, but that's negligible for editing. My other monitor is an old Insignia 1080p I had in the bedroom. Not great, but the size of both monitors allows me to sit back a little, so that's nice. Both are connected by HDMI to Display Port 1.4 connections on my Quadro p2000 via adapters.
Right now I'm using the default Win10 color settings, and I've set the TV's settings with the SMPTE color bars Avid provides brought up to full screen in windows. I know there's an RGB to HSL conversion going on, and it seems that Avid makes its own conversion as well. But there are just too many things going on in this setup for me to wrap my head around. And too many things I don't know. I was spoiled for 5 years in a professional editing suite with an external high end Sony color monitor that was professionally calibrated (occasionally). Things have worked out pretty well so far this year by using the WFM in Avid, but I'd really like to be able to fine-tune the color grade a little more.
is anyone else experiencing when creating titles (in an HD project at least) that when adjusting colors to objects or text, the color adjustment ends up crippling media composer to where you can't finish the title or do anything else in the application before having to force quit and lose work in doing so? It's becoming a hassle and I may just need to create the titles in the original title tool or marquee.
I am currently re-editing all nine seasons of a television series that began shooting/editing/airing in the early 2000's. We were fairly good at archiving the projects and media, but as you can imagine we have a few holes of missing media. Since most of our material still links, we are continuing to edit in the original NTSC 24p project (not a 23.976 project as it did not exist back then) on newer, updated Avid versions (v.2019 and v.2021). All of the master clips still exist, so we are batch re-capturing offline picture. I'm looking for help in recreating what we did with the sound files so that we don't have any drift issues.
Audio WAV files from the sound mixer was duplicated and converted with a program (that no one can recall what it was called) and then imported into AVID. Because those files were not used in the final mix, we did not keep those converted files). BUT we do know what the program was doing. On a first pass it would change the sample rate of the audio file to 47.952 kHz (pulling it down), and then on a second pass it would then change the metadata of the audio file back to 48kHz so the avid wouldn't apply any sample rate conversion on import.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a program that can recreate the above work flow. Or if there is an AVID workflow that I can do that would achieve the same result. Obviously, if we were starting from scratch we would just import into a 23.976 project and move along. But we need to import to existing master clips so our sequences/groups etc are about to be brought back online.
Also, let me know if there it might also be smart to ask this question in an audio portion (i just gravitate towards this thread is we've always worked on Mac AVIDS and you guys can usually answer all the issues we have).
Despite the fact that we are still within two months of expiration of our Standard Support contract for the year, and although the dongle S# and System ID's show a Dongle Download link in the My Product page, the dongles appear to not be in the avd file database. Avid Link says they aren't found when attempting to update the dongle and the attempt to download the avd file from the individual dongled product page fails, saying the license is "not supported for redemption" (I accessed the avd file to test it from one of our other licenses' software activation product pages). dongles do show up in Avid Link, with an expired license date of the previous year (2020), although the my product page happily shows another 57 days left this year
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