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Online Exclusive: Editors Guild Magazine features Avid DS 10

posted by TUnruh on Fri, Oct 10 2008

Latest Editors Guild Magazine feature names Avid DS 10 "one of the first tangible expressions of Avid's hyped 'new thinking' philosophy." The article covers Avid DS 10 news, including commentary from DS user Marc Fisher. Here's an excerpt from the piece... (read more)

Studio Monthly Q&A: Avid Storage

posted by TUnruh on Fri, Oct 10 2008

Avid's Doug Hynes recently spoke with Studio Monthly about all things storage The interview is available online and presents readers with a high-level snapshot of Avid's product line, storage philosophy and some of the key factors worth considering when... (read more)

Most Recent Postings

Re: Strangeness with Filmscribe 20.4 mac 24p project

Thank you for your hard work. Sadly this is not quite what I need. I am using the filmscribe list to track RED files for an conform. Naturally, if I change the master clip TC, I will no longer be able to do the conform. You are right to point out that there are some dark sides to the undersanding of avid use of TC. I am finding very little on a pure...

Posted to Film and 24p (Forum) by christopher@fearlesstv.com on Sun, Oct 12 2008

Quicktime Sourcecode Changes.

Hi all, Am cutting a job which has been transferred from 16mm to Pro Res Quicktimes. I converted the Pro Res files to DV PAL. I then took the DV PAL files into Metacheater created an ALE which I imported into the Avid. I selected the ALE clips then batch imported the DV PAL into the Avid. Once all the clips were imported I noticed the timecode was fine...

Posted to Avid Xpress Pro - Mac (Forum) by Mark Burnett on Sun, Oct 12 2008

Re: Can I do this kind of coompositing in Avid?

[quote user="R&B"]First apply a Picture-in-Picture effect and size it to full screen 100%. Crop the PIP so the only part that's showing is around the affected area. Then step in and apply the luma key.[/quote] Or you could just apply the grade to V2, then the luma key without a PiP and crop it to the area of interest.

Posted to Avid Xpress Pro - PC (Forum) by jwrl on Sun, Oct 12 2008

Re: No work for Anyone?

[quote user="Laptopeditor"]our Canadian Dollar looses nearly 5 freakin cents in value in one day[/quote] Silly question, but then I'm not an economist. If the US economy is in such a mess, why is everyone buying the US dollar? I would have thought that the Chinese renminbi was a safer bet. Then maybe the rest of us could get on with our...

Posted to General Discussion & Off-Topic (Forum) by jwrl on Sun, Oct 12 2008

Re: MC3.0, 4-audio channels and Auto Patching

Yes - same here. Happens with all P2 material that has 4 audio tracks. When you load a new source clip audio patching is gone and reset to default (A!-A1, A2-A2, A3-A3, A4-A4) Edit: If you deselect "auto patching" in the "timeline" settings - patching stays. If I create 8 auido tracks - as you describe - and patch the source tracks...

Posted to Avid Media Composer - PC (Forum) by pro---studio on Sun, Oct 12 2008

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