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New Functionality: What You're Missing In Meridien

posted by TUnruh on Tue, Nov 18 2008

For folks who are wondering why they should upgrade to new Avid Media Composer versions, Steve Cohen (Splice Here) has summarized the latest features. Here's an overview (versions 3.0.5 and beyond): 16 tracks of playable audio. Realtime audio dissolves... (read more)

Avid HD Workflows at GV Expo

posted by ejose on Tue, Nov 18 2008

Join Avid at the 2008 Government Video Expo in Washington, DC, on December 3rd and 4th. Avid will be showcasing HD workflows with the latest camera technologies, including Sony's XDCAM HD , Panasonic P2 , and HDV. We'll also be demonstrating authoring... (read more)

Most Recent Postings

Re: "DAE interface NOT available (stubbed)" (I'm not using Pro Tools!)

I installed another hard drive in my system , today,and created a dual-boot installation of WinXP Pro. I installed Avid only, on this second boot drive. The Avid now sees my Echo-Mona sound card and the AudioSuite loads correctly. I'm guessing, but, apparently one of the other applications I use corrupts the sound card sufficiently to keep the DAE...

Posted to Avid Media Composer - PC (Forum) by cuervo on Sat, Nov 22 2008

Re: MXF from P2 to Avid Xpress 5.1.3 - Master clip only goes to 19:51 min?

Also, are you importing the spannned clips from the P2 card, or have these files first been transferred to FireStore? The latter seems to mess up spanned clips.

Posted to Avid Xpress Studio - PC (Forum) by Job ter Burg on Sat, Nov 22 2008

Re: media composer 3.0 and digi002

There are very specific versions of Media Composer and Protools that can be co-installed. There are the instructions for Media Composer 3.0: http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=54&itemid=34321

Posted to Avid Media Composer - PC (Forum) by BobRusso on Sat, Nov 22 2008

Re: MXF from P2 to Avid Xpress 5.1.3 - Master clip only goes to 19:51 min?

This is a very old version of the Avid and a brand new camera. Any chance you could update the Avid? My guess is these are spanned clips, are they 2 gig in size? If so, this is the issue.

Posted to Avid Xpress Studio - PC (Forum) by BobRusso on Sat, Nov 22 2008

Re: Transfering MXF files to a new project

Do you have any idea what camera they were shot with? I'm going to guess P2. Take a look at this: http://www.avid.com/p2/ If not, maybe its XDCAM: http://www.avid.com/xdcam/

Posted to Avid Xpress Pro - PC (Forum) by BobRusso on Sat, Nov 22 2008