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Re: Avid Hardware Interface - 11 years ago
You keep hearing the term offline because every so often a television editor will chime in. I do hope that is okay. I think the offline/online separation is mostly a division of labor/television thing. Offline today in television really just means what it meant ten years ago, that you cut the show and someone else color corrects but today not necessarily cutting in low resolution with the needby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid Hardware Interface - 11 years ago
I have heard good things about the AJA io express. I know a company that is using them now without any problems running full hd in the offline. Best to have hardware so you can input and output to and from tape if needed, also for monitoring. The only thing with the AJA io express vs the Nitris DX is that you only have two channels of audio out as opposed to four and it's not XLR. I am waitingby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid goes 64 bits - 11 years ago
@Strypes I also don't know if you can take an Avid project into Color but I am not sure anything except straight cuts can be taken from Avid into any other program. The classic way is to send it to a symphony because it's the same program as MC with jacked up CC tools. I don't know what would happen with any Boris, Sapphire or even Avid based effects in another program. I know that Red Giant/Cby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid goes 64 bits - 11 years ago
Export from graphics software using the DNxHD codec. Download Avid codecs to install into any third party graphics software here: .. DNxHD totally carries an alpha. File import or fast import by dragging into bin but don't use AMA with graphics. Here is a great article that goes in depth: Best.by ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid goes 64 bits - 11 years ago
And also the alt or option lasso for isolated tracks, skip the trim window and drag with the mouse or play with JKL. None of that click, click, click up in the window or typing in numbers nonsense that they teach in the books and classes.by ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid goes 64 bits - 11 years ago
But what I REALLY want to know is WTF is up with all of the one monitor setups with both Avid and FCP or any edit system in advertisements and websites. Don't most people use a two monitor setup? Are they trying to market to laptop editors ( nothing wrong with that ) geez.by ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid goes 64 bits - 11 years ago
You actually don't have to step in. No one doing effect heavy work really does that. You just stack your effects above the clip. You can put add edits ( razor cuts ) above the effected area in the empty track and drag the effect on and it effects everything below it. You can stack as many effects as you like in any hierarchy. This is also useful if you want to put an effect over a series of clipsby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Pixar uses Avid?? - 11 years ago
That would be nice. You can create bins within folders but not folders within bins. It would also be nice if you could see the markers/locators drop down as well. If I could steal one thing it would be the real time audio mixer and the ability to adjust the size of the timeline while playing and maybe the way FCP treats dead space as dead space and not content when moving clips around. Nothing moby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Pixar uses Avid?? - 11 years ago
So two editors can't work out of the same project in mediashare? If one editor wanted to cut act three of Episode 112 and another wanted to cut act four of episode 112 and access the same b roll, interviews etc out of the same Episode 112 project with the project updating with changes made by both editors when they hit save? Meaning two editors updating the same project simultaneously? Meaning ifby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Pixar uses Avid?? - 11 years ago
Ah, I'd ask if sharing projects meant everyone works out of the same project or if that meant the ability to toss projects back and forth but if it's been killed than I guess it doesn't matter. I did a job on media share but they were sharing media but not projects. Supposedly everyone can all work out of the same project "unity style" on that but have yet to hear anyone who has done itby ianedit - Café LA
What is it that will make FCP 7 unusable? - 11 years ago
Allot of people are talking about switching over to something else but I have seen at least in LA allot of FCP based production companies still cranking forward their deliveries with FCP7. I do mostly Avid jobs but I do about two FCP jobs per year and was just wondering at what point will FCP 7 no longer be an option? I mean just because it is EOL doesn't mean it's suddenly unusable at this pointby ianedit - Café LA - X
Re: I hate to say this but FCP X is easy ...and fast - 11 years ago
Andy, what kind of work are you doing?by ianedit - Café LA - X
Re: Pixar uses Avid?? - 11 years ago
I am not familiar with FCP server. Can you share projects like the Unity or just share media?by ianedit - Café LA
Re: Just curious about Avid/Adobe switchers and color correction. - 11 years ago
I don't have much of a take on color correction because I just do the offline. But I was curious what will be going on out there. I am mostly curious because I think that people who switch to Avid will go with Media Composer and then use something else for color correction. I can't really see allot of owner operators buying a symphony so I think whatever becomes the standard color corrector to moby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: FCP training - 11 years ago
I took a class at Video Symphony back in the 90's and they are great. The only thing is, is that they teach software operation ( editing cannot be taught, it's innate, you can only teach what the buttons do ) from an editing point of view and most everyone starts out as an assistant editor and the classes don't really teach AE stuff ( media management ) as much. I would imagine it would be prettyby ianedit - Café LA
Just curious about Avid/Adobe switchers and color correction. - 11 years ago
Clearly some folks have been talking about moving over to Avid or Adobe. Seems like allot of FCP editors are one stop shops in terms of color correction with FCS. I was just curious what would be the color correction tool of choice of those on Adobe or those on Media Composer that find the Symphony cost prohibitive. I work at a place that bumps it off to an online guy but I was wondering what wilby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid training for an FCP user? - 11 years ago
@ Strypes Oh yeah I know the mark in and mark out shift delete for ripple. I at least know that much What I meant was sometimes depending on what is going on in your track panel you may get the operation not allowed window. In Avid the track panel does not effect your extraction in any way. My ultimate point is that it is instinctual to try to translate the skills you already know but allot oby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid training for an FCP user? - 11 years ago
@Strypes. I mean someone may respond and say they have nothing but success on Avid with mac. But that isn't really what I have experienced or heard from others. Most of the issues are in shared media/shared project situations. Things go better when running local. User error could be an issue. I find that Avid people say FCP crashes too much and FCP people say Avid crashes too much so maybeby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid training for an FCP user? - 11 years ago
@Strypes In response: "In Avid, you have a source monitor and a record monitor. They are like the equivalent of the tape to tape editing systems before it. And you have to patch to the track, before you can splice it in. So in record mode, your focus is in "cueing" (or scrubbing) to the right points and spilling in new shots" You can drag and drop in MC5 without patchby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: Avid training for an FCP user? - 11 years ago
@Bluey: I really think the very best way to learn Avid is to go through the entire manual page by page while sitting in front of the Avid. That's how I did it back in the day and when new versions come out you just need to read the "what's new" document. It's a grind and extremely boring because it's written by engineers but I find that allot of other instructional books do leave mosby ianedit - Avid Media Composer
Re: OPPORTUNITY - WHO THE PRO'S ARE!!!! - 11 years ago
I used to think that a pro was someone who made a living as an editor. I guess I am a pro because I do but I do allot of jobs and see editors who are absolutely horrible who make tons of money professionally and I have seen people who had no experience at all go out and shoot and edit their own documentary and it was obvious they were an innate editing genius out of the gate. So I don't know if pby ianedit - Café LA - X
Florida job market question? - 12 years ago
Does anyone know if there is a market for editors on the west coast of Florida in the Tampa to Sarasota area? If so where, what kind of media and what's the pay rate?by ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
DM: Out of all these reply's, no one is paying enough attention to the cost factor. I tried to go the Avid route early on. Sure they sell MC from student prices up to $2500.00. BUT, then what? You have to use Avid hardware. That's the catch. Cost a boat-load of money to use Avid. Most independent's are not going to pony up 20,000 for Avid hardware when you can buy a Mac Pro and use FC or Pby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Also Loren, I don't know if anyone can truly know if FCP has 50% of the market. And how do we define market? Industrials in Orlando? Commercials in NYC? TV in LA? I know that from cutting broadcast in LA my guess would be ( how can anyone really know ) is that in that market it's about 95% Avid and 5% FCP. But I am just going on the fact that myself and most editors I know do FCP jobs at a 1 outby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Ahh, pan and zoom is lossless. But is FCP resize lossless in terms of pixels? I do blowups in FCP allot and things don't seem to be lossless but I could be wrong.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Loren, why pan and zoom and not just the resize effect or 3D warp? You can indeed grab and enlarge in the Avid's record window FCP style if you are using resize or 3D warp. I do it all the time.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Well Andy that in theory is genius. I'd love to see it implemented. That would be cool.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
I have been on projects with Xsan and it was setup with isolated projects, not sure it supports shared projects or all editors working out of the same project like Unity or editshare claims but I could be wrong. I was just on an editshare job and editors were still working in isolated projects. Odd. It was an Avid house with a wing of FCS setups. Either I am misinterpreting the editshare video orby ianedit - Café LA
