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iNEWS locater support

January 17, 2019, 4:51 am
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Hi people, sorry because this is an operational question about iNes, and has nothing to do with it development, but I think you are the ones who can help me ith it.

 

I found this in Avid website, Within features:

https://www.avid.com/products/media-composer-newscutter-option#Bundles

 

It says:

"iNEWS locater support

Drop preselected text, based on iNEWS locaters, directly on the Media Composer timeline to speed story creation."

 

What does that mean, and if you can explain briefly this feature.

 

Thanks!

     Diego

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MC/First GPU

November 3, 2018, 5:08 am
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Hi,

I am not new to AVID. I did HD projects 10 years ago. I am back to video, but now more seriously and with 4K. I need to upgrade my PC first, but it is not clear what components I need. I see that Marianne posted minimum requirements, such as 16 GB RAM and the OS, but what about other components. If I see the AVID certified systems, it is also necessary to have an expensive GPU, such as Nvidia P5000 (http://resources.avid.com/SupportFiles/attach/Windows_Current_CPU_Specifications.pdf). Could I get some more information about the requirements to run AMC/First and later AMC? I want to edit .mov files from Panasonic GH5, 8 and 10 bit, and also high framerates. Later maybe RAW files from BM Pocket Camera.

Do I really need a big GPU to do this? If not, could you suggest something?

AND how does AVID think about Ryzen 5 or 7?

Thanks,

Rob

 

 

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Updated to 18.12 and old audio bug seems to have reappeared

January 17, 2019, 5:17 am
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Hi 

I'm noticing since updating that a bug that was previously fixed seems to have reappeared.

Sometimes when I change the audio level of a track using the mixer, afterwards the timeline will not play anymore.  The only way I know to reset this is to restart Avid (if anyone knows a quicker reset, please let me know).

This is working with AVCHD footage from a C100 and a very simple timeline with just one layer of video and two of audio.

I remember this used to happen a few versions ago, but it was fixed.

Anyone else experiencing this again?

Simon

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Avid MC creating Group instead of Multigroup / Reassign source audio channel?

January 15, 2019, 7:32 pm
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AE here. I have a single camera 2-shot interview (multiple clips long). Editor wants a multigroup of 3 versions of the clips, using frame flex to make a CU of each interviewee and then the original wide. I re-ingested the interview clips twice so that I could change source settings on all of them to use frame flex (editor doesn't want to work with Pan and Scan or other effects, just frame flex). There are also 3 external sound files I want to sync. All of the files have timecode sync.

 

Generally for all of our multicam interviews, I use the multigroup method outlined here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDR8nRXSTyc

 

However, this time Avid is creating one long .Grp file out of the subclips, instead of a Multigroup. It appears to be the correct length and I can do quad view and multicam editing, and if I delete it, it says "Delete 1 multigroup(s)." But in the timeline it is just one long group clip without any cuts like a normal multigroup would when it spans to a new clip. Note: all LUTs have been removed (as this post recommends: http://community.avid.com/forums/t/131622.aspx).

 

I also am having issues with the audio, exacerbated by the fact I can't see any cuts. (Also here is where I admit I have not been using Avid that long.) There are 3 external audio files. One with three channels (boom and mix), two with one channel each (lavs). I can only choose the lavs in A1 of the group clip, so I cannot choose them both at the same time. The mix is an option in A1, A2, A3. I would like to have all 5 of the external channels displayed at once in the (multi)group. Can I somehow reassign the lav channels in their source clips to A4 or A5?

Also note, in order to not have duplication of the camera audio, I removed via Modify Clip the audio tracks for the CU versions of the interview. I don't know if this could have somehow messed something up.

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IP WebServices Duration and Start attributes

January 17, 2019, 6:52 am
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Hello,
We have a littlee problem with Duration and Start attributes for 59.94p or 50p assets.

Let say that we have a 59.94p Subclip created in a MediaComposer 1080p/59.94 project. Its duration is 529 frames.

After checking it in Interplay, we read its attributes through the Interplay WebServices GetAttributes function.

If the project TC Display Format is set to 60fps, we get the following values :
 FPS 59.94,
 Duration 00;00;08;49
 Start 00;11;16;41

If the project TC Display Format is set to 30fps, we get  :
 FPS 59.94   
 Duration 00;00;08;25
 Start 00;11;16;20 

wich is consistent.

But if we don't know what is the project TC Display Format, we are not able to know (in the 2nd case) if the real duration is 530 or 505 frames.

Is there any way to know the project TC Display Format through Interplay WebServices ?

Is it possible to get Duration and Start in frames rather than in timecode format ? 

Thanks,
Gregor. 

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Anyone using Avid for HDR finishing?

January 17, 2019, 7:46 am
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Hi,

I just wanted to canvas option regarding HDR grading and finishing in Avid. Is anyone out there doing this and if so, do you have any advice or recommendations?

From what I can gather, it seems like the suggested workflow is to work in 12-Bit RGB as DNX444 in the desired colour space.

My main concern is that it isn't very clear if there is full HDR support for internal effects.

All responses welcome!

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Avid Custom resolution causes effect renders to be broken/not work properly

January 17, 2019, 8:29 am
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Hello,

 

I have a project with the resolution size of 3240x1080. When ever I drop an effect such as timewarp or stabilization the render looks like the attached image. I am using DNxHRX footage 23.976 fps timeline. Frameflex is applied to the clip.

I imported the clip using AMA link then Transcoded them to DNxHRX. 

When I change the format to a standard resolution say 1920x1080 the render looks the same or actually works. its 50/50. Until I close Avid and reopen it then try the render again at the custom resolution. It is sometimes fixed.

Any suggestions ?

Media Composer 2018.11 

graphics card is up to date (GTX 1080 TI nvidia). Afraid to update Avid because of other bugs I have read about and I am in the middle of a big project. 

Thank you 

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ARPT is in use ERROR

January 17, 2019, 8:47 am
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I have the latest version of Media Composer on an imac pro.  On start up, I get the following error: "ARPT" is in use by another application and cannot be used by Deck Control.  How do I fix this?

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Expected MXF compatibility with legacy AMT2 - (2.13.2.980)

January 17, 2019, 8:48 am
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Hi all,

I apologize if this is not the correct forum for this post.

We have run into an issue with one of our products in use at a mutual customer in Albania.  Our product uses the legacy AMT 2 toolkit with MXF media created with Interplay MAM 5.9.5.10037.   (we are in the process of moving to AMT3but still have a period where AMT2 products are in use).   

The customer's workflow creates assets (DNxHD and XDCAM-EX 35) using Interplay MAM workflow and the MXF content crashes AMT 2 hard (unhandled exception).   The exception occurs in OpenMxfFile call on the video file.   NOTE - It seems to be limited to HD formats - IMX50 media created with the same workflow does not have an issue.

This is easily recreated with the sample toolkit with a simple call:

AMT_DLL_sample_app mxf_to_amt videofilev01b087ab0d.mxf  "" .\Data

Ideally - since AMT2 is essentially no longer in development - a fix to the media creation in Interplay MAM can be identified to maintain compatibility with AMT2 at least with SD and HD formats supported by AMT2.  This appears to be a metadata issue.

Please advise and let me know if you need any assistance or have any questions. 

Thank you in advance,

Rich Laws

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Error Message

August 29, 2018, 3:58 pm
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Just installed latest version of avid.  I got this error on launch:

arpt is in use by another application and cannot be used by deck control

Avid crashed.  When I launched it again, the error message went away.

Anything to worry about?

 

Thanks!

 

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Mapped Workspaces views don't stick.

January 17, 2019, 9:06 am
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While using a Wacom Intuous Pro S (Driver: 6.3.32-3) and Media Composer 2018.11, we have an episodic television client (Editor) that would map a workspace view and upon trying to use it, the workspace view would not maintain the setup that was built.  Recreating the workspace worked but then upon remapping it would fail again.  Recreating/Changing user settings didn't fix issue. 

So far the only fix is to move the "Workspace Setting" to the Site Settings folder and it works there.  Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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AMT2 OpenMxfFile with Interplay MAM 5.9.5.10037 created DNxHD media

January 2, 2019, 8:18 am
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Hello,

I thought I'd ask an "expected compatibility" question between an Avid product and SDK here before opening a case formally...  If this is NOT expected to work I will not bother opening a formal case.  Maybe someone else has encountered this and has a suggestion.  I am not sure if it would be considered an Interplay MAM issue or AMT2 issue.

A mutual client in Albania is having problems with one of our AMT2 based products being used to add a new format to existing Interplay clips created with the Interplay MAM product.  (long standing product) 

The issue seems limited to DNxHD media created by this product - MPEG2 (D10) clips created with same product/version are working with NO issues.  I believe it might be a metadata issue and not a codec issue.  Some descriptor items differ for the video.  Maybe AMT2 is not expected to work.  AMT3 may not be a suitable solution since it is unclear whether "avid to avid" with AMT3 is supported or not officially.

Details: DNxHD media created with Interplay MAM 5.9.5.10037  is failing (VCID 1238  - 1920x1080p@25fps)  when the media file associated with the clip is opened by AMT2.   I have several clips from the customer as samples, all fail the same way.

The error is "UNKNOWN AMT EXCEPTION" (error code 72) when calling OpenMxfFile with the uncompressed XML below.  Our product does not have issues with the same format/rate/raster created with AMT2 or Avid editor.

NOTE also- that MPEG2 (VCID 160) media created at this customer with the exact same product works with NO AMT2 issues.   This is VERY repeatable with these clips.

ftp://ftp.nltek.com/nlttemp/Avid/AMT2Issues/InterplayMAM_AMT_UnknownError.zip

(username/pw is nlt)

Thanks in advance for any comments or advice.

Best,

Rich 

 

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resolutions and color space for new project

January 17, 2019, 9:17 am
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Sequencing thousands of sequential stills from Canon DSLRs, and projecting the final results;
any tips on setting up a 4K project?

I've never worked at higher resolution than blu-ray before. And consistent color rendition will be important across sequences from different seasons - in addition to some frames being printed for display alongside the movies.
A good few months' work is ahead and I'd love to start on the right foot, as they say.

Any tips v welcome (eg., it seems intuitive to stick to 'RGB' space, but is that even meaningful across print to video/screen?)

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Unable to Export Interlace SD H.264

January 17, 2019, 10:53 am
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Hello,

My company has a lot of older junkets on Beta SP and DVCAM that we are looking to digitize and hopefully sell to Getty.

Getty says it would prefer to keep the footage as close to native quality as possible, which means keeping it standard definition and not up-rezing it.

I am digitizing the tapes into a 30i NTSC (as that is the only SD option with Media Composer) project and capturing at 1:1 MXF, so the captured footage is 29.97i. Getty's specs ask for a Quicktime with a format of H.264, 720x486, Interlace or Progressive for SD material. 

I then export the footage trying to use settings that will keep the resultant file as close to the original as possible. I have attached an image of my export settings as a reference. Clearly, the settings are for the exporting of an interlace file because there are options for the file field order. However, whenever I export the H.264 Quicktime the resulting file is always Progressive and not Interlace, no matter what settings I change. I have confirmed this by checking the Quicktimes in the MediaInfo application and by bringing them back into Media Composer.

I've double checked and the raw captured footage is definitely interlaced and I've done nothing with it to alter that fact. I thought perhaps that what I was seeing was wrong so I brought the Quicktimes into Adobe Premiere and Media Encoder and they also saw the files as Progressive.

I then exported a same as source Quicktime of the footage out of Media Composer and it was Interlace. I took this Quicktime to Adobe Media Encoder to transcode it to an interlace H.264 Quicktime and Media Encoder also then converted the interlace, same as source Quicktime into a progressive H.264.

Am I missing something? I've looked around online and there's no information regarding this matter. Is a limitation of the H.264 codec that it can't be SD and interlace at the same time?

I would try to make do with the progressive H.264 Quicktimes but there's some noticeable jitteriness to these Quicktimes so they don't look quite as good as the original interlace footage.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance anyone could provide on this matter.

Thank you.

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Avid Media Composer and Media Composer Ultimate

January 17, 2019, 10:23 am
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Hi!

If I have worked with a project in Avid Media Composer then can I open the project in

Avid Media Composer Ultimate?

 

Thank you for help!

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RED Scarlet-X Dragon footage playback/transcode problems

January 17, 2019, 11:58 am
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Anyone else having RED problems?

I'm running MediaComposer 2018.12, using latest RED AMA plugin (v 1.19.21.10112  Mac).

I'm connected via a Facillis Terrablock with Fibre running 500+MB/sec.

The footage is UHD-sized, my sequence is HD 23.98.

It takes a moment to play, then it stops. I tried to see if transcode would work, but it gives me an "Unable to create sample" error.

Looking in RedCineXPro, the camera firmware version is 6.3.106, with Revison 123406.

Same result on a different computer using MC 2018.12.

TIA,
J 

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Error Opening MC8.9.3

January 17, 2019, 12:57 pm
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Folks: In an earlier post I recounted how my motherboard fried and I am replacing it. In the meantime I thought I'd use MC First and do a little work on a project I'd saved in my old (pre-fry) Media Composer Project folder/files only to learn MCF cannot work with these. Someone suggested I just download the free MC trial while my system was being repaired (sounded smart).So I did and now I get the following every time I try to launch -

 

Exception: Structured Exception, ExceptionCode:3221225477, ExceptionString:ACCESS_VIOLATION, FaultAddress:0X00000000140C0F030, MinDumpFileName:5707dc5c-8eb2-439f-957c-5788b07dacbe.dmp

Searched and a few blogs said to rename the Settings folder in Users-> Public -> Public Documents -> Avid Media Composer which appeared to work for some people. No luck for me... I guess I can wait another week or so until my system is repaired, but seems like a waste of time (and that Avid isn't working)... Any suggestions always appreciated. Tom

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2018.12.0 saved effects in bins not keeping keyframes

January 17, 2019, 1:05 pm
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I frequently use and re-use little motion effects created in the 3D tool.

A little creep here. A little pan there.

It’s nice to be able to drop custom effect on a clip to see if a little move makes the shot work better.

I do it a lot. I’ve done it for a long time.

But in the latest release I noticed that the custom effects I make only hold the start keyframe but not the end. Result? Not much of anything.

Anyone else experience this issue?

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MCF version 2018.7 (July) wanted

January 17, 2019, 1:42 pm
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18.7 is  the last version of MCF that on my system will perform any kind of export without an immediate crash.

 

IF one Continues, this error message apppears:

 

There are old versions of Composer and ProTools | First but I cannot find any MCF releases at:

http://esd.avid.com/

 

Anyone know where older versions of MCF are held?

Or anyway of getting the entire release?

 

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AVID 2018.5.0 - Logging Comments Column

January 17, 2019, 2:00 pm
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I was a logger usng AVID in 2014, and I remember using the comments column without a limit to how much text you could write. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, maybe we used subclips, but that seems wrong.

 

I am logging using comments column & I can't see what I write anymore. I type it out but what I type doesn't save. It's a BIG issue, but I can't find any workarounds online.

Any ideas?

 

I would add screenshots if AVID let me....Hmm

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