Category: Editorial
Get your FCP Project and Media into Avid without any transcoding via Automatic Duck and Avid AMA
Gonna mix it up a bit with this post, and go video on ya. This is trick is from a recent Key Code Media event where I discussed Media Creation & Sharing with Final Cut Studio and Avid Media Composer 5.0. (see: Avid AMA, Telestream’s Pipeline, AJA’s KiPro) In this demonstration, we use a Pro […]
Getting Final Cut Pro projects and/or media into Avid Media Composer
I’m sitting at my desk last week when my phone rings – caller ID tells me it’s an associate from my hometown of Chicago. No sooner do I lift the receiver do I hear “I win!” Bewildered, I respond with a puzzled “Excuse me?” “I win!” he repeats. “I knew you’d go Hollywood!” Now this […]
It came from the Searches Volume 1
I’m on a plane from Vegas – after nerding out at the Digital Signage Expo. It’s a full circle, having been christened into Digital Signage around 2002 with Graybow. Glasfire (3M’s Vikuiti), if any of you remember. In any event, this short 50 minute jaunt from Vegas to Burbank gives me time to write a […]
Encoding During Editorial
Last week on my POST Magazine blog, I briefly discussed Encoding in Post: The Four Hot Spots. I figured, “Why not elaborate on one of those areas?” Thus far, I’ve discussed the concept of Pre-encoding, and various facets of the final encode. Let’s talk about the most vital and often overlooked area: During Editorial. Of […]
I bet I can save you hours of waiting in the edit bay
Pre-Rendering (transcoding your tapeless formats into NLE friendly codecs) can save you hours in the edit bay. Here's why.
A little somethin’ for the Producers….mass review and approval made simple.
A little somethin’ for the Producers….mass review and approval made simple.
The Money Room
Creating a "Money Room" - a room in your facility guaranteed for an immediate R.O.I. - utilizing simple encoding theories and practices.
Avid: Qualified Nehalem Mac Configs
Looks like Avid has qualified the new Nehalem Macs: Avid Announces Support for New Apple® Mac Pro Computers for Avid Media Composer® and Avid Symphony™ Qualified Configurations: Apple Mac Pro Configuration One - Two 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon - 6GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM (6x1GB) - 640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s - NVIDIA GeForce […]
Tech Note: QT References with Media Composer 3.5
QT References out of Media Composer 3.5.x will not play on machines running MC 3.1.x or machines with the latest codec package (1.10) from Avid
3D in Post: Avid vs FCP
Unfortunately, we’re looking at the lesser of 2 evils. No mainstream editorial platform truly understands 3D natively. Through trickery, masking, and video hide-and-seek, we can manipulate our editing platform of choice to limp along for stereoscopic editorial. I’m a firm believer in the right tool for the right job, and choosing the tool requires a […]