Tag: Codecs
Play Avid MXF for Free
In the spirit of the season, I have a holiday geek treat for you: The ability to freely play Avid MXF Media. It’s all happened to us what time or another – we find our storage drives are overflowing with media goodness. This limits the amount of media we can put on the drive for […]
Avid 5.0, ProRes, and You
I’ve been getting massive web traffic and emails from people looking to use ProRes within Avid, as well as outputting ProRes from Avid. With Avid Media Composer 5.0 due to be released next month, the two playing nice with one another will be paramount. I drew up this short Q&A for fellow coworkers at Key […]
It Came From The Searches Volume 2
Matt Stratton turned me on to Clicky Stats awhile ago, and through Clicky, I’m able to see what web searches come up with my blog as a result. I also see when these searches lead them to my blog – but then they leave because they didn’t find the answer. I thought since the search […]
Avid Quicktime Codec Update v2.2.1 & Avid 4.0.5
I post this here as the last time there was a codec overhaul, massive problems occurred with Avid Unity and QT Reference file encoding. And it was thus said by Avid: The QuickTime codecs v2.2.1 addresses an issue encountered in Avid Media Composer v4.0.5, Avid Symphony v4.0.5, and Avid NewsCutter v8.0.5 in which DVCPro, MPEG, […]
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 Post Production: My Marriage Proposal
In a nutshell: I shot a video to propose to her in 3D, edited the video in 3D, showed it to her in 3D, and filmed her reaction in 3D. Got that?