AVID DON'T CARE !

I have edited on Liquid Edition (ver. 5.62) for ages and love it. I was about to take advantage of the £99 upgrade to ver 7.1 offer, but found it had been removed and the price put back to £139. As my only income is from working with charities and community groups (very low pay!) - this price-hike made me do a bit more research; thank goodness. I read that Avid are reducing LE's development ( I'm very unhappy about this) - so I'm not about to pay out nearly £140 for a product which is probably soon to be dropped/re-graded.

ADOBE IS AWEFUL !

I've reluctantly decided to cut my losses and give-up on LE and instead,switch to a more mainstream-Pro Editing system. I would much rather stay with Liquid Edition/Avid Liquid, but have to face reality!! I've taught Adobe premier but have never liked it , and have yet to hear of anyone in Broadcast that uses it ( unlike FastStudio/Chrome =Liquid ); So what product should I switch to ? Vegas? Edius? ???FCP???!!!

So TO THE POINT !!! - -

" TRY XPRESS PRO " he said

One of my collegues who edits on Xpress Pro has gone abroad for six months and having heard my whingeing, has very kindly brought his pc round for me to "experience a proper editing system" (his words!) - I'm not sure I could justify the price for my meagre income , but I thought I'd give it a go. - a 6 month free trial! - surely I'd soon become a whizz on it ? - no ! - Now here's the problem -

350Gb OF DV 'clips'.avi ON HARD DISC

I have all my (current working) footage ( PAL 50i, 25 fps SD) captured by Liquid as avi files on a 500Gb SATA hard disc. So easy to plug disk into the Avid pc and "import" clips into XpressPro and do a bit of editing ? - no !

It's the field order which seems wrong - I've tried ODD FIELD FIRST and EVEN FIELD FIRST on import, but BOTH produce different wrong results - one plays back the fields in reverse order, juddering sideways any moving motif, whilst the other plays the fields in the right order (temporally) but in the wrong upper/lower position, juddering even stationary motifs in an up/down direction !!!!! - I can find no option for altering this field playback correction/priority.

There's nothing funny about the captured avi files - every other media player/import system has no probs with them, just Avid ! Same for DV.avi clips captured by MS MovieMaker - readable by everything else with no probs. , but not by Avid.

There MUST be an easy way to correct this without having to sit for hours to re-capture all ( although this does remove the problem )

Please can you help me ? !! - Thanks

p.s. This IS manifesting itself as a FIELD ORDER problem - not an aspect ratio mismatch. I'm sure of that.

What's happening is your Avid is forcing the import into a .9 aspect ratio on import. You need to import using the "Maintain Square" option (it could be non-square but I don't know the aspect ratio in which liquid saves its AVIs). Try one or the other and see if things get better.

 Thanks BLKDOG for your reply.

The PAL aspect ratio is either 720x576 pixels in 4:3 (1.06666 pixel width) , or for widescreen, 720x576 pixels in 16:9 (1.42222 pixel width)

The imported clips I'm trying to use display in the correct aspect ratio, It's the field order which is wrong

- I've tried ODD FIELD FIRST and EVEN FIELD FIRST on import, but both produce different wrong results -    one plays back the fields in reverse order, juddering sideways any moving motif,    whilst the other plays the fields in the right order (temporally) but in the wrong upper/lower position, juddering even stationary motifs in an up/down direction !!!!! - I can find no option for altering this field playback correction/priority.

Again, it's only importing to Avid Xpress which produces this problem - is it a bug? - is it a quicktime issue? 

Does anyone else have any ideas ? Thanks !!!

Hi,

Can you post a screen shot to show us what the problem looks like?  Also, it'd help to know more details about your system specs, like your specific version of Xpress Pro and the specific version of Quicktime installed on the system.

good luck,
Carl