Avid Media Composer - PC

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

TVJohn — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:59:02 GMT

Time for Roxio ( Sonic ) to give the product some development time. I've outputted a BD disk from that alternative authoring solution. The quality of the menu text and thumbnails are stunning. Being able to do things as simple as rotating text is nice.

This is a competive market, time for some "New Thinking" (or is that now old thinking) (Smiley)

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

mjolnarn — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:25:55 GMT

TVJohn:

I'm looking into an alternative authoring solution. Considering the time and cost of outputting BD, having to create seperate images for BR-R and BD-RE is rather time consuming and sort of circuimvents the testing of a project with re-writable media first.

Totally agree, as you can see in my signature, this is a non pro workflow, we are no hackers that needs to be stopped from using certain workflows, bluray is enough demanding for the system as it is, we cannot be expected to create mulitiple render files or wait one or more hours not being able to do anything else when our system is locked to burn a bd disc.

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

TVJohn — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:47:29 GMT

I'm looking into an alternative authoring solution. Considering the time and cost of outputting BD, having to create seperate images for BR-R and BD-RE is rather time consuming and sort of circuimvents the testing of a project with re-writable media first.

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

drbgaijin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:24:36 GMT

BarkinMadd:

Only that Avid DVD (which is really DVDit Pro HD) is supplied with Avid Media Composer as its answer to DVD authoring. This belongs here as much as discussions about Squeeze and Avid FX (or any other third party component Avid sees fit to bundle with Media Composer, I suppose).

In addition to what Steve has already said, I can point out that Avid DVD (DVDitPro HD) is a Windows only product.

In a similar fashion (and with no malice intended) I could ask why a Mac-based editor is asking this question on a PC Forum .

Vive la difference!

Regards,
Douglas

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

BarkinMadd — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:25:59 GMT

Only that Avid DVD (which is really DVDit Pro HD) is supplied with Avid Media Composer as its answer to DVD authoring. This belongs here as much as discussions about Squeeze and Avid FX (or any other third party component Avid sees fit to bundle with Media Composer, I suppose).

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

Solopost — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:53:37 GMT

Forgive me for being stupid - but what does this have to do with Avid Media Composer?

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

TVJohn — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:32:09 GMT

Update: for some reason I can't seem to burn a BD-R with audio. I've opened up as a new project, used different clips, still no audio.

I see an audio transcode dialogue briefly pop up then dissapear. Some of the clips I've tried have been encoded externally and passed through without the need to transcode. The Sony BD player shows no audio track info at all. Previously created .gi images play fine. One of the clips I tried worked ok using an Edius 5 trial BD burn. Using windows add/remove and tryng a repair operation did not resolve the issue. I wonder about the thoroughness of that process as it took 3 seconds...

Sounds like a complete removal and reinstallation of DVDit is the next step. I wonder about the activation, is there a small folder that stores this info, or will I risk activation problems?

John

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

TVJohn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:02:36 GMT

One little annoying thing. I have gotten rather fussy regarding audio quality lately and am using a Zoom H4n to recoord the audio in 48kbs 24bit rather than the mpeg1 level2 audio that the HDV format allows for.

Seems that DVDit wants to transcode because it is 24bit. It did pass thru 96kbs at 16 bit though...

I no longer use Dolby as it really mucks up the dynamic range of classicial music.

John

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

drbgaijin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:54:22 GMT

Too bad, John.

Now the positive side of things

When you slog through the authoring for the HD version, you will be making changes to some parts.... to improve things. Your menues will be done slightly differently etc. etc. Small improvements all around.

Then you can present your HD-BLU-RAY REMASTERED DIRECTOR'S CUT version!
In every cloud there is a silver lining.

Regards,
Douglas

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

TVJohn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:47:47 GMT

Thanks Douglas,

I had burned several disks (re writables) off this project, making tweeks as i watched and listened on the big screen. The "saved project" was where it should be, with the correct name, but opens as an untitled project rather than the project that should be there.

I think somehow DVDit corrupted the project on closing.

My suggestion ( reminder ) was to save a complex project as several versions just in case such a corruption occurs, as it seems to have been the case with me.

Luckily, the .iso that was the last task before closing the project was assembled correctly.

Re: Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

drbgaijin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:34:48 GMT

John, first of all, sorry to hear that............

Secondly let me see if I have understood.

You opened DVDitHD.... imported your media, authored and then went to the BURN menu.

At this stage, I think you get a reminder like, "You have not saved your project. Do you want to do it now?"
So you clicked "YES" instead of "YES.... save as" ?
Therefore you have saved a "default.xxx" file somewhere as your project file.

So when you open DVDitHD later.... it looks for the standard default.xxx file which is somehwere under the DVDitHD folder in C: Programmes. Hopefully!

What happens if you do a search for the "default.xxx" file. You may be able to find another one, which actually is your lost project?

I have no idea if this is what happened and if this is the way to recover the project.
Just my attempt to help you out......

Regards and Good Luck,

Douglas

Bang! DVDit project completely erased somehow...

TVJohn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:30:48 GMT

Jusy a word of caution to all. this weekend, I was finishing a youth concert, Taped with a Canon XH-A1 at 30F.

Edited it in Edius 5, as Edius handles 48kbs 24 bit audio without problems. Transcoded the finished work in Tmpge Express.

Imported it into DVditHD, authored rather extensive menus, outputted several re-writable DVDs, more than happy with the video and audio quality, saved the final version as an .iso.

Decided to make a BD version of the same project, opened it up to find the project opening as a blank untitled project.

DVDit has been quite stable over the last few years I've used it. This one is quite a shocker. Luckily, the Disk was done for the SD version.

Morale of the story is the save as option. Over time we get lulled into a sense of security and forget the lessons we learned a long time ago.