If there was a "best" format you would know, because everybody would use it :) You have to answer a few questions to yourself: -Should it be a downloadable or streaming video? If streaming video just use vimeo or youtube. -How important is quality? If quality matters use h.264 or any other modern codec (not old sorenson, ...) -How important

Hello everyone, i like to connect an external harddrive via esata to a HP X400 workstation. What would be the best way to do that? A pcie estata card, or can i just use a slot bracket adaptor to extend a internal sata port? (no hotswap needed). I can't find any infos on the official avid documents regarding esata. regards Udo

If the framerate ist nor exactly 25 then you have a filler somewhere in your sequence. Use a black-title or a black clip or something instead and you'll get 25fps. Regards, Udo

I assume you have a windows-pc. Could be a memory problem. Get a boot CD with memtest86 and check your memory. Udo

Have a look at Blackmagic's HDLINK . I'am curious why do you need so many LUT-boxes? Regards, Udo

I like procoder from grass valley. It can convert your WMV to a quicktime movie using the avid codec. You can "fast import" that .mov in mc then. Udo

I highly recommend these paper from tektronix: "Preventing illegal colors" "Understanding colors and gamut" and this book by Charles Poynton: "Digital Video and HDTV" Udo

The LTC signal is just an audio signal (@1x speed ~4kHz). Check the audiolevel of the LTC with a peakmeter, maybe you have to amplify or attenuate the signal. Udo

Hello, i tested this on a symphony nitris (1.8) and on a mediacomposer adrenaline (2.8 and 3.5.4): when you generate a grey background with the title tool or import a grey image, the avid software generates some kind of noise. You can see it on a waveform monitor immediately. You don't see a thin straight line, but a noisy thick line. If i capture

This has to do with a windows feature called video overlay . With video overlay , you write the videodata directly to the graphicsadapter-memory (very fast). The playback windows uses overlay, the title tool seams not to do so. You can tweak the video settings (brightness etc.) in the NVIDIA-driver. Look in the readme file of your MC installation to