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Transfer imports to another system

guero — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:54:38 GMT

Hi all,

I'm sure this is something quite simple but i can't seem to manage it myself. The problem I have is my desktop, good spec and all, has the neccesary equipment to capture footage, but for some reason is throwing up a whole heap of problems running Avid. My laptop, which is an inferior system but seems to work happily. However, i cannot capture as it doesnt have the required input (USB only, no firewire). I have a project i urgently need to work on so my question is how can I capture on the one system and transfer to my laptop ready to work with. I appear to be able to transfer footage and even entire bins but when I open up on my laptop they are offline again. Help!

Thanks

Clips not stopping

paulsparkes — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:18:18 GMT

Hi I've been having a problem where when I open my Avid Media Composer 3.5 on my pc it will play a clip or timeline but not stop when I want to. Eventually it will do a small audio giche and can be stopped at that point. It will then work fine for a bit before doing the same thing again. Very frustrating. The timeline does have about a 20 minute project on it but at this stage is only vo and grabs with no effects. I'm running windows vista Quad Core with 4 meg of Ram.

Confused by Track Selectors? - Part 2

drbgaijin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:33:04 GMT

I made this Tutorial as a follow up to the previous Tutorial, where I tried to explain the basics of Track Selectors.

This time I take things a step further and show the use of the 3 point edit when adding a second clip.

Regards,
Douglas

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Confused by Track Selectors?

drbgaijin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:29:07 GMT

I made a Tutorial on Track Selectors a while back, but a recent Forum thread reminded me that there are newcomers arriving on Avid's shores all the time.
Those coming from NLEs that have a very different workspace, timeline and workflow from Media Composer's can find things very confusing at first.

So I decided to have a second attempt at clarifying things for just those newcomers.

Regards,
Douglas

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Zooming in/out and dragging the Monitor Pictures

drbgaijin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:56:39 GMT

When you use the "Ctrl +L" and "Ctrl + K" shortcuts they can be applied to more than just the height of timeline tracks.

By accident I pressed "Ctrl + L" while my record monitor was active and was surprised at the result.

My new found knowledge is probably more useful when in Effect mode and using some function like AvidFX's Paint Tool.

Regards,
Douglas

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Keyboard Mapping Suggestions - "Focus"

drbgaijin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:09:52 GMT

From time to time I will make a short Tutorial in which I will highlight some lesser known key that can be mapped to the keyboard.

This time it is the "Focus" key.

Regards,
Douglas

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Go to Next/Previous Edit without entering the Trim Mode

drbgaijin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:42:57 GMT

This topic keeps coming back again and again on the Forums, as newcomers arrive for the first time.

That gives me an excuse for making a short Tutorial on it.

Next time we see the question brought up there will be a Tutorial to refer to...............................

Regards,
Douglas

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Avid Media Comp 3, Mac a pc, y captura audio

Kikirimoski — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:53:24 GMT

Mi equipo es un Mac book pro y tengo dos preguntas referentes al uso de Avid:

1 ¿Cómo puedo capturar canales de audio en 12bits de mi canon xl1s? La citada cámara graba 1 canal stereo en 16 bits (ahí no hay problemas) o 2 canales stereo en 12 bits, en este caso me encuentro con que al ir a capturar lo grabado no hay manera. Ninguna de las modificaciones de los setings de captura y proyecto han funcionado.

2 ¿Cómo intercambiar proyectos entre plataformas mac y pc? Tengo también un equipo pc con el que he intentado intercambiar proyectos exportándolos y el mac no los abre, y eso aunque son proyectos sólo de datos, sin media.

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Database issues after Capturing

swest26 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:47:22 GMT

Our system has 10 Avid MC 3.5.1 systems networked to a Unity. We have one virtual drive set up for the users to capture to and one drive set up for project files. For the longest time now we have been finding large amounts of media files to be offline. Each machine has a file on the dedicated media drive that it captures to, ex avid #1 puts its media fils in AVID1.1, and avid #2 in AVID2.1 all the way to ten. We found that all the media is still there and to get the media back all we have to do is delete the two database files and restart whichever avid is giving us the problem. Then we found what causes it. When a user opens a project and begins to capture instead of adding the newly captured media to the already existing database, it overwrites the database file with one that only links the media just captured in that project, leaving everything else that has been captured on that specific machine offline.

Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening?

Thanks in advance.

Error while exporting "too few samples in destination buffer"

gunsmoke — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:10:44 GMT

Hi there,

I've got this weird error coming up all the time while trying to export a clip to an external HD:

SpecificSRconverterBaseRAW_FORMAT::Process()

Too few samples in destination buffer.

Num of Them: 44026

Minimum Needed:44032

What the hell does that mean?!?!? The clip is 3'40" long, 3 video tracks, 4 audio tracks, 25i PAL, nothing special. I've tried a video mixdown, tried a different drive... always the same error. I'm exporting "same as source". Thanks so much for your help!

iMac 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 800 MHZ DDR2 SDRAM, OSX 10.5.8

Avid MC Version 3.5.4