Search results matching tag 'import'

Re: Find Image "Image Recognition"

Finitec — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:39:32 GMT

Hi Pat!

Thank you for replying and letting me know there is an Image Identification solution that works with MC. Could you please let me know how to get the Image Identification user option for the Media Composer? Does it have a specific name? What do you mean "you can find it installed between the keyboard and chair?"

Thank you!

Real multi-core please

santiagoj — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:58:05 GMT

When I export, import, make render etc... Avid 6 on a Mac only use ONE core, and no more than 2Gb RAM at most. The Mac Pro has 12core and 24Gb of RAM and does the work as far as a PC with low specification. That's crazy.

I think nowadays it's necesary real multicore process; multi-render sequences (render more than one sequence at a time); and a render/export queue. If all of these can do in background would be great.

I know there are different software like Sorenson, but I think it's better if MC can do it alone. Now MC can export several sequences at a time, but all of them must have the same settings. A render queue like After Effects would be great; because sometime I need to do differents compression formats for the same sequence.

Add metadata on import NOT after...

ripvanmarlowe — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:04:11 GMT

We work a lot with a system called Forscene which watches our ISIS and uploads whatever it sees to their servers for remote logging and review by clients. In order to successfully link back to our Avid media if they make an AAF the clips need to have a tape name. Our current workflow is to import to full res on local drives for their online storage, add a tape name via Modify>Set Source and then transcode down to 20:1. This works fine, but say we wanted to import at online res on to the ISIS? We would have to unmount the workspace from it's connection with Forscene, modify and remount so that Forscene doesn't jump the gun and upload clips with no tape numbers. PITA and also prone to mistakes as people, it seems, easily can forget to add tape numbers to imported clips. What would be nice is an import metadata window which, much like when placing a tape in a deck, brings up a window in which you can add metadata like tape number or drive letter etc etc. if you want to. This would make things a lot easier to remember, easier to manage and would be useful for users whose ISIS workspaces are being used as a watch folder. It would put metadata management at the front of a users mind rather than leave it as an afterthought.

Please can we have this as a feature?

Andi

Preview on File imports

Pat Horridge — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:17:20 GMT

Just spent a few hours watching the blue line of file imports with a client who bemoaned the loss of seeing the footage as it's ingested as we have with tape captures.

And it occurred to me that the option to see a small preview of a file as it's being imported would be really useful.

Especially if you could use the locater keys to add locaters as you go.

It could have a tick to enable disable it to speed up the import process if not needed.

Even better would be to display the related timecode as well.

This would also help with those long imports that end up with a white screen as you could quit much earlier!

Ability to import using Blackmagic Intensity cards

Wm Warne — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:24:27 GMT

Capture with HDMI via Blackmagic would be useful indeed. I have two vidcams that export in HDMI, but not firewire. Adobe Premiere is supposed to work; not MC

Xdcam audio

Leeto — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:55:07 GMT

I would like to be able to import XDCAM MXF clips and get the option to NOT import the embedded audio. I've never worked on a production were the embedded sound was used. It comes from an external source Always.

So the "empty" sound tracks just takes up unnessecary diskspace and project space.

Regards,

Thomas Lee

P2 Suggestions

cableguy316 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:39:14 GMT

Sorry if these have appeared before, didn't see them in a quick search.

1. When importing P2 via Clips to Bin, they shouldn't go offline when restarting MC! This is a longstanding situation with absolutely no good explanation. I understand the intention is to immediately Consolidate the media to edit drives, but this isn't always the case. The absurd thing is the correct drive path will still be there, but the media is now offline and can't be recovered.

2. Import P2 -> Clips to Bin can be so much better. Generally I don't get P2 cards from a shoot - I get a firewire drive loaded with one folder for each offloaded card. So when I bring them into the Avid, I have to Import each folder, individually. This really sucks when importing 50 cards+, as I've had happen. What's worse, with every single import, you have to re-locate the path - it doesn't stick to the last path chosen, it defaults to My Computer. I should be able to select a main folder containing various subfolders of P2 media, and MC should be smart enough to extract them all at once.

Am I making sense here? I'd love some feedback.