Thats a really unhelpful position to be in. You don't want to be backing up while editing. If the system locks up and restarts you've wiped your attic. I'd look at a redirected folder to point the attic somewhere safe! (read more)

My Z800 used to have a Quadro 4000 card and an GFX780 card. teh 4000 card needed the additional 6 pin connector and the 780 card an additional 6 pin plus anoth 4 pin I think. We had to make up and pslice in cables to make it work. I'd assume all connections on the card need a connector in them. (read more)

AMA the content into MC. Use field stepping function (in command palette) to confirm field order correct or wrong. If correct then Consolidate or Transcode as needed. If wrong Import content using legacy import and force field order to correct. (read more)

Check Source setting on one of the clips. Any color transformations applied? I have seen Canon footage shot with the Canon C-Log LUT that has been played on location and the camera settings adjusted to part unwind the LUT affect (The director didn't realise the footgae should look flat) so the end... (read more)

So you see them listed in Media tool but can't drag them to a bin? Do they have a drive location listed in media tool? Are you sure they aren't AMA linked clips? If they aren't in any bins or sequences then why even worry about them. Just ignore them. (read more)

I imagine Avid have looked at the review version of Windows 10 but as a lot can change when it's actually relased it makes sense till wiat until it's been released and then test. It's normally a good few weeks after that. We've got a system running with MC V8.4 and Windows 10 and nothing... (read more)

Take care when going from 50P to 25P. If alternate frames are dropped then you will notice more judder to motion. Thats because shot at 25P you have 25 exposures per second. So movement is captured in 25th of a second time slices. At 50P you get twice as many exposures but each is half the duration ... (read more)

I use it all the time and not had issues. Did you create a new user for V8.4? Old user settings are causing no end of odd issues. (read more)

Question 1: Do modern file based HD cameras, when using progressive capture (such as Alexa, C300,CION ) record/output true progressive frames at 25fps, or do their codecs record a form of PsF style? Most do capture true Progessive frames at 25fps. Many have the option to capture 50i but that will be... (read more)

If a client already has a copy of the sources and sends up a copy on a drive. (If only one copy of the sources exists the only thing we will do is make a backup copy) We check the drive for errors. Mount the drive and using our StorageDNA system run an LTO5 archive of it. (approx 1.5TB per tape so sometime... (read more)