Hi there, I'm having trouble figuring out the best workflow for producing a h264 or x264 blu ray disc. The previously advised workflow is QT mov or QT ref from Avid> Sorenson Squeeze to create blu ray files> Avid DVD to author blu ray disc. However, Avid DVD only supports MPEG-2 encoding for... (read more)

I just installed the Phrase Find option and I'm a newbie to it. It finds some words, but clearly, there are clips it seems to be ignoring. Does this work for an Interplay environment? I was really hoping to use it for a News scenario where reporters are feeding in 5sec teases during a 30min clip... (read more)

Hi I'm rather new to editing in avid. I was working on a project using the Red offline online workflow. Unfortunately I wasn't the one who set up the project but the second editor to be brought on. So the project had already been set up. I edited with my proxies and swapped back to the RED footage... (read more)

Hi! I hope somebody can help me. I have Dual Monitor Setup, Avid MC 7 (Windows 10 64bit) Dual Monitor Setup: Laptop (1980 x 1920) Second Monitor (1980 x 1920) My second monitor is above the laptop.(in real life and in display settings too) And i think this cause the problem. this message is pop up:"A... (read more)

I recently discovreed MC First, and I'm very excited to try all of its features as a video editor hobbyist. I've been testing out its features, and I'm having a some difficulty with the publishing process. Any time I publish a sequence, it goes perfectly fine until it seems to get to the... (read more)

Hey all, So we're running into a bit of gotcha with our documentary workflow and wanted to see if anybody has any solutions here to help make our wofkflow more efficient -- because right now it's brutal. We have roughly 100 interviews, each shot on 2 cameras, and each camera has two audio tracks... (read more)

Hi Avid Community, I am encountering an error that I have never experienced before when transcoding. After linking XD footage from a Sony FS7 I can transcode all but one video file. The footage was shot on two cards and are contained one folder to accomodate the link and any spanned footage. The error... (read more)

Yesterday I started my first project in AVID First. Now I am ready to proceed, but my timeline is emty and I can only see the list of bins in my project window. According to the size of the bins the clips and sequence must still be in there, but they don't show up. How can I make this work? (read more)

I have a timeline of subclips from a single interview an editor made and I have a transcript of that timeline in Avid. I also have the transcript of the orignal interview. How do I get ScriptSync to sync the selects script to the selects timeline in a way that is useful for reference? (read more)

Hello, I have been asked to help out on a doco that has been evolving over the last 5 years. Over that time it has been migrated accross 3 networks. There is currently an hour long cut that needs to be reshaped and re edited and the majority of this cut is online. 6 weeks of footage, A lot of the footage... (read more)