The recording of the webminar can now be found at https://www.avid.com/online-learning-webinars Personally I'm looking forward to Baselight for Avid version 5.3 :-)

How long do you need the countdown to be? Could an animated progress bar do the job? That can be created with a Paint Effect in a minute and easily reused. If numbers are needed - and a solid background is ok - one way could be to create a sequence long enough with random content. Then add the effect Generator --> Timecode Burn-In to filler. Set

Short update: In version 2018.12.11 of Media Composer Video Quality does not - as far as I can tell - affect mixdown quality :-) Instead the precission (bit depth) the images are processed with is the same as for rendering: Media Tool --> Render --> Effects Processing.

I've just been upgraded to 2018.12.11 and it seems that turning off background save from the console now is persistent. So no need to type backgroundbinsave in the console after each restart of MC :-) Can anyone confirm this change? I haven't seen it mentioned in the release notes... Additionally the save progress box now includes the text

[quote user="Telegram!"] Is there an easy to understand explanation for the Rekink settings: "Ignore Extension" and "Ignore Characters After..." ? What issue or workflow does it address? [/quote] Ignore extension ignores file extension. Maybe only active if linking by filename..? Usefull if you imported a .mp4 file but

[quote user="jef"] I will try and replicate this if I have a chance this week. [/quote] Digging up an old thread here :-) Did you by any chance have a chance to replicate this? [quote user="jef"] Second you wrote about mixdown to an 8-bit codec. That should always create a banding issue with certain grads so I am not sure what you

On streaming: BBC states that " High-quality BBC iPlayer programmes stream at up to 5 Mbps or megabits (5000 kbps) and our standard quality version is 1.5 Mbps (1500 kbps)." Netflix " offers four data usage settings to choose from: [...] High - Best video quality, up to 3 GB per hour per device for HD, and 7 GB per hour per device for

[quote user="Mercer"]I see banding all over Netflix and iPlayer, even on the best of material, even on a good telly[/quote] But in my experience most of that banding is introduced by heavy compression in the distribution codecs. Material that is mixed down to XDCAMHD50 (8-bit codec) and send to playback without noticable banding can certainly

[quote user="mcabery"]it's probably the MXO2 box that is the problem[/quote] Here's a test that might tell you something about the output hardware: On V1 place a paint effect and make a rectangle that covers most of the screen. Mode: solid, Color HSL 255 - 0 - 52 Add another rectangle on top. Mode: gradient, HSL 255 - 0 - 33 You now

As Pat wrote it's not impressive with Symphony. I spoke to some guys from Avid about this at IBC some years back and they didn't seem to care the least :-/ I almost exclusively use Artist Color with Baselight for Avid and that works very well.