This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Has Pan and Zoom gotten in even worse In MC7?

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Has Pan and Zoom gotten in even worse In MC7?

It's curved video if you want to believe it is.

I made a spinning cylinder for a client using crops to draw slitscan style into the digitrail store. Took about 30 seconds a frame. Nice thing was the ace could recall ado moves from disk so I wrote about 90 moves, saved then to disk then wrote and ace macro to build an edl. Then I just sat back while the ampex suite did its thing.

Fame!

What totally made me famous though was fixing a one inch master full of pal picture shifts. I calculated the number of cycles of subcarrier per line divided 8 by that the pushed the whole show through ado doing pick ups at each picture shift to put the picture back where it belonged (yes I also had a line shift effect stored).

Ampex used my ado showreel for years with the cone and cylinder and Jeff banke disks of funny numbers to flip the store read order for page turns.

Then I got a mirage :) with starlight and was in a Harry suite permanently 3 months later.

Fun times.

I loved the 30 amp plug on the ado and the fact that more than jAlf the box was multiple cards labelled main store. That main store was 1 mb of ran in 4 or 8k memory chips!

Mike

On 12 Mar, 2014, at 9:03 pm, Nick Hrycyk <bigblueav@yahoo.com> wrote:

LOL, was cleaning out some old boxes the other day and came across an old box of 5" floppies that had my fav ADO moves and settings.
One labeled "Cube", another "Psuedo Curved Video"

Nick H

From: Mikeparsons.tv <mikeparsons.tv@gmail.com>
To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Has Pan and Zoom gotten in even worse In MC7?

Leave the ADO alone that box made my reputation.

To do this day I wish flame had show one/show many and let's be honest we would all love a little digitrail goodness back in our lives.

On 12 Mar, 2014, at 8:08 pm, John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:

Steve is totally on the money. Avid FX is way more capable than the other options. After avoiding it for years, I've started using it, and it's very powerful.

Judging from comments and questions in online forums, it seems like 85 percent of the editors never fire up AvidFX. Many of the places I freelance at don't even bother to serialize it. This should be saying something to Avid....most editors HATE the Boris interface and don't want to bother learning it..BUT...we still want to do these effects WITHIN Media Composer. No plugins, preferably.

PS: As cool as an ADO was in its day, you were still stuck blowing up an SD image with a huge loss of resolution. But the motion and acceleration were so awesome, we could convince ourselves we didn't notice.

On Wednesday, March 12, 2014, <sppomerantz@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pan and Zoom has been terrible from the day it was introduced. I also used to use Moving Picture, but when I upgraded to MC7 and 64 bit, I didn't want to pay for it again, since it was only marginally better than P&Z. I started using Avid FX. The learning curve is quite a bit higher than the others, but it's a much more powerful program, especially for something simple like moves on still images. Very similar to After Effects in terms of compositing multiple images, applying filters, etc. And you get real rotation with XYZ axis, etc.

Best part... it's still bundled with the system, so you're not paying extra for it.

Good Luck,

Steve Pomerantz
www.stevepomerantzeditorial.com