Saturday, August 26, 2017

[Avid-L2] File - FAQ AVID-L2.txt

 


Welcome to the Avid-L2
FAQ!
AVID-L II Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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Jobs should have [job] in their header, and press releases should have [pr] in their header

Background

Avid-L was established in 1994 at Calvin College by Steven Koster.
It was created to be a forum for Avid users to meet, discuss, and share
information.

Avid-L quickly grew into the premiere on-line users group for
professional film and video editors. It was one of the earliest examples

of an Internet community, allowing hundreds of editors worldwide to
share their experiences and expertise with their peers. There was no
better place for a professional Avid editor to get such wealth of
informed professional advice.

At various times, individual subscribers volunteered services to the
group. Searchable archives were maintained by Germany's Berlin Users
Group as well as the UIUC. A tips & tricks list was posted by Andy
Birkhead of Innovative Edit. Wes Plate, a longtime contributor, not only

shared key techniques on his Web site, he also created a photo gallery
for members' portraits.

In 1997, several subscribers began a tradition of meeting in person at
the NAB trade show in Las Vegas. The first gatherings were organized by Jaime Fowler. In 1999,
Avid Technology itself began sponsoring these gatherings as an exclusive reception and seminar for Avid-L members only. In 2002, this changed to the "Avid Users Group" meeting.

By 1999, Avid-L boasted over 1600 subscribers, exhibiting a true
international scope with over 300 international members. The community
included participants from a wide variety of well-known corporate
organizations in broadcasting, technical, and content creation fields,
as well as and multiple local TV stations, colleges, and universities.

In 2000, Avid-L joined AvidProNet.com, and then, in 2002, was integrated
Into Avid.com.

In 2005 Due to problems with signal to noise ratio and abusive posters, the Avid-L2 was formed. A year later the Avid-L was discontinued by Avid.

At the middle of 2006, the L2 has around 1100 members, with plenty of "lurker only" members who simply use the web version of the list. The L2 is spam-free, by moderation and with Yahoo's tools and will remain that way. The integrated archives with both old L and L2 posts came on line recently as well at the University of Illinois. That can be found at http://archives.itg.uiuc.edu/avid/.

Cross-posting to the FCP-L is welcome, tho reply's will not flow back to either list necessarily- check your own email reply preferences. The Final Cut list is found at: http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/FinalCutPro-L

Welcome, and Enjoy!

Extras!
With a Yahoo account tied to your subscription to the Avid-L2, you can use the web features of the Group.

Calendar Various Avid events are in the Calender. If you have an event you'd like posted, pull down and fill out the Calendar event request and send it to any Moderator

Database - The database area contains Avid Feature requests, Help Wanted, Freelance Listings and For Sale sections. Feel free to add your listings to any of these areas. Job Postings will remain up for 1 month. Please date all postings to the database areas, being pertinent is a good way to be.

Files- The files section contains various sundry files, including the latest Avid release notes. Check back often for changes.

Photos - Pictures of your Avid setup are welcome, or pictures relating to a post you need a photo to explain. Photos will be posted after moderator approval. Who knows, your picture might grace the front page for a while.

Links- Various helpful links, including direct links to Avid CPR releases can be found here, also the link to the archives.

JDS

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[Avid-L2] Izotope flash sale

 

Izotope has great audio tools, mostly relegated to your protools users, but RX Elements, which includes voice de-noise, de-click, de-hum, and de-clip is on sale for $29 today and tomorrow. Several of the audio plug-in companies do weekend sales like this, which I mostly ignore, but use any one of these tools once, and it's more than paid for itself.

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Greg Huson
Chief
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Production / Post Production
Culver City, CA
323 677 2092
www.SecretHQ.com
t @SecretHQinc

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Posted by: Greg Huson <Greg@SecretHQ.com>
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Have you tried the highest rated email app?
With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail app is the highest rated email app on the market. What are you waiting for? Now you can access all your inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, AOL and more) in one place. Never delete an email again with 1000GB of free cloud storage.

this is the Avid-L2

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Friday, August 25, 2017

[Avid-L2] Avid AMA file export for JPEG 2K has no level scaling?

 

HBO requests a JPEG 2K mxf op1a file.  I've been able to do that on Avid 8.6.4 and they seem happy with the file with 12 audio channels.  I'm curious why unlike a DPX file export there is no setting for legal level vs. full range. 

I've never delivered in JPEG 2K before and HBO is happy with my legal level export direct from the timeline but is there any reason for a JPEG 2K file to be full range instead of legal.  I've read on the L2 etc... that the DNX codecs are unique, or rare, in that they have a legal vs. full range flag in the format.  Would that be something not necessary in JPEG 2K because it is always legal level?  I'll be doing some googling but any experience in this area would be appreciated.
 
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

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Posted by: John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net>
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Have you tried the highest rated email app?
With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail app is the highest rated email app on the market. What are you waiting for? Now you can access all your inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, AOL and more) in one place. Never delete an email again with 1000GB of free cloud storage.

this is the Avid-L2

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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Re: [Avid-L2] Weird mac behavior

 


> On Aug 24, 2017, at 7:15 PM, John Pale pale.edit@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> some runaway background networking process

That's what it feels like.

Oh, well. Clean install here we come… probably…

gh
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Greg Huson
Chief
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Production / Post Production
Culver City, CA
323 677 2092
www.SecretHQ.com
t @SecretHQinc

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Posted by: Greg Huson <greg@secrethq.com>
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Have you tried the highest rated email app?
With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail app is the highest rated email app on the market. What are you waiting for? Now you can access all your inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, AOL and more) in one place. Never delete an email again with 1000GB of free cloud storage.

this is the Avid-L2

.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Weird mac behavior

 

I have experienced this.  I never got to the bottom of it completely.   A clean install of OS and everything else seems to have fixed it.  
While trying to figure it out, I've read online that some runaway background networking process causes it, but I never could confirm that.



On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:29 PM Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

So, I have an edit bay that's mostly been turned off, or idle for the better part of year- at least.

I went to use it and it has very odd behavior:

Basically, while editing, the keyboard goes 'dead' for a a few seconds, and the mouse keeps working, then the mouse will go dead, too - then it all comes back. I replaced the mouse and keyboard, thinking the mouse was bad, but it's not - this seems to be OS-related as I can't just switch to another app. I haven't run any other apps long enough to see if they have the same behavior.

If left alone for a while (walk away for rendering, a phone call, lunch, etc.) the machine will eventually hard-crash.

Any of this smell familiar? I'd like to start using this bay again, but it's unreliable, and if I can't make a quick-fix, then I have to start with the 'shotgun' approach of maintenance, which is all I know how to do. (Nuke the system and install the OS from scratch, start adding back apps, etc. Very time consuming and that's not a luxury I have just now.)

2009 5.1 Cheesegrater, 2x6x2.66, OSx 10.12.5, 48g ram, Nvidia quadro 4000, MC 8.9.4

Any tips or thoughts appreciated!

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Greg Huson
Chief
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Production / Post Production
Culver City, CA
323 677 2092
www.SecretHQ.com
t @SecretHQinc

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Posted by: John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com>
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Have you tried the highest rated email app?
With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail app is the highest rated email app on the market. What are you waiting for? Now you can access all your inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, AOL and more) in one place. Never delete an email again with 1000GB of free cloud storage.

this is the Avid-L2

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[Avid-L2] Weird mac behavior

 

So, I have an edit bay that's mostly been turned off, or idle for the better part of year- at least.

I went to use it and it has very odd behavior:

Basically, while editing, the keyboard goes 'dead' for a a few seconds, and the mouse keeps working, then the mouse will go dead, too - then it all comes back. I replaced the mouse and keyboard, thinking the mouse was bad, but it's not - this seems to be OS-related as I can't just switch to another app. I haven't run any other apps long enough to see if they have the same behavior.

If left alone for a while (walk away for rendering, a phone call, lunch, etc.) the machine will eventually hard-crash.

Any of this smell familiar? I'd like to start using this bay again, but it's unreliable, and if I can't make a quick-fix, then I have to start with the 'shotgun' approach of maintenance, which is all I know how to do. (Nuke the system and install the OS from scratch, start adding back apps, etc. Very time consuming and that's not a luxury I have just now.)

2009 5.1 Cheesegrater, 2x6x2.66, OSx 10.12.5, 48g ram, Nvidia quadro 4000, MC 8.9.4

Any tips or thoughts appreciated!

gh
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Greg Huson
Chief
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Production / Post Production
Culver City, CA
323 677 2092
www.SecretHQ.com
t @SecretHQinc

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Posted by: Greg Huson <greg@secrethq.com>
Reply via web post Reply to sender Reply to group Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1)

Have you tried the highest rated email app?
With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail app is the highest rated email app on the market. What are you waiting for? Now you can access all your inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, AOL and more) in one place. Never delete an email again with 1000GB of free cloud storage.

this is the Avid-L2

.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Avid has released Media Composer v8.9.1 today.

 

How much improvement could  this give us for h264 playback? 

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:22 AM tcurren@aol.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Avid Generic Plug-In's - Avid continues working to remove dependencies on QuickTime libraries. With this release, theAvid Generic plug-in natively supports the following format for linking and playing.
XAVC-S (mp4)
H.264 (.mov and .mp4)


http://resources.avid.com/SupportFiles/attach/README_Avid_Editor_v8.9.1.pdf

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Curtis Nichols



              

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Posted by: Curtis Nichols <curtisn@pcsproductions.com>
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[Avid-L2] Avid has released Media Composer v8.9.1 today.

 

Avid has released Media Composer v8.9.1 today.

XAVC-S SUPPORT BUILT IN!!!!

Installers: There are ONLY Media Composer v8.9.1 Mac and v8.9.1 Win FULL Installers. No Patch Installers with this release.

Changed in v8.9.1: The following has been changed in this release.

Nvidia Update - This v8.9.1 release supports Nvidia driver v385.08. Note: If you are using a RED workflow, stay on the v353.82 Nvidia driver.

OS Update - This v8.9.1 release has added support for Mac OS v10.12.6.

Avid Generic Plug-In's - Avid continues working to remove dependencies on QuickTime libraries. With this release, theAvid Generic plug-in natively supports the following format for linking and playing.
XAVC-S (mp4)
H.264 (.mov and .mp4)


http://resources.avid.com/SupportFiles/attach/README_Avid_Editor_v8.9.1.pdf



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Posted by: tcurren@aol.com
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Have you tried the highest rated email app?
With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail app is the highest rated email app on the market. What are you waiting for? Now you can access all your inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, AOL and more) in one place. Never delete an email again with 1000GB of free cloud storage.

this is the Avid-L2

.

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Monday, August 21, 2017

[Avid-L2] Re: Favorite mac encoder these days?

 

Hi group,

I would be amazing to have your settings, possible?

Thanks!
Pierre

Re: Favorite mac encoder these days?
Fri Aug 18, 2017 6:14 am (PDT) . Posted by: todhop

Handbrake gave me better results. It took about a dozen tests to find
those optimized settings, but they were slightly better than After
Effects. And still not as good as could be achieved.

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Posted by: Pierre H <ph@cineaste.org>
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Have you tried the highest rated email app?
With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail app is the highest rated email app on the market. What are you waiting for? Now you can access all your inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, AOL and more) in one place. Never delete an email again with 1000GB of free cloud storage.

this is the Avid-L2

.

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