Saturday, September 30, 2017

[Avid-L2] Re: Symphony 8.9.1 Color Corrector change?

 

Go back to Windows 7?


Seriously. The Avid folks allegedly once again promised a new color corrector at IBC. Of course I have heard this so many times over the years I feel like Charlie Brown trusting Lucy to hold the football.

Terence Curren
Burbank, Ca


---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <jb30343@...> wrote :

"Anyone know of a way to get the old behavior back?"

 

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[Avid-L2] Symphony 8.9.1 Color Corrector change?

 

We recently upgraded from Symphony 8.2 to 8.9.1 and from Windows 7 to
Windows 10. In all earlier releases of Symphony (back to V1), if I
wanted to bump the gamma up or down a little in the Color Corrector, I
could just give a single mouse tap on the appropriate arrow and the
gamma would increment by about .047 per click. Now, the click is sticky
and may roll as much as 5 clicks with one tap. I can still control it
with the scroll wheel or by typing in numeric values but my longtime
muscle memory wants to click on those arrows. Anyone know of a way to
get the old behavior back? Many Thanks. --J.B.

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

[Avid-L2] Re: Feature request

 

Agree with you on Resolve 14; still can't trust it for day in and day out editorial.  I get freezes, crashes and varying playback speeds.  I moved my work over to FCPX and have not looked back.  Not perfect but blazing fast and more stable than Resolve or Premiere.  I wish Avid had a place in my market, but it no longer is in the freelance conversation unless specifically requested.  Most Avid shops have gone to Adobe CC.


As far as going to R14 for color from FPCX, I NEVER send over compound clips, rather always break them apart.  Then R14 puts the pieces on separate tracks.  I send as clean a version as possible to the colorist.  So far so good on the shorter form work I do.  I am cutting a 60 minute doc on X right now and plan to do color on R14 so that will be a real test.

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

[Avid-L2] MC 8.9.2 - MXF Export fails

 

Just did a clean install and when exporting XDCam MXF I get the error “MediaProcessor plugin missing…”

 

Dell M6700 – Win 7

 

Craig

 

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[Avid-L2] Waves Audio Plugin Sale

 

For those who may be interested, Waves Audio is celebrating their 25th Anniversary with a big sale. Up to 80% off. I know the Vocal Rider plugin has been mentioned on the list in the past (On Sale for $29). Heads up.

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Monday, September 25, 2017

Re: [Avid-L2] Rebuilding Search indexes?

 

My media was all local but it still wasn't indexing.

In the end I created a new project and dragged the bins into that. No change in indexing.

I closed the new project. I deactivated PhraseFind. Opened the project. Closed it. Restarted. Reactivated PhraseFind. Opened the project  that caused it to wake up and index correctly (and the phonetic indexer as been churning ever since.) 

So I think I am out of the woods though I'm not clear why I was there in the first place.


On Sun, Sep 24, 2017, at 08:41 PM, Mark Spano wrote:
Find/Phrasefind is BAD at:

- media which is linked
- media not on local volumes

If your media is linked, set up a transcode and let the indexes rebuild on those.
If your media is on a server volume, consolidate to a local volume.

Doesn't that sound ridiculous? Yes, yes it does. Good luck.

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Dan McCabe danlist@bestmail.us [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Yes. Both the Bin Index and The PhraseFind Index are green.


On Sun, Sep 24, 2017, at 02:56 PM, Dom Q. Silverio wrote:
> Is the dot in the bottom left of the Find window fully green?
>
> DQS
>
>
> > On Sep 24, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Dom.
> >
> > The SearchDB file rebuilt but it still seems incomplete.
> >
> > I can open a bin, search on a clip name, and the Find Function under
> > "Clips and Sequences" comes up empty.
> >
> > I tried rebuilding the MediaFile Folder databases as well. But no
> > change.
> >
> > I also took a look at the PhoneticData folder and it appears to hold
> > .pat files named after media files for use in PhraseFind. Many clips are
> > missing from there too.
> >
> > That could be connected to the incomplete SearchDB file.
> >
> > Is the next step a creating a new project and bringing the bins into
> > that?
> >
> > Deactivating PhraseFind and re-activating it?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017, at 06:50 PM, Dom Q. Silverio wrote:
> >> Yes purge the search DB files. It will rebuild when you reopen the
> >> project.
> >>
> >> DQS
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 6:28 PM, Dan McCabe danlist@bestmail.us [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I am MC 8.8.5 and the Find function seems to be a bit wonky.
> >>>
> >>> I can be staring at a word in a script that the Avid will find if
> >>> "Current Script" is selected but if I close the script and use "Scripts
> >>> in Project" it won't. ("Ignore Case" is selected and "Whole Words" is
> >>> deselected.)
> >>>
> >>> The Bin Index and PhraseFind Indices are solid green (though they
> >>> sometimes jump around to half green for no apparent reason.)
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to force the Indices to rebuild? Toss the Search.db in
> >>> the project folder?
> >>>
> >>> Or is "Find" just flakey?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any advice,
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>> Posted by: Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us>
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> this is the Avid-L2
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Yahoo Groups Links
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>




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Sunday, September 24, 2017

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Feature request

 

I am proficient in Avid and am starting to dabble more in Resolve.  I've used Premiere to migrate a Premiere project to Avid a year or so ago and I battled all along the way.  The bottom line for me is if I don't live a piece of software day in and day out like I do with Avid it's hard to feel comfortable.

I know I waited a long time to jump onto Avid as my linear bay was rock solid at the time and Avid was barely getting into broadcast quality but I was fortunate to get to learn Avid online from the ground up.  Now it's hard to step back into novice mode on the other apps but there is no avoiding it at some point.  I've recently been trying to test an xml workflow from FCPX to Resolve.  I know this is supposedly a robust workflow but when I bring in the xml some of the clips are offline.  I don't know if it is just a media compatibility issue as this is just a test with some pretty poor offline media.  I see the sequence but then I find that I can't quit Resolve if I look at the sequence in the edit page, or anywhere else.  I have to force quit.  I took an Avid 4K project and aaf'd into Resolve and I don't have a problem quitting.  So something about the FCPX xml or the offline media doesn't crash Resolve 12.5 but I have to force quit, strange.  I'm left with the option to tell the offline folks to uprezz and just give me a baked file I can parse from an xml or edl, not sure which is better for parsing.  I would think the xml and all the layers might confuse the basic parsing where as an edl for V1, if that's even proper nomenclature for FCPX with it's compond clips etc...  I figure a baked out file will eliminate any translation issues of resizes, motion effect etc... 

I have a fellow experienced online editor who is proficient in Resolve and on his MacBook Pro laptop, 13 inch, he said when he did a project in Resolve 14 the playback was stuttery and problematic but when he back reved to 12.5 on the same laptop the playback problems went away.  Now this is exactly the opposite of what I've heard at NAB and since then.  Resolve 14 is supposed to be much snappier overall.  I also hear the term optimized media and I don't know if that is some sort of rewrapping of media so it plays better in Resolve.  I'm going to have to keep researching this.  All these little bugs and annoyances just make me want to stay in Avid and live with symphony color correction or use the baselight plugin but then I have to learn baselight.  I've heard baselight is different from Resolve as far as interface overall so then it comes down to where I want to put my energy into.  Resolve seems to have more traction with it's free version etc... but I like you am tired of having to relearn new workflows that often times are seemingly less efficient than what I know has worked for almost 2 decades.  Can't stand still but which way to run, argggh.



---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <cutandcover@...> wrote :

I gotta say - yes, the advances Premiere and Resolve have made over the past few years are astonishing.

AND YET

Media Composer is a better straight up editor. Tell me how solid any of these other apps feel to you in comparison? Everything I try in Premiere feels so much looser than editing in Media Composer. I feel like I'm about to lose my edge on keeping up with these things because I can not stand the 'feel' of them. Premiere feels like an amateur editor wrapped in a super feature powered app. And don't get me started on trying to do any serious onlining in Premiere. Ganging monitors and switching back and forth between source and record to match things is preposterously terrible - in ANY app besides Media Composer. Trying to determine effects usage in an offline to bring them into an online is cumbersome and dangerously inept compared to MC. Audio! It is so terrible I can't imagine anyone is doing any serious (show/feature) finishing in Premiere. The toolset there is limiting (I should say handcuffing) and primitive in comparison.

Sorry for the rant. I love a lot about what these apps are doing and trying to do. Premiere is about to roll out the ability to have multiple projects open, like the old FCP. That alone is a huge feature worthy of keeping faith that they're working on doing the right thing. But in all seriousness, if you want to talk about professional editorial finishing tools, nothing touches Media Composer. 

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:55 PM, bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

I've heard of plenty of problems with Resolve 14 from experienced users.  I can't speak first hand as I'm on Resolve 12.5 for now.  I set my Avid to auto Save every 3 minutes and it never takes me a minute to wait.  Even in 4K.  In the past I've had bins that would take a long time to save but hasn't been that time consuming.  I feel your pain and it's why I auto save often and still let it save after every render.



---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <Greg@...> wrote :

I could put up with the regular crashes if Media Composer had background save. Resolve added automatic constant background saving in this version. It's just always saving, never interrupts what you're doing. Just saying.

I used to love cutting on media composer, but there's nothing more frustrating than when you're 'in the zone,' completely oblivious to your hardware, and media composer just decides to take a break. Uhg. Don't blame my install, don't blame my version, don't blame the era of computer I'm using, don't blame my autosave duration (who wants to wait a full minute for saving every time autosave comes on?) We should no longer need a work around for this issue. This is just not a modern problem.

Rant over. I'll now spend 15 minutes redoing the edits I made 20 minutes ago.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Rebuilding Search indexes?

 

Find/Phrasefind is BAD at:

- media which is linked
- media not on local volumes

If your media is linked, set up a transcode and let the indexes rebuild on those.
If your media is on a server volume, consolidate to a local volume.

Doesn't that sound ridiculous? Yes, yes it does. Good luck.

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Dan McCabe danlist@bestmail.us [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Yes. Both the Bin Index and The PhraseFind Index are green.


On Sun, Sep 24, 2017, at 02:56 PM, Dom Q. Silverio wrote:
> Is the dot in the bottom left of the Find window fully green?
>
> DQS
>
>
> > On Sep 24, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Dom.
> >
> > The SearchDB file rebuilt but it still seems incomplete.
> >
> > I can open a bin, search on a clip name, and the Find Function under
> > "Clips and Sequences" comes up empty.
> >
> > I tried rebuilding the MediaFile Folder databases as well. But no
> > change.
> >
> > I also took a look at the PhoneticData folder and it appears to hold
> > .pat files named after media files for use in PhraseFind. Many clips are
> > missing from there too.
> >
> > That could be connected to the incomplete SearchDB file.
> >
> > Is the next step a creating a new project and bringing the bins into
> > that?
> >
> > Deactivating PhraseFind and re-activating it?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017, at 06:50 PM, Dom Q. Silverio wrote:
> >> Yes purge the search DB files. It will rebuild when you reopen the
> >> project.
> >>
> >> DQS
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 6:28 PM, Dan McCabe danlist@bestmail.us [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I am MC 8.8.5 and the Find function seems to be a bit wonky.
> >>>
> >>> I can be staring at a word in a script that the Avid will find if
> >>> "Current Script" is selected but if I close the script and use "Scripts
> >>> in Project" it won't. ("Ignore Case" is selected and "Whole Words" is
> >>> deselected.)
> >>>
> >>> The Bin Index and PhraseFind Indices are solid green (though they
> >>> sometimes jump around to half green for no apparent reason.)
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to force the Indices to rebuild? Toss the Search.db in
> >>> the project folder?
> >>>
> >>> Or is "Find" just flakey?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any advice,
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>> Posted by: Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us>
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> this is the Avid-L2
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Yahoo Groups Links
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>


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Re: [Avid-L2] Rebuilding Search indexes?

 

Yes. Both the Bin Index and The PhraseFind Index are green.

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017, at 02:56 PM, Dom Q. Silverio wrote:
> Is the dot in the bottom left of the Find window fully green?
>
> DQS
>
>
> > On Sep 24, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Dom.
> >
> > The SearchDB file rebuilt but it still seems incomplete.
> >
> > I can open a bin, search on a clip name, and the Find Function under
> > "Clips and Sequences" comes up empty.
> >
> > I tried rebuilding the MediaFile Folder databases as well. But no
> > change.
> >
> > I also took a look at the PhoneticData folder and it appears to hold
> > .pat files named after media files for use in PhraseFind. Many clips are
> > missing from there too.
> >
> > That could be connected to the incomplete SearchDB file.
> >
> > Is the next step a creating a new project and bringing the bins into
> > that?
> >
> > Deactivating PhraseFind and re-activating it?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017, at 06:50 PM, Dom Q. Silverio wrote:
> >> Yes purge the search DB files. It will rebuild when you reopen the
> >> project.
> >>
> >> DQS
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 6:28 PM, Dan McCabe danlist@bestmail.us [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I am MC 8.8.5 and the Find function seems to be a bit wonky.
> >>>
> >>> I can be staring at a word in a script that the Avid will find if
> >>> "Current Script" is selected but if I close the script and use "Scripts
> >>> in Project" it won't. ("Ignore Case" is selected and "Whole Words" is
> >>> deselected.)
> >>>
> >>> The Bin Index and PhraseFind Indices are solid green (though they
> >>> sometimes jump around to half green for no apparent reason.)
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to force the Indices to rebuild? Toss the Search.db in
> >>> the project folder?
> >>>
> >>> Or is "Find" just flakey?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any advice,
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>> Posted by: Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us>
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> this is the Avid-L2
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Yahoo Groups Links
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>

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Re: [Avid-L2] Rebuilding Search indexes?

 

Is the dot in the bottom left of the Find window fully green?

DQS

> On Sep 24, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us> wrote:
>
> Thanks Dom.
>
> The SearchDB file rebuilt but it still seems incomplete.
>
> I can open a bin, search on a clip name, and the Find Function under
> "Clips and Sequences" comes up empty.
>
> I tried rebuilding the MediaFile Folder databases as well. But no
> change.
>
> I also took a look at the PhoneticData folder and it appears to hold
> .pat files named after media files for use in PhraseFind. Many clips are
> missing from there too.
>
> That could be connected to the incomplete SearchDB file.
>
> Is the next step a creating a new project and bringing the bins into
> that?
>
> Deactivating PhraseFind and re-activating it?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017, at 06:50 PM, Dom Q. Silverio wrote:
>> Yes purge the search DB files. It will rebuild when you reopen the
>> project.
>>
>> DQS
>>
>>
>>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 6:28 PM, Dan McCabe danlist@bestmail.us [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am MC 8.8.5 and the Find function seems to be a bit wonky.
>>>
>>> I can be staring at a word in a script that the Avid will find if
>>> "Current Script" is selected but if I close the script and use "Scripts
>>> in Project" it won't. ("Ignore Case" is selected and "Whole Words" is
>>> deselected.)
>>>
>>> The Bin Index and PhraseFind Indices are solid green (though they
>>> sometimes jump around to half green for no apparent reason.)
>>>
>>> Is there a way to force the Indices to rebuild? Toss the Search.db in
>>> the project folder?
>>>
>>> Or is "Find" just flakey?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any advice,
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> Posted by: Dan McCabe <danlist@bestmail.us>
>>> ------------------------------------
>>>
>>> this is the Avid-L2
>>> ------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Yahoo Groups Links
>>>
>>>
>>>

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