Re: [Avid-L2] New title tool

Hi Tim,

 

I have asked the tech team to check with our Titler+ team to see what the scoop is with this, and also to check with NewBlue and get back with you.  I created a case 04578884 so it can be followed and addressed.

 

They will reach out sap.

Marianna

 

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Re: [Avid-L2] New title tool

Sort of answered my own question. New Blue was in the effects
pallette, but was apparently not yet installed.

Not that installing it was useful or anything. It crashes Avid
everytime I try to use it -- either promoting an old title or
creating a new one.

This may be the thing that pushed us away from Avid for good....

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan


On 2023.02.06 21:59, Tim Selander wrote:
> John
>
> I have just made the jump to M1 Macs and the new OS, and have
> discovered to my horror that the old Title tool does not work.
> Huge impact on our workflow.
>
> Anyway, sorry to be reviving an old thread, but you write
>> I've found New Blue does a better job promoting Title Tool to
>> New Blue than Title Tool to Titler+
>
> How to you promote old titles on old sequences to New Blue? I
> can't find it. And just for everyone's edification, promoting a
> Japanese text title with Titler+ DESTROYS it -- the kanji turns
> to gobbledygook that is impossible to return back to kanji. Avid
> -- SERIOUS #$0)(% SCREWUP!!
>
> Any way, if you, John, or anyone can tell me how to promote a
> title in New Blue, I really need to know! The "Promote Titles"
> option in the right-click menu only gives an option for Titler+. TIA
>
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
>
>
> On 2020.07.04 12:02, John Moore wrote:
>> [Edited Message Follows]
>>
>> Lou I agree but I have to say I'm in cabin fever mode.  My
>> experience with Titler+ is it's just plain bad.  They have
>> turned simple tasks into an arduous nightmare.  The vocabulary
>> is strange and non intuitive.  All I want is a text field but
>> there are layers and IIRC objects.  The selection process is
>> foreign to the traditional Title Tool even though much of it
>> looks similar it works very differently.  And when I say works
>> I've never used it successfully so I opted to New Blue for very
>> basic stuff. It's astonishing but in my limited tasks I've
>> found New Blue does a better job promoting Title Tool to New
>> Blue than Title Tool to Titler+.  That in and of itself is
>> astonishing.  Don't get me wrong New Blue promotion of Title
>> Tool is not great but it gives me a fighting chance.
>>
>> The biggest thing I just learned a week ago is that there is a
>> green circle around the play button in new blue and it
>> indicates that the title has been cached.  It can take several
>> minutes for the cache to complete for something like a roll.
>> If you close new blue before the cache is complete it will
>> continue to cache in the background but it caches slower.  This
>> is why it took me four hours to add one line to a credit roll.
>> I didn't realize it was stuck caching so for 5 or more minutes
>> I'd just get the scrub to refresh window and no amount of
>> scrubbing would refresh it. So I kept quiting Avid thinking it
>> was a ram or vram issue.  New Blue reacts very slowly on my
>> MacPro mid 2012 with 64 GB of ram and GTX-680 with 2 GB vram.
>> I'm wondering if a GTX-780 with 6GB vram would improve
>> performance.  I have and expansion chassis with two Titan X
>> GPUs but I don't think New Blue uses them.
>>
>> So this is me, the guy who hates fonts and misses title tool,
>> telling you in my small world I've found New Blue less painful
>> for the simple things I've done.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 04:27 PM, Lou Wirth wrote:
>>
>>     I just have to say the new Avid MC title tool in 2019.12 is
>>     the worst editing tool I have ever come across.  It is
>>     absolutely useless and I now get anxiety just knowing I have
>>     to go to it even just to make a slug title in place of
>>     material to come.  Forget doing any tilting for finish.  And
>>     no I don't want to use NewBlue and yes I know AE and
>>     Photoshop are there but come on…really.   Please bring back
>>     that old title too.   Creating a title in this is funky
>>     enough but just simply grabbing and moving the title is
>>     nearly impossible!  I peck away and get little boxes around
>>     letters, one letter, two letters, the the entire box expands
>>     and changes the font size simply but trying to move it.
>>       Oops, now it just crashed and I lost the last 15 minutes of
>>     work.
>>     OMG Avid.  Fix this disaster!!
>>     Lou
>>
>>     Lou Wirth Productions
>>     3210 Kerner Boulevard
>>     Suite 302
>>     San Rafael, CA 94901
>>     *www.louwirth.com <http://www.louwirth.com>*
>>     415-706-8992p
>>
>>
>
>
>
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Re: [Avid-L2] New title tool

John

I have just made the jump to M1 Macs and the new OS, and have
discovered to my horror that the old Title tool does not work.
Huge impact on our workflow.

Anyway, sorry to be reviving an old thread, but you write
> I've found New Blue does a better job promoting Title Tool to New Blue than Title Tool to Titler+

How to you promote old titles on old sequences to New Blue? I
can't find it. And just for everyone's edification, promoting a
Japanese text title with Titler+ DESTROYS it -- the kanji turns
to gobbledygook that is impossible to return back to kanji. Avid
-- SERIOUS #$0)(% SCREWUP!!

Any way, if you, John, or anyone can tell me how to promote a
title in New Blue, I really need to know! The "Promote Titles"
option in the right-click menu only gives an option for Titler+. TIA

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan


On 2020.07.04 12:02, John Moore wrote:
> [Edited Message Follows]
>
> Lou I agree but I have to say I'm in cabin fever mode.  My
> experience with Titler+ is it's just plain bad.  They have turned
> simple tasks into an arduous nightmare.  The vocabulary is
> strange and non intuitive.  All I want is a text field but there
> are layers and IIRC objects.  The selection process is foreign to
> the traditional Title Tool even though much of it looks similar
> it works very differently.  And when I say works I've never used
> it successfully so I opted to New Blue for very basic stuff.
> It's astonishing but in my limited tasks I've found New Blue does
> a better job promoting Title Tool to New Blue than Title Tool to
> Titler+.  That in and of itself is astonishing.  Don't get me
> wrong New Blue promotion of Title Tool is not great but it gives
> me a fighting chance.
>
> The biggest thing I just learned a week ago is that there is a
> green circle around the play button in new blue and it indicates
> that the title has been cached.  It can take several minutes for
> the cache to complete for something like a roll.  If you close
> new blue before the cache is complete it will continue to cache
> in the background but it caches slower.  This is why it took me
> four hours to add one line to a credit roll.  I didn't realize it
> was stuck caching so for 5 or more minutes I'd just get the scrub
> to refresh window and no amount of scrubbing would refresh it.
> So I kept quiting Avid thinking it was a ram or vram issue.  New
> Blue reacts very slowly on my MacPro mid 2012 with 64 GB of ram
> and GTX-680 with 2 GB vram.  I'm wondering if a GTX-780 with 6GB
> vram would improve performance.  I have and expansion chassis
> with two Titan X GPUs but I don't think New Blue uses them.
>
> So this is me, the guy who hates fonts and misses title tool,
> telling you in my small world I've found New Blue less painful
> for the simple things I've done.
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 04:27 PM, Lou Wirth wrote:
>
> I just have to say the new Avid MC title tool in 2019.12 is
> the worst editing tool I have ever come across.  It is
> absolutely useless and I now get anxiety just knowing I have
> to go to it even just to make a slug title in place of
> material to come.  Forget doing any tilting for finish.  And
> no I don't want to use NewBlue and yes I know AE and
> Photoshop are there but come on…really.   Please bring back
> that old title too.   Creating a title in this is funky
> enough but just simply grabbing and moving the title is
> nearly impossible!  I peck away and get little boxes around
> letters, one letter, two letters, the the entire box expands
> and changes the font size simply but trying to move it.
>  Oops, now it just crashed and I lost the last 15 minutes of
> work.
> OMG Avid.  Fix this disaster!!
> Lou
>
> Lou Wirth Productions
> 3210 Kerner Boulevard
> Suite 302
> San Rafael, CA 94901
> *www.louwirth.com <http://www.louwirth.com>*
> 415-706-8992p
>
>



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Re: [Avid-L2] Deck Control with Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini

Good to know. Thanks.

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On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, at 12:20 AM, Tim Selander wrote:
> Actually, let me answer my own question for posterity.
>
> Roger, the Ultrastudio /does/ handle deck control -- which I needed
> since Keyspan no longer works with M1 macs.
>
> Our working seats are still old v8.6, running on 2009 Mac Pros. But
> since we are planning to upgrade, I went ahead and got a new
> subscription so I could get Avid support now. It took a few days of back
> and forth, but the upshot, as of Jan 19, 2023, Blackmagic's Ultrastudio
> software 12.4 seems to have a bug/issue preventing it from handling deck
> control with Avid. We rolled back to 12.3, 12.2, 12.1 and, finally, 12.0
> -- which works.
>
> If anyone else has this problem, I hope Google search somehow leads them
> to this thread -- but, again as of January 19, 2023, you need
> Blackmagic' Desktop Video v12.0 to get deck control with an M1 Mac
> running Monterey 12.6.1 with Avid MC 2022.12 and/or 2022.10.
>
> Avid support for the win.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
>
>
> On 2023/01/19 0:52, Roger wrote:
>> Surely the Ultrastudio only deals with video and audio I/O? Deck control
>> is direct independent. I use a Keyspan USB to serial adapter and some
>> old serial cables.
>>
>> On 10/01/2023 06:14, Tim Selander wrote:
>>> Upgrading to Mac M1, MC 2022.10 and a Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini
>>> for I/O. Using a PDW-F1600 XDCAM deck.
>>>
>>> Of course video, audio and deck control are flawless with BMD's
>>> software (Media Express).
>>>
>>> Avid sees audio and video -- but sees nothing for the deck. Deck
>>> Configuration shows no ports on Direct.
>>>
>>> Anyone know the secret sauce for getting Avid to play nice with the
>>> UltraStudio??
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Tim Selander
>>> Tokyo, Japan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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Re: [Avid-L2] Deck Control with Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini

Actually, let me answer my own question for posterity.

Roger, the Ultrastudio /does/ handle deck control -- which I needed
since Keyspan no longer works with M1 macs.

Our working seats are still old v8.6, running on 2009 Mac Pros. But
since we are planning to upgrade, I went ahead and got a new
subscription so I could get Avid support now. It took a few days of back
and forth, but the upshot, as of Jan 19, 2023, Blackmagic's Ultrastudio
software 12.4 seems to have a bug/issue preventing it from handling deck
control with Avid. We rolled back to 12.3, 12.2, 12.1 and, finally, 12.0
-- which works.

If anyone else has this problem, I hope Google search somehow leads them
to this thread -- but, again as of January 19, 2023, you need
Blackmagic' Desktop Video v12.0 to get deck control with an M1 Mac
running Monterey 12.6.1 with Avid MC 2022.12 and/or 2022.10.

Avid support for the win.

Thanks!

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan


On 2023/01/19 0:52, Roger wrote:
> Surely the Ultrastudio only deals with video and audio I/O? Deck control
> is direct independent. I use a Keyspan USB to serial adapter and some
> old serial cables.
>
> On 10/01/2023 06:14, Tim Selander wrote:
>> Upgrading to Mac M1, MC 2022.10 and a Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini
>> for I/O. Using a PDW-F1600 XDCAM deck.
>>
>> Of course video, audio and deck control are flawless with BMD's
>> software (Media Express).
>>
>> Avid sees audio and video -- but sees nothing for the deck. Deck
>> Configuration shows no ports on Direct.
>>
>> Anyone know the secret sauce for getting Avid to play nice with the
>> UltraStudio??
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>


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Re: [Avid-L2] Deck Control with Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini

Surely the Ultrastudio only deals with video and audio I/O? Deck control
is direct independent. I use a Keyspan USB to serial adapter and some
old serial cables.

On 10/01/2023 06:14, Tim Selander wrote:
> Upgrading to Mac M1, MC 2022.10 and a Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini
> for I/O. Using a PDW-F1600 XDCAM deck.
>
> Of course video, audio and deck control are flawless with BMD's
> software (Media Express).
>
> Avid sees audio and video -- but sees nothing for the deck. Deck
> Configuration shows no ports on Direct.
>
> Anyone know the secret sauce for getting Avid to play nice with the
> UltraStudio??
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
>
>
>
>
>
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[Avid-L2] OT Re: HEIF, HEVC, HEIC Alphabet Soup of Codecs WTF???

Makes me reflect fondly back to the days when all you needed was a piece of charcoal and a cave wall to finish the production deadline.

Of course Ugg and Ogg would constantly debate the benefits and downsides to the various "charcoal-decs" - which was better at fine detail, contrast, more accurate gamma, longevity...  oak, pine, birch, hickory.

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[Avid-L2] HEIF, HEVC, HEIC Alphabet Soup of Codecs WTF???

I was given a still image that my "mediainfo" program showed as HEVC.  I figured this is from an iPhone.  Couldn't get it to open or import into Avid.  The OS saw the picture in the desktop window but the icon was for a terminal document.  I tried adding the extension .HEVC but no luck.  After a bunch of googles seeing HEVC mention with HEIC I finally added the .heic extension and then Preview would open the picture and I could then export to a tiff or jpeg etc...

So here is my new list of codec related acronyms that I haven't worked with much that I will surely forget by tomorrow and have to regoogle again:

HEIF= High Efficency Image File Format,  (why not HEIFF???)

HEVC=High Efficiency Video Coding also known as H-265

HEIC=A file containing HEVC encoded images

So all this results in the following sentence in Wikipedia:

" HEVC is an image and video encoding format and the default image codec used with HEIF. HEIF files containing HEVC-encoded images are also known as HEIC files. "

So how I stumbled onto adding the .HEIC is beyond me but it worked for the still.

How would I contact the MPeg Group or SMPTE to suggest all these files be renamed "Fred."  I knew a dog named Fred and he was a nice Chocolate Lab and his name was easy to remember.  Can we all just agree to call these files Freds?  It would make me very happy.  Some days I really miss Bob Z's shotgun.  ;-)

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

Plus 101 for Ccc. Good for backups and good for cloning drives before changing the OS.

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rogershuff@fastmail.fm

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On Mon, 16 Jan 2023, at 3:15 PM, Benjamin Hershleder wrote:

Thanks John!

You are now the 4th person to recommend CC Cloner. When I have some time (asap) I'll be checking it out.

Much appreciated!

Cheers,

-B

———————

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ContactBen.com

/

On Jan 15, 2023, at 11:15 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

[Edited Message Follows]

I've used only a small percentage of Carbon Copy Cloners potential and it's really saved me in the last two months I've lost two system drives. I use it in a primitive manner and just have an external HD that's got several partitions and I just CCC to one of the partitions with date info. I've never trusted incremental back up, for no real reason at all, so I go full Sigourney on the back ups and Nuke the back up drive from orbit before cloning. I will erase the partition and do a full CCC bu. I know this is a tremendous waste of time but it's unattended and I just like starting with a blank palette. There is a lot of ways to set up tasks for automating the back up and it knows to just back up what's changed as far as I know but again I just stay in my primitive lane. I don't want to let any Binary Aliens loose in my computer. ;-)

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

Thanks John!

You are now the 4th person to recommend CC Cloner. When I have some time (asap) I'll be checking it out.

Much appreciated!

Cheers,

-B

———————

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ContactBen.com

/

On Jan 15, 2023, at 11:15 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

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I've used only a small percentage of Carbon Copy  Cloners potential and it's really saved me in the last two months I've lost two system drives.  I use it in a primitive manner and just have an external HD that's got several partitions and I just CCC to one of the partitions with date info.  I've never trusted incremental back up, for no real reason at all, so I go full Sigourney on the back ups and Nuke the back up drive from orbit before cloning.  I will erase the partition and do a full CCC bu.  I know this is a tremendous waste of time but it's unattended and I just like starting with a blank palette.  There is a lot of ways to set up tasks for automating the back up and it knows to just back up what's changed as far as I know but again I just stay in my primitive lane.  I don't want to let any Binary Aliens loose in my computer.  ;-)

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media) - Windows users

Posted with no intention to hijack this thread, rather to expand its utility for Windows users who might be drawn by the non-OS denominational subject line.

While they do not make an Apple product, for almost a decade I've relied on GS RichCopy 360 Enterprise to perform manual and automated data backup and migration with excellent performance, a good selection of tools/options, quick responses to product questions and no issues to date.

https://gurusquad.com/products/gs-richcopy-360-enterprise

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Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

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I've used only a small percentage of Carbon Copy  Cloners potential and it's really saved me in the last two months I've lost two system drives.  I use it in a primitive manner and just have an external HD that's got several partitions and I just CCC to one of the partitions with date info.  I've never trusted incremental back up, for no real reason at all, so I go full Sigourney on the back ups and Nuke the back up drive from orbit before cloning.  I will erase the partition and do a full CCC bu.  I know this is a tremendous waste of time but it's unattended and I just like starting with a blank palette.  There is a lot of ways to set up tasks for automating the back up and it knows to just back up what's changed as far as I know but again I just stay in my primitive lane.  I don't want to let any Binary Aliens loose in my computer.  ;-)

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Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

I've used on a small percentage of Carbon Copy  Cloners potential and it's really saved me in the last two months I've lost two system drives.  I use it in a primitive manner and just have an external HD that's got several partitions and I just CCC to one of the partitions with date info.  I've never trusted incremental back up, for no real reason at all, so I go full Sigourney on the back ups and Nuke the back up drive from orbit before cloning.  I will erase the partition and do a full CCC bu.  I know this is a tremendous waste of time but it's unattended and I just like starting with a blank palette.  There is a lot of ways to set up tasks for automating the back up and it knows to just back up what's changed as far as I know but again I just stay in my primitive lane.  I don't want to let any Binary Aliens loose in my computer.  ;-)

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Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

Hi Kenton,

You have a very safe set-up — excellent. I use DropBox, too, but have used used it in a limited way (only backing-up certain folders. I think I'll be changing that, in light of my recent 'adventure.' I'll definitely checkout your suggestions.

RE: Time Machine . . . I thought I was protected, and clearly I was not. I used it because it was right there and brainless to set-up. At this point, I don't see that it does what you would assume it does (yep — my bad for assuming anything). My advice is to stay away from it, unless it offers some protection that other apps do not.

For anyone following this thread, I'll report back after looking at the several solutions that have been recommended.

Thanks Kenton — much appreciated!

Cheers,

Benjamin

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On Jan 14, 2023, at 11:53 AM, kenton van natten <kenton.van.natten+AvidL2@gmail.com> wrote:

I use CrashPlan Pro as a cloud backup. It's $10 per month per device for unlimited storage. 

Additionally, I use ChronoSync to make backups of my Avid projects folder, et al. You can configure it to run a number of ways, but I have mine set to trigger a backup 5 minutes after it detects a filesystem change. This means that 5 minutes after I hit save, it makes a copy of whatever .avb files have changed since the last sync. I have it going to a folder on my Dropbox, and my Dropbox folder is also getting backed up to CrashPlan. 

I also recently started using JottaCloud ($9.90/month) to test it out as an alternative to CrashPlan. 

I've never used TimeMachine and don't plan to. 
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kenton van natten, post-production mercenary

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

Tod, thanks for all that info, including giving me the links — super helpful!  You're the second person to recommend CCCloner, so I'm going to take a serious look at it. Also, I'm like you; I don't store any Avid MXF media on my internal. 

I'll be able to do some more focused research next week to see what solution makes the most sense for my admittedly simple needs. For anyone following this thread I'll report back.

Thanks again Tod!

Cheers,

Benjamin

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On Jan 14, 2023, at 12:09 PM, todhop <hoplist@hillmanncarr.com> wrote:

Carbon Copy Cloner. Not the cheapest or the easiest, but I'm a big fan. The developer has been outstanding over the years maintaining a stable product and providing excellent support.

https://bombich.com/download

SuperDuper is the other old school, widely respected backup for Mac. Cheaper and a bit simpler, but when I tried it eons ago it couldn't do something I needed, I don't remember what that was. 

https://shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

These are traditional backup programs. 

I use time Machine for my system drive, but only because it's super easy, and not for individual file history. For me, it's only a disaster recovery backup. If you really want it to work as designed for individual files, you need a very large backup drive, at least three times the expected primary size. If you have a lot of constantly changing, large files, as I do (video editor), you need a REALLY large drive because versioning wipes out older files too quickly to be of use. For this reason, I don't store large files on my system drive at all and I exclude all other drives from Time Machine.

I use Carbon Copy Cloner for everything else.

Cheers,

                  Tod

On Jan 13, 2023, at 4:05 PM, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@ContactBen.com> wrote:

<time_machine.jpg>

OK . . . I officially hate Apple Time Machine. 

It's plugged-in every hour of every day when I'm working. Now, only the second time that I've ever gone in to retrieve a file > > > it's nowhere to be found! 

I've searched a myriad of ways, including file type (.psd) along with criteria such as created after 1/1/23.

What good is it if it doesn't backup stuff?!

Anyone have a recommendation for a more robust alternative?

TIA . . . now, please excuse me while I retire from the computer in order to clean up the mess in my office — from my head exploding . . . . <sigh>

Thanks all!

Cheers,

Benjamin

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ContactBen.com

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Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

Carbon Copy Cloner. Not the cheapest or the easiest, but I'm a big fan. The developer has been outstanding over the years maintaining a stable product and providing excellent support.

https://bombich.com/download

SuperDuper is the other old school, widely respected backup for Mac. Cheaper and a bit simpler, but when I tried it eons ago it couldn't do something I needed, I don't remember what that was. 

https://shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

These are traditional backup programs. 

I use time Machine for my system drive, but only because it's super easy, and not for individual file history. For me, it's only a disaster recovery backup. If you really want it to work as designed for individual files, you need a very large backup drive, at least three times the expected primary size. If you have a lot of constantly changing, large files, as I do (video editor), you need a REALLY large drive because versioning wipes out older files too quickly to be of use. For this reason, I don't store large files on my system drive at all and I exclude all other drives from Time Machine.

I use Carbon Copy Cloner for everything else.

Cheers,

                  Tod

On Jan 13, 2023, at 4:05 PM, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@ContactBen.com> wrote:

<time_machine.jpg>

OK . . . I officially hate Apple Time Machine. 

It's plugged-in every hour of every day when I'm working. Now, only the second time that I've ever gone in to retrieve a file > > > it's nowhere to be found! 

I've searched a myriad of ways, including file type (.psd) along with criteria such as created after 1/1/23.

What good is it if it doesn't backup stuff?!

Anyone have a recommendation for a more robust alternative?

TIA . . . now, please excuse me while I retire from the computer in order to clean up the mess in my office — from my head exploding . . . . <sigh>

Thanks all!

Cheers,

Benjamin

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Benjamin Hershleder

ContactBen.com

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Re: [Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

I use CrashPlan Pro as a cloud backup. It's $10 per month per device for unlimited storage. 

Additionally, I use ChronoSync to make backups of my Avid projects folder, et al. You can configure it to run a number of ways, but I have mine set to trigger a backup 5 minutes after it detects a filesystem change. This means that 5 minutes after I hit save, it makes a copy of whatever .avb files have changed since the last sync. I have it going to a folder on my Dropbox, and my Dropbox folder is also getting backed up to CrashPlan. 

I also recently started using JottaCloud ($9.90/month) to test it out as an alternative to CrashPlan. 

I've never used TimeMachine and don't plan to. 
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[Avid-L2] OT: File Backup App (not for media)

OK . . . I officially hate Apple Time Machine. 

It's plugged-in every hour of every day when I'm working. Now, only the second time that I've ever gone in to retrieve a file > > > it's nowhere to be found! 

I've searched a myriad of ways, including file type (.psd) along with criteria such as created after 1/1/23.

What good is it if it doesn't backup stuff?!

Anyone have a recommendation for a more robust alternative?

TIA . . . now, please excuse me while I retire from the computer in order to clean up the mess in my office — from my head exploding . . . . <sigh>

Thanks all!

Cheers,

Benjamin

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Benjamin Hershleder

ContactBen.com

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[Avid-L2] Deck Control with Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini

Upgrading to Mac M1, MC 2022.10 and a Blackmagic UltraStudio HD Mini for
I/O. Using a PDW-F1600 XDCAM deck.

Of course video, audio and deck control are flawless with BMD's software
(Media Express).

Avid sees audio and video -- but sees nothing for the deck. Deck
Configuration shows no ports on Direct.

Anyone know the secret sauce for getting Avid to play nice with the
UltraStudio??

Many thanks in advance.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan


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Re: [Avid-L2] Avid and BCC Title Studio?

I forgot to mention it also sets the Controls Panal Drop Shadow back to default 20 when it was set to 8.

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[Avid-L2] Avid and BCC Title Studio?

Super novice in BCC Title Studio.  I have muscled my way to a two line lower third and sorted out the Shape Position to move the text to lower left corner with the text left justified.  I'm applying the drop shadow in the Controls Panal.  I set the composite Pos X to left and the Pos Y to bottom.  All this seems to play okay but when I duplicate the BCC effect for the next credit page and start retyping the text gets positioned back to the center of the frame and I have to manually re-enter Shape Postition Pos X and Pos Y.  I thought I was just typing over the existing text and I don't understand why it moves the newly typed text back to center screen.  Anybody understand the logic BCC Title Studio is using.  Again I'm novice so there may be something very basic I don't understand about the structure of this tool.

It's so nice to have to learn an interface that has the complexity of BCC Red/Avid fx when all I need it classic Title Tool functionality.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

[Avid-L2] All current Artist I/O's are past their Final Sale Date, what's coming?

I came across some interesting information while exploring I/O options for a few new systems.  In Avid's January 4, 2023 End of Life document I found every one of the current I/O options to be past their Final Sale Date. 

From:  https://www.avid.com/products/avid-artist-io
"Avid Artist I/O interfaces offer extensive HD and high-res format support across four interfaces—Avid Artist | DNxIQ, Avid Artist | DNxIV, new Avid Artist | DNxIP, and new Avid Artist | DNxID. This flexibility future-proofs your production, enabling you to work with today’s high-res formats, while supporting HD and SD too. You can also work with 2K or 4K media and deliver in HD with the onboard real-time down-converter, enabling you to transition to high-res at your own pace."

From:  https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/FAQ/End-of-support-dates?retURL=%2Fpkb%2Farticles%2Fen_US%2Fcompatibility%2Fen273267%3Fpopup%3Dtrue%26NewLang%3Den%26DocType%3D1083&popup=true

Video Editing

Product / Model	SKU's / Part Numbers	Final Sale Date	End of Support Date
Artist | DNxID	9935-72387-00	12/31/2022	12/31/2027
Artist | DNxIP	9935-72386-00	3/31/2022	3/31/2027
Artist | DNxIQ	9935-71869-00	12/31/2022	12/31/2027
Artist | DNxIV	9935-72385-00	12/31/2022	12/31/2027

Has anyone heard anything about what new and/or revised I/O tech might be on the way?

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