Also with Pan and Zoom there are times depending on the effect you can't slug in the still even if you want to because you are keying over a background underneath and the slug would cover the background. This may also be true with moving pictures if you import with alpha and key it. It's been a while since I did this with Moving Pictures so I may be wrong. Also one of the gothchas with moving pictures is the motion path info is not really saved as part of the effect, like a lot of other parameters. So if in offline you adjust the ease in, ease out kinda parameters in online the moving picture will ignore that and use whatever motion parameters were used the last time moving pictures was used on the online system. Very sneaky and totally wrong. Just like the 16x9 vs. 4x3 aspect setting. In my opinion all this data should be translated to the effect in online.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> Only if they imported the still and cut it in the timeline. (Recommended practice) Often you will get just the effect cut over filler. Then there is no easy way to track back to what picture it was linked to since that is done outside of Media Composer's universe by the AVX plugin.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jay Mahavier <jay_mahavier@> wrote:
> >
> > can't you display the import path of the master clip in the bin? UNC Path is the name of the column I believe.
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > On Jun 4, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Terence Curren wrote:
> >
> > > StageTools doesn't either. Probably an inherent limitation of Avid's effects model.
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Great bit of info!
> > >> Even better would be if the file path were included in the effect editor display window.
> > >> The BCC plug-in does not do that either. Does Stagetools?
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >> On Jun 4, 2011, at 2:29 PM, shieldsy72@ wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Neat trick I learned on here a while ago (hope it still works in v5):
> > >>>
> > >>> If you have a P&Z effect and don't know the source file, pull out the clip as a subsequence into a new bin. Save the bin. Then open this bin file in a text editor. If you look carefully there is a file path contained in the code garbage. That's your original file.
> > >>>
> > >>> Saved my arse once or twice that one.
> > >>>
> > >>> And I spent the time saved hunting down the offline guy and banging his head on the desk while chanting "put the correct reference clip under the Pan & Zoom" :)
> > >>>
> > >>>
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