This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Frameflex!

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Frameflex!

Thanks. It would be nice to turn FF off for selected rasters, though. Just had some 25P DSLR QTs, transcoded to 1080i DNxHD120 - FF interpreted these as 4:3. Looked OK in sequence but opening in Effect Editor squished them to 4:3!

With Best Wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660

From: John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com>
To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 13:51
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Frameflex!

Make the aspect ratio and reformatting columns visible in the bin where the SD clips live.
Correct the ones that are erroneously 16:9 to 4:3 (probably imported/captured with the SD project set to 16:9). Set to Pillarbox, if desired. You can do many clips at once.

Refresh the sequence for reformatting options, if necessary.

On Wednesday, November 27, 2013, Roger wrote:

Episode 3. The 4:3 clips that did not invoke Frameflex were being wrongly interpreted as 16:9.

On 26 Nov 2013, at 10:26, Roger Shufflebottom wrote:

Taking this a step further, I tried to repeat my experience on a different system with different settings and I was able to add several 4:3 SD clips to an HD sequence without Frameflex being invoked. Tried again on the first 7.0.2 system and saw what I saw yesterday. This behavior must linked somehow to the metadata in the SD clips. What's more, if you try to open a sequence in an earlier version (I tried opening my 7.0.2 project with Symphony 6.0.4 and MC 6.5.4), the Frameflex effects show up as 'Unknown Effect' icons and have to be laboriously removed before a sequence can be rendered or exported. That's a pain as I did not want them in the first place!

With Best Wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660

From: Roger Shufflebottom <rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 25 November 2013, 22:39
Subject: [Avid-L2] Frameflex!

Just having my first experience of Frameflex. I understood this was for larger than HD frame footage but MC 7.0.2 seems to automatically apply Frameflex to 4:3 clips hat I'm adding to an HD sequence. This is a bit of a pain. Viewing the clips in Source/Record mode shows them stretched to the 16:9 frame and a green dot in the Timeline. Selecting a clip with the Effect Editor displays it as 4:3 with a bounding box and the Frameflex parameters available but no way to commit to (say) a pillarbox display. Seems this can only be done via the Source Settings in the bin. Am I missing something? Do we have to work this way in V7 when simply dropping a resize or reformat effect on to a clip would do?

With Best Wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660_,___

With best wishes,

Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660