This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] New Avid Everywhere platform

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] New Avid Everywhere platform

The 'soft cut' was almost forced on us in the uk in the early 80s... When Dallas and several other prime time shows figured out how much they could save sending 1" standards converted masters rather than film prints for local telecine transfer on air quality took a beating. One byproduct of ace or other 4 field converters was a 2 frame fade at cuts. Suddenly this was perceived as quality in much the same way that 3:2 pull down is seen as part of the film look in the us. I can't tell you how often I gave up arguing that soft cuts were a byproduct of a substandard conversion process and not 'the trend in American production'. It was a shitty 3 years but then quantel silk or was it satin came out with improved shot change detection then the oki and snell boxes hit the market and the ace converters were put in the bin and normality resumed.

Well until Michael Jackson made black or white and I spent 2 years doing morphs instead of dissolves...

Mike

On 10 Oct, 2014, at 2:19 am, "'steve4lists@veralith.com' steve4lists@veralith.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I remember the first time I head the term "soft cut." What did they want? A REALLY short dissolve. This is what I should have given them.

Steve

On Oct 9, 2014, at 2:13 PM, Robert Lawson avidrhl@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I'm telling every producer I know!

On Thursday, October 9, 2014, tcurren@aol.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Want to make a half frame dissolve? Drop a 2 frame dissolve starting at the cut. In effects mode, step forward one field and add a keyframe. Adjust the slider on that reframe to 100. Now the first field is a blended field and the rest of the fields are the incoming shot. Bingo, 1 field dissolve. ;-)

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