Saturday, March 8, 2014

[Avid-L2] OTish: Multiple Repair Permissions with no reduction in repair time?

 

I've repaired the disk permissions on my circa 2009 MBP several times in a row and each time it estimates approx 30 minutes for the repair.  In the past IIRC running disk repair once got most everything repaired and a subsequent disk repair might have a few items but would take significantly less time.  This is no longer the case.  The MBP is 10.6.8 on a HD partition of approx 268GB with approx 28GB free space.  I've googled and see some of the iTunes issues and others can be ignored but I don't ever recall this process taking 30 minutes.  Sometimes the estimate aren't exact but it does seem to be taking roughly 30 minutes each time and still ends up with a long list of repairs and some occasional warnings. 

The computer has been taking much longer than usual to boot lately which is why I thought repairing permissions might help with that.  It seems repairing permissions is a lot like the older days of rebuilding the desk top in a sense I do it without really knowing if it's helping or not.  It's the lack of a reduction in errors listed and duration of the repair that seems problematic.  Any experiences appreciated.
 
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net

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Friday, March 7, 2014

[Avid-L2] Can a reply be directed at the author with the new Layout of Avid L2?

 

I thought I was able to reply just to the sender of a message on the Avid L-2 after the recent, a month or so, change in the layout of the group page.  I recall twirling down a carrot in the reply address and getting the normal choices of sender, group and sender, or just group.  I can't seem to find that anymore.  What am I missing or where has that function moved?  I'm on Firefox on a mac if that is a factor.
 
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net

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[Avid-L2] RE: Avid FX crash on render

 

For those who may encounter similar issues with Avid FX renders, Boris technical support staff informed me that the application is designed to render short form segments - in the 3 to 5 minute max timeframe.  Not good for the 1 hour 50 minute segments I needed to filter.


My workaround was to parse out the overall segment into 10 minute subsegments and render each individually.  It was necessary to close and reopen MC before proceeding to the next segment to avoid a crash.  Boris wouldn't render multiple segments back to back without crashing.


Hope this helps.

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Re: [Avid-L2] SPAM ALERT: My new book is finally available on Amazon for pre-order.

 

Ah yes the balance between client perception and reality.  Although my knee jerk reaction to your Senior Editor would be to place the manual where the sun didn't shine on him those were simpler times for edit controllers.  Still a lot to learn but things weren't the moving target they are today.  Guess the help menus help mask the need to learn or relearn a task today.  I've learned the hard way the only stupid question is the one I don't ask and I can't save my ass and my face at the same time.  It also helps that the clients aren't in the room all the time these days. 

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Re: [Avid-L2] SPAM ALERT: My new book is finally available on Amazon for pre-order.

 

How times change... Back when I was training I once had a Cmx 340-x manual on a shelf in the edit suite. The senior editor threw a 1" tape at my head and screamed at me that I was never to bring it in the room again, 'Clients pay for an editor who knows the system, not how to read'. When I complained to the big boss in the pub he just shrugged and laughed - 'you're lucky we got rid of the Quad's'...

I've had an aversion to having any manuals or training materials visible to clients ever since. I can't remember why due to head injuries suffered in my youth.

best regards

Mike

On 3/7/14 2:55 PM, bigfish@pacbell.net wrote:
 

Mike,
I'll let you in on a little secret.  I get all these books from Steve and others and I spread them around the edit suite.  On some rare occasions I even open them but mostly they are great props.  If it looks like you've read them the clients are impressed and they just assume you are very knowledgeable.  Then when a real question arises I contact Steve or the other author's directly for the scoop and where to find it in the book.  Perception is at least half the battle.  ;-)


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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] SPAM ALERT: My new book is finally available on Amazon for pre-order.

 

Mike,
I'll let you in on a little secret.  I get all these books from Steve and others and I spread them around the edit suite.  On some rare occasions I even open them but mostly they are great props.  If it looks like you've read them the clients are impressed and they just assume you are very knowledgeable.  Then when a real question arises I contact Steve or the other author's directly for the scoop and where to find it in the book.  Perception is at least half the battle.  ;-)

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Re: [Avid-L2] SPAM ALERT: My new book is finally available on Amazon for pre-order.

 

It had the reverse effect on me... What MORE learning? Why can't the book just do it for me...

As always though a nice looking resource, well done.

Mike

On 7 Mar, 2014, at 5:42 am, <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

 

Wow you had me at "Tutorial Media."  Sounds like a great information source.

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[Avid-L2] Re: .srt subtitle file

 

FYI:
For years now I'm pretty happy with belle nuit's subtitler. It can convert / edit any subtitle file and you can export a stl file for use in subcap or export very clean tiffs that can be edited in your MC sequence with a handy tool.
( fcp or premiere even easier with xml file).

Look at;
http://www.belle-nuit.com/belle-nuit-subtitler

Best, Bart

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Re: [Avid-L2] SPAM ALERT: My new book is finally available on Amazon for pre-order.

 

Wow you had me at "Tutorial Media."  Sounds like a great information source.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Avid doesn't see RAID

 

I had something similar happen a long while ago. I did a brief export to an empty external drive, then manually copied the Avid MediaFiles folder to the drive Avid would not recognize. Then I ejected the external drive.  Now Avid was happy to use it.


The alldrives console command sounds way more elegant, but if it doesn't work for some reason, give this a shot.

If you are curious whether your invisible file theory is correct, you can download TinkerTool and set the Finder to show invisible files.



On Thursday, March 6, 2014, Mark Spano <cutandcover@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Go to Console

type alldrives <enter>

Most likely your Avid doesn't think your RAID is a media drive. The command <alldrives> allows everything to show up in Media Creation, regardless of what Avid thinks.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com> wrote:
 

For some reason, my Media Composer is not seeing the RAID on my MacPro. In any list - like transcode - it pulls up every drive EXCEPT the RAID. I went to settings and deselected all of the "filtering" options, and even in the Media Creation setting, the RAID is not choosable from the list of drives to write to. There are 4.5T of space left on the RAID.

Avid CAN see the RAID when doing Exports and Imports or AMA linking! Just not transcoding or when saving Titles or rendering, basically anything that's supposed to go in the Avid Mediafiles folder is broken.

I'm running 7.0.3 on OS 10.8.5.

The RAID has read/write privileges for me and for EVERYBODY.

There is not an Avid Mediafiles folder on the RAID, but Avid should create one on launch, right, or at least when you try to record media to the drive?

This problem occurred a while ago. Something happened to the RAID and the icon changed and I lost some data and eventually replaced a bad drive in the unit. Since then, I haven't been able to use the drive as a media drive for Avid.

All other programs can see the RAID and export to it fine. It has to have something to do with the Avid Mediafiles folder itself. I wonder if somehow it became an invisible file? And Avid senses that it's out there, but can't use it.

Steve


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Re: [Avid-L2] Avid doesn't see RAID

 

Go to Console

type alldrives <enter>

Most likely your Avid doesn't think your RAID is a media drive. The command <alldrives> allows everything to show up in Media Creation, regardless of what Avid thinks.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com> wrote:
 

For some reason, my Media Composer is not seeing the RAID on my MacPro. In any list - like transcode - it pulls up every drive EXCEPT the RAID. I went to settings and deselected all of the "filtering" options, and even in the Media Creation setting, the RAID is not choosable from the list of drives to write to. There are 4.5T of space left on the RAID.

Avid CAN see the RAID when doing Exports and Imports or AMA linking! Just not transcoding or when saving Titles or rendering, basically anything that's supposed to go in the Avid Mediafiles folder is broken.

I'm running 7.0.3 on OS 10.8.5.

The RAID has read/write privileges for me and for EVERYBODY.

There is not an Avid Mediafiles folder on the RAID, but Avid should create one on launch, right, or at least when you try to record media to the drive?

This problem occurred a while ago. Something happened to the RAID and the icon changed and I lost some data and eventually replaced a bad drive in the unit. Since then, I haven't been able to use the drive as a media drive for Avid.

All other programs can see the RAID and export to it fine. It has to have something to do with the Avid Mediafiles folder itself. I wonder if somehow it became an invisible file? And Avid senses that it's out there, but can't use it.

Steve


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[Avid-L2] Avid doesn't see RAID

 

For some reason, my Media Composer is not seeing the RAID on my MacPro. In any list - like transcode - it pulls up every drive EXCEPT the RAID. I went to settings and deselected all of the "filtering" options, and even in the Media Creation setting, the RAID is not choosable from the list of drives to write to. There are 4.5T of space left on the RAID.

Avid CAN see the RAID when doing Exports and Imports or AMA linking! Just not transcoding or when saving Titles or rendering, basically anything that's supposed to go in the Avid Mediafiles folder is broken.

I'm running 7.0.3 on OS 10.8.5.

The RAID has read/write privileges for me and for EVERYBODY.

There is not an Avid Mediafiles folder on the RAID, but Avid should create one on launch, right, or at least when you try to record media to the drive?

This problem occurred a while ago. Something happened to the RAID and the icon changed and I lost some data and eventually replaced a bad drive in the unit. Since then, I haven't been able to use the drive as a media drive for Avid.

All other programs can see the RAID and export to it fine. It has to have something to do with the Avid Mediafiles folder itself. I wonder if somehow it became an invisible file? And Avid senses that it's out there, but can't use it.

Steve

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Re: [Avid-L2] SPAM ALERT: My new book is finally available on Amazon for pre-order.

 

This from my publisher about the Kindle purchases and the availability of the companion website and materials:


The good news is that we have the e-first publication. That's something we've been striving for for a while now, and we're finally there.
 Bad news is the issue with the companion site. What we're going to do in the meantime is direct Kindle customers to email Peter with their Kindle receipt, and we'll then send them the files via a file-sharing site.

So, for any one who bought the Kindle version, you can email Peter Linsley at Taylor and Francis (Focal Press) and he will send you the files if you can provide a receipt of purchase. Note that I changed the email address to prevent spam bots from attacking him.

peter.linsley   at   taylorandfrancis dot com.

Now, if only I could get a copy!

Steve


On Mar 6, 2014, at 11:16 AM, John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:

 

No problem, Steve.  I was actually surprised the Kindle version was even available, as I was just checking to see if a release date was posted.  As I said earlier, there is a lot to be gained from just reading it as-is...and I would wholeheartedly recommend getting it even with the tutorial media on IOU.  Congrats and thanks for your work.  

Well done.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Avid's biggest challenges

 

Like boris in symphony option I mean.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Jeff Sengpiehl <jeff@chainsawedit.com> wrote:
 

And baselight is a completely seperate company,  just like GenArts is.

JDS

 Jeff Sengpiehl  | Chief Engineer
Chainsaw, Inc.
Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail, 
it was sent on recycled bytes.







On Mar 6, 2014, at 7:00 AM, Dom Q. Silverio <domqsilverio@gmail.com> wrote:


Baselight's workflow is a plugin FX, thus the workflow compared to native CC is different.



Dom Q. Silverio


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:45 AM, <dario.caamano@gmail.com> wrote:


Some idea

why doesn't avid include FilmLigh as an option instead of Symphony for the same price?

Maybe its a better way to solve the color tool evolution.

Dario








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