Friday, September 12, 2014

[Avid-L2] sum of clip times in bin/project

 

So, I'm interested in knowing how much footage I have in a project I'm working on.

Of course, I have subclips and audio files that are in addition to the video files (dual system sound)

I went to the Media Tool and created a master clip list of JUST the video master clips.

Is there a way to sum the DURATION?

I tried exporting that as a TAB DELIMITED file and taking it to Excel.

But then you've got a column for FRAMES that Excel doesn't know how to convert to 24 fps/seconds.

Is there a Console command I can run on a bin or a some other way to come up with a footage number?

You used to be able to do a get info on a bin and it would sum up the time.

Steve Hullfish

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[Avid-L2] WAY OT: Needed - an Accountant (for an individual - not a company) with familiarity of our industry

 

Hey All.

Way Off topic, but I'm in need of an accountant / tax preparation team
to help out as I am getting ready to set myself up as an LLC to cover
all my business needs. Unfortunately, I know no one that meets my
criteria and thought I'd reach out and see if anyone here would want to
suggest an individual or two.

Thanks in advance.

Mark

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[Avid-L2] Re: 36 Core HP Z840

 

Funny!  That's how I feel, however, it was more an immediate need to replace DS and Smac seemed to be the right choice.  Of course, now, after 2 months of sheer hell with Mavericks not playing well with Smoke, I've resurrected DS until I can find a better replacement or until AD gets their shit together with Maverics and Smoke. :(((  Of course Resolve works great with the nMP but whatever....you get what you need at the time you need it.

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[Avid-L2] Re: 36 Core HP Z840

 
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Re: [Avid-L2] Resolve Scaling Video level on Transcoding Phantom .cine files to DNX 440X when Resolve was set for DNX 220X?

 

If you send kosher 16-235 or 64-940 bars to Resolve they always show as 0-1023 on the Res scopes. Not helpful. Spoke to a BM guy today and he couldn't really see the problem. I do, as do you, I think.

 With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543660

On 12 Sep 2014, at 08:32, "John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

So I set the Resolve monitor to get DATA not Video levels and it tracked properly on my external scope to the Resolve internal scopes.  Now when I look at the resulting files the levels are like importing at RGB levels but with 709 level media, blacks are high and whites are low.  I'm not sure why the avid media is DNX 440X either.  My first test was 1090P 29.97 and that came out as DNX 220X.  Then I decided to see what a 1080i export would be like from these seemingly progressive files.  Both times with and without LUT I end up with DNX 440X media.  I double checked and the selection in the delivery settings only list 220X as the highest value.  Where does the DNX 440X baked media get it's orders from.  Am I missing a setup option.  Why does 1080P behave target media wise but 1080i doesn't?

Now I'm no Resolve person but I sure figured that if I see the same values on the internal scopes and my external scope things were playing nice.  First I found that 0 to 1023 on Resolve scopes was showing as 0 to 700 mV on my Tek scope.  Changing the monitoring settings to DATA and not Video levels got the Tek Scope reading the over and undershoots like I would expect for levels below 64 and above 940.  Now I cook the files and it's like the Resolve scaled the values up to video levels like I was seeing when my video monitor setting were video levels.  Is Resolve sneaking behind my back trying to protect me from sending out illegal levels by scaling 0-1023 to 64-940?  I put on my custon LUT to do that inside the Resolve so I thought the true data levels on the Avid media would be correct in Avid 709 world.  I'm enjoying the challenge but I've about had as much enjoyment as I can stand.  If this were linear I'd already be done.
 
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net

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Re: [Avid-L2] BM acquires eyeon

 

Watched the Adobe PP CC new features demo at IBC today. Showed how applying a correction to a master clip on source side after editing multiple instances to sequence would ripple through - not Symphony but someone has been paying attention. Other big deal was loading sequence in source monitor and showing it in timeline - seems familiar!

 With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543660

On 12 Sep 2014, at 19:25, "blafarm@yahoo.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

>Since Avid refuses to support the finishing market it appears Blackmagic is going to take it.


Agree.  

In spite of Avid's latest promotional page saying:

"Deliver a high-res master of finished projects directly from Media Composer, eliminating the need to export to other tools for finishing"

It's the finishing tools, themselves, that will be the undoing of Media Composer.

The writing is on the wall and it's just a matter of time.

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[Avid-L2] Re: 36 Core HP Z840

 

$2399???!!!!!  That's crazy!  Why the F did I waste my money on the Mac Garbage can?


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Re: [Avid-L2] Re: 36 Core HP Z840

 

Probably higher clock speed per core. And Avid won't saturate that RAM unless you're doing a ton of S3D/Background Transcoding.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:35 AM, 'Job ter Burg (L2B)' Job_L2@terburg.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


From my experience Z420, single processor, 16 GB RAM, is much faster than z820, 32 GB ram, as per Avid's specs.
 Not sure why...

QT apparently has issues with more than 20 cores.


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Re: [Avid-L2] Tape name disassociation

 

Not likely. But another solution should be this. Do you know where the MXF is? Grab it out of the numbered folder it's in and place it in a new numbered folder. Let MC build a database for the one MXF file. Open a bin and drag the newly created MDB file into the bin. Now you have a master clip of the MXF, and you can give that the same tape name you gave for the other clip.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Michael Kedor mikedor@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Let's say someone, definitely not me (ok, me) mislabeled a clip's tape name. Said clip actually has no tape association, and I don't have the source clip, just the .mxf file.

How can I remove the tape association from this clip so I can relink it back to the .mxf?

-MK


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[Avid-L2] Tape name disassociation

 

Let's say someone, definitely not me (ok, me) mislabeled a clip's tape name. Said clip actually has no tape association, and I don't have the source clip, just the .mxf file.

How can I remove the tape association from this clip so I can relink it back to the .mxf?

-MK

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Re: [Avid-L2] SubCap Example File Anyone?

 

Search and replace. The info is all there, but Spruce STL uses comma separation and the Avid DS format uses spaces and line returns. It is not fully automatic because you have to skip any commas in your text, but TextEdit has an elegant nice Find and Replace interface that makes this pretty easy.


The tab delimited export of Inqscribe can probably be automated more successfully, but my assistants were daunted by trying to search and replace the single decimal Inscribe uses in the third TC separator while Avid DS uses colon and semi-colon. 


On Sep 11, 2014, at 12:38 PM, bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

When you say, "relatively easy" what steps do you take to convert the STL file into DS format?



---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <hoplist@...> wrote :

Thanks all. We use Inqscribe to create our caption files. It was relatively easy to manipulate the output into DS format and then it worked fine.


Cheers,
              tod

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
Media Composer v7.0.4 Mac
Mac Pro Quad, OS X 10.9.2




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[Avid-L2] Re: BCC7 with Mavericks

 

You need BCC8 or higher because that's when 64 bit support started for BCC.



---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <kenavid2@...> wrote :

Does this work?  I installed in on my Mac Pro with 10.9.2 and it installed but MC does not see it.

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[Avid-L2] Re: Look Ma no Audio Tracks No Ingest Into Server?

 

So my time code blip seemed to work for show 1 but not on show 2.  On show 1 adding the blip at the end made the audio track 1 frame short of the video track duration wise according to QT Pro 7.  After saving as a self contained movie the tracks were identical in length. 

On show 2 I had the protools mixer create an extra 3 minutes of region to give us extra media.  I still put the 1 frame blip just cause I kinda like that as and end of file notice.  Well oh horror the audio track on show 2 ended up 1 frame short.  We were told as long as this happens 10 seconds or more after the last frame of program it wouldn't be a problem.  Well today they decided otherwise although we still can't get a straight answer as to if it really is a problem. 

At any rate I found that if I have the one frame blip with a video title QT pro 7 shows the one frame discrepency 48:46.09 for video and 48:46.08 for audio.  If I remove the 1 frame of tone and title tool the QT Pro duration is 48:46.05 for video and 48:46.05 for audio.  WTF taking 1 frame off the sequence changes the duration 4 and 3 frames respectively.  Very weird.  Again the difference between show 1 and 2 is it was filler audio up to the blip and show 2 an audio region made in protools as part of the stem.  Oh the pain, oh the pain.



---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <bigfish@...> wrote :

If my time code blip end slate doesn't solve their issue that will be my solution.   I've already got our protools folks making silent media too so I have choices.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Re: 36 Core HP Z840

 


From my experience Z420, single processor, 16 GB RAM, is much faster than z820, 32 GB ram, as per Avid's specs.
 Not sure why...

QT apparently has issues with more than 20 cores.

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