back 2 tape or dvd?

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urbanfx

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hi guys, if I am not total retarded I understood that you can capture with avid but not put it back on tape with the camara is that right??? if yes this sux :(
just with mojo or a deck? if I am wrong correct me please!

well if I dont find a kind of solution for this ill go crazy, hours and hours of editing and I came to the conclusion Ill have to burn all this to dvd.... but how????????????????????????

I know I got a dvd burner and thats it and I know how to burn backup files on it but a movie???
just the thought really scares me.. is there any tutorial for this? I dont even need those interactive menus, I just want that it starts automatically, can someone help???

please please please dvx/avid user gods help me out!
 
Re: back 2 tape or dvd?

The Xpress Pro ships with Sorenson Squeeze and depending on what OS, a version of Sonic Solutions DVD authoring. Highoight the sequence and select "send to" Sorenson. This will create a QT reference and send it Sorenson. From there you encode an MPEG2 file. Select NTSC LARGE from the DVD preselect template. From there set up the proper options as needed as far an encode rate. Makesure you select progressive. Click on the "wrench" icon and make sure Auto deinterlace is set to OFF. From there,encode away.
After the encode, create a NTSC DVD project, frp teh MPEG2 file (picture and sound) into the FIRST PLAY menu and encode as DVD.

Michael
 
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you could render out an avi and bring it in to another app like vegas and print to tape i would think.
 
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vegas makes it possible to record back 2 tape in to the dvx directly?? sure????????
if yes I am running out to buy one!
 
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If I am reading this post right, the question was "can I lay back to tape/camera?" which of course is yes. You can connect back the same way you got video into your edit system (prob. firewire). Make sure you are on "blue dot" not green dot and your camera is in deck not camera with firewire connected and it should work fine.

FD
 
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My understanding is that you are unable to export a 23.97 project without mojo. If you have XPro and want to take your sequence to Vegas make a QT reference file for best quality(no loss or AVI. 2gig limit).
 
Re: back 2 tape or dvd?

Woah, you can definetly print back out to tape... And this is how.

First you want to have your whole timeline highlighted. So i would press HOME.. MARK IN... END... MARK OUT... and make sure every audio and video track is selected (which makes the whole timeline purple)

Then right click any of the purple region and click the Render Effects and render it all. Once done click the green light which means (help me out) Real time effects or something, and you are turning it off.. Now when you have your dv cam plugged in, you just press record on the cam and press play on the timeline from the first frame obviously....

Now if your CAMERA's record button doesn't work, then get a deck. Its good to have anyway and keeps your camera working longer.

But I think there is a way around that also if the record button doesn't work and I will try to find out or hopefully someone will post it up!
 
Re: back 2 tape or dvd?

This works for 25i and 30i project types, but not for 23.976p project types since the signal needs the 2:3 pulldown inserted in order to make it NTSC.
 
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While we're on this subject...

I took some clips via QT Ref into a 29.97 After Effects comp. Rendered it out uncompressed, and then imported that into a 30i project in Avid in order to get a digital cut.

However, Avid only imported the first minute or so of the clip. Looking at the file, it was about 12 gigs.

What do I need to do to get the footage back into Avid?
 
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Make sure that the entire 12 gigs were imported, at uncompressed rates, 12 gigs would be about 12 minutes of video. Go to the MediaTool and see if there are other clips there from your import and drag it into your project.

Let me know it is not there...

Michael
 
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Nothing else there...

I just deleted the imported stuff and reimported. The source file is a 12.1 gig, seven minutes long (that sounds too short for that length...), 720x480, 24 bit uncompressed, 453kbps.

Xpress Pro gets 00:39:03 of it.

I hate to jump topics, but something else just occurred to me while I was logging footage from the weekend. The DVX timecode burned onto the image is 29.97. Is Pro epecting 24 frame time code in batch import, or can I feed it these 29.97 codes?
 
Re: back 2 tape or dvd?

[quote author=rsbush link=board=Avid;num=1079149852;start=0#6 date=04/02/04 at 13:36:36]My understanding is that you are unable to export a 23.97 project without mojo. If you have XPro and want to take your sequence to Vegas make a QT reference file for best quality(no loss or AVI. 2gig limit).[/quote]

DVFilm Maker 2 will make an Avid 23.976 DV quicktime into an Avid DV-NTSC quicktime with 3:2 pulldown (or 2:3:3:2 pulldown with no recompression). Make sure the "always make quicktime" option is turned on.
 
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Hi Marcus -

I bought DV Filmamker early on to do some testing with Xpress Pro and I was windering if and when there were plans to support the Avid Quicktime DV codec? That would certainly cut the workflow time by a huge amount.

Michael
 
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