With the introduction of AMA support for RED media in Media Composer 5 it has become a easier to edit RED footage in MC, but it’s still not a finishing solution for many jobs. Avid’s DS product, on the other hand, is a great RED finishing tool.
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Avid Media Composer in a DSLR World
May 6th, 2010
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Don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but Canon made a little digital SLR camera called the Canon 5D Mark II and, apparently, it shoots HD video… It seems that some people are quite excited about the whole thing. Well if you had noticed that, you’d probably have also noticed that almost every mention of editing 5D [...]
The File-based Problem
December 24th, 2008
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File-based video formats offer huge productivity benefits in terms of faster-than-realtime ingest, increased metadata and data efficency, but there are also some huge drawbacks around the less tangible aspects of video production and post-production.
When we shoot on tape we always have the tape (as long as we look after it anyway) – we ingest what [...]
Title Safety
December 22nd, 2008
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Within a PAL 16:9 video frame there are three distinct common title safety areas, they are:
16:9 Safe – basically the full width of the frame, suitable for 16:9 widescreen, and 16:9 letterbox viewing.
14:9 Safe – 14:9 is the middle ground between 4:3 and 16:9 – it is a slight crop, so the safe area is [...]
Labelling Tapes
October 29th, 2008
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It’s boring and pretty easy to overlook, but when editing any video, at all, I strongly believe in the idea of serialised labeling. Nothing is more frustrating when revisiting an old project, or stealing footage from another job than to have the NLE ask you for “Tape 1″
Even for the small jobs, the one offs, [...]
