- File> Open > Browse to .EDL file> import wizard opens>Choose Delimited > Click Next.
- Choose Space, Uncheck the Tab button. > click Next.
- Choose Text > hit Finish
- Save the spreadsheet as Excel workbook.
- Switch to the Data Tab > Top menus.
- Select all then click the Filter button. This makes each column a sortable category.
- Click the little arrow next to the column you want to sort and choose Sort A to Z in the menu that pops up.
- Bam your EDL is now sorted It doesn’t really matter which column you sort, the point is to get lines that are named to same together for the next step.
- Select all rows that are NOT the rows you are interested in, for example: you need the SOURCE names of clips in the edl
- Delete all rows that are not SOURCE by selecting them and choosing delete rows (CRTL – (minus sign))
- Congratulations, you now have a list of clips used in the sequence without any other clutter. To neaten it up remove all duplicate rows.
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AVID do’s and don’ts 2017
AVID do’s and don’ts 2017
In no particular order, listing recent workflow problems I found switching back to AVID this year.
DO
| No. Avid’s work best with Avid media. If you want a smooth experience, you need to transcode. | ||
| I blame Avid Marketting for not making this more clear. Too many people try to AMA footage and work native and working native is NOT how Avid works. | ||
| XDCAM only imports at native resolution!!!!!! | ||
| Probably, just like with the original XDCAM, during an “import”, you cannot change the resolution. You either need to record baseband, or Transcode after-the-fact. Welcome to the fun world of “Tapeless Workflow”. | ||
| XDCAM and XDCAM HD follow the MXF OP1a standard, and need to be converted to MXF OP Atom. Similarly, XDCAM EX is MP4, and needs to be converted to the same.
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Resources:
Excellent How to import different formats into AVID.
Tips for getting out of password hell
The number one reason I get into password hell from time to time is because I’m juggling so many passwords and I mix them up. That said, I think it is sometimes hard to determine if my password hell is caused by human error or an error on the end of the entity I’m trying to log into. Company’s like Microsoft, Adobe & Apple juggle millions of passwords that they have to pass along between their websites, user accounts and applications. It doesn’t always work smooth, they are not honest about glitches in this system and there is not a lot of info on the web. Most web searches direct you to a page to reset your password, sometimes creating an infinite loop of resetting the password, trying to log in, resetting again etc.
Watch out, not every website lets you copy and paste a password or store passwords with browser or keychain.
Example: readkit & paypal don’t let you paste. Results will be wrong, that’s how their site is coded to prevent spammers.
Read this great times article about creating good passwords.
Apple
Apple is famous for it’s password loops, sometimes it happens on the iphone/ipad sometimes with appstore/itunes. They seem to have problems passing passwords along to the different parts of their servers. Biggest lesson I learned recently is: Reset your password on an Apple device! The browser iforgot solution is glitchy.
Problem: When changing your apple ID password in a browser you get message:
“your password contains unacceptable characters”
even though the green buttons are all lit and the password checker says “strong”
Solution : reset password on an Apple device instead.
Problem: Sometimes you unknowingly created multiple Apple ID’s because you thought you where giving an alternate email address.
Solution: pay attention to the email address Apple replies to, when you reset your password.
Problem: Even though you just successfully changed your Apple ID password, your iphone, ipad, mail application or itunes reject the password.
Solution: reset password on an Apple device.
iPhone email
Problem: Can’t send email using PoP/IMAP: “A copy has been placed in your Outbox. The sender address “xxx@xxx.com” was rejected by the server.”
Solution: Fill username (your full email address) and password in on the smtp part of the email settings even though it says “optional”
WordPress (self hosted blog)
WordPress (wp-login.php) brute force attacks are common place lately.
Read this login trouble article
13 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area
In WP always try to change passwords from within the admin page.
If you’re caught in a loop, can’t get in or password new user doesn’t work then go in using phpMyAdmin. That should always work because it lets you edit the password database direct.
Make sure you edit the correct database! (I use unique email addresses for each user to make it easy to double check)
Adobe
Adobe creative cloud seems to have propagating issues similar to Apple’s.
Problem: You can log in to Application manager on one machine but not another.
Solution: Reset password on the computer that you want to work on. (and deal with the other machine later.)
Google
Google is great when it works and their servers are up, it sucks when they are down. They are not transparent about ongoing problems and because everything is free, there is nobody to yell at over the phone.
Shooting Video with the Nikon D600
When you buy a D600, you basically buy 2 camera’s in one box. You understand this when you notice that there are separate iso settings for video & stills.
pros -great still camera -audio with separate box to add XLR, a little noisy, but ok for a DSLR. -rolling shutter ok, comparable to 5Dm2 -haven’t noticed any overheating issues when shooting multiple 20 min takes. -Nice dynamic range and low-light performance up to 1600 ASA. Grain, especially in the blacks looks bad at higher iso settings.
cons -terrible moire & false colors etc. in almost every shot! I’m talking about 1080 24, 25 and 30 fps.
The 60fps 720p settings are even more useless. This is with sharpening turned down.
Sorry Nikon, you are still lightyears behind Canon & Sony.
The weird thing is that this full frame 24Megapixel sensor is made by Sony, the Nikon processing just screws it up. The internal H264 compression doesn’t help either and right now (Dec 2012) you can’t use the HDMI out because it is not full screen. You can’t shoot any wide shots in focus because of the moire and watch out for anything shiny in a shot because it will be busy as hell.
-recording length limited to 20 mins.
-you can’t extend the dynamic range using a picture profile like the Technicolor profile
iTunes Match explicit/clean problem fixed.
For Mac OS X 10.6 or later!
1. Download SUBLER
2. In iTunes select the songs that are recognized as clean but you want the explicit version of.
3. Right-click and “Show in Finder”
4. Select all the songs again in the finder, or work in batches per album.
5. Drag the songs onto the Subler app to open.
6. In Subler set each song to explicit and close to save.
7. In iTunes, reset the cache.
8. Click the songs and see if they are now showing as explicit.
You might have to turn iTunes Match off/on to get it to recognize the new tags.
Shooting with the Canon C300
2.5 hr shot @ 50Mbits 1080p 29.97
Copy 60GB using USB-2 for the reader and FW-800 to the drive > 30min > 1/5 realtime
FCP-7 (with Canon XF plugin installed)
WARNING DO NOT UPGRADE TO OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion!
Log & Transfer to Prores 422 using 2009 Core Duo macbookpro > Realtime, half realtime with i7 Quad-core
FCP-X can edit immediately (but secretly transcodes to Prores 422 when the machine is idle)
AVID (with Canon XF AMA plugin)
Can edit immediately with AMA
Transcode to DNxHD-45 > (using i7 2.7GHz) > half realtime
So:
-Transcoding in FCP or AVID seems to be half realtime with an i7 Quad-core CPU.
-Avid & FCP-X have the advantage of being able to read and edit the card immediately.
-I still have to test editing with DNxHD-45 and then relinking to the AMA files or the other way around. Don’t know what the limit is on how many hours you can link with AMA
AVID MC 6 now 100% compatible with most camera formats.
No more transcoding or re-wrapping of most current camera formats and codecs! That’s a big deal I think.
I’m cutting a show with 5D, panasonic AVC INTRA, EX1, EX3, and P2 footage.
With Final Cut I would still have to rewrap or transcode all this footage.
Sony came out with their AMA plugin in Nov 2011 and it works great.
I still transcode H264 from 5D to DNxHD 175 because of performance issues, the other formats link and play fine.
Here is a recent discussion about the RED AMA plugin, a lot of people still prep their R3D files using RED CineX.
This is the link to the Red AMA plugin for MC6
Sony XDCAM AMA plugins for MC6 downloads:
Using Photoshop to resize images
-100% Rule: determine what the tightest framing of a picture will be without scaling the picture above 100% in FCP or AVID.
Do this:
-open the picture in photoshop
-make the Info palette visible
-set options to Pixels
-select the Marquee tool
-eyeball different zooms on the picture using Marquee
-on the info palette read the width of your tightest framing.
-devide 1920 by that number
-in my example 1920/987=1.9
so I know I have to blow this picture up about 2x to be able to zoom in as far as I want.
-Image > Image Size
-Enter the new number for Width
-Check Scale Styles
-Constrain Proportions
-Check >Resample Bicubic
-Resolution > leave unchanged
Pulling video from web pages.
When you need YouTube video’s or any other video’s from websites for editing.
Do this: (for PC or Mac)
1. install the latest Firefox browser
2. install the Download helper add-on
USE this link if you google it, you will get a spammy page where the real link is hidden.
3. go to the page with the video, you’ll see the Download helper Icon, come to life.
4. click on the little down arrow to the left of the address bar.
5. choose the highest quality, biggest frame size available from the list
6. in this example the 3rd one from the top 1080p.mp4 (flv, Flash is usually worse than mp4)
7. let the file download to your computer.
8. use MPEG Streamclip on one of the FCP systems to transcode to DVCPROHD.
Sometimes this plug-in can’t pull the video > use Screenflow instead.
