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Posted by DanR on 11/13/06 23:12
DanR wrote:
> Toby wrote:
>> "DanR" <dhr22@sorrynospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:kG25h.253$yE6.128@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>>> We are expecting a client to bring in a hard drive with footage shot
>>> on P2 cards and transferred to that hard drive. We intend to move
>>> that footage to
>>> an Avid Adrenaline (without the HD option) for editing and later to
>>> an Avid
>>> Nitrus (HD capable) to finish.
>>> Anyone out there done this before? Any tips or things to watch out
>>> for?
>>
>> My colleagues in Europe are doing that all the time to Media
>> Composers and Newscutters. I assume that the P2 material is not HD if
>> you are moving it to a non HD Adrenaline. I can't see that step
>> introducing any problems, and I can't see why moving it on to a
>> Nitrus should cause any problems. OTOH knowing Avid, there may be
>> unexpected buggy stuff...
>> Toby
>
> We are thinking that the footage may be HD. (720 24P) Our Adrenaline
> editor is under the impression he can import the P2 HD footage to his
> system and edit it but not export it in any way except to move it to
> our Niturs to finish. But we are not at all sure if this is possible.
> Our main question is how to correctly get the video into the
> Adrenaline. We've tried to research this and have received
> conflicting information. This will happen tomorrow. (Monday) Even if
> the video is HD it will finish to SD. So maybe we have to go through
> a step where it's converted to SD in the Adrenaline. (?) Thanks for your
> insight, Toby
Here's what happened. External hard drive arrived without any information at
all about its contents. The Avid computer would not see the drive via FW but
did see it via USB2. (We're thinking that the Adrenaline FW AVID ports are
disabled except for the BOB connection.) USB2 could not read the drive
because it was formatted MAC. So we used a MAC to read the drive and network
the data to the Avid computer. When creating a new project you select a
profile. So we guessed 720P 24 and that was wrong. But - Avid tells you it's
wrong and tells you the correct frame rate which was 59.xx. So starting over
we created a project at HD 720P 59.xx and all is well. The Adrenaline could
have edited this footage fine but we had some DBeta footage to add and you
can't mix frame rates. So the editor exported the HD footage to QuickTime
and then re-imported that footage to a new SD project. Avid down-converted
the QT video to SD.
This would not have worked so well if the client had wanted to finish HD but
they didn't.
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