I'm curious about relinking in avid 6.5 and above. What exactly is Source File ID? I use it all the time to relink lowres clips to their AMA originals during up-res, but I don't know what it means. Could someone offer a technical explanation? Thanks! Dan

Simply put, we're making a sports doc. We're recording the broadcast feeds into a Pix 240i, and shooting everything else (game footage, interviews, etc) on Alexa at 23.98. This will be a completely tapless workflow: Link to AMA volumes, transcode to 14:1, then relink later for upres. My question is, which project type will yield the best results

[HP Z400 Turnkey system] I recently did the point upgrade from 6.5.3 to 6.5.4 and I noticed an odd bug. When linking to Alexa Pro Res 4444 clips in 6.5.3, everything was great. But when doing the same linking in 6.5.4 (same machine, same footage) the video looks terrible. This goes for any Alexa clip in the project: Studio interviews, exteriors, etc

We're editing and conforming 23.98, then mastering to HDCAM SR 59.94 DF. On the first episode, we did everything in 23.98 and then opened the sequence in a 59.94 DF project. Avid added the motion effects properly, but we found that audio clips were randomly slipping and sliding. An engineer at Avid recognized this as a potential bug. The suggested

So what you're saying is, you switched from the AJA 422 port to your PC's serial port and it fixed the problem?

I've only tired it with proper ref, via the AJA 422 port.

Is it still necessary to use the Keyspan/Rosetta stone setup for deck control rather than the 422 on the Kona? I've been having trouble with batch capture and I wonder if that's the culprit. The errors are mostly "...failed to fin coincidence point..." on tapes that we know have unbroken timecode/control track.

I'm an online editor who has always worked in a facility that employs staff colorists. My red-green coloblindness has never been a problem. But I've been recommended for a great position as an online editor at a new facitiy, in which I will need to color correct for reality TV. I'm curious to hear everyone's thoughs on the subject. I'm

Thanks, Douglas This works great for the license plates, but what if i have a non-square target like someone's face? I have a similar clip where a person walks into the frame and I need to make an oval shape grow over the face.

I'm new to blurring and I'm about to start working on a crime-based reality show so I'm brushing up. I have a shot of a car driving into the frame from a distance and I need to blur the license plate for the duration. My workflow is: Add blur effect to clip, create shape at first frame, and motion track. I need to make the blur rectangle