Just for those who are not really sure what is happening here is a picture to help you understand: The work around, which I would have though to be more obvious, is to not capture timecode. Discovered this on my own.

Okay, so I just tried this again and I'm still having trouble with this one tape. I changed the name of it but and it would appear that MC is convinced this is a drop frame tape. So is it my understanding that I need to change the timecode setting in the General settings window to have semicolons, then import the clip, and then change it back to

Okay, so in what case would I ever have a drop frame tape? Everything we do is color. We use Panasonic Pro-sumer DVC7 and DVC20P camcorders and JVC SR-VS30 and SR-DVM70 decks, all of which have probably been purchased in the past 10 years. Looking quickly through the manauls I do not see anything regarding a setting for drop frame/non-drop frame. So

Next problem on my list to figure out is the whole "drop frame/non-drop frame" issue. At one time I thought I knew what this meant, but now I'm not so sure. Here's the issue I'm having: In a SD project (30i NTSC 4:3) I insert a (miniDV)tape into our Panasonic AG-DV2500P and open the capture tool. Almost immediately I get an error

I'm trying to figure out exactly what's going on and maybe come up with the correct method for properly importing audio files. A colleague of mine imported some audio tracks from an unknown source. The project sample rate is 48K and sometimes when playing these clips the speed changes and it sounds like it has a wobble. Figuring it was a mis

[quote user="usatraveler"] The export from MC is over 30 GB, but that's fine. That's not the format that would go onto DVD anyway. DVD requires a specific type of MPEG-2 based format. You don't create that in Avid, but rather in separate encoding applications. That's why Sorenson Squeeze is included with Media Composer. Export

We haven't done any long sequences in the past so transfering out to DVD wasn't a problem until now. We have a 45 minute, 1080i/29.97 sequence and we want to get it out to DVD. The obvious first problem is that it's HD. When we export it Same as Source the 45 minute clip is over 30 Gb. Couldn't even put that on single layer BluRay. So

The idea of this is to be able to keep all my project data and media on something like a external drive or large USB stick. I've done it on a small scale and it seems to work okay with standard definition media on a 32mb USB 2.0 stick. Does anyone forsee any problems with doing this? We're looking at this as one of our options in case we can't

I've been following the thread and started another which may contain some revelant information http://community.avid.com/forums/p/127246/728353.aspx#728353 We are in the process of upgrading our computers and while comparing two machines we have I found I could transcode 4 times faster on a six core AMD processor with a GT640 video care than I could

I don't have the exact numbers regarding the length of clips, but here is what I can tell you about the "test" I did: I linked via AMA to three very short clips that were put into a sequence. One clip had a slight color effect applied to it and was rendered. I selected the three clips in my bin and then transcoded only the AMA linked material