Avid Meridien 2:1P PAL RGB codec

I have some some Quicktimes given to me from a client and the codec is Avid Meridien,
Can i convert these?
I have heard installing the avid codecs can create problems owith After effects or FCP or something with the OS

Hi Toby,
I run FCP, Avid and After Effects on my Macs and have never had any problems. The only problem I have heard of is that Avid software is not happy if you have a BlackMagic capture card installed in your machine. You can download the Avid codecs package from their website (if you haven't already got them on your machine) and then use either FCP, Quicktime, or Compressor to convert them to another format/codec.
Regards,
Steve Morris

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Is there another option for me or do I have to contact them and get it in another format? I'm trying to avoid this because it will take a while to go through the proper channels and then it takes another 3 hours or so to download it from the ftp.

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Hey all, any help would be greatly appreciated. Here's my issue. i have two computers described below, both have many avid codecs on them i'll list those below too. Neithe of them can show a clip that was exported out of an Avid even with the codecs installed. The Clip's details say that it's codec is the Avid Meridien Compressed, Integer (Big Endian), it's dimensions are 720X486 and it says a channel count of 2
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Any ideas??? i need to get this into FCP so i can export it to make DVD's really soon.
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Mac Pro 2.6Ghz, 3 gigs ram, 250gb HD
Mac OSX 10.4.9
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System 2
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last I heard, the Avid Meridien codecs were not yet fully supported on the Intel Mac platform ... but workarounds have been reported in the past
the latest codecs Version LE 1.40, are dated March 23, 2007 and may be worth downloading if you have not already done so
that installer puts the following quicktime components into Library/Quicktime:
- AvidAV1xCodec.component: Avid 1:1x codec (Uncompressed MXF 8-bit)
- AvidAVd1Codec. component: Avid DV 100 codec (MXF)
- AvidAVdnCodec. component: Avid DNxHD codec (MXF)
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- AvidAVpkCodec. component: Avid Packed codec (Uncompressed MXF 10-bit)
- AvidAVDJCodec.component: Avid Meridien Compressed codec (OMF 8-bit)
- AvidAVUICodec. component: Avid Meridien Uncompressed codec (OMF 8-bit)
in the past it has been reported that you then need to remove the following two components:
AvidAVdvCodec.component
AvidAVpkCodec.component
i've also seen reports that say you just have to pull the the AvidAVUICodec so go figure
if the latest codec pack does not work as is, then try removing those two or just the one ... or a different combination altogeher. probably worth a shot

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Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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Since I just bought a mac and started to edit on FCP, I came across a codec problem.
I had to finish up some work on my avid system(an old xpress pro hd 5.2.4 to be exactly.) This was done on my pc.
I exported my work into a quick time movie using avid's own meridien codec (compressed.)
Everything exported out and it looked good on pc, however, when I tried it on mac,
I got an error message prompting me to download a codec mac could read.( dvix,amongst others...)
The Avid codec wasn't available on the website so I went to the avid's site to get the exact codec, found it (avid downloads ...etc.)
So far so good...
The problem is(and I am not sure whether it is a mac problem or avid not supporting..) I can not install "Avid AVDJcodec. comp
*(error message: The following install step failed: run postflight script for Avid Codecs LE.*
As we have a saying in Antwerp: Om stenen kloten van te krijgen.
Option nr 1: I can export all my work with another codec ( too much to handle because I really would like to start working on fcp.
option 2: throw avid software out of the window and forget about it.
Is there something I can do to safe my work?
Cheers,
Timpie

Option #1 - Finish on your Avid. Why are you switching now? Every major non-linear editor captures to proprietary codecs that don't work well on other machines. Add the fact that you are coming from a PC and that makes matters worse.
Option #2 - Buy the upgrade to Media Composer and see if you can get the Mac edition. It should only be a few hundred dollars. And it is a very solid editing application.
Option #3 - recapture your footage. Export an OMF from your Avid and then use Automatic Duck Pro Importer (www.automaticduck.com) to import that into FCP. Yes, you can try an EDL, but that is iffy...especially if you used a lot of Avid effects.
I know that you can offline on Avid and finish on FCP, and offline on FCP and online on Avid, but to jump horses mid-stream is VERY difficult. I really suggest sticking with finishing the cut on the Avid....then you can move to Final Cut Pro.
Shane

MEGAPC 180 and regular PAL RGB TV

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My goal is to make at least the desktop readable so I can properly read the contents of MSI's MegaCenter III on my TVscreen. I do not use the megapc for games, for me it is especially for recording and viewing dvd's (divx, etc.).

Hi,
800x600 is generally the highest resolution that can be used for TV out.
A TV set doesn't have enough horizontal resolution for more than about 800 pixels across, and even then under best conditions. The vertical resoultion depends on the TV standard, and is around 600 lines for PAL and 500 for NTSC.
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Incidentally, "RGB" implies separate connections of the Red, Green and Blue signals from the PC to the TV - which is fairly rare. A computer monitor has an RGB connection, but a TV usually doesn't. You are using "SVHS", aka "S-Video", or more technically "Y/C" to connect to your TV. This involves two signals, a "Y", or luminance, or black-and-white signal (roughly 33% Red + 50% Green + 17% Blue), and the "C" or Chrominance (Colour) signal, which is actually made up of two components, R-Y and B-Y. The TV has to separate the C signal back to the R-Y and B-Y, then matrix them with the Y signal to get back to the R, G and B signals. There will inevitably be some losses and errors in the encoding, decoding process; also the badwidth (relates to resolution) of the R-Y and B-Y signals needs to be limited before encoding, so you tend to lose fine colour detail. Still, at least it's not as bad as Composite video, where the Y and C components are combined into one signal, which have to be separated by the TV set back into Y and C before further processing. And it's even worse if your TV doesn't have an A/V input, and you have to use a VCR to modulate it onto a TV channel (RF Out), which must then be demodulated by the TV back to composite video before further processing! (I've left out discussion of synchronising pulses for simplicity).
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Have to get footage to Avid Liquid shop (after PAL conversion)

Cheers all.
I apologize in advance for the following Faulknerian rambling. I'm not sure how much info you guys will need to provide assistance.
I am tasked with getting raw and uncompressed video to a European shop running Liquid. Our crew shot all the footage @ 24pA with the expectation of eventually converting the footage for PAL. At the time, our client viewed his primary audience as North American. Now he'd like for his European guys to have access to all the footage. The shop in question can't take MiniDV tapes for editing. They want DVcam or DigiBeta. We'd really rather not spend the additional time writing things back to tape. Also the DVcam tapes only record 40mins. We thought an elegant solution would be to give them raw digital files on a FW drive, but they can't/won't edit in NTSC.
We've established a pretty slick workflow where we bring in the 24pA footage and removing the pulldown to get the 24fps rate we wanted. Then we conform that file to 25fps (PAL's rate) and drop the resulting DV file into a PAL sequence. That sequence gets exported (again as an uncompressed DV Quicktime file).
I sent the other shop a CD with 3 minutes of resulting footage. While I haven't been able to talk to a tech guy there (embarrassing to be so language-limited)the project manager for the shop says they can bring the QT file into combustion, but haven't been able to get it into Liquid.
I'm hoping someone here will have an idea what Liquid wants, that is to say, what can Liquid use? We don't want to convert to AVI as that will introduce compression to the equation. (I have heard that mpegtostreamclip could do this too. Still hoping to avoid the extra step.)
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The shop in question can't take MiniDV tapes for editing. They want DVcam or DigiBeta.
MiniDV and DVCAM are the same thing. Exactly the same format. I don't understand why they can't take miniDV but can take DVCAM. Makes no sense.
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Interlace or Codec Problem? You tell me.

I used Streamclip to convert some DVDs to QTs using the Avid Meridien Compressed codec because they are to be edited on Avid. The edit house said they wouldn't import properly no matter what field dominance they gave. Yet they play fine in Quicktime.
So I imported them back into FCP and its strange. When I set the sequence settings to all the same specs as the clip, including an avid meridien compressed for compressor type, the clips will sometimes play fine after first inserting them in the sequence, but then when I play them again from the sequence it looks scrambled on the diagonal. Yet they play normally in the viewer.
Any ideas what's going on?

My initial settings were for lower field first unscaled. Which indicated it would be 720x480.
We imported into the avid with lower field first and maintain and resize.
I took a look at what's happening on avid at lunch today. The image is jumping about 10 scanlines with the interlace, even when given a test that was non-interlaced. Its a PC Avid, BTW, sorry to say.
On FCP, I had a completely different problem. It just came out looking scrambled like in the days of cable when you could see a channel scrambled if you didn't subscribe. This could be a factor of trying to work in FCP with a sequence set to Avid Meridien, possibly?
Your DV codec from MPEGStreamclip works fine in FCP, we'll see if it works in avid. If nothing else I can output a tape from FCP. But oy, I will have downgraded the image so much by then.

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Not much help here... maybe on the FCP forum (or an Avid forum somewhere). Maybe some help here: http://www.signvideo.com/dv-black-level-dvd-7.5-ire-0-ntsc-part-2.htm
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Do you still have the sequence on the...never mind, that's a stupid question, you already said it was a reference movie. Or...wait a minute, where does the Meridien codec come in..is that how you imported the OMFs? Reference movies generally don't use codecs; they refer to the original OMFs on your media drives so that what comes out of QuickTime Player is exactly what Avid is working with, subject to some minor post-processing to do things like change pixel aspect ratio and color levels.
Go back to the Avid and export the sequence as a reference movie, but in the export dialog, click on Options and specify that you want RGB color space:
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