Avid playback

Hi all...I'm sorry to repeat but I'm still having problems...I have a movie from an Adrenalin avid the movie info says the codec is:
Avid ABVB NuVista
I've downloaded as many codecs as I can find but on the avid site there's a message:
This installer does NOT include:
AvidQTCodec.qtx Avid ABVB NuVista codec (OMF)
I guess that means there isn't one...any advice very welcome.
I'm also a little confused as to where to put the codecs (so I put them everywhere) ie...HD root Library\QT folder or System\Library\QT ?
Thanks for your time and have good weekends...Roger

I'm not familiar with that codec, and that's probably an issue for an Avid forum...
But as to where to put the codecs...you can put the codecs in either /Library/Quicktime or in ~/Library/Quicktime. The difference is that if you put them in /Library/Quicktime, the codecs will be available to all users on the machine, while if you put them in ~/Library/Quicktime they will only be available to "you". I'm not sure about the /System/Library/Quicktime directory; that looks like it might be all internal Apple components. I know on my systems, I put the codecs in /Library/QuickTime.
Hmmm...I'm at work right now so I don't have my dongle available, so I can't see if my system (Xpress Pro) includes the ABVB NuVista codec or not. I don't see a file for it in among my codecs, but that doesn't mean my other Avid codecs aren't handling that encoding type. Are you working on an Avid system, or just playing back a movie created on one?
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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Many thanks to those above who spent the time to reply to my post/rant...
Ironically, these particular clients are actually typical model customers for us, and we have a fabulous relationship with them. They were understanding about the software problem and they then loved our work when they saw it. So all good there in the end. The comments made were somewhat jokey and not intended as malicious. But many a true word is spoken in jest...
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As a photographer, I truly don't want me or my partners to be hunched over a laptop fiddling with imperfect software at a job when what will further my career and feed my family is me going back out to the event, shooting more killer images and networking networking networking for future gigs. Client relations, thats the name of the game here.
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If you think about professional software like any other kind of professional product made by the leading public company in its market - compare it to say my Ford truck. I bought my truck new, it is reliable and every time I start it to go to work, it gets me there. It has never broken down in 100,000 miles. Even when I take it in for a service, the parking brake still works in exactly the same way that it did before I took it in - ie as advertised. I do not need to test whether my truck works ok when it comes back from a service, and this is a reasonable assumption I think. I can park it on a hill with no worries.
So what is different with software? Why are we, the end users expected to put up with below standard shoddy tools, especially when provided by huge multi-million dollar companies like Adobe?
When the software is "serviced" ie updated, my expectation is that it will be made BETTER, or at least the key user features should still work as advertised. The first thing I *don't* think is, uh-huh, this a new release, hope the parking brake still works. I am making a living as a photographer, not a software tester.
There is a culture of software users expecting that there will be bugs. And this is not acceptable to me. Not at all. Software is just a product that does specific things just like any other my truck, my cameras, my lights etc.
I am sick sick sick of using professional grade software that some production manager has signed off on, knowing or not caring that there are significant bugs that will hit a key number of users.
And yes perhaps I should mention I also have a previous career in software development and yes I truly understand what is involved in releasing innovative products like this.
Don said above It is an iron law of software development--especially with innovative new applications in their early development. Lightroom fits that pattern to a tee. Buyer beware!
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As I hope you can tell when reading this, I am indeed a fan of LR. A big one. I have converted dozens of my colleagues to use LR. It rocks for most things, even with its weird flawed odd orange color cast for some skin tones under some lighting conditions. It does stuff that no other app does.
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Please Adobe LR folk, focus on this and get it fixed asap, and then keep an eye on the quality of your future releases. The use case for the slide show messing up on my particular machine running a super low number of images from small size jpgs on a recent Mac OS must have been very much on the left of your Gant chart...
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Hi Kyle,
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This was a two day shoot.
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But they both do have those lines. Albeit, faint, but I'm concerned about them now.
So I think this definitely has to do with my Final Cut Audio/Video settings:
My Sequence Preset is: DVCPRO HD - 1080p24
My Capture Preset is: 1080p24 48KHz
Should the Sequence Preset be changed to p30?
And if so... will I then have to recapture all the Panasonic footage back in? (I'd lose all my log notes and shot names).
Or, can I just delete the two timelines, change the sequence setting, and then redrag them back in?
Thanks for all your help, Kyle.

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I know I have many questions, but I really believe it is time for me to make the move. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks again.
Tdub

1. Yes, but just. You'd only get 1 stream. Faster drives would allow you to do more than one layer of real time playback. You could stripe more than one internal sata and get the job done that way.
2. Kona LHe will do this, however you'd gain the ability to upconvert and cross convert the video to just about any format with the Kona 3.
3.The X1900. Motion and some effects in FCP will take advantage of it... down the line FCP is likely to rely more on the GPU is an educated guess of mine. the top of the line card is faster, but not enough to substaniate the price if you're working in Video. If you were working in 3D CAD environments, then the top of the liner would be the best choice.
4.I don't use XDCAM here, so I'm presuming that you're talking about a transfer mode with that. I'm pretty sure FCP 5.1.2 added this capability. Might search the COW on this term in the FCP forum there. http://www.creativecow..net.
5.Working with HD and MPEG streams would leave me wanting the fastest of the three machines. You'll want 4 gigs of RAM, but it's less expensive from other than Apple. I know just how scary it can be to move to a new platform, and did exactly as you are contemplating when FCP 2 arrived. I've never looked back. Hang here once you get started, and we'll help you with the transition. There is a book out there in the pro training series from Apple/Peachpit on ediiting on FCP if you're coming from Avid. I'd recommend you get that book. Will ease the transition no doubt.
Hope you make the jump!
Jerry

Why do I get choppy playback in Adobe Premiere Pro cs6?

The playback is really choppy.
What I am using:
(Brand New) iMac
Processor 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1024 MB
Nikon D5100 DSLR
Shot in 1080i 30 fps
Thanks

I cannot believe how bad the playback is in Premiere Pro CC, and, how little help there is out there. Raw MOVs from a 5D plays back like garbage on my laptop or 8 core Mac Pro. Its ridiculous. I'm better off transcoding to ProRes and using FCP which works, or God forbid, go back to using Avid like its 1999. Unfortunately It has nothing to do with the two graphic cards or 32 gigs of memory I have either, it just plays back like garbage. Using the JKL keys is completely awkward because the lag between hitting the key and playback is excruciating. I'm at 1/2 resolution and it cant play back footage without being choppy. no FX, and the footage and hardrive is on a 6g SSD. This should be screaming.
Adobe, seriously, live up to your other products standards, they are so good, why does this one just bomb?

DNxHD playback ...

I just started using DNxHD to create master files of my home movies and also a movie logo I use in bicycle cam movies. I select Quicktime as the Format, then under the Video tab select Avid DNxHD codec, make sure the parameters match my source, and export to a .mov file. If I play a.mov file in WMP, it does play, the video is very sluggish. If I pull my movie logo into another project as an asset, insert in a timeline, then use PP's project window for playback the movie logo is equally sluggish. Doing a "render entire work area" improves the situation in PP. These same projects export and playback in H.264 just fine. I have an i7 3930, 32GB, GTX 670, RAID 0.
For some reason I was expecting DNxHD to playback just fine given that is less compressed. Or is that not how it works due to so much data behind the scenes? If someone is working with DNxHD files in a sequence, do they then have to render to preview in PP? Anyway, wondering if I am doing the right things and if this behavior is expected.

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RT playback on imported clips

I'm new to FCP, I've been reading up on various basic differences between how Final Cut and Avid handle imported clips. I know that FCP doesn't recreate media for imported clips, simply references wherever they lay. I know that the imported clips need to have the same settings as the sequence you add them to, otherwise it needs to be rendered. (Side note: Is there a way to conform all clips to be the same format? I will be using lots of QTs and they won't all be the same format. Seems a pain to have to work outside the app to get them to import and play nicely inside the app.)
I can play the clips just fine in the Viewer, can't get them to play in the Canvas. I've made sure the frame size, compression, pixels (square), frame rate are the same. The only difference is the audio rate - the QT has audio at 22 KHz and I can't find that as an option in the Sequence settings. Could that be why I get a red bar requiring rendering in the Canvas/Timeline? I tried turning off audio, but I still have the red bar. It's driving me mad!
I've read through the manual, the help and a reference book but all I get is "they need to have the same settings and then the clip will play in the sequence." There must be a setting someplace I haven't read about.
Thanks!

jlplasterer wrote:
What am I doing wrong? I'm working off internal storage and 1 firewire drive. I've tried moving the clips off the internal over to the firewire storage before importing, and I've tried keeping them on the internal. All this talk of RT playback on FCP with various formats is great, but I can't get 1 stream of imported material to play back at all.
You need to share much more about the clip(s) in question. What codec? frame size?
Certain formats - especially what we call delivery formats (Sorenson Video 3, H.264, MPEG-4) - will not play in realtime on many systems, due in part to lack of horsepower from the playback machine (your computer) and/or bandwidth from the storage device (your hard drive or disks). There are other codecs that fall into this category (non-real time playback) but since your audio is 22 kHz, it sounds like heavily compressed, delivery codec files are what you're working with.
FCP 6's Mixed Format Timeline can require substantial horsepower and bandwidth, depending on the codecs/frame sizes involved, so one trick might be to lower the setting for Playback Quality and Frame Rate in the RT settings in your Timeline.

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