Avid or Avid|DS Version 5.0

[Czar]

Whats the difference

One is on avid.com and thats the version I can use at school but what is avid|ds, its from softimage, but what.. what what??

 

[LethalWolfe]

DS is one of Avid's finishing proggies. Finishing proggies clean up the picture, add final graphix, visual FX, etc.,. And since AVID owns Softimage I'd assume AVID has incorporate parts of it into it's DS proggie. Does that help?


Lethal

 

[Czar]

ah thanks

I tried the version at school and it just seems so, raw, you can cut movies and edit them, you can add a few filters on the picture but nothing as exstensive as the tutorials I found on softimage site about avid|ds. I hope I can do what avid|ds can do with the version I have access to.


it will suck If I have to do this all in aftereffects, I think, I'v been told that I would have to render everything to the hd from the tape, render it again in aftereffects and then again back to avid and then something something


<- doesnt have a clue how to do this realy

 

[LethalWolfe]

<< ah thanks

I tried the version at school and it just seems so, raw, you can cut movies and edit them, you can add a few filters on the picture but nothing as exstensive as the tutorials I found on softimage site about avid|ds. I hope I can do what avid|ds can do with the version I have access to.


it will suck If I have to do this all in aftereffects, I think, I'v been told that I would have to render everything to the hd from the tape, render it again in aftereffects and then again back to avid and then something something


<- doesnt have a clue how to do this realy >>



What AVID software are you using at school? Express, DVexpress, Media Composer...? Odds are you are gonna have to do it in After Effects 'cause the DS is finishing software and, most likely, yer school has editing software (like the ones I mentioned). As for moving footage between AVID and AE it's not hard (although render times can be long depending on what yer doing and how fast the comps are). All you need to do is capture the video using AVID, then export the footage you want. Then import it AE. Do yer stuff, render it, then import it back into AVID. I'm not sure if AE supports OMF files or not, but if it doesn't then you'll probably use uncompressed Quicktime as the "go between" medium.

And I'm not sure what yer going to school for, but after editing using AVID software go back and edit on something like Premiere. Huge difference. I learned how to edit on AVID's MC Express and when I got Premiere to use at home... Ohhh the agony... When you start working w/hi-end software (Like AVID) it's more about the quality of what it does, not the quantity of things it does. I guess I'm just getting defensive 'cause AVID makes the best editing software (FCP is gaining ground though) out there and you don't seem too impressed by it. Oh well... Hope I'm helping to clear things up.


Lethal

 

[Czar]

I think its Avid Express, version 1.5... not sure, saw the thing first time 2 days ago and me and my class are going to make a short film without any knowledge how to do it

When I asked a few of the 2nd year kids they told me it just takes gaddamn too long to export the video from avid to a file, edit it in after effects and then render there and then back to avid and then put it together. But I just find that the after effects is just like billion times better (saw that the first time the same day ) than avid when putting video together, like their timeline part is sooo much better. One thing I can say about avid, ITS FAST, I was so surprised

One crazy Idea I had, is it possible to export the movie to tiff images, as in one frame one image, then create a batch in photoshop that edits all the images like we want to, then convert all the tiff images back to a movie stream?

also, for about a 10 minute movie, then how long would it take to render it going the avid/ae/avid way?

 

[LethalWolfe]

I think yer makin' things way to complicated. First, what all do you want to do in After Effects? Tell me a bit 'bout the project. After I know what you have, and what you want to do I might be able to give more proper advice. If you want you can PM or e-mail me.


Lethal