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- Real Name: Eric Tang
I've been trying a few things out this morning concentrating on the media and editing tab (15.2.1). There are a few things I found lacking, have some questions/request. I'm sure some of you who are much more experience can tell me some of these functions already exists, so please bare with me and teach me.
I tested with DPX as my video sources, and WAV files as my audio sources.
I tried syncing 6 WAV files (5.1 mono) to video, but seems it can only sync with one WAV file per video. Is there a way to sync 6 WAV files to one Video? (As this situation has already risen in my current project, the sound man recorded 8 WAV files instead of 1 WAV file with 8 mono tracks...)
My video is into reels, while I also have 6 full feature length WAV files. I tried syncing a 20 minutes clip with only one of the 2 hour WAV file (I know it's extreme, but it's a test). What I found is once synced, there's no automatic way to recover the full length WAV file, i.e. I only have 20 mintues of the audio on the synced video. I tried "Find in Media Pool" or unlink then select the audio to "Find in Media Pool", but it can only relate to the sync video clip. I know I complained about the importing of FCPXML and all clips becoming compound clips, but in a way, the DaVinci syncing process should be like compound clips, where I can find the mother of all sources, decompsing the audio and video individually when needed. Right now, I feel the best way to make workable sync files is actually making compound clips, which goes to the next problem.
When making compound clips, no metadata is written at all, not even clip name, it is empty when you get into "Clip Attributes...", which is the reason why no "Source Clip Name" is displayed when it is selected in Data Burn-In.
The way it is synced right now, I can't even make an XML or EDL that can be link back to the source WAV files, as I know the team seems to be really head strong about not making exporting OMF possible, somehow... (maybe they have also found it impossible for them to link back to the original source with the current code with syncing?)
Are there ways to put a stereo track or multi channel audio tracks into two or more mono tracks on the timeline?
Are there ways to display markers made on the timeline to display when it is put into the source window?
Are there ways to display markers on a clip made in a timeline to display when it is put into the the source window?
Editing has a lot to do with audio I think BlackMagic understand this (I think it's in the manual), but is still disconnected to the actual workflow.
I tested with DPX as my video sources, and WAV files as my audio sources.
I tried syncing 6 WAV files (5.1 mono) to video, but seems it can only sync with one WAV file per video. Is there a way to sync 6 WAV files to one Video? (As this situation has already risen in my current project, the sound man recorded 8 WAV files instead of 1 WAV file with 8 mono tracks...)
My video is into reels, while I also have 6 full feature length WAV files. I tried syncing a 20 minutes clip with only one of the 2 hour WAV file (I know it's extreme, but it's a test). What I found is once synced, there's no automatic way to recover the full length WAV file, i.e. I only have 20 mintues of the audio on the synced video. I tried "Find in Media Pool" or unlink then select the audio to "Find in Media Pool", but it can only relate to the sync video clip. I know I complained about the importing of FCPXML and all clips becoming compound clips, but in a way, the DaVinci syncing process should be like compound clips, where I can find the mother of all sources, decompsing the audio and video individually when needed. Right now, I feel the best way to make workable sync files is actually making compound clips, which goes to the next problem.
When making compound clips, no metadata is written at all, not even clip name, it is empty when you get into "Clip Attributes...", which is the reason why no "Source Clip Name" is displayed when it is selected in Data Burn-In.
The way it is synced right now, I can't even make an XML or EDL that can be link back to the source WAV files, as I know the team seems to be really head strong about not making exporting OMF possible, somehow... (maybe they have also found it impossible for them to link back to the original source with the current code with syncing?)
Are there ways to put a stereo track or multi channel audio tracks into two or more mono tracks on the timeline?
Are there ways to display markers made on the timeline to display when it is put into the source window?
Are there ways to display markers on a clip made in a timeline to display when it is put into the the source window?
Editing has a lot to do with audio I think BlackMagic understand this (I think it's in the manual), but is still disconnected to the actual workflow.