RTAS in Avid MC to Improve Dialogue and Music Playback

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 11 28th, 2011 | 3 Comments

by Stuart Bass, A.C.E. I have found that often my tracks will sound good in my room through my nice speakers but when the show plays through smaller TV speakers, consumer amplifiers or is recorded to DVD it becomes distorted.  In order to fix this it is necessary to add compression to the tracks.  Compression is [...]

Avid Media Composer Vs. 6 Preview

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 11 28th, 2011 | No Comments

At ACE’s Tech Day, Michael Krulik presents a preview of Avid Media Composer’s version 6. The audio can be downloaded here.

Avid Media Composer Tips and Tricks from Michael Krulik

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 11 28th, 2011 | No Comments

On November 5, 2011 ACE sponsored the first Tech Day for members and their assistants. About 75 attendees were treated to nearly two hours of fantastic information from Avid’s Michael Krulik. The audio can be downloaded here. Be prepared to learn a lot!

Euphonix has an Update

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 10 24th, 2011 | No Comments

Euphonix has 3 control surfaces available for several software platforms (Avid Media Composer, Pro Tools, FCP, Logic, etc.). One extremely annoying feature of the MC Mix and MC Control is the faders slamming to the off position while working in a timeline. Well, a new firmware fix has been issued – although you’d never know [...]

Things I Learned: Transcoding is Fast(er)

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 10 24th, 2011 | No Comments

A conversation with several Avid experts revealed that it is 3 times faster to link to a file via AMA and transcode that file to MXF format than it is to directly import the same file to MXF. Why? As Avid adds new features to Media Composer they write code that allows for more / [...]

Things I learned since yesterday: Profits

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 07 29th, 2011 | No Comments

My home phone is completely useless. Anyone I want to talk to calls my cell. Everyone I don’t want to talk to calls the house phone. Microsoft reported quarterly profits 30% higher than last year. Mostly on sales of XBox, server, and Office. Apple, however, reported 120% higher profit for the same quarter. (The Economist [...]

Things I Learned Since Yesterday: Computer sales

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 07 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

According to the Economist magazine, 1 million PC’s are sold each day. Estimates are that about 50 million tablet computers will be sold this year.

What I’ve learned since yesterday: Lion

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 07 21st, 2011 | No Comments

I’m not upgrading my laptop or any work system to Mac OS 10.7. Not for a while at least. First of all, Avid Media Composer isn’t qualified to work on Lion. Nor are a lot of critical applications. Adobe has reported many incompatibilities. So, I’m waiting and advising those with critical work applications to wait [...]

The Wild Wild West: its not just a new series remake.

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 07 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Reprinted from CinemaEditor Magazine. Not very long ago we all got dailies from the lab, sunk to sound, coded, and assembled cut film into reels. A negative cutter matched our work, spliced the negative, and we color timed a print for release or broadcast. I’m sorry, but that sucked. The limitations were terrible. But in [...]

2010 Equipment Survey: Member Comments.

Posted by ACE in Tech Blog on 07 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Five comment questions were posed to members of ACE in the 2010 Equipment survey: 1. Were you involved with a 3D project this year? If so, please give some details (shot in 3D, converted in post, editing system setup). 2. What was your biggest technology / editing frustration (and, no, directors and producers don’t qualify)? [...]


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