Re: Avid ... peculiarities

Nesting was a feature I was not seeing. It's not well spelled out in the user guide either. Luckily, the Avid handbook 4th edition will arrive today.

I think my .png image sequence is taking so long because it has 3 passes at the sequence which includes an alpha, which is interpreted inversly as compared to Adobe. That was a bit of a stumbling block.... :) But I'm finding that image sequence import is not working well. It does not have the edges of alpha clearly defined like premier does on image import. I need to get source in a video file for some reason. Perhaps compressing to this Avid DNxHD codec... From what I can tell, it is supposed to be lossless compression. Good enough for my purposes anyway, I think. Will experiment there. I'm not 100% sure if it supports alpha.

Thanks for the info. By proxy it clears a lot of things up. I have a chroma project that I'm going to pretty much throw myself into the fire with Avid. But I have the luxury of some extra time, so worse case I'll just redo in Premier. But I think I'm getting the hang of basic editing. I will say that it is 10x more stable than my premier seems to be. I don't find myself always drawn to save every 30 seconds because a crash might happen.

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