Product specifications

Avid|DS 5.0 Release Notes • November 2001 8
Additional tips:
§ For best results, use a font size between 8 and 14 points.
§ If the font selected is a little too big (to be displayed in its designated area), it will be substituted by the
default font size.
§ If the font is way too big, the layout will not appear correctly, and you may need to refresh the screen.
Editing and Playback
Frames Dropped when Playing Back Still Images
If your video storage is heavily fragmented, the Avid|DS system drops frames when playing back still images. To
avoid this, defragment your video storage on a daily basis. If this problem occurs with a particular clip, you can
defragment that clip alone.
1.
Right-click on the clip and choose Show Media.
2.
From the Media Manager view, right-click on the .gen file and choose Defragment.
Corrupt Images in the Output Monitor when Switching between Sequence Formats
When switching sequence formats between the high and standard definition versions of the Avid|DS system, the
display in the output monitor may sometimes become corrupted. To correct the problem, simply exit and restart the
Avid|DS system.
EDL, OMF
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and ALE
CMX/GVG EDL Format Detection
When loading an EDL file, the File Open dialog box lets you select a format, such as CMX or GVG. With this
information, Avid|DS tries to validate your choice in relation to the contents of the file. However, the only marker
available for differentiation is the presence or absence of FCM lines in the EDL file. While the presence of FCM lines
indicates without a doubt that it is a CMX file, the converse is not necessarily true. Therefore, it is possible to load a
CMX file as GVG or vice versa, with unpredictable (but generally wrong!) results. If the EDL file you loaded is not
what you expected, verify that you specified the right format for its contents.
EDL Only Shows One Stream of Multi-stream Clip on Timeline to EDL
A multi-stream clip, such as a 5.1 audio container clip will only show one mono stream in an EDL constructed from
that timeline instead of the expected six streams.
One-sided Transitions Not Completely Supported
EDL and OMF effects with one-sided transitions are imported in Avid|DS as clip effects (just like previous versions
of Avid|DS).
OMF Reverse Timewarp Limitation from Avid Media Composer
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and Avid Symphony
The OMF files exported from the Media Composer and Symphony systems do not contain any negative speed value
information for the timewarp effect.