A Note about Avid Placeholder Clips



MovingPicture acts as a filter-style AVX plug-in within the Avid editor. This means it is "applied" to a clip on the Avid timeline. Most filters, such as one that blurs an image, looks at the clip on the timeline, Since Avid limits the resolution of images on its timeline to video resolution we use the clip merely as a carrier for the effect, a kind of "Trojan Horse." The actual image to be panned is loaded by the plug-in itself, and not by Avid. 



DO NOT put the hi-res image on the Avid Timeline, as it can cause your Avid to CRASH! A 4,000 by 8,000 pixel image consumes 128MB of memory, and that places a great strain on the Avid. 



Place low resolution version of the still image on the Avid Timeline. If it is important to have the Avid timeline label reflect what the image is, make a 720 by 486 pixel version of the hi-res image as the placeholder clip in Photoshop. If you do not care, put any 720 by 486 pixel image on the Avid Timeline.



Even though Avid reduces the resolution when it imports, apparently memory gets lost and the Avid will become unstable over time. We recognize this is a pain in the neck and adds an extra step in the process, but particularly on the latest versions of Avid, it will save much time in the long run.