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Hello everyone,
these are my observations.

Trying to sync NED and NEDi has been a pretty frustrating experience.
First I tried converting videos from three libraries (that can convert the videos to NEDi format, which isn't possible on all libraries) beforehand. This was a process constantly plagued by crashes but without any reports.
It definitely won't convert say 2 or 3 libraries at at time, that's just asking for trouble. You should only choose one library to convert. It crashes anyway a few times along the line.

Then it turns out that there's no point in doing this work at all. NED won't use the preconverted libraries. When you start the syncing/downloading process with NEDi NED will reinitiate the process of converting them.
This is a bit of a shame, given the following:

1. Converting each video is a very time consuming process.
2. For NED and NEDi to sync the iPhone cannot be hooked up via USB to the computer. This will effectively interrupt the process. If they're connected via USB beforehand the syncing will simply not take place.
If these circumtances are met then NEDi will keep the iPhone ON (the energy savings option will be turned off and the light on the iPhone will be on all the time). This will be kept up beyond the end of the syncing/downloading process up until somebody turns the NEDi app off.
This one was an all nighter so you must have the iPhone hooked up to another power source than the computer or the iPhone will quickly be decharged.

/Erik

synced to a
MacBookPro 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo
OS X 10.5.8
4 GB RAM
NED v.3.2.2

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www.futurelove.se

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Hi Eric,

You don't mention the version of NEDi you are using.

NEDi 2 for iPhone is currently not available and is being released within the coming weeks on the App Store.

This should resolve the issues you are experiencing.

NEDi 1 for iPhone does not support using the pre-converted videos in NED 3.2.2.

Best
Rounik

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Hi Runik,

I'm glad these issues are being adressed.

I haven't seen any comprehensive enough guide on how to handle the NED-NEDi sync and finding these rules on your own is a game of trial and error and pretty time consuming.
So my post is purely intended to be of some guidance and a timesaver for those who want to use NEDi before the release of the new software.
I hope the software will be universally available upon release so that we Northern Europeans can enjoy it too.
Thanks for making your excellent tutorials available on the iPhone.
May I also second the people on the forum asking for more in depth tutorials about Kontakt (4) and Reaktor. I'd also much anticipate something similar about the new Redmatica Keymap which probably is to be released before long. Now with the option of editing and saving to all other major sampler formats directly. It seems destined to become the universal platform for sample handling.

/Erik

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Hi Eric,

Thanks for the feedback!

NEDi Version 1 for iPhone and iPod Touch will soon be the 'old version' of NEDi. It works well enough with NED 3.1.

The best things about NEDi 2 is the ability to stream videos and sync videos from NED 3.2.2. You won't have to wait for NEDi to re-compress the videos while syncing as NED on the Mac re-compresses and NEDi simply syncs much in the same iTunes does with the iPhone/iPod Touch.

Please do feel free to post all tutorial suggestions to the 'Suggested Training' forum:
http://www.macprovideo.com/forum/general/suggested-training
where they can be noted and read ;-)

I should mention I am also based in Europe and NEDi 2 (like NEDi 1) will be released universally. :)

Best
Rounik