Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Why isn't Avid marketing all over this story?

Your method takes too much time.

Phantom Marks are great. I always have them on in order to keep from
getting the dreaded and obnoxious "insufficient source" message when
you try to do a three point edit with two marks on the sequence side.
Having phantom marks on all the time instantly let me know that - when
there's only one phantom mark on the source side - I can't make the
edit, or I have to kill my outpoint on the source side.

I'm in agreement about option/alt copy/paste, though I never really
consider it by that name since I have the alt/opt "dot" mapped to that
key, so I never touch the alt/opt button when I'm using it.

On Oct 4, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Benjamin Hershleder wrote:

>
>
> On Oct 4, 2009, at 8:06 PM, guanacaa@aol.com wrote:
>
> > "I absolutely adore Opt/Alt Copy,..."
> >
>
> On first read I thought you wrote "abhor" rather than "adore" :-)
>
> > "...and I think it stomps copy/paste into the dirt. Example: I need
> > to patch a room tone hole."
> >
>
> Exactly!
>
> Copy/Pasta in Avid doesn't let you patch to another track . . . does
> it in FCP?
>
> Adding:
> You mentioned Phantom Marks. I'm not a fan of displaying the phantom
> marks in Avid. In an effort to give back to the L2 gang for all my
> lurking and OT posts, here is a small offering: Were you aware that
> even with Phantom Marks *not* displayed you can still use Play In/Out
> and Go To Mark Out (or In) to feel out that phantom 4th mark? For
> example: In the Timeline you have a Mark In and Mark Out of 5
> seconds. In the Source window you have a Mark In. In the Source
> window, press "Go To Mark Out" or "Play I/O" without displaying the
> phantom 4th mark and it still works.
>
> And if anyone loves showing Phantom Marks, please let me know what I'm
> missing . . . seriously.
>
> Cheers,
>
> B
>
> Benjamin Hershleder
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> > In Avid I just find a suitable hunk of tone on any available track,
> > throw in the source window, and find whatever portion of it suits me
> > best. I don't have to measure out the duration in advance to make
> > sure I won't bust a hole in my dialog, because source/record editing
> > honors my record durations. If I want, I can use my phantom marks or
> > simply align my blue line to computed out on the source side to make
> > sure that I'm not going to include some garbage in my edit.
> > BTW, Avid has copy/paste also. I never bothered with it.
> >
> > Shirley
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@ContactBen.com>
> > To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sun, Oct 4, 2009 10:12 am
> > Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Why isn't Avid marketing all over this
> > story?
> >
> > Hi Rainer,
> > Long time no see. I hope all is well on your end.
> >
> > You said: "Note that when you press G 3 times you
> > >
> > > get a tool that lets you select things to copy that don't have
> to be
> > > entire clips in the timeline."
> >
> > Forgive me (I don't use FCP), but is that any different than Opt/Alt
> > with Copy to Clipboard in Avid?
> > I've mapped (added) the Option/Alt modifier to the Copy to Clipboard
> > button. With one button push the material in my timeline I've marked
> > is copied and appears instantly in my Source window, ready for me to
> > place it anywhere I'd like.
> >
> > Thanks for the illumination.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > B
> >
> > Benjamin Hershleder
> > http://ContactBen.com
> >
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> > On Oct 4, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Rainer Standke wrote:
> >
> > > And before FCP 4, wasn't it option-overwrite to use sequence
> > content?
> > > But anyways, I always thought the ability to copy & paste from one
> > > sequence to another beats the source-record editing model when it
> > > comes to sequences as sources. Note that when you press G 3 times
> > you
> > > get a tool that lets you select things to copy that don't have
> to be
> > > entire clips in the timeline.
> > >
> > > Rainer Standke
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> > >
> > > On Oct 3, 2009, at 18:25 , Philip Hodgetts wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Oct 3, 2009, at 4:37 PM, oliverpetersvidy wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Shirley,
> > > >>
> > > >>> guanacaa wrote:
> > > >>> but in earlier versions I recall that it used to
> > > >>> nest the sequence you sourced from.
> > > >>
> > > >> That's the default behavior but it can be remapped. I'm not
> sure
> > > how
> > > >> long the function has been there, but more that 3 1/2 years.
> > > >> "Overwrite/Insert with sequence content". Item 1 on this blog
> > > >> post ;-)
> > > >
> > > > I think FCP 4.
> > > >
> > > > Philip
> > > >
> > > >
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