[Avid-L2] Re: Thanks for having me and here's my first question.

Couldn't agree more. Collapse is much better for later re-creations of the sequence.

Yesterday, I was going to roll a Master and Consolidate a short video sequence of a talking head. It was a chroma key shot so there was background on V1, talking head on V2 and because it was going out 4x3 - a Pan and Scan was on V3.

The editor who had done the cut originally, did a 1 sec Video Mixdown at the head and tail of the sequence so they could fade up/down to Black.

I looked at it and muttered a few choice words and said "Why didn't they just put a Fade To/From Color on the top layer?" I had to fix it before I could Consolidate, because if I were to try and re-create the sequence later as you know, you can't Batch Capture/Import a Mixdown.

FWIW, I have Video Mixdown mapped to SHIFT+Y and Audio Mixdown at SHIFT+U
-kv

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
>
> BTW, video mixdowns should REALLY, REALLY, REALLY be used sparingly.
> Why do you need to access that button so many times? Maybe you need
> Collapse instead?

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