Thursday, February 3, 2011

[Avid-L2] Re: MC5 new keyframe behaviour + workflow

 

Sounds familiar. :-/

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Alan Miller <ammfx@...> wrote:
>
> Terry,
> I think you will remember that we almost unanimously hated the lack of keyframes
> during the initial
>
> beta testing many years ago..
> Of course, no one listened. 
> When it was released, most people just stayed in the
> old mode and didn't realize the problem.
> Now that it's the only mode, most people are unhappy with it.
> I hope they change it.
> Alan Miller
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Terence Curren <tcurren@...>
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 1:22:17 PM
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: MC5 new keyframe behaviour + workflow
>
> Make that 3. I complained about this from the introduction. As have many others.
> A simple push in now takes 4 clicks before you can start the adjustment.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Avid Editor Rob <avideditorrob@> wrote:
> >
> > I too miss the default first and last keyframes,
> > especially with the Sapphire, Boris or other plug ins
> > that almost always get keyframed parameters.
> >
> > It's now a few extra steps - home / add keyframe / tail / add keyframe - then
> >begin.
> >
> > I'd love for first/last keyframes to be a setting option in a future release.
> >
> > rob
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:04 AM, shieldsy72 wrote:
> >
> > > Hoping for some words of wisdom from people on this. I've only had chance to
> >dabble with MC5 while I wait for my facility to jump from 3.5. I can deal with
> >the smart tool and the new timeline behaviours but I can't work out the best way
> >to handle the new keyframing behaviour.
> > >
> > > For example, I want to resize a shot so I drop a 3D Warp on and make it
> >bigger. Then I move elsewhere. Later I land on the resized shot and decide to
> >adjust it, so I move it to a new size/position. I have now created an animation
> >between my first size and the new one. Traditionally this wouldn't happen and I
> >think I read a while back an explanation, probably from Frank, that effects are
> >now added without start/end keyframes to save on sequence size. What's happening
> >now is that when I perform the first resize, a keyframe is added at the position
> >I clicked on and, unless I land on that frame again, a new keyframe is added for
> >the adjustment.
> > >
> > > My workaround is to add a keyframe start and end every time I add a resize
> >and make sure they are both selected - but this is a major PITA - it reminds me
> >of the hoops FCP makes me jump through to do the simplest things. What are other
> >people doing? I'm hoping there's something really obvious to avoid this or that
> >it's going to be changed! I don't mind the advance keyframing becoming standard
> >but it looks like the current system needs to copy Premiere's clock button to
> >enable animation over time on effects.
> > >
> > > Really hoping I'm missing something obvious :)
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
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