Thanks Bruce! No, not the same John
John Kilgour
On Aug 27, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Bruce Tovsky <bruce@skeletonhome.com> wrote:
> hi john
> i'd add that the "hold option and drag around clip(s) to select" and "shift-command" to move vertically combo makes it pretty close to fcp functionality. make sure you're in "lift-overwrite" and not "extract-splice-in" mode (red arrow vs yellow arrow) unless you want to ripple.
> on a side note, are you the same john who was a friend of pooh kaye's?
> best
> b
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> On Aug 26, 2012, at 2:36 PM, John Kilgour wrote:
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>> Man, it seems like it's been so long. All my clients were asking for FCP editors back in 2009, so i trained myself on it (after cutting strictly on Avid since 1992). Now, I am back on Avid
>> for a bunch of new shows, and I have a couple of questions.
>>
>> Simply because
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>> A- I don;'t know if I've learned a lot of bad habits with FCP or
>> B- I just don't know if Avid has these features and I don't know how to find them.
>>
>> Simply put, there are 2 things that I did in FCP that I don't think I can do in Avid, and was wondering if anyone knew how to do these things in Avid.
>>
>> First- A simple one. In FCP, lets say I have an audio track on track 1, and I want to move it to track 2. I could simply just click on the clip, hit option-arrow down, and bingo, it's on track
>> 2 at the same exact TC in spot. With avid, it seems like I can do 1 of 2 things: go into red arrow seg mode, click on the clip, and drag it down. OK, but it slips around, not locked
>> on it current in-point. The second way is to mark in-out, lift, open clipboard, patch to the new track, and overwrite edit. Wow, thats a lotta steps. Am I missing something?
>>
>> Second- Lets say I have clip that I want to slide along it's current track to "butt up" against a previous clip. Lets say clip 1 is on track 1, and clip 2 is 3 seconds away from it to the right,
>> with a 3 send gap between them. In FCP, I can just click on the clip to the right, hit shift<, and the clip will move in 30 frame increments, until it "hits" the clip to the left, and stops, without
>> cutting into it. "Collision" it's called. Hence, now the clips are together. Does that make sense? It seems like I can't so this in Avid, or am I missing something. I have to click on on the red seg mode
>> (again), and slide it manually, and if I'm not careful, it will cut into the previous clip.
>>
>> I'm sure that I have just developed some bad habits. The whole "3-point editing" that I learned and grew up with kind of went away with FCP, and I worked with the
>> timeline a lot, slipping and sliding things around. It seems like Avid won't let me do this, and I right?
>>
>> I'm not complaining - I feel like Avid has really grown and it rocks, it just doesn't seem like I'm doing it right. Any thoughts?
>>
>> -- John
>>
>>
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