Friday, December 28, 2012

[Avid-L2] Re: What's your best Avid Tip/Discovery from 2012?

 

The ability to select a bunch of shots without the fill to move to lower tracks in two keystrokes.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Mark Spano <cutandcover@...> wrote:
>
> Upgrading to v6 this year brought an easy way to switch my audio output
> setting (stereo/mono/direct). Instead of having to open the Audio Project
> setting, navigate to Output, and choose what I want, now it's a button
> right up in the Audio Mixer. This saves me a buttload of time, as I'm
> always switching to accommodate for QT outputs, ref outputs, and tape
> layoffs.
>
> It may have been there the whole time, I don't know, but I didn't find it
> there until v6, and I don't even care. It's great.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Michael Brockington <brocking@...>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > I hope you get a few more responses on this topic, John.
> >
> > I've been working on a doc with lots of subtitled rushes the last few
> > months, and have become a big fan of reverse-matchframe.
> >
> > My source footage has all become source sequences, with subtitle effects
> > applied for rough translation. So simple things like trimming or
> > match-frame are no longer that simple, since they don't give me access
> > to the subtitles.
> >
> > But I can load an assembly of subtitled rushes in the source window,
> > activate the sequence monitor, hit reverse matchframe, and be able to
> > access adjacent footage including subtitles with relative ease.
> >
> > Not really a new discovery -- just a feature I hadn't found much use for
> > before (which turns out to be invaluable!)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Michael
> >
> >
> > On 12-12-28 12:10 PM, John Moore wrote:
> > >
> > > Okay the year is almost over but I think it would be great to hear
> > > what everybody learned this year that was new to them in Avid. I've
> > > already posted about the correlation offset regieon tracker that I
> > > finally started using. I had been stuck in my old ways but now a
> > > right click in the tracker data timeline and I can start a new tracker
> > > region with a new start box to find a new anchor point and I don't
> > > have manually offset the shape like I did before using the new region
> > > tracker technique. This would be my best discovery in Avid this year
> > > even though it's been around a while I finally started to use it.
> > > Looking forward to see what everybody else has discovered or
> > rediscovered.
> > >
> > > John Moore
> > >
> > > Barking Trout Productions
> > >
> > > Studio City, CA
> > >
> > > bigfish@... <mailto:bigfish%40pacbell.net>
> >
> > >
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