This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] How do you stop Avid adding new audio tracks?

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] How do you stop Avid adding new audio tracks?

This is a cool tip, Michael and one I didn't know. I have now mapped the option-functionality of Find Bin to my Shift-F key. The one strange thing is that it doesn't load the clip into the Source window - which I guess makes sense. I am either actually trying to use Match frame for some purpose OR I'm simply trying to find the other clips AROUND that clip in the timeline. For one I should use match frame and for the other I should option-Find Bin.

Thanks. Love learning something new. Like Nick said, you never know what you've been missing for 22 years on the same interface... or simply forgot.

One of the stories I mention in my book is that a few years ago, when I was cleaning out my basement, I came across my old folder for the MC101 class, from 1992 (the original version 5). I read a great tip that I'd written in the margin of one of the pages that I SWEAR I'd never known before, yet there it was written in my own handwriting in the margin of the page. (Can't remember the tip now either).

Steve

author, "Avid Uncut"

On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com> wrote:

I have seen people do match framing to simply extend a clip in the timeline instead of trimming, believe it or not. Just checking. No specific indictment of you or your skills or knowledge since I don't know you at all. You just never know what someone does or does not know... like disabling auto create tracks. I use Matchframe constantly myself - along with Find Bin. Matchframe is mapped to my F button (FindFrame).

My only solution for your OTHER issue (wanting to match back to sequence of selects instead of directly to clip) would be that if you load your selects reels into the source window, then - even though you can't match to them, you can at least quickly call them up from the Source Clip Name Menu above the source window instead of having to track them down in a specific bin. I think that menu holds the last 20 clips.

Again, not a real solution and I'm not saying you didn't already know that... just a suggestion.

Steve

On Sep 4, 2014, at 7:14 AM, nick@paddywack.co.uk [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Thanks chaps. Thought there might be an easy answer that I had missed in my 20+ years of editing. Old dog, new tricks etc!

Why am I match framing? Really?

OK, so you have a shot in the timeline and you know there was another good shot nearby in the same clip. Match frame back to the clip and scroll around until you find it. Is that a good enough purpose. I probably do this a couple of hundred times a day. (Match Frame mapped to F3 Match back to Bin is Shift F3)

I normally group all my rushes clips into Sequences (GV's House, CA's Car etc.) and it would be great if Avid would first match frame to that Sequence and then to the clip. But hey ho!