As a long time offline editor, I gotta ask: what's ingenious about what your young whippersnapper is doing? Nothing, as far as I can tell: just laziness.
You're saying he edits, and changes his mind as he's working, and layers another clip on the track above (B-roll over interview for example) but does this 5 or 6 times for the same segment. IF only the top layer is valid, I mean, there are no layered effects, HE should get rid of the unneeded shots - they're just confusing once you've locked an edit. If he wants to save the layered sequence before sending a clean one to online - back it up in a bin.
I'd've had my ass handed to me on a platter if I'd sent a sequence to online that way all the years I worked for NBC. It sounds like this guy should get his act together. I don't get the "ingenious" part of what he's doing at all. It's just standard practice when you're cutting, but once you lock the cut, you ought to clean it up before you hand it on. After all, no one is going to know that cut better than you do. Certainly not online.
Now, as far as all you online braggadocios go, I'm not even going to get into offline/online tit for tat; as someone who cuts a lot of documentary these days, I wind up doing everything: offline and online - color correction, effects, whathaveyou. So, that aside, is there a quicker way to eliminate unneeded shots?
Having no problem seeing in my minds eye the cluttered mess he has handed to you, I can only say this: if you're sure that only the top track is needed for that particular piece of video and there are no effects you will be inadvertently changing - if you only have two tracks, well, pretty straightforward, but if you've got a pile of them, five or six say, and this moron hasn't been bitchslapped by the post super for failing to understand teamwork, instead of laboriously dragging clips down one track at a time, make an edit where the top clip ends, cutting all video tracks, delete everything but the clip you need, and drag that to V1. Of course, you still a have to be careful about drift - so, all the other rules apply - but that'd be easier than going one track at a time, regardless of whether you work down or up.
That'd be how I'd do it, but, of course, I don't have to deal with a sequence I don't already know intimately.
I suggest you have a word with your post super about this young whippersnapper. Just cause he's young (I like to think I'm young) and a whippersnapper, doesn't mean he couldn't learn a things or two from the old(er) guard.
Just sayin...
paul h
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Pete Opotowsky <popix@...> wrote:
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> I always thought there should be an option for the segment editing/lasso tools that would turn on/off selecting the black along with.
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> On 3/28/2012 2:45 PM, Greg Huson wrote:
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> > Is there a keyboard shortcut to replace draggin down the clip? Like, I
> > highlight 3 clips in a row on Trk 4, drag them down to Trk3, add a
> > clip to the highlight group, drag that down to trk2,... etc. Is there
> > an avid keyboard equivalent to 'Cmd + E' in photoshop?? (combine layer)
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