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
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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