Command snaps to the Head of the clip, Command+option (Ctrl+Alt in Windows)
snaps to the tail of the clip.
I didn't know Command+Shict Locked vertically, so thanks for the tip.
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Michael Hancock
<mhancockeditor@gmail.com>wrote:
> Please note that Shirley got the keyboard combo correct to lock clips
> vertically and I had it wrong. I said Alt+Command - it's Shift+Command.
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:08 PM, john@digitalcut.com <john@digitalcut.com
> >wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Thank you Mike and Shirley. I will try these techniques.
> > Your answers are a big help -- I thought I was going crazy
> >
> > John Kilgour
> >
> > On Aug 26, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey John,
> > >
> > > Without any question, FCP has better and more flexible selection tools
> > than does Avid. However, there are slightly better ways of accomplishing
> > what you want in MC.
> > >
> > > For your first question, moving a clip from track to track. There's no
> > "click free" way of doing this in Avid, but you if you use the red arrow
> > segment mode, you can at least lock the segment in its current TC
> position
> > by holding down "Shift/Command" when you drag to the new track. And if
> you
> > decide to go the clipboard route, holding down the Option modifier when
> you
> > lift or extract will automatically load the clipboard contents in the
> > Source window. I use this constantly when moving big hunks of material
> > around, and I miss it terribly when I work in FCP. Option/Copy also works
> > that way, and is great for doing things like borrowing room tone to use
> in
> > another location. BTW, I'm speaking Mac here, but I'm assuming you know
> to
> > substitute Control or Alt for the key modifiers if you're on PC.
> > >
> > > And when sliding segments with the red segment mode, you can use the
> > trim keys at the bottom of the keyboard to move in increments of 1 or 10
> > frames. There is no way that I know of to customize these values as you
> can
> > in FCP. And Avid has no "collision" warning when you go to slide segments
> > this way, but if you move the segment with the mouse, you can use the
> > Command key to snap to head frames of adjacent segments, or
> Command/Option
> > to snap to tail frames of adjacent segments, thus preventing the
> > inadvertent overwrite.
> > >
> > > I hope this helps!
> > >
> > > Shirley
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Kilgour <john@digitalcut.com>
> > > To: avid-L2 <avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Sun, Aug 26, 2012 11:36 am
> > > Subject: [Avid-L2] 2 Avid questions in regards to FCP workflow
> > >
> > > 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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> > > Search the official Complete Avid-L archives at:
> > http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
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