Re: [Avid-L2] 2 Avid questions in regards to FCP workflow

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
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Search the official Complete Avid-L archives at:
> http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
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> >
> >
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