You can copy and paste entire columns of data. For example the START for the clip (regardless of where an inpoint is currently marked) can be copied to the MARK IN column. That's pretty cool, so you can clear you MARK INS much easier than any of the other ways mentioned. It looks like you can only modify the MARK OUT on Sequences, not clips, though.
But you still want to move UP from that position by - let's say - 2 seconds for the MARK IN and - let's say - 2 seconds BACK from the END to get a mark out. OR say 5 seconds from the mark in for the mark out.
You CAN change the MARK IN in the bin itself, which I'd never tried to do. Without opening the clip, you can simply click in the MARK IN time or the MARK OUT time in the clip in the BIN itself and type a new number and that WILL set the marks to those points! Pretty cool. That keeps you from loading each clip to make the change.
Actually I found an even easier way, especially if all of your clips have the same starting inpoint.
Select the first clip in the bin and set the Mark in and mark out. You can do this in the Source window or actually in the bin in the Mark In and Mark Out columns.
Then copy the number of the MARK in from the first clip and simply PASTE it in the MARK in column of all subsequent clips. Do the same for the MARK OUT. You will be amazed to find that when you open those clips in the source window, they will all have identical ins and outs. This method took me about a second per clip. (half a second per clip to do all of the INs and half a second to do all of the OUTs) It's literally "click, command-V, click, command-V, etc.
Granted it's inelegant but it's very fast and it works.
I also tried to do a method where I exported the bin as an ALE and then tried to modify all of the MARK IN and MARK OUT times in a spreadsheet program and then brought the spreadsheet program back through Avid Log Exchange, but it choked. Someone smarter than me could probably figure out a way, but my method worked without all of the exporting. But it's WAY less manual labor than the other solutions because it can ALL be done WITHIN the bin, without loading the clips into the source.
One of the real problems here is that for still media - like photos or titles - Avid should recognize that the media exists before the "start" time anyway. The whole clip is essentially a fabrication.
Steve Hullfish
On Oct 9, 2014, at 11:38 AM, tcurren@aol.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
With all of the clips selected, hit the home key to get them to the head. Then hit play and let it go for a few seconds. Then hit mark in.
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