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Both very simple, but a different method to what you're used to. Mark and in and out point around a few frames of clean audio. Make sure that the correct track selectors are highlighted at the left-hand end of the timeline (e.g. A1 A2) Ctrl+c to copy them. Alternatively alt+c (or maybe it's ctrl+alt+c) will copy them as a subsequence to the left-hand source monitor. Place the blue playhead at the frame you want to replace, select the red "overwrite" tool at the bottom of the timeline (I have these ones mapped to my keyboard for quick access) and ctrl+v to paste. If you have the yellow "insert" tool selected, or neither of them, then pasting will "insert" the copied frames and everything else will shift along to make room. Now, the catch here is that copying and pasting clips always places them on the same track they came from. But if you did the alt-copy and the frames you'd marked loaded up into the left-hand source monitor, then you can use the track selectors to patch them onto whichever tracks you want (e.g. A3, A4). Then just press "B" to overwrite them onto the timeline. Note- you'll probably have to clear the in/out points you'd marked when you copied the frames - do this by pressing "G". If you simply want to remove a few frames of audio (say you have an atmos track already in place on another track), just mark in and out around the frames you want to remove, make sure the correct track selectors are highlighted and press "z". This will "lift" the frames you have marked out of the timeline. (And by the way, those frames are now on the clipboard, if you wanted to paste them somewhere with ctrl-v). There are other ways to do all this (there's always several ways in Avid). But it's worth learning the alt-copy method as you'll find that useful in other circumstances. This probably sounds more complicated than it is, but I wanted to try and explain that you can either do the simple method to achieve what you want in this instance, or the more advanced methods which will serve you in many other situations as well. As for dragging the end of clips - you have to be in trim mode for this, you can't just grab the end of the clip as you would in other programmes. The easiest way to get into trim mode for this purpose is to hold down ctrl and drag a box all the way around the edit point you want to adjust. Then you can either grab the pink rollers with the mouse and drag them, or make fine adjustments with the keyboard (m < > / keys). cheers Campbell
i can't extend (providing i have handles) or shorten a clip on the timeline, by dragging with the mouse the extremities of a clip. 2) hit ALT+C to copy into the Source. 3) go to the "pop" mark In (or Out) or both if needed. 4) hit B to Overwrite it on the Timeline. Or if I knew I was going to have a lot of pops needing to be covered by room tone, I'd make a subclip of the room tone and use that in order to skip steps 1 and 2 each time.
i can't extend (providing i have handles) or shorten a clip on the timeline, by dragging with the mouse the extremities of a clip. You enter Trim Mode, mine is mapped to [ key or you can use Extend which I have mapped to SHIFT+O, or there's also the Top and Tail buttons which I have mapped to E and R. Check out the Manual and Help for more details on methodology for using Trim, Extend, or Top and Tail.
MC doesn't extend the clips like liquid did by simply grabbing the handles and extending them. You have to be in trim mode to adjust a clips handles. If you have the extend key mapped to your keyboard you can highlight the track you want to extend, move the playline to the position you want, we need to mark an in or out at the cursor, depending if we shorten or lenghen the clip, before hitting extend. and hit the extend key. I don't remember if it is located above the timeline or not. Look in help for the extend key, maybe douglas has a tut on it. In liquid we were able to extend a clip by grabbing the handles, in overwrite or segment mode. We didn't have to be in trim mode About trimming, do some tests with J K and L trimming , U turns trim mode on
and off , P is for selecting the ingoing clip, the key to the right of P selects
both clips and the key to the right of that one selects the outgoing clip ( I
am on a swedish keybosrd using default keyboard settings, you donīt want to know
the names of those other keys on my swedish keyboard The J and L keys trims in different ways depending on what you have selected, do a try, you might have to turn it on in the settings if you want to use it
George is correct. You'll want to place locators at various cue points in your clip (or sequence). The locator function can be mapped from the command palette in the tools menu, under "more".
If you drag from the upper window (command palette) to the lower window (keyboard) a button will be assigned to a key at the the keyboard.
And from George's screen shot, the command palette (CTRL + 3) will allow you to map the add locator function to buttons on your UI or to the keyboard. And if you use the "menu to button" function on the command palette, you can map any dropdown menu item to the keyboard or a button as well.
Also, during capture using the capture tool, F3 and F5 through F12 will add different color locator marks on the fly to the clip being captured while the capture is in progress.
That's really strange, because I can add locators to any clip on any track on my timeline, and I have 8 audio tracks in the current timeline I'm working with. Check your timeline fast (hamburger) menu at "show locators" and make sure "all" is selected. If that doesn't fix the issue, you might want to rebuild site settings files, they may have become corrupted. To do that, quit the application, and from the settings folder, delete the following: MC State, Site_Settings, Site_Attributes. On re-launch, the system will detect the missing files and build new ones. If you had previously dragged any user settings into the site settings window, those will need to be restored after the rebuild. I do not seem to be able to add it to my audio 3 track If you want to add to A3, then only A3 can be the highest track enabled. I have Add Locator (Yellow) mapped to my "p" key (for "peanut"). I also have Green and Red locators mapped to = and -. ADDING:
when I use a marker it removes the first marker placed on the wav to add the new marker. (Audio mark in) I also wanted to point out that if you're going through the steps and something like Audio Mark In trips you up and doesn't seem like it's the right thing you're expecting, you can always refer to the Help and learn about those functions so you don't bash your head against a wall trying to make Audio Marks be Locators.
I had to add the locator icon above the timeline and it now marks on the timeline.
Y'know Edd, when I want to mark to the beat in a timeline for editing, I actually use the add edit function. I map that to a key and I can click to the beat. Then I am able to go back and quickly mark clip or use the trim function to adjust the edits. You might see if that's to your liking too
The standard DVD creation workflow I've followed for close to 6 yrs is: 1. Export a QTref from Avid 2. Transcode the QTref using a 3rd Party encoder to DVD compliant MPEG-2 - lately I've been using Episode, but Squeeze, Procoder or Apple Compressor work well too. 3. Take the resulting MPEG-2 file into my DVD authoring software - I use DVD Studio Pro 4. After the VideoTS folders are created, I use Toast Titanium to burn the discs. It may seem like a lot of steps, but you can eliminate most any of them along the chain per your own satisfaction with results.
I agree with Douglas' export to DVDit directly. MC (QT movie or ref better QT movie by me)>Avid DVD it or ConvertXToDVD.
if you are on an HDV timeline, your first option on export setting is AUDIOVIDEO. that is .m2t
No it does not. MC does not have a built in DVD program. With MC you export your timeline as a qt ref into Avid DVD which is a seperate program. From there you compile and create your DVD menu and movie. Douglas has some tutorials on it in the Media Composer PC forum
Do not forget though that send to commands are working fine inside MC. So you can send at DVD one step which does everything automatically. There are 2 options: DVD Authoring DVD One Step
So Mike, that being the case, you'll want to go the the clip menu and pull down to "new title..." to launch the standard title tool. But first, go to the "Marquee" section of your user settings and set it up to always use the standard title tool. And keep in mind that any title you create can be promoted to 3D and give you all the capabilities you'll find in the 3D warp effect in the blend group. I use Title Too for subtitling and for almost everything else. It is faster than TD Pro when you will get used to it. BE SURE to try out the shadow softening capabilites - at the bottom of the object pulldown menu. Makes drop shadows look really nice.
As Tomas points out there are many title tools to use if you feel you want something deeper or more complex. Marquee, Boris even Heroglyph which as Vitascene they work excellent within MC. However for simple titling, Title Tool is just excellent. P.S. TD Pro can be used as a plugin but is trouble to use and not so fast as was inside Liquid. I use TitleDeko Pro all the time in MC. You need to reinstall it manually and select Avid in the install list.It will appears in the MC filters at the end of the filter list under Title Deko Pro. Then, cut a blank filler in an empty track and drag the TDKPro filter on it. You can open the editor and activate TDKPro.
And if you have access to Adobe After Effects, you can create some very sophisticated animations and fonts quite easily using many, many presets that are available, then export a QT movie with alpha channel and import to Avid.
And if you have the budget, here are two plug-in packages I highly recommend and both have free trial downloads:Sapphire I am looking at the Magic Bullet Looks 1.2 for Avid MC They work flawlessly and this is a marvelous tool. Plus this is RT! A must have.
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