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Avid Editing Effects
Dear Friends,
I inherited the editing job for our movie project from our editor who has encountered some personal issues that need his attention. I have a pressing deadline, and I am a “newbie” at this, having editing only a couple of short projects. I am editing in Avid Express Pro on a HP workstation 4000. The aspect ratio is 16/9 and we used a Panasonic 24p camera.
The majority of the movie is done and ready to go, except for a few details that are major (for me anyway).My primary job right now is to tighten the piece so that it moves along.
Many of the clips in the timeline have sound and color correction effects on them–done by the original editor.
My specific questions are these:
(1) If I edit the clip in the timeline, does it remove the effect like it does a dissolve?
(2) Or does it just undo the rendering, allowing you to re-render it?
I am afraid to cut into the clip without knowing this as I have no experience in color correction or sound effects.
Can you help?
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2 Replies
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Dear CrossWind,
Do not fear! First of all you are ahead of the game for a newbie because you know about the creative calf and where to get help. As for your questions:No, editing does not remove the effect, however it may unrender it. But have no fear because you can always use “undo edit” to go back to the way it was, Or you can just re-render the effect. As for loosing dissolves, you should check it before you make the change to take note of it’s duration and position on the edit so that you can reproduce it after you make the cut. Just make sure you keep everything in sync when you are tightening. Keep your sync locks on. And for extra reassurance, you can make a duplicate of the original sequence and work on the duplicate. That way you always have the original to go back to if you “loose” something that you can’t get back for some reason.
Chaz S.
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Hi Chaz,
Thanks so much for your reply to my inquiry.
Cross Wind
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