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2 editing questions
Hi,
I’m a Final Cut Pro editor for a few years now, and I’m just now learning the avid,
but I have a few practical questions about how to do certain things…by the way, I’m working on a Avid Symphony Nitris at my company, but I guess for these things it’s practically the same thing as Media Composer.
1) To navigate trough my timeline in FCP, I mainly use the up and down keys to go from one edit to the next.
I know you have the A and S keys, but that opens up trim mode, which I don’t want to do,You also have the foreward en rewind buttons that you can map to the keyboard, but the problem with that is it works only when there is an edit point on ALL active tracks. Since most of the time my video and audiocuts aren’t in the same place,
and I don’t want to keep selecting and deselecting tracks all the time, I don’t like it very muchIs there a tool in the avid that does the same thing as in final cut, just go from one edit to the other?
2) For most of the things I edit, a journalist comes in, and we first make our story with the quotes, and then fill everything up with images and music.
In FCP, when I want a gap between 2 quotes to fill up later, I just put my playhead a little further in the timeline where I want the next quote to go and put it there.
With Avid, that is not possible, because the timeline ends after the last clip, you can’t put filler at the very end of the timeline.Is there a possibility to make the timeline longer than the sequence?
Or is there a better workflow for these kind of edits in Avid?Thanks in advance for reading, hope you can help me!
Bert.
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2 Replies
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1. In the Settings tab, under Timeline settings, you will find the option to ignore the track selectors when skippping from cut to cut. I think that does what you want it to do.
2. No, you can’t have filler space after your last shot. A lot of folks (like myself) cut in an end leader or one frame of black video, then add an amount of filler before that, and then you have a bit of “working space”.
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“1. In the Settings tab, under Timeline settings, you will find the option to ignore the track selectors when skippping from cut to cut. I think that does what you want it to do. ”
You can also hold ALT (or Option on Mac) and use the FF/RW and it’ll ignore Track Selection.
Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)
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