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Adjusting speed on clips in the timeline/ Effectsadjusting
I´m new to Avid, and have only edited in Premier earlier. So I would be thankfull for a little startuphelp.
My first question is how you speed up and slow down a clips speed. When we got an introduction, the teacher said that the only way to do so, was to alter this in the rawmaterial, before you put it in the timeline/sequence. But I refuse to see that this is the only way. This is really cumbersome, and is much more easy in Premiere. So is there another way?
Another thing is how one can adjust and set effectschanges in one clipp. I have only been able to make an effect on entire clips, but not controlling them and adjusting them inside one. For example if I want a clipp to gradually turn black/white. How do you do this?
Sorry about the poor english, but I proably will write here pretty much, så it will hopefully improve.
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Your teacher is right – you can only slo mo a clip in the source monitor in Xpress Pro.
If you use Media Composer, you have access to an effect called Time Warp, and it can be placed and manipulated on the timeline.
As far as causing an effect to fade in or out within a clip, just add an edit, apply the effect to one side of the clip, and dissolve into the effect.
Keep in mind that Avid is not Premeire. Avid does a lot of things well, and some not so well. It’s the same with Premeire and FCP. Don’t try to make Avid work like like another product. You are doing well to learn multiple NLE’s. It will make your worth as an editor much greater over time.
Jon
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Yes the timewarp effect is the best. As far as your effect controls… add the desired effect to a clip, open the “effect editor” and you can keyframe all attributes.
– Justin Gray
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Here’s an advanced question for timewarp masters. I’m on a PC Avid. I mostly use Mac. I thought on Mac when I hold the command button and drag a keyframe up or down, it would increase by a locked 25% increment. Now I can’t do this in Avid 5. Can’t figure it out on PC Avid 5 as well. Has this feature been lost?
Thanks!
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