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Animatte “snapping?”
Hi –
I recently had to revise a spot I had done only a few days before. It had an animatte, which I used to reveal a title, so that it appeared to be behind who was crossing in front of the camera.
My problem was what, when I went in to revise its position, the matte (which was pretty much just a rectangle with four control points at the corners) would not simply move to the new positions I wanted to put it in; it would appear to be “snapping” to some unseen grid. It would take me 8-10 tries to get it where I wanted it, by dragging is past the position I wanted it in and hoping it would settle back to the correct spot.
So, is there some “snap to grid” function I’m unaware of…or is this a bug….or…?
Thanks.
Ron
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3 Replies
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Sounds like you’re describing Adobe Premiere behavior as well. Move a video clip up or down a track and the linked audio moves in the opposite direction a corresponding number of tracks. That always annoyed me. Avid doesn’t work that way.
You have to develop the habit of targeting where you want your audio/video clips to “land” in the Avid. If you need to move them later, you have to move audio and video clips separately. Understand that holding the Control key while you move the clip will constrain its motion to vertical. That way you don’t overwrite any portion of clips to the left or right of the one you’re moving.
If you discover you need to insert audio/video tracks after you’ve begun an edit, Control+U, Control+Y will add audio and video tracks respectively. Add Alt as a modifier key (Control+Alt+Y) and you can choose where to insert the track. This gives you flexibility in case you need to keep an edited sequence’s tracks in a certain “stacking” order.
It is just the Avid way. Other editors will soon be a distant memory… 😉
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Ignore above… Sorry, I accidentally posted wrong response in.
Snapping sounds like you haven’t cleared all the old keyframes. With the effects window open. The following assumes your animatte is static, that is you’re not animating the shape over time.
In effects mode, select your animatte in the record monitor. Hold the shift key and select the keyframes at the beginning and end of the clip. Now place your animatte where you want it to go. There should be no “jumping” as it plays through now. If there is, delete the effect and start from scratch.
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make sure to turn off safe title when rotoscoping… it tends to produce a snap-like function.
Eric Bradberry
Video Editor
Avid Media Composer / PCmix it down.
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