AVID – add more FX to clip

[Jon Zanone]

There are two ways –

-ALT/OPT drag the 2d FX onto the clip.
-Step into the FX using the little arrows on the bottom left part of the timeline.

Jon

[Terminator3]

thanks for your advise, but it does not still work !? i dont know whats wrong, always when i want to add another FX the old one is replaced by the new one, even when i tap ALT or CTRL during draging FX to the clip !?

Iam mainly interested in post-productions visual FX

[Jon Zanone]

Don’t tap it – hold the alt key as you drag…

Jon

[Terminator3]

sorry, i wrote wrong expression, sure i hold it as i drag ! but it still rewrites old FX !!?

[Michael Hancock]

Are you holding Alt before you select your effect? If so, don’t. Select your effect, start to drag it toward the clip you want to put it on, and hold alt before you get to it, releasing alt after it’s been dropped. For some reason (at least on my machine), if I hold Alt before I select the effect, it doesn’t register. Try it and let us know.

Mike.

[Terminator3]

thanks, it works, but new peoblem appeared, all FX i drag keep in comp monitor but not in FX control window!? =i can control only last one!?

Iam mainly interested in post-productions visual FX

[Jon Zanone]

You need to step into the effect to see the others. There are two little triangles on the bottom left part of the time line – the one on the left points down, the one on the right points up. Place your blue position line over the effect, make sure the correct track is active and click on the down arrow to step into the effect. You can keep stepping into the effect as long as there is an effect to step into. It’s a very powerful feature.

If you are interested in visual FX, why not get into Adobe After Effects (or Apple Shake)? They are much more powerful compositing programs…

Jon

[Terminator3]

thanks, ive been already using AE + premiere, wanted to try something better instead of premiere, but no essential benefits i ve found except real time trans, color cor etc… !?

another editing thing i am not able to do in avid is to set specific
duration of clip – fill the gap without trimming, i ve found just 50perc speed effect etc…

Iam mainly interested in post-productions visual FX

[Jon Zanone]

Replace edit is your friend. Do a search on it in the help files – I’ll try to explain it as best I can.

In the command pallete (tool>command pallette) click on the edit tab. There is a blue arrow called ‘replace edit’. drag it to one of the buttons on your timeline or under your record monitor. If you are a keyboard guy, you can drag it to your keyboard after you open your keyboard in settings. If you want to use the add edit while playing audio, you MUST map it to the keyboard.

Replace edit ONLY works if you have at least as much source material as your edit. In other words, if you have 5 seconds of source, and want to fill 7 seconds on your timeline, fuggetaboutit – use fit to fill instead. It’s also helpful to map an add edit button from the command pallette (search around – I don’t remember which tab it’s under) to your keyboard.

You can add edit in any clip, or even in black. This technique is especially helpful when doing music videos. There’s an especially helpful tutorial somewhere on the COW, but I can’t seem to find it at the moment. Be careful – as you use add edit, make sure you have only the track you want to edit. If nothing else, having an audio track full of add edits doesn’t look very nice!

If your add edit is mapped to the keyboard, play your audio. If you are musically inclined, hit add edit to the beat of the music. Don’t worry if you screw up. You can trim the add edit later. Once you are done, start adding clips as described below.

If all you want to do is replace footage, place your blue line at the position you want to replace, place the position marker of your source and hit add edit. Remember, this only works if you have enough source footage on either side of the position line to cover your edit.

HTH,

Jon