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Avid Interface vis a vis Adobe Premiere
Hi, I am new to this forum so I hope that I am doing everything correctly.
I started editing with Premiere pro but recently I decided to check out avid and got hold of AVID XPRESS PRO 5. The first hurdle I faced is its interface- quite different ppro. Though lately I gotused to that a little except one that is avid’s timeline. As in PPRO I can see the frames in timeline but in Avid it appears completely solid colour. Is there a way that I could see the frames in the video tracks of timeline and waveforms in the time line audio tracks?Please help.
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If you can do it with PPRO, you can almost certainly do it with Avid. Avid is very deep, has many ways to do one thing. You can customize your interface untill next leap year it has so many options. As for what you want, no you can’t do it.
Just kidding, here’s what you do.
In the bottom left hand corner of the timeline there is an icon that look like a hamburger, it’s called the hamburger menu. Open it and select Clip Frames to see the Video.
For the audio all you really need to select is Sample Plot. However, you’ll find it’s very slow to refresh unless you also select Audio Clip Gain and Audio Auto Gain. So select all three.
Having the video clip frames showing also tends to slow things down. Personally, I never use it, but that’s just me.Hope that helps. Oh, and Jon Zanone, one of the regulars here on the Avid Cow forum, would be upset if I neglect to tell a new Avid convert “Welcome to the dark side”.
Chaz S.
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The Dark Side indeed – I believe it’s the loud side. I do believe Avid’s booth was louder this year!
Jon
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Hi thank you very much for your help. I am really sorry for this delaying in reply but I had
problems with my net connection so please forgive me.
As you instructed I opened AVID timeline. At the leftmost bottom corner I did find a menu
icon. Hovering my mouse eover it its name was shown as “FAST MENU”. Did you mean this menu
by ‘hamburger menu’? After I opened it, there was a option as ‘show frames’. But
unfortunately, clicking on it did not show up frames in the time line! Did I do anything
wrong? Please help.Regarding dark side please let me allow to say something. Well in my mothertounge there is
one proverb “KALO JAGOTER ALO”. This means “blackness/darkness is really the source of light
of this whole universe” -bit philosophical; but creative people like you should not have
any problem to fathom the depths. So I am glad to join the dark side and hope that you
people will guide to enlightment :).
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Wow. It’s too early for something that deep. That hurt. But welcome regardless.
Hamburger and fast refer (as least in the Avid) refer to the same thing.
When you go back to the fast menu, is your selection still checked?
Jon
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Hi,
I sincerely apologise for this delay in replying. Lately I am facing a lot of problem with AVID. Basically it is not loading properly. I tried to reinstall a number of times but the problem is not solved.
Do I need a graphics card and 1 GB ram to run it properly?
I have 512MB ram (DDR 400 FSB) and no graphics card.
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[src2206] “Do I need a graphics card and 1 GB ram to run it properly?”
Yes. 2GB would be better. Make sure you get an approved graphics card (I’m assuming you are running this on a laptap – I don’t understand what you mean by ‘I have no graphics card’….) and an approved system. Search the Avid site for hardware configurations (you gotta’ work a LITTLE bit for this, no?)
Jon
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Hi Jon,
Thanks for your reply. Well that is a bad news for me.
I do not use laptop ( a decent one costs a bomb in our country ). I use desktop PC. There is a onboard AGP via unichrome pro available as default one.
Though my Premiere 1.5 runs decently on my PC (a little slow though but managable 🙂 ).Regards
src
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