Don’t want to bring clips in as spanned clips

[Michael Garber]

Just an FYI for those who might have to deal with spanned clips with the need for multiple audio roles…

I had one clip that I was forced to bring in spanned. It had a mix of interview and B-roll. With news, I need to create roles for NAT-SOT and INTVW audio, as well as VO to export a multi-track QT. Unless I’m missing something, it seems that roles can only be applied to a full clip – not to sections.

So, if I had brought in all the clips as spanned and then keyworded them, I would have been (mostly) unable to send out multiple audio tracks. There are two workarounds. One is to duplicate the clip first and then add separate roles to each clip. The second is to add the role to the clip once it’s in the project. Once in the project, they don’t refer back to the original clip.

Luckily, I only had to deal with this on one clip.

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP

[Bill Davis]

[Michael Garber] “My reaction to your response was, in a way, the same as what you are trying to avoid. My feeling was that, ugh, someone reading this thinks that I don’t know what I’m talking about because I’m being told very basic stuff.”

Totally fair.

But I can’t help thinking of a video I saw about 30 years ago regarding computer operating processes. The focus group camera had the shot of a guy sitting at a table with a brand new 5.25″ floppy drive. The very first instruction was “remove the disk from the sleeve.” So the guy not only pulled the floppy from the paper wrapper – he proceeded to reach into his pocket, pull out a pen knife – and cut away the plastic housing from the media disk inside.

Never forgot that.

I know it annoys people when someone re-hits basics that they are well beyond.. But I did lectures for more than 10 years to folks at all levels of video production and some of the questions I got time and time again, reminded me that the tech that you and I think is fundamental is at the same time totally obscure to many.

There are tons of high level discussions that take place here. And the people who participate in them are free to use language appropriate to those chats.

Again, sorry if it sounded condescending. But that won’t hurt someone with your credentials a bit. You’re bulletproof by proven capability. 😉

But I’ll try to watch myself and remember it’s not like the old days here when the forum was 90% FUD.

And heck, since Apple’s update yesterday wasn’t exactly centered around new “home movie slideshow” capabilities – maybe I can sit back, relax and enjoy the ride for a while.

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