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FASTER WAVE FORM DRAWING
I am a big fan of keeping my waveforms visible while editing. However, our Avid MC Adrenaline draws these waveforms terribly slowly and each time I zoom to show more or less detail in the timeline the waveforms have to be redrawn causing me to wait once more for it to completely go through the timeline. FCP caches these drawings and speeds up the process exponentially. I find myself constantly turning the waveforms on and off to save time. Is there any way to speed this process up while displaying the audio or pperhaps a way to save these drawings like in FCP? Thanks in advance.
By the way:
Avid Media Composer Adrenaline v1.5.1
Mac OSX v10.3.5
3gigs RAM-Justin
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5 Replies
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It is an avid ‘issue’ that is a trade off between how useful it is to edit with waveforms and what a PITA it is to have them redraw.
Two tips:
1. Have 2 different timeline settings to toggle them on and off – if you use workspaces and ‘link workspaces by names’ then you can keyboard the waveforms on and off. Personally I use control-period to stop the waveform drawing and have toggle waveforms on a keyboard shortcut (shift-period, of course). Never could get into workspaces, but I do still have the two timeline settings to get me back to normality once in a while.
2. Make the 2nd track of each stereo pair the smallest size it can be vertically in the timeline. This saves half the drawing, but is unusable if you also use rubberbanding in the timeline.
Definitely a win for FCP in this area, although you can’t do individual track vertical resize, nor can you increase/decrease waveform scale within a track.
HTH
Trevor
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[TrevorA] “although you can’t do individual track vertical resize”
Not true. You can resize the tracks individually. I do it all the time.
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[John Pale] “You can resize the tracks individually. I do it all the time.”
You are SO correct. I think it’s only possible by dragging with the mouse though, right? I was referring to the ability in avid to ctl+k/ctl+l vertical zoom individual tracks.
I betray my lack of day-to-day FCP experience 😉
Trevor
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In addition, you can change your timeline settings to show Marked Waveforms. Your waveforms are turned off until you put an in and out point–then they only draw in your selected area. Not really helpful when you’re wanting to see the entire timeline of audio, but better than always waiting.
Also, when I have long timeline that takes a while to redraw, I zoom in to the section I want before I turn on my sample plots. Takes a lot less time to redraw, and if I forget to turn them off when I zoom out, Ctrl+. to stop it (someone else suggested this earlier, I believe). Works a treat.
Would be nice if Avid could speed it up though.
Mike.
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Thanks guys. I appreciate the tips. The duplicated timeline idea sounds great. Thanks to all.
Justin
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