FInal Cut To Avid, Growing Pain

[Michael Hancock]

1. I used to run it through my Avid Mojo. Maybe a USB mic?
2. Apply a 3D Warp effect or PIP effect.
3. See if this video helps: https://community.avid.com/forums/p/69303/387280.aspx It’s a couple years old so some interface things may have changed.

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Jason Wood]

1. See Audio Punch-in in the manual/help files
2. There is a re-size filter, but it’d serve you best to get used to 3D Warp and the way it works. It’s a powerful thing.
3. Click on the hamburger menu in the timeline (bottom left) and choose Audio Data -> Waveform

[Juris Eksts]

Hi Greg.
You’ll find that in Avid there are often several ways of doing the same thing.
1) VO can be done wild with the capture tool, or to picture with the audio punch-in tool.
2)Unlike FCP, the work is done in the edit window and the timeline, so use resize (in the image section of effects) or 3D Warp from the Blend section.
3) Audio waveforms are under the quick (hamburger) menu at the bottom left of the timeline, – Audio Data – sample plot.

[Marianna Montague]

Greg,
A lot of the features of MC are showcased in customer based tutorials on community.avid.com

Specifically Douglas Bruce who previously migrated from Liquid to MC has created over 200 tutorials on many of the features.

Here is a good place to start.

https://community.avid.com/forums/t/98334.aspx

Marianna
marianna.montague@avid.com

[Job Ter burg]

Thousands of people are running MC on a variety of systems without any issues. Installs are generally very easy.

State your system specs, and check it with the Avid Version Matrix. https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=267087

Like Michael, even not-so-new machines will run MC just fine.

[Hector Berrebi]

[Greg Burke] ” FInal Cut To Avid, Growing Pain”

Greg.

Just commenting on the title you chose…
Changing your toolset is never easy. But it shouldn’t be regarded as a growing pain, or any sort of pain for all it matters…
this will reflect on how you learn the software.

I say this from years of training experience, it’s hard to self learn a software like Avid properly, especially if you come from years of experience on FCP. And more so if you plan to quickly learn to use it as aprofessional tool.

I know FCP and AVID well enough to tell you that with proper training, differences and conflicts are minimal, and it’s a rather smooth transition.

Alone (or with tutorials) it becomes much harder.

And as of waveforms… A nice recent addition is the RTAS panel on every track, you have a waveform button there, individual for each track.

Hector Berrebi
prePost Consulting

[Jan Maitland]

Lots of great answers here already, but I thought I’d add a quick response to your VO question:

When I switched over from FCP to Avid two weeks ago I had a very hard time getting Media Composer to recognize my USB mic. The work around I came to was an outside application called Audio Hijack Pro. It’s been fantastic in the role of recording scratch-VOs and will generate an aiff in whatever you folder you specify and from their it’s a quick import into MC. If you’re inclined you can also add audio “effects” to what you’re recording as you record it, which can be cool (eq, compression, etc…).

Just yesterday I got an Apogee ONE sent in from Sweetwater and am hoping that that will be recognized by MC (and thus allow me to Mc’s punch in tool), but that’s today’s after-client experiment so it’s tbd.

Lastly, I’m blown away by the RTAS plugin integration within the timeline: what a powerful toolset for those that need it.

[Greg Burke]

[Hector berrebi] “Just commenting on the title you chose… “

Well I meant to say growing pains, I still figuring it out there some things I love about it and some things I hate, Btu Its a good program none the less

I wear many hats.
http://www.gregburkepost.com

[Grinner Hester]

[Greg Burke] “1. Can you record VO in Avid? and where is that option?
2. How do you Crop and Resize a image in the “Canvas” window?
3. How do I make Audio Waveforms show up in the timeline?”

1. You can do a live vo just by clicking the option. I just capture through my mixer though to keep things easy.
2. There isn’t a canvas window but you can do whatever ya need once it’s on the timeline.
3. just turn em on, brother.

[Chris Conlee]

RTAS is really cool, but it’s severely limited by the inability to keyframe parameters. How often do you need to use the exact same EQ or reverb on an entire track? I do use it for applying compression to dialog tracks occasionally, however.

Chris