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Mark OUT…. Records one frame too far.
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ask the first grader if he has apple number one and apple number two, how many apples are that? 🙂
btw i haven’t edited in avid for a long time, but when you set an outpoint i seem to remember that it ended up on the previous frame. sure, that’s following the same paradigm as fcp since that frame is then included, but it’s not working exactly the same interface-wise.
/matt
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It totally makes sense if you zoom way in on the playhead. Note that the Playhead has a gray square hanging from it. It makes you realize that a frame, even as small as it is, has a duration of exactly ONE FRAME. That frame takes 1/30 of a second to play through it. If you mark in, you are using the playhead to mark the in at the leading edge of the frame. If you mark out using the playhead, you are marking the timecode at the END of the playhead’s “gray square”, which stands for 1/30 of a second later than the leading edge of the frame.
You guys are wanting the playhead to be a skinny stick which will only count TC at the leading edge of the frame, but the playhead is not that at all. It is a device which represents the ENTIRE frame, both the beginning and end of that single frame.
Bottom line? Get used to it if you are an Avid or FCP editor or you will constantly add an extra frame when use the playhead to mark out.
Note that when you use the Mark Clip function, it doesn’t add the extra frame on the out point. WHY? You are NOT using the playhead to mark that out.
It is improper use of the Playhead in Marking Out which is causing the confusion. Once you realize that the Playhead represents the FULL frame, not just the leading edge of it, it will make more sense as to why they made it that way.
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Totally disagree with you here. When I mark an out-point I want to see the frame I am going to lose not the frame BEFORE the one I am going to lose. This is what I always hated about editing linear. Just get used to it. As an editor it is the true way. I don’t think you’ll get much support in trying to change it. Plus in FCP you can just type in a duration instead of ” +xx:xx” so there is no problem.
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