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Merry Christmas
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[David Powell] “There are many advantages. A lot of FCP editors complain about Avid’s modal model. IMO this is what makes it so powerful.”
It doesn’t. It is just some functions better implemented. They don’t mandate modality.
[David Powell] ” And while you’re on the edit you hit the space bar and the edit will loop while you make adjustments it updates in realtime! “
With an edit selected hit play around current and trim with square brackets.
[David Powell] ” Lets say you play past an edit point and realize that the timing needs to roll exactly to where you stop the playhead. With Final Cut you have to click on the edit (there is no “select nearest edit hotkey which drives me crazy”) then reposition back to that point in time, then hit extend edit.”
There is a Select Edit Shortcut in FCP7. It will select the nearest edit. The problem is it will take the playhead to the selected edit. Select first, then extend. Not as neat as Avid but not as bad as you make it to look.
[David Powell] “In Final Cut you have to select each clip then choose color then correct, then choose the next clip. In Avid you simply enter CC mode and any clip that the playhead is on will automatically be selected for CC so you can just hit next clip or play and color correct shot to shot.”
Select all clips on the timeline. Apply 3-Way CC. Select “Open” from playhead sync menu.
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[Steve Connor] “Should we explain about the strange British tradition of Pantomime?”
I doubt they’d get it even if we did explain! I’m not at all sure I understand it myself 😉
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[James Ewart] “Avid takes a long time to learn because well, it’s not very intuitive is it? The interface is designed to (or at any rate does) make editing look very complicated. It was designed by and for Linear Online editors. it’s all a bit geeky.”
It’s really strange for me to read comments like this – which are very much the norm, of course.
I learnt to use Media Composer back when there really weren’t any other viable options, so it doesn’t seem at all “unintuitive” to me and editors of my generation.
I’m getting old …
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It certainly didn’t seem unintuitive to me when you consider the systems we were moving from, room-sized A/B BetaSP suites. I was already dabbling with things like VideoToaster & Lightwave3D before AVID became accessible in my area. So AVID wasn’t that huge a stretch- comparatively.
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You come from online tape?
I come from Moviola and Steenbeck.
I always hated linear online tape editing.
I know which looks more like a film strip to me.
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Compared to film editing though? X is the closest “look” for me. I like seeing the images in the timeline. It feels like a bit of film on a flatbed. To me Avid feels like I’m sitting in a tape suite watching some bloke pushing loads of buttons. Actually even legacy feels like that to me now.
Not to mention if I’ve got something on v8 the audio is bloody miles way down on a15 and a16.
Not that I ever get as far as more than about 5 layers these days. The joy of Auditions! -
I edited on film in the early 90’s, but I quickly discovered I was WAY too messy. My edits always ending up being noticeable, and I hated that.
While I was in high school I’d invested in a VHS deck with a flying erase head, which created clean edits. So even if I had to deliver on film, I’d always record the rushes projected off a screen, take them home and figure out all my edits that way- so I wasn’t having to make decisions with the film cutting.
Having been exposed to the digital side of things fairly early, I could tell that was the way things were going- one way or another. Tape to tape suites were the closest I could get for a while. But I only cut that way for a year or two.
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Pretty dull not being able to go into the middle of an edit and remove a few seconds here and there without going down a generation. And a limit to how often you could do that. Very restrictive way of editing.
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[James Ewart] “You come from online tape?
I come from Moviola and Steenbeck.”
I come from Steenbeck too …
Yes, I am very old.
Simon Ubsdell
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It was a tiered approach. By the time I sat down in the big suite I’d already made all my decisions on dual VHS systems. You make all your mistakes there where you don’t care about quality.
It was very much an offline/online approach.
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