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Staying in Sync, Argh!
Firstly, just wanted to say what a WONDERFUL idea this Creative Calf thing is. I was just about to try and slog through the archive over at the Cow to try and figure out how to STAY IN SYNC but was a little embarrased to post such a sophmore problem. Alas, now I have the Calf and am so very excited!
I’m basically looking for some nitty gritty tips on how to keep in sync with mutiple tracks of audio and a timeline that has been laid out very piecemeal. I’m working with two producers who are having me space out VO, fine cut to music and generally move things hither and yon. EGADs! Things have already gone a little haywire, luckily they are very patient and have been understanding so far.
I’m working for the first time on an Adrenaline on a Mac, coming from knowing the basics of Xpress Pro on a PC, and of course the kicker is I’ve been cutting exclusively on FCP for a few months! I can’t tell you how discombobulated I am . . . I’ve got questions galore . . . What are the pros and cons of sync locks? How does “segment drag sync lock” function exactly and would I ever want to turn it off? How do I move all tracks downstream a la FCP’s “select track forward”? How can I perform a single roller trim on one track without throwing everything downstream off? Moving shots around using the modes (extract/splice-in and lift/overwrite) and the mouse seems clumsy, what are my button pushing options? How do I get in the Avid’s head and stop thinking like FCP?
Any help, on any one question would be greatly appreciated.
Anju
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Anju, it’s hard enough going from PC to Mac with the whole “command”/”control” key difference, but to also switch from FCP to Avid, I feel for you. How do you get your mind to stop thinking in FCP and get Avid on the brain, well, it’s like getting your sea legs or your land legs, it just takes spending enough time in that environment. As for staying in sync, personally, I always work with sync locks on all my tracks, always, but that’s just me. That way it’s pretty damn hard if not impossible to loose sync. To move all tracks downstream, just do an insert edit with you sync tracks on or do a single roller trim. As long as the sync locks are on, everything will move down. As for using the “red arrow” or “yellow arrow” modes let’s call them, this is something that you have to get used to with Avid if you want to drag clips around on the timeline. You can access these modes using the “;” button for the yellow mode and the “‘” button for the red, or map them to whatever key you want on the keyboard. These icons should be on your keyboard. Lastly, if you can, wait to put the music in until last, it will make things a bit easier for you as far as sync is concerned in case you have certain actions synced up with certain points in the music.
Good editing to you. Hope that helps.
Chaz S.
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Anju-
One of the good things about the Avid is that there are three ways to do anything.
To do what you are attempting, you can use segment mode and grab/lasso the clips (as you’ve done), use trim mode (which gets a bit beyond “basic”) or you can just use Brute Force and “insert filler” to create a hole, move your clips into the hole and then use “cut” to trim the hole down to size.
Hope that helps.
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