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un-patch audio and codec advice
Hi. I am returning to Avid after a while and would appreciate some advice. I have a lot of clips which have audio. I want to edit them into my timeline video only. Do I have to un-select the audio each and every time? Secondly I have a lot of rushes which came from Pal DV tapes and are now on Digibeta. I am going to capture them using a Kona SD L Se card. I know that Avid can’t use this card (right?). I am intending to capture using AJA Machina or maybe Premiere Pro. Is there any point in using any codec other than DV Pal?
Many thanks, and please forgive me if these issues have been tackled many times. Matt. -
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Matthew,
Source tracks decide whether the video or audio is sent when you edit. Sequence tracks decide whether the video or audio is received when you edit. To make a series of video only edits simply deselect the audio sequence tracks, load up each clip and edit it in. Whether the source tracks are selected or not will make no difference.
As for the capture, you can only capture through Firewire, a Mojo, Nitris or AJA I/O Express directly into Avid 5.5. Otherwise you are right in thinking you have to use 3rd party software. Any codec that you can open in quicktime will be able to be imported or linked to via AMA. I would think that for something that originated on DV would makes sense to use DV Pal. Although Avid does have it’s own flavour of the DV codec, the standard DV codec should work fine for editing.
Andy
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Hi Andy. Thanks very much for that. Regarding the tracks, that is how I thought it worked and how I would like it to work but not how it seems to work. If I have a timeline with, say, a stereo track disabled and I have a clip with, say, 2 mono tracks enabled it creates 2 new mono tracks and edits in the audio! I don’t want it to do this and it is a pain to have to disable the audio tracks for each source clip. See below for before and after images. I am sorry about the double post by the way.
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AFTER
I Guess this must be a function of stereo tracks as it doesn’t happen with mono tracks. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Matt.
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What is happening here is that you have a stereo sequence track which only stereo source material can be edited to (you can change an audio clips properties by right clicking it and selecting modify if it was erroneously set up to be mono on capture). Because you have two mono source tracks but no mono sequence tracks, it is automatically creating two mono sequence tracks when you edit. The best solution would be to create two mono tracks manually (right click in the timeline) and deselect them before making your edits. If you don’t need them, you can delete them when your done (just deselect everything else and hit delete with the timeline active). Hope this helps.
Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Trainer – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
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Thanks again Andrew. That must be it. It shouldn’t really do that though should it? If I had no audio tracks at all it wouldn’t automatically create any so I don’t see why it needs to when I have a stereo track. Anyway, onwards and upwards.
Thanks again, Matt. -
It would create them if you didn’t have any audio tracks. The rule is, if you select a source track that is unpatched, it will create the relevant sequence track to accommodate it.
Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Trainer – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
Pixelwizard.net -
If you right click in the timeline and open timeline settings you can change the default operations for auto-patching and auto-monitoring as well as other defaults.
You can configure many timeline defaults to how you like working.
Steve
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