[Alex Udell]

I’m not sure that locking the audio track is the solution.

Perhaps just disabling the audio patch tag on the source side of the timeline would allow you to change it w/o affecting the audio?

Alex

[Alex Udell]

What you can do is make a template sequence…

place some edits with the transitions in that sequence.

Later you can always copy and paste the transitions…

It’s a bit of a hack….but it sould work…

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hi Bruce…

You likely did you mixing in track mode. That’s why the keyframes don’t ripple with the clips.

there are a couple of ways to deal with this.

option 1

Sometimes a quick fix for this is to use nesting.

1) Make a new blank sequence
2) Then in the project panel drag your previously edited seqeunce onto the new sequence timeline.
3) Now you can deal with it like a clip and trim it out to set up the the leader the way you want. The fully editable mix still exists within that sequence and will ripple accordingly as you trim and set up your leader.
The downside to this is that you multi track mix will only be a stereo pair on this timeline.

if that’s not acceptable then you will have try option 2

forget the nesting and focus on your main sequence.

You’ll have to use the Pen tool in the timeline and click and drag to marquee select all the keyframes in the track.

This will turn them yellow.

Then click on 1 of the hightlighted keyframes and start to drag left or right (earlier or later). There should be a time readout that tells you how far in time you are moving them.

Also, if you then tap the SHIFT key during the drag, it should constrain the move (either horizontally or vertically depending on the way you are dragging at the time) this will allow you to move in time with out adjusting level by accident (or adjust level without shifting time by accident accordingly)

You’ll have to repeat this for every track individually.

Alex

[Alex Udell]

It sounds like you are doing this, but…

make sure you are editing the duplicates in the project panel and NOT copy/pasting titles and launching to edit from the sequence.

When you copy and paste on the timeline these copies all refer to the same master in the project panel. so if you change one… it will change all copies on the timeline. If you are coming from FCP….this behavior is distinctly different from FCP…
where every duplicate made on the timeline is independent.

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Love it! thanks Tom!

[Alex Udell]

Yes. You will have to render/generate new media in DaVinci.

[Alex Udell]

Hi Tobias…

sorry I made an assumption.

making actual “subclips” for this is not actually necessary.

Simple marking of in and out in PPro should give you what you need in AE.

so:

1) mark in and out
2) Edit to timeline in PPro
3) use any of the methods I suggest to move to AE.

(this will also give you handles in AE incase you need to trim a bit.

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hi Tobias…

There are a few ways to do this….

1) Put all your trimmed clips into a sequence. Save the Project. Then in AE you can import that PPro Project/sequence as a comp.

or

2) Put all your trimmed clips into a sequence in PPro. Go to the timeline in Ppro, Select all (ctrl/cmd A), Copy. Switch to AE, Make a new comp (or proper resolution) and Paste. This will also place all trimmed clips into AE.

or

3) Put trimmed clips into a seqeunce in pPro. Right click an individual clip in the PPro timeline and choose “Replace with AE Comp”

Hope that helps…

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hi Cody….

This might be an input side problem.

So you are starting with slide files?
Are the slide files of matching resolution to each other?

How did you determine the sequence setting for use in PPro?

Assuming you can get the slide gfx into a common resolution (say in Photoshop), you might then use one of the slides as the basis of sequence resolution in PPro, by dragging the slide file in the project panel down on to the “new sequence” button at the bottom of the project panel.

Now with a sequence that matches that resolution as you basis..you may have better luck getting a higher quality final output from AME.

This is a guess on my part. basically, if you are starting with computer based images, but dropping them onto a lower resolution timeline (like say NTSC or whatever your default is), this would likely give you pretty bad output.

Let me know if that helps.

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Well…that is sort of like converting all your footage….

which you said that you didn’t want to do?

Alex