[Andy Neil]

You can usually apply a .3 – .5 gaussian blur to the entire frame to minimize moire in a frame. It’s more or less undetectable to the naked eye. You can apply a higher blur to masked areas if it’s extremely bad, but I rarely come across that.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

I’m not bewildered, I just said I wondered. I was just curious as to the thought that goes into using that shortcut considering in my own work, I’ve never needed every clip expanded at once. It’s just an interest in how other people work.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

G is pretty cool. I didn’t know about that one. I had to move the precision tool closer to my left hand because I use it so much. I hate having to move my hand across the keyboard to get to a tool I use all the time. So I put it at SHIFT+A. Kind of like a secondary arrow tool. That way, I can have my right hand on my tablet, and easy access to position clips.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Bill Davis] “I realized that many are kinda “modal” and one editor, for example, who does little multicam switching could benefit from remapping the “1” key – where an editor who does a lot of multi-cam might not want to muddy the “take camera 1″ waters.”

I actually have a couple of different shortcut keyboards. One for basic editing/organizing, and one for multicam edits. I just switch keyboard maps when I need to edit a multicam project.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

CTL+OPT+S is Apple’s shortcut, not mine. To me CMD+SHIFT+S is as easy as CMD+S because my fingers are in the same exact place for both. Besides. CMD+S is reserved for savin…oh. 🙂

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Bret Williams] “Because I save a step? Because I don’t have to remember the normal expand shortcut and add the secondary select all shortcut (which I would then also have to DESELECT all of course because after expanding, why would I want all my clips selected?”

Save a step makes sense, but don’t tell me you have trouble remembering the shortcut for Select All and Deselect All. It’s the same shortcut in pretty much every single program on a mac. 😉

[Bret Williams] “If I’m working on a small section of audio, I generally would want the 3 or 4 visible clips on the screen. My method, I just press shift+E and they’re all expanded. I didn’t have to select them or select all. Then like you said, collapse all makes perfect sense.”

This was my point. I’m the same as you. I only want the few clips expanded that I happen to be working on. I just do a quick lasso and then the expand shortcut. Then use collapse all to tidy up my timeline.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Bret Williams] “shift+E to expand all”

I’ve always wondered why people map this. I mean, I’ve never needed ALL my clips expanded at once, and in the unlikely scenario that I do, I can just hit CMD+A to select all my clips and then my regular expand shortcut. Collapse All Clips, I totally get. I’ve just never seen the need to waste an entire shortcut on something so easy with existing shortcuts.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

I’ve mapped my 3 most used timeline views to SHIFT 1-3 on the numeric keyboard. I find it extremely helpful to jump between them when cutting.

I’ve also mapped each one of the effects broswers to SHIFT+function keys.

Probably my most used shortcuts are:

Tops and Tails (OPT+] and [ ). I use this so much that I’ve remapped them so it’s a single button press.

Freeze connections ( ~ ). Always helpful for swapping shots in the primary when you don’t want to displace music, VO, sfx, or broll connected to the clip you’re moving.

Hold Frame ( SHIFT+H ).

Matchframe ( SHIFT+F ) Wish it worked better, but I still use it a ton.

Insert Gap ( OPT+W )

Expand/Collapse Audio Components ( CTL+OPT+S ). I’ve actually remapped these to CMD+SHIFT+S because I found CTL+OPT to be a bit unwieldy as a modifier combo.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

Not sure if 7 fixed it or not, but I was talking about 6.5. Imported ProRes 4×4 show no alpha present (there is a separate issue with 4×4 in 6.03). Imported tif image sequences showed the alpha, but changed the colors of the image. Avid doesn’t seem to like pre-multiplied alphas and there’s no way for it to read the alpha differently so renders in other programs have to fit Avid’s narrow guidelines in order to appear properly.

For a program that has 10-15 years experience on pretty much any other NLE, it’s handling of alphas is shockingly poor. Even when it does it correctly, it’s still a poor implementation. You take the same file into any other NLE and it just works. Avid makes you jump through hoops.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

I’ll tell you what I hate about it. Avid’s handling of ProRes 4×4 (with alphas) is absolute sh*t. Now that I think about it, Avid is pathetic with alpha channels in general unless produced in Animation or DNxHD codecs.

Andy

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