Bryan Roberts
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Genius – thank you. Clearly I was ignorant to anything beyond the basics of trim mode and I’ve been kludging through projects in Avid for years now like this.
Follow up question – how do you select what you’re monitoring while in trim mode with this technique? After I select the edit I want to ripple roll, I choose the music track I want to extend as well but when I start to make my trim using slo-mo JKL, I get my music track playing back rather than picture or picture sound. Thank you sir – this is a major breakthrough for me in Avid as hilarious as that sounds.
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Ah, thanks for all the insight guys. Didn’t realize we had smart tool selections mappable at all. Looks like I’ll be shift+F’ing it from now on 🙂
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Yessir, I totally understand this. I’m talking about a way to select either red roller or yellow roller in some other fashion. I typically have my video tracks just a bit smaller so trying to navigate to the top or bottom of a clip is a pain so I was using the method of selecting the video in the left or right window when in trim mode to select single roller trim mode. Is there a technique similar to going to the top half or bottom half of a clip in your timeline but for clicking the left or right monitor? I’ve tried the top or bottom half of those video windows with no luck and tried modifier keys to no avail. I’m assuming there must be some other way…
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Pics? 🙂 – I had the same thought with ours as we still need it for storage but also we plan to sell in 5 years so don’t want to put in walls. Planning to create a faux wall with a pair of those big black ikea free standing bookshelves side by side about 6 feet off the garage door to make a storage cooridor (the ones with the spotlights to add some pop and solid backs so you can’t see behind them) and pickup some modern looking 5 panel frosted glass sliding closet doors (they sell knock offs for about $500 at HD that look like the really high end ones) to go on one side of the shelves to make a door to the storage back. I’d share pics but I’m not putting it together for a few months, gotta recover from the brutal tax check we just sent off :/
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[slaps forehead] so easy, thanks Shane, as always. Hope the new house is treating you well! Would be curious to see pics of the garage conversion, I’m about to embark on the same project myself – to move my edit bay out of the house to our detached garage so clients don’t have to encounter the screaming newborn inside 🙂
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[Pat Horridge] “And finally the MacPro isn’t your friend nowadays. It’s old tech and comparatively slow. When you look at the new Z820 machines with over 3Ghz 16 core CPUS and PCie 3 busses they fly and the old Macs just don’t cut it. Even a newer iMac may improve things.”
I know it’s old but it seems like my Mac Pro is still 20% faster than the fastest iMac available according to geekbench not to mention all the benefits of display options, memory, video card that a tower offers, no? https://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks
I actually bought my 2.93 octo used last summer for $2500 as my 06′ mac pro was being obsoleted by Lion and it was showing it’s age anyways as obviously the wait for a new Mac Pro is impossible to plan for. I am still a mac user, prefer to stay that way if it’s possible, and will now need to occasionally pop into FCP for old projects or a quick edit so I’ve been delaying the possible switch back to windows. If the Mac Pro officially dies or they FCPX it, then I think a lot of us Mac Avid users and Mac Avid shops will be flooding back to PC to get towers with newer technology than 2010 had to offer.Thanks for the tip on consolidate – I found some very enlightening articles on the AMA workflow, consolidate vs. transcode. I could work in Avid before but that was with projects setup by assistants in provided bays, just building my knowledge now that I’m cutting on my home machine with Avid.
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Had a chance to try some things out and I noticed that when I closed a few of my bins (I had around 10 tabbed bins open since as a former FCP editor, I’m used to having everything sort of open all at once) that my lockups were minimized and I also had frame view on in a couple bins that had 20 or so clips each in them. Closed those and that also helped. But really, I’d like to work with lots of bins open and frame view on (especially with features, I like to have frame view on for every scene so I can visually see what shots I have). Is this something that just requires gobs more memory or will MC 6.5 always choke once this many bins are open regardless of memory?
Thanks.
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A quick google search should give you results on how to defeat it, I’ve had to do it a few times with an item I’ve purchased. I believe Lifehacker had the article? I think…
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It’ll be a year before they get 7.0 stable anyways so it’s not like it’s going to be ready to go even if it is announced at NAB.
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Thanks John,
First off, so 16gb of RAM should be plenty for MC6 then? No reason to go crazy and get 32 or 40 gigs of ram then, meaning I won’t see any benefit from it? I could get a 32 gig kit for about $350 which isn’t too painful…
I tried importing the ProRes and DNX Quicktime files but instead of doing a fast import, it was re transcoding a second time so I left them as AMA. Is there another process for importing that wouldn’t have Avid transcode them a second time?
I used to be a big fan of RAID but then I had a big stripe (Raid 0) die on me once while cutting a feature, I was in the last week of the edit, and it took me two days to get my project back and I almost lost part of the work I had done for good. Since then, I see how much I can do with a single 7200rpm SATA drive and build from there. I’ve found that 90% of what I need, a single drive is plenty fast. It’s only multicam music videos, live performance stuff that suffers but even then, I’ll usually span shots across several drives rather than stripe.
Good to know that Avid doesn’t take advantage of GPU’s, I was worried that perhaps I’d need to switch to Nvidia in order to see better performance.
What performance issues were you having with your E4P? I’ve had mine several years without issue, write speeds seem fine. Were your drives unmounting or something or was it a write speed issue?
I didn’t mean to sound like new Avid user whining about FCP – I’m firmly in the Avid camp, it’s my future after editing professionally for a decade with FCP (and occasionally with Avid). I was just using it as a comparison for possible bottle necks or to try and shed light on my own knowledge of MC6.5 and it’s possible need for much more memory than I’d normally think (since it’s 64 bit).
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