Chaz Shukat
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Lisafer,
I’ll tell you right now that Jon Z. knows a lot more than I do about all things Avid/tech, he is also very wise, observant and funny and gives grrrreeeaaaattt! advice, but I’m gonna throw in against him on this one. I run my Xpress Pro on XP Home and I am as far away as you can get to an “under the OS-hood” person as you can get. I repeat,
I HAVE NEVER HAD INTIMATE RELATIONS WITH THAT COMPUTER!That being said, XP Pro is the preferrable way to go, so Jon’s advice is still good.
Chaz S.
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Boy, this topic sure got us old timers coming out of the woodwork.
After 10 plus years in the non-linear realm, the linear world seems like a memory from a past life. But I do remember my first edits on 2 top loading U-Matic decks with a Sony RM-430 controler, no time code and having to do some of the edits over and over again, sometimes 6-10 times before I got it to lock up and hit the edit point. Then when I moved up to the online world of 1″ tape, I remember practicing threading the tape up over and over again so I would be able to do it quickly when I started the job.
It occurs to me now that there was something very assuring about those old big tape decks and switchers. They felt “professional”, and high end quality. The delicatness of the tape made you handle it carefully and with some reverence. The bay was big and there were buttons galore. This was not stuff that everyone had at home and knew how to use. And it was damn effing expensive! Oooohhh!Don’t get me
wrong, I love my non-linear editing, but working in a small room or office (not even a real “edit bay” on a table with a computer keyboard on it, just doesn’t make me feel as special and professional as back then. It’s just not as impressive looking, is it? These little decks and cameras just don’t have the gravitas.Look for my series “Cash Cab” now airing on Discovery, weekdays 5-6pm. I know, who the hell is home at that time? You can also check it out on youtube.com. Well, I know it’s a big hit here in NY where it is shot.
Chaz S.
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Probably the most common way to achieve a split screen is to use the picture-in-picture effect. On you project window, click the 3rd tab (the one that has a purple icon on it). That’s the effects tab. Select the first group of effects called Blend, the select picture-in-picture. Drag that onto each of you video levels and adjust them to the size, shape, whatever, you want.
Chaz S.
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I had the feeling when I said there was no master volume control that, knowing Avid, there probably was one that I just didn’t know about. There’s so much depth to Avid, I think that might be the thing that sets it apart from the rest of the editing softwares out there. Oh, and by the way, you forgot to call me an IDIOT!!
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You are an idiot! Actually, you’re not, but it was fun saying it. However, there is no master volume control that I know of. There is a global volume adjustment on the audio mix tool. Is that what you were thinking of? It’s not, is it? Volume control is on the speakers.
Cheers!
Chaz S.
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Jon, you are very observant. I got a real unexpected laugh.
Thanks,
The Odd Man Out
The one and only,
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I think we are starting to look like Mt. Rushmore up there.
Welcome John
Chaz S.
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I’ll answer your second question. If you go under composer settings, edit,and select show phantom marks, it will display the out point but you must still go to it and hit the out point manually. Even if you don’t show phantom marks, you just need to go to the source window and hit go to out and it will take you to it.
As for your first question, that may be possible by using time warp but I have not mastered that yet so I can’t advise you on that.
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But of course! Go to the hamburger menu in the lower left hand corner of the timeline. It’s really called the fast menu, but it looks like a hamburger, so… There you will find 3 selections related to audio on the timeline. Sample plot is what you want, but you’ll find it writes on and refreshes very slowly. To speed up the process, also select one or both of the other 2 audio selections audio clip gain and/or audio auto gain. Have fun!
Chaz S.
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If you just say you are an editor, most people will think you are a “print” editor, like for newspapers, magazines, books, etc. You need to say film or video so as not to be confused with print. And no one outside of the industry will know what a non-linear editor is. And inspite of the academy awards show explainations each year of what an editor does, most people don’t have a clue of what’s really involved.
Chaz S.