[Dave Schweitzer]

You hold down option and drag the handles to the right of the video/audio separating line of the timeline. You drag the top one up to include video trax and the bottom handle down to include audio trax. Just drag the handles back together to return it to normal. With the scroll bars above and below your new center selection, you can hide or display some audio or video trax.
It’s only for display purposes, shouldn’t screw you up unless you overlook something on a hidden layer..

[Dave Schweitzer]

IIRC, copying and pasting it in?

[Dave Schweitzer]

In current versions of MC & AXP of course there’s the color corrector with built in scopes. And you can only scrub through your video as they don’t work while playing your footage..so nothing beats the external scope.

[Dave Schweitzer]

[Cathy G’nator] “Unfortunately I’m on OSX.”

Probably one of only a few times you’ll be hearing yourself say that!

I remember using a product called Compression Master about a year ago that would burn timecode windows onto your files when compressed to whatever format – quicktimes, WMVs…. And from what I’ve heard, the program was purchased by Telestream (the Flip4Mac folks) and released as Episode Pro.
I’m not sure if it does encoding to mpeg2. Might be worth a look.

[Dave Schweitzer]

Cathy,
are you running your Avid on windows or OSX? If windows, there is a custom version of the AVX15 plugins pack in which the timecode effect was made real-time. And since you have a mojo, you could drop the effect on the top layer and immediately play out to tape through the mojo. Assuming you go out and get a DVD recorder for your client review copies, you could play the sequence through the mojo and burn your DVD in real-time. Finalizing has never taken more than 10 minutes on any brand burner I’ve used in the last 2-3 years. The newer ones may have improved on that time.

If you have windows and want this you can download it here:

https://www.zshare.net/download/avidavx15pack-rt-tc-avx-zip.html

This is actually the Illusion FX with a green-dot Timecode effect – it’s not as pretty as the one you render, but you won’t have to render!
unzip and put it in your AVX_Plug-Ins folder, moving the current AVIDAVX15Pack.avx file to another location.
Don’t delete the original file, you may want it for prettier TC windows.

[Dave Schweitzer]

Whoops, did someone just recently update quicktime?

https://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?contentID=10508

[Dave Schweitzer]

And the nice thing is that your selection wont stop sliding up and down the timeline if it hits another clip on either side. This is really the way it should be.

[MHancock (promoboy)] “Slightly related:

When you’re in segment mode (red arrow or yellow arrow), you can also move your cips using the Trim Back/Forwar 10 frames/1 frame. The default for these on the keyboard is “M” (move left ten frames) “,” (Move left 1 frame) “.” (Move right 1 frame) “/” (Move right 10 frames). This will give you more control as you make fine adjustments.

Michael.

“

[Dave Schweitzer]

I agree. In my 10 years using Avid, I’ve always worked that way. One of my habits is to hold down ? when dragging to an edit point and the clip or CTI will snap to the head frame (first frame of the clip, or an inpoint or splice in filler). By the way if you want to snap to the tail frame or last frame of a clip, outpoint or to the left of a splice, it’s ?-Alt drag to.

[Dave Schweitzer]

Really the bins are quite small. It’s the media that takes up lots of space – same as with FCP. Bins can be located using the finder and copied to a usb thumb drive or your ipod or whatever. You don’t need to do it from within the Avid, although it’s simple from there as well. Open the existing project, open a bin you would like to copy, and from the file pull-down menu select SAVE BIN COPY AS. Then save a copy to the desktop to open in your new project. If you were to burn a cd of the bins, just copy them off to the desktop before opening, as the locked state of a cd may prove troublesome if you try to open the bin from there. At least in the old days it was a problem.

Here’s one last way to accomplish it.

Create your new project. From the file pull-down menu open a bin from an existing project. Create a new bin in your project. Alt-drag all the master clips from the existing to the new bin, which creates duplicates and leaves the existing master clips alone. Close the existing bin and work with the master clips in your new bin

[Dave Schweitzer]

Best to make copies of the bins you want to access and place them on, say, the desktop. When you create the new project, open your bin copies(ctrl-O or ?-O) you can then do anything you want to these copies and not affect the original bins. Toss them when you’re done and your other project will not be affected in any way.