[Drew Hutchison]

Curious issue, I wonder if with the update that your Disk Cacheing settings have been reset. Might be that 2020 isn’t getting the same disk cache allocation as 2019 was? You can check these under After Effects > Preferences > Media & Disk Cache.

[Drew Hutchison]

If each composition is going to be the same size then a working smarter not harder solution would be to just save a “template” comp and duplicate it each time you need to create a new comp with that watermark.

If you need to edit a master file in a comp that’s being duplicated and don’t want it being affected in your other comps in the project, I would recommend using True Comp Duplicator script.

This will create a duplicate of everything designated in your selected comp even subcomps and everything inside them so you can edit and adjust anything without messing up your other comps.

Here is a link to True Comp Duplicator. I am not affiliated with them, just a fan of the script!

https://aescripts.com/true-comp-duplicator/

[Drew Hutchison]

Hey Luke,

If you’re setting up a large project and really just want to see the information immediately if you click on a layer you could always set up expression control effects on the said layer and parent the transform options to expression controls

(ie. Seperate position coordinates and parent the x and y to a point controller.)

That way you could use your effect palette as a pseudo transform palette.

Hope this helps.

-Drew H

[Drew Hutchison]

Hey Michael,

You can turn off all Smart-tool edits on the left hand side of the timeline. If you turn off the Overwrite and Ripple Trim (the red cylinder and yellow cylinder respectively) you will no longer see the trim option appear on your cursor.

I use custom keybinds but I do believe that the default hotkeys to turn on and off the smart-edit tools is as follows:

Shift+a = toggle lift/overwrite segment edits
Shift+s = toggle extract/splice segment edits
Shift+d = toggle Overwrite trim edits
Shift+f = toggle Ripple trim edits

Of course you can change these hotkeys to whatever you want in the command palette+keyboard settings window.

Hope this helps!

-Drew H

[Drew Hutchison]

Hey Kevin,

For new bins, I am unaware of a way to designate an area for avid to open them to.

As for already created bins that you’re reopening or want avid to open them in the same layout every time you hop in your project you can go over to Window > Bin layout and save a layout that avid will remember. You can also load different layouts depending on what task your doing and easily switch between them once created.

Hope this helps!

-Drew H

[Drew Hutchison]

I believe I saw your post about syncing up subclips based on timecode in the bin display on a different thread and believe that these two threads are related.

From what I guess, you initially created subclips before syncing external audio to your shots and now want to be able to edit the subclips with the external audio in sync. While I don’t know your workflow, I would recommend that if you’re wanting to be able to keep everything in sync while using the external audio from your already created subclips, Michael’s point is correct in grouping your clips.

If you first group your footage to the external audio you will have a .grp and can create subgroups just like subclips from master clips.

The difference now being that your external audio will now be “parented” or grouped to your video and in camera audio. You will also be able to match back to the master group and master sync map with these subgroups, making your workflow pipeline very clean if you ever need to check back on pre-roll or if something was/was not shot.

Once you group your clips, if you’re seeing only a few of the audio tracks, you can right click on an audio track (for example: A1) and switch between the grouped audio tracks in that track.

Having .grps and even subgroups will allow you to maintain your handle on both sides of your clips from your original master sequence (or in the case of subgroups, your original group).