[Glenn Sakatch]

You need to map the middle mouse button to your pen. I’m not in front of mine right now, but I think I have the middle mouse button as the upper portion of the toggle button on the pen. Then the left mouse button becomes the tip of the pen.- it think it defaults to the upper toggle. (I think that’s what I did) Either way, you need to map the 3 mouse buttons onto those 3 positions of your pen.

I can now zoom, pan and rotate around the objects with a combination of those 3 items.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

previous installers are available on the website.

When I checked they were still offering 10.1.5

If you email them, you might get access to earlier versions still.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

first things first, before your next upgrade, export your projects so you have an archive of them in V9 format. If you do manage to open the project in 11, save it, and then decide to go back you will be screwed.

Have you tried downloading a version of 10 to see it it will run for you.

Your graphics card might not be the best match for resolve. Have you checked the recommended hardware listings for 11? Quite often the graphics card is the source of a lot of issues.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

As far as I know Resolve doesn’t allow for any custom mapping of any buttons on any surface. I don’t think Media Composer does either. DS was the only one that i’ve been able to rearrange mapping on the Color surface.

I use a separate Avid Control panel for all my custom mapping, or a G13 pad.

Where have you heard others explain that it is possible?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Where is your source video from? Is this camera original Go Pro? or has it been transcoded/converted somewhere along the way?

Can you upload one of these clips, again with a note of what you are seeing on the timecode. I’d like to see what Resolve and Avid show me.

I’m not a user of premiere and when I have used it, if it has to do any kind of fps conversion, I find I usually screws it up for any kink of list creation.

The two different timecodes in Resolve (although they are both showing the same time in a 30fps timeline) are interesting.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

You are saying your lower third bar has an alpha channel,which causes it to wipe on, but the text is being created inside Avid?

You also have a separate movie which is basically the matte shape being used for the wipe.

If so, you may be overthinking this.

BG video on track 1
“strap” on track 2
title on track 3
matte shape on track 4. Apply a matte key effect to track 4, which you may have to invert.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

is your premiere timeline 23.98?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

If you had already transcoded the bulk media, there was no need to transcode the sequence. A simple relink operation could have pointed the sequence to the newly transcoded media.

If you look at your Avid MediaFiles/mxf/1 folder, and sort by date modified, you should be able to figure out where the duplicates are. If you are nervous about deleting media, simply take the newest version of each clip and move it up 1 level into a new folder.

Avid will rebuild its database, and you should see the original transcodes online, and the second batch online. From there you can begin the relink procedure.

If you feel you have mistakenly moved a couple of incorrect files out of the mxf/1 folder, simply locate them (they aren’t that hard to identify by their name, once you start looking closely at the naming convention) and move them back in. Again, Avid will rebuild the database.

Your next question will be on the relinking procedure, but that is another topic 🙂

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I also, never use the rubber band method.

I go to the point in a track where I want to adjust the volume, (Doesn’t matter if its mono or stereo track) and I do an add edit.

So visually, If I were cutting news, I can see on track 1 where the voices are lining up. On my music/ambience track I would add edits around those voices, basically razoring up my music/ambience track into multiple edits. Now at each edit I can decide if it needs to be louder or quieter, and make the adjustment with the mixer. Add a dissolve at each edit point to smooth out the transition.

I do have the Artist control, and used to have an audio board that would allow me to go into live mix mode, but for the most part, I find this just as fast. Very easy to make adjustments as well.

If you’ve gone through the whole piece and decide that the ambience/music track as a whole is still a bit too loud, you can do an “adjust levels/pan on track” to increase or decrease by a couple of db overall.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

You can see the difference between the linked clips and the transcoded clips by the icon. linked clips have the little chain.

Typically I put my linked clips in a folder/bin configuration labeled “original links” I quite often do offline/online workflows, so I like the ability to go back to my original links, and I don’t like having to relink hundreds of clips at the end of the process, so I keep my links around.

If you still have the links, separate them into other bins.

I’m trying to remember in V8.0 if upon transcoding clips, did all the linked clips change over to a regular clip icon? (no longer showing the difference between transcodes and links?)

If you can still tell which are links, and you want to delete them, then go ahead and delete them. Deleting a linked clip doesn’t delete the original media, just the link to it that you have created.

If all your clips now appear to be transcoded media, but you have duplicates, then you should at least have a .new in the naming of the new clips? The other clips would be your original links.
If you want to delete those, just don’t delete the associated media with those clips.

If unsure as to what you can delete, and what not to delete, just remember, if you go to delete a transcoded clip, you have the option of deleting both the master clip, and the associated media (transcoded media)from that clip. In your situation, you do not want to delete the associated media, so don’t hit that checkbox.

Anytime you accidentally delete just the master clip (without its media) you can always bring it back in with the Media Tool, or by dragging a database into an open bin and finding the missing clip there.

One of the best things people new to Avid can do is play around with the media management system, and learn how to use it to your advantage. Yes it is very different that Premiere and Final Cut, but it is still very strong, and very flexible.

Glenn