James Patterson
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Also, on the machine that the project was originally on was there more than one internal drive? Is there any possibility of some footage being transcoded to different drives without you realising?
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Paddy
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SSD’s make a big difference when your applications are on that drive but for your media, 7200 rpm HDD’s are fast enough. Get a big internal drive (or drives set up as a raid) for your Avid media plus a couple of external drives to store the raw camera rushes. These can then double up as your backup and can be easily plugged in to relink for online.
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Paddy
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[Mark Raudonis] “And that would be a BAD thing?”
Absolutely, differing opinions make life interesting, could you imagine living in a world where everyone always agreed with you? I understand your point about respecting the artist over the critic but there’s a world of difference between destructive criticism where the only purpose is to make yourself look good at thr expense of someone’s ability/reputation and the points being made here. I think everyone agrees Lightiron are doing cool things, but they’d probably have more fans if they toned it down a bit.
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Paddy
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It’s not that the workflow isn’t impressive and once you get past the intro there’s quite a lot of interesting information, it’s just that the tone is completely wrong. I find it funny when people respond with ‘well, what have you done?’ when there’s criticism, if that was a prerequisite then there would be very little for anyone to give their opinion on.
Coincidentally, this ad came on the TV just after I’d watched the Lightiron vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYgNSB9amcE
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Paddy
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I’m not sure why you would be having those issues with animatte. Are you simply pulling a fixed key or are you plotting a path between keyframes. If fixed is it possible you’re setting a key frame on the timeline drawing your shape and moving it so it’s animating between the keyframe that you’ve created and the start and end key frames?
In the key section of the BCC effects there’s quite a few options for matte and key’s that you might prefer to use.
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Paddy
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Hi Dean,
Not sure what problems you’re having with the colour effect, the bit rate of the computer doesn’t have anything to do with it. The colour effect is an 8bit effect though so if you’re working with 10 bit video then you should use the colour correction tool.
If you import HD footage in to an SD project avid will scale the footage down.
Not sure with your keyboard problem, maybe just a glitch that a restart will fix? Also are you still using you user settings from xpress? If so you should delete and create new ones.
Are you linking the mixed frame rates by AMA? With frame rates you need to import to a project with a matching frame rate then open that bin in the project you want to work in. For example, if you’re working in a 1080p/25 project but want to use 1080i/50 footage then you create a new 1080i/50 project and transcode/consolidate the footage. Then go back to your 1080p/25 project, the go file/open bin (ctrl o) and navigate to the avid project with the bin containing the 50i footage and open it. You can drop this on the timeline and play it back as normal or use the motion effect editor (when the clip is on the timeline) to promote the clip in order to enable speed changes. If you import the footage straight into the 25p project it will burn in the rate and play it back at half speed.
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Paddy
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Ah well, still a good tip though!
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Paddy
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Is this new to 7? I’m still in 6.5 land and it doesn’t work.
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Paddy
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No worries, give it a couple of weeks and you’ll wonder why you were ever having problems.
Adding certain commands is probably not as intuitive as it could be, as you add them from menus rather than the command palette directly. Open the command palette ‘ctrl 3’ and open the ‘keyboard’ from within the ‘settings’ tab above your bins. The obvious way you add key commands is to drag buttons from the command palette on to the button of the keyboard you want to change, but more/less detail isn’t on the command palette it’s in the hamburger on the bottom left of the timeline. What you have to do is select ‘Menu to button reassignment’ in the command palette, select the button you want to modify (in this case up or down arrow) select the hamburger then select more or less detail, you’ll then see an MD or LD on the button.
Again, not sure on scaling down the effect icons but you can turn them on/off and set this to a key command exactly like described above.
Trim mode – not sure why you’re having problems, lasso over an edit and you should enter trim mode, are you lassoing completely over the edit from top to bottom if you don’t go over the whole clip it won’t work. With the smart tool enabled you can click on an edit point and you’ll enter trim mode. Once in trim mode you can use it exactly as you have described. The trim tools in Avid are still the best of any NLE (imho)and there are many ways to use them.
Render drive – You can change the default by opening the media creation box tool/media creation or ‘ctrl 5’ the options are in the render tab.
Film fade – not sure about this one, is there any chance you could have slipped the shot back without realising?
I recommend you go through the tutorials by Kevin P McAuliffe https://leaders.creativecow.net/leaders/mcauliffe_kevin/ they’re really good and cover all things you get in a paid course but for free.
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Paddy
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Hi Dean,
The effect icons – I don’t think you can reduce them in size (I’ve never even thought about it to be honest) but you can turn them on and off, if you click the hamburger menu in the bottom left of the timeline
you’ll see effect icons with a tick next to it, click it and you’ll turn them off. You can set this up as a keyboard shortcut as well.Effects mode – I’m assuming that you’re working on one screen? If so, change your workspace by clicking Windows/Workspaces/Effect editing then arrange your windows so you can see everything (see pic) then go back to the workplaces menu and click ‘save current’, then everytime you click that mode it will display as you want, you should probably do this for all modes. If you’re on two screens you can just drag the effect editor to your other screen hit save current and then everytime you hit the effect mode icon it will open in the same place.
There’s no auto keyframes, you have to put them in yourself, not sure why you would want this?Sliders – If you click on a slider and use the left and right arrow keys it does what you need.
Less/more detail – if you open the hamburger menu I mentioned for the first point you’ll see the less and more detail options, I also have them set as the up and down keys but you have to set this up yourself as by default it’s set to ‘cmd]’ cmd[ on a mac. Oh and when you set up and menu command as a keystroke you have to choose menu to button reassignment from the command palette.
No need to be embarrassed, if xpress pro was working for your needs then why change plus everyone on here was in the same boat as you at one point.
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Paddy
