[Jason Small]

Trevor you are brilliant.

What a giant leap you’ve helped me with.. THANK YOU.

Now I noticed 2 things if you could help clarify..

1) [Trevor Asquerthian] “(Nb auto patch is your friend here)” Can you please explain what Nb means? I’m sure I can google auto patch if you dont have time to explain it. Sounds like something I’ll like very much..

and 2) [Trevor Asquerthian] “this is the time to assign the three ‘select’ buttons to a keyboard shortcut AND add the alt key so it doesn’t select filler)” Can you please point me in the direction of more information on this?

If you tell me to go look it up I will but I’m hoping you may have a clearer way of explaining it than some of the videos out there that get very muddled. You did such a great job simplifying the auto-sync / PIP process I would really appreciate if you could clarify those two things.

Thank you so much I really owe you big time. (but I’m kinda broke so anything but money) 🙂

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[Jason Small]

Thanks for your reply, and yes, I completely understand what you’re saying and agree. I was kinda just hoping there was an easy way to understand the fundamental editing technique behind AVID vs FCP… as if such a thing exists. Looks like I’ll need to get more in depth.

The PIP thing works great.. why it was hidden in ‘Blend’ I’ll never understand but.. ok.. 🙂

Now I’ll try to get full tapes worth of footage on 2 cams to sync. Once I get that down, the cutting part is easy as any editor knows 🙂 I might just hire an AVID editor to come in for a day. I’d rather pay a day rate to learn the things I need than sit through another 30 hours of tutorials for projects that aren’t relatable.

Last quick question.. how do you move about your timeline quickly? In FCP i’d just glide my finger on my magic mouse to scroll left and right in the timeline. In AVID its making me zoom in and out… I guess I could google all this info but if anyone reading wants to hook it up with that tidbit I’d appreciate it as I’m chugging along on the edit..

I really appreciate anyone taking the time to help me along here. Switching systems under a deadline because you HAVE to.. sucks. Big time. I’m sure you can all relate one way or another.. 🙂

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[Jason Small]

Thank you for your response.

I will go ahead and attempt to replicate what you’ve described … (seems easy enough)

If anyone has any other advice or theoretical understanding for me I’ll greatly appreciate it… such as.. HOW does AVID do things FASTER than FCP7. The name of the game is speed. We try to get shows from capture to delivery in 3 weeks with FCP7. I cant imagine stopping every 2 minutes to re-patch tracks when I can drag and drop in 1.2 seconds with FCP. Where is this ‘speed’ everyone talks about with AVID?

Thanks all.. Not trying to bash AVID.. just trying to fundamentally understand in what sense AVID is faster? Certainly pushing a hotkey to overwrite isn’t any ‘faster’ than doing the same thing in FCP… Certainly needing to apply effects to scale down footage isn’t ‘faster’ than clicking and dragging a clip in the viewer in FCP… nor is patching audio and video back and forth as opposed to simply again, dragging and dropping to the track I want.. hell even CREATING tracks by dragging and dropping rather than having to stop and push apple+u and apple+h or whatever it is… Where does this speed come in?

I’ve spent 10,000 hours on FCP and I’m pretty fast.. with everything. Can I really expect to edit even faster with 10,000 hours on AVID? Seems completely improbable at this point.. at least for THIS type of ENG, Fly-by-wire, Large-scale, small budget, fast turn-around, zero pre-production, 1 editor, type of production. Seems like FCP was made for that style..

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[Jason Small]

Hey I just joined and posted recently. How long does it usually take for my moderated posting to appear? Thanks!

Button Pusher since 2006