[Juris Eksts]

Both are easy enough in Avid itself.
For the 1st, you can use the Title Tool by itself to make first a white box, as transparent as you like, (probably as one title on V2) The other boxes on top of that can be all in one go, with text on top of the boxes, or each separate depending on if you want constant changes and how those changes are planned.
For the 2nd frame, you can make a white box in the title tool, placed on V2, then your inserted video on V3 and using 3D Blend (from the Blend Modes) adjust the picture using resize, position and corner pin.

[Juris Eksts]

So you’re driving along in the dark or fog, and watching the app on the IPhone.
What happens when there’s a car parked in a different place, or a pedestrian steps out onto the road? Is Apple, or the designer of the app responsible for the accident, or the driver of the car? Should the driver sue the designer of the app for the damage or death caused by watching this app?

[Juris Eksts]

When you consolidate, do it into a bin called ‘consolidate xxx’ (without the quote marks) A new timeline will be created during the consolidate. Give the editor a copy of that bin – ‘consolidate xxx.avb’, it will have the timeline and all information.

[Juris Eksts]

A number of years ago because of family reasons, I moved from where I had my contacts to a different location where I new nobody.
Getting contacts in that situation is a long and hard job. I approached it thus:
I made a list of all the possible companies in the area. Every day I phoned a few of them to talk to the receptionist (or as some of them were called, the first contact executive), to ask them to advise me as to who the best person to talk to is, take the name, see if I could be put through to them. If that was possible I would ask if I may send them a CV, to a specific name at a company, never ‘info@acme.com’ and follow that up, a few days later, with trying to set up a meeting, to ask their advice, pick their brains, as to the state of the industry locally, and possibilities and ways of getting a job.If that happens, and it does in a small percentage of places you origonally call, you have to go in fully prepared with all the information you can get about that company, what they produce, how they work etc. And then listen to their advice. They probably won’t have anything at the moment, but may know someone else who may be able to help. (contacting someone because of someone’s recommendation is also much more productive).
The other advice I would have is to be totally honest about your experience, never to bullshit because you will be found out.
To my mind it is the hardest job of all, I could only call a few companies every day, making careful notes as to who I’ve spoken with, what has been said, who I’ve sent CVs to, when I should follow up.
The important thing I think was to always ask people’s advice, because people feel good about giving advice and help, and are more likely to remember you because of it.

As I said, very hard work, but in the end it could pay off.
And good luck.

[Juris Eksts]

You can jump forward or backward by typing in +5.00 (or -5.00)

[Juris Eksts]

[Christopher Travis] ” I’ve gone and done it the laborious way now but I’ll look into macros when I get a chance and see if I can avoid having to it this way again in future.”

Personally I think you have the wrong approach. For many, editing is not a mechanical process that should be sped up at every point, but a creative, felt, organic, creative process that requires many different thought and felt processes, a large part of which are the sounds that come with the origonal shots. Losing the audio of the rushes means not listening to them, not listening to what the whole of the given material can contribute to your final product.
What I’m saying is: cut your film with all the material you have at your disposal. If it doesn’t contribute, then get rid of it at the end, not the beginning of the process.
That, to me, is the better way!

[Juris Eksts]

Patience will be needed, but you can do all of it with 3D Warp from the Blend tools.
Sliding in with the horizontal position control, having cropped the image to the correct size, then losing the cropping.
On which layer you put which image, when you move a clip to a different layer will take planning, but is all do-able

[Juris Eksts]

Hi Richard,
my understanding (I think the same as Mark’s) is that Dustin is trading his expertise and time, in return for capital equipment (Camera, lens etc) which the musicians would supply to Dustin to do the job, then leave with him.

[Juris Eksts]

In the Blend section, you’ll find 3D Warp, that is your friend!

[Juris Eksts]

I think you should just experiment, see what different approaches look like, whether a muted colour, bright colour, white, grey or black, or a varied background suit the story, and what you are trying to convey.