[Micah Haun]

Is there a way to edit from the bin using keystrokes, like in Avid? Click and drag is such a slow clunky way to bring something into the timeline.

[Micah Haun]

How are you exporting it? (Quicktime Movie, Quicktime Conversion, Compressor) What settings are you using?

[Micah Haun]

Doesn’t automatic duck let you bring in media as well? Particularly since you’re dealing with uncompressed audio, you aren’t going to lose quality by bringing it in this way.

if this is not an option, here is how you give your audio back its original name:

In avid, go to the bin with your source audio. Scroll over to the “Tape ID” column. It should have your source file name.

If Tape ID does not have your source file name. Add a new heading and call it something like “Media Name”. Assuming your clips are still named after their source files, duplicate the “Name” field (cmd D) over to your new “Media Name” column.

Create a new bin in your project and duplicate the sequence to it. Open this sequence and delete all video tracks. Decompose the sequence, un-check “offline only”, and set it to imported and captured clips. I would also un-check the option to make a new sequence, but it won’t hurt anything. Now reverse the process. Duplicate the “Tape ID” or “Media Name” column back to the “Name” column. Your timeline will now have audio with the correct clip names.

[Micah Haun]

This seems to have been moved to basic by an admin. It does not belong in basic as it is not a basic question.

[Micah Haun]

Try exporting as an XML and opening that into FCP. This can sometimes be used to move FCP projects to older versions so it may work for FCPe.

[Micah Haun]

Just do a quicktime conversion. Nesting into an SD timeline seems like the way to go for doing everything in FCP, but it looks terrible. Quicktime will do a very good (for software) conversion.

I rarely convert the frame rate in quicktime but it will do it if you need it to. It will probably do a 2:2:4:2 if you use it to go from 24-30fps, I personally prefer this to a 3:2 anyway, but not everyone will agree with this.

[Micah Haun]

1. It takes the minimum and maximum value from the source and translates it to min and max values plus everything in between. You can also use ease(), ease_in(), or ease_out() to slow the interpolation down at one or both ends. Linear keeps all proportions the same as the source and scales accordingly.

2. Go to the text layer’s “Source Text” property, add an expression, and pick whip the value you want.

[Micah Haun]

See if this thread helps you:
https://forums.digitalmedianet.com/cgi-bin/displaywwugpost.fcgi?forum=avid_professional&post=020003215835.htm

In short, try changing the refresh rate of your monitor under system settings.

[Micah Haun]

Is cutting at 25 and converting the final version an option? It will probably be faster and cleaner (you’re only converting a small fraction of the raw media and you aren’t mixing pull-down cadences)

[Micah Haun]

I’ve gone back and forth on AVID codecs from after effects. It’s nice that things import faster, but if you’ll ever take the project somewhere else to work or finish, you’ll need to rerender or transcode it. You also have to be careful as to which codec you use. Only a few of them use alpha (DNxHD is the only one I remember just offhand). Sometimes the one you do most of your work in doesn’t support it any you might not find out until you’ve rendered a long unmatted clip which is now useless unless you render a cutter pass and import that too. Make sure to look through the codecs and run some tests before you do anything.

Animation is just a good old codec with small files, little visible loss and RGBA support. Make sure to set your alpha direction correctly when importing since Avid codecs treat alpha backwards from pretty much every other video and still format. (It uses cutters instead of alpha).

Avid certainly has its problems with the way it handles media; but because of it you have much better links to media. Conforming in FCP is awful because I can have an online clip in my bin and a clip with the exact same metadata in my timeline clip yet it’s offline (EDL from filebased clips is a joke. It takes hour of very redundant relinking due to it’s insistence that the clips you’re relinking to aren’t quite right and aborting all remaining clips.) Some new developments in Avid, like AMA, may mean we get a more ‘standard’ alternate to the current importing methods, but in the meantime we can be thankful for the good aspects of the system while being angry that we have to wait a few minutes to import everything.