Stacy Lincoln
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Yes! Also good advice. I was speaking strictly about footage. Hopefully, there is no music on it. If there is stock footage, just be sure it’s royalty free and they paid for it.
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If they paid for the footage and own it, there is no problem. If someone else shot it for them and they did not pay…THAT would be a problem. If there is “talent” in the footage…those people would need to be paid again, unless there was a buyout on the front end. If the talent did it for free, you need to make sure release forms were signed and the company has those. Those are some basic things to watch out for.
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I often see I have interlacing problems in editing with different HD footage. One GREAT way to get rid of it is to apply the Timewarp filter in AVID FX. After applying and opening the Effects Pallette, choose Interpolated Blended from the drop down menu. Then, choose Interlaced in…but Progressive Out. All interlacing issues are gone.
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AVID should see your quicktimes for easy usage. I’m actually perplexed by that.
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Is it just creating Quicktimes? If so, just import those quicktime files. This wouldn’t be an AMA link. My experience with a Canon 7D is a simple quicktime import.
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I imagine there are many ways to accomplish some of this. Some could be shot with no person on screen and the room shots are static. Have guy do motions twice…with old props and new props. Then start matting and editing. The clothing shot at the end is definitely a match frame…like the old Bewitched show. You see his hair move when the yellow sweater scene appears. The clock on nightstand is easily just shot static with switched props. The bed scene could be a motion camera…
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There used to be a wave transition, but they got rid of it. You could always try the ripple…which looks like rings of water. There are a couple of different kinds in AVID FX.
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When I went from a broadcast station to cable, cable was all PC. It was a new world for me. I felt almost stupid because I had only worked on MACS and now navigating a new platform. But, AVID works just fine on a PC. I still love MACS and find they have fewer issues.
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AVID FX now has some vignettes built-in. They will only blur edges…never the entire image. I forget which tab they are under…not sitting at the AVID right now…but search the effects at the top of the library. They’re in there. I’ve also built some myself simply using the gradient tool. Make is radial and make the inside transparent. That works too!
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Open the Audio Tool…under Tools. Also open the mixer. You can drag the levels up and down here. That’s the easiest way as you begin to navigate the system. But there are many buttons you need to know as well. Under the “Hamburger” tool, as we often call it, on the lower left of your timeline (it’s a square with a black line in the middle) click on that and go to Audio. You can choose to see your waveform here etc. To delete a track…simply click on A1, A2 etc….and hit delete. It will usually ask you if you really want to delete it. That’s a function you can turn off. But, I’d keep it on to prevent mistakes. Those are some basic first functions. There are other ways to open audio tracks, but this will get your going. There might be a good tutorial on Youtube.
To add an audio track quickly, the shortcut is Control “U”. To add a video track, Control “Y”.