[Trevor Asquerthian]

Adnan

This is typically, and somewhat lazily, achieved using a compressor/limiter – which will have settings for:
threshold (the level at which the signal will start to be squashed)
ratio (the amount the signal over the threshold will get squashed)
attack (how quick it responds to the signal going over the threshold)
release (how quickly to stop squashing once the signal is back under the threshold)
make up gain (how much to raise the volume to counteract the compression you did)

100:1 at -10dB with fast attack and release times would be a brickwall limiter (it is really squashing everything above -10dB)

3 or 4:1 at around -24dB with quite fast attack and slower release times with a few db of make up gain might be a more gentle compression

assuming you are hitting broadcast specs and material is close to correct

i think the fcp compressor’s make up gain is ‘preserve volume’ from memory

you can make audio sound pretty bad pretty quickly with compression though….

[Trevor Asquerthian]

Great to know another shortcut, thanks… still laggy, unfortunately.

Stops the timeline and then it’s a couple of seconds before I can play again

Then found that the only way to ‘unsolo’ was to ‘mute all’ with CMD+click, then ‘unmute all’ with CMD+click again – which adds 4-5 seconds, sometimes with pinwheel. This is on a very small sequence.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s usable; but room for improvement…

[Trevor Asquerthian]

Yes, thank you to both of you. (Although it’s a bit too clunky to work turning them on and off via the timeline index)

[Trevor Asquerthian]

I’ve kind of figured out what is going on… 😉

Adding the fill (RGB) animator allows the change of levels between the ‘text’ colour and the ‘fill’ colour

The ‘range selector’ doesn’t allow for a per word selection, only a range within the whole text box, so we delete that

The ‘expression selector’ allows the change to occur based on the index of text within the text box – with the expression disabled you can see the colours generated by using the ‘amount’ values as R G and B. – i.e. at 100,100,100 it is all ‘fill’ at 0,0,0 it is all ‘text’ colour

It’s less confusing if the text colour is Black and the Fill is white – thus the amount values become RGB rather than 1-R, 1-G, 1-B.

With the amount expression enabled the default expression does a gradation between black and white over the text box.

With the expression below the value depends on the index of the word (if ‘words’ is selected for the expression to be based on)

The palette can be changed accordingly

I hope this helps, it certainly helped me to think about it (and thanks to Dan for the original)

palette = [[100,0,0],[0,100,0],[0,0,100],[100,100,100]];
// [red,blue,green,white]

switch (textIndex%4) {

case 1:
idx = 0;
break;

case 3:
idx = 2;
break;

default:
idx = 1;
}
palette[idx]

[Trevor Asquerthian]

I managed this by butchering one of Dan’s other posts:

Set text colour to white
Add animator for fill colour RGB – set that colour to black
Add text selector | expression – set amount to 50%,50%,50%

then in that amount add the following expression:

palette = [[0,100,100],[100,0,100],[100,100,0],[0,0,0]];
// [red,blue,green,white]

switch (textIndex%4) {

case 1:
idx = 0;
break;

case 3:
idx = 2;
break;

default:
idx = 1;
}
palette[idx]


[Trevor Asquerthian]

[Shravan Ram] “If I wanna select ONLY video or Audio from a clip – I don’t seem to be able to do this with keyboard ? Or can I ?

You can ‘toggle source’ and ‘toggle target’ tracks (although for source you can only toggle all I think.)

You can also ‘move all audio sources’ up and down – to marry them up with targets

There is no ‘autopatch’ – it is sorely missing and asking at adobe.com/go/wish will help get it there

the selection of tracks/target traks doesnt work like Avid – even if we unselect a video/audio track ..and then splice in a clip ,still both audio AND video get added to timeline..any tips to speed up this process ?
or I have to manually LOCK the tracks which I dont want and then add clips

I find locking the best way with FCP7 to be sure.

There is some strange behaviour to get used to in PPro.

Target track status seems to be ignored for insert/overwrite purposes – it is all dealt with by the source side.

The source tracks can be ‘ON’ ‘OFF’ or ‘GAP’. If set to ‘GAP’ then they will overwrite/insert filler on the target side.

The target tracks are used for lift / extract and other sequence side trims.

4) TRIMMING – Again similar to my above point, while I’m using the keyboard,and I wanna trim only the audio /video (J/L cuts) I have to use my mouse to either unlink the clip.then choose only the specific audio/video track and then trim right ?”

If you have just target track V1 selected using the ‘trim edit’ shortcut enables a rolling trim on that track only.

[Trevor Asquerthian]

Create a mono sequence and export?

OR:

Centre pan your source audio in a stereo sequence? (although if the source is ‘stereo’ with only one track containing the audio you need then you need to do something else…)

MAYBE:

Modify the source clips to be 2 x mono tracks (rather than 1 x stereo) and place in a mono, or standard, track in the timeline – should come out centre panned when monitoring stereo.

OR:

If you have discrete mono tracks in a stereo pair on a clip in the timeline, and you only want one of those tracks, you can apply a ‘fill left’ or ‘fill right’ audio effect to the clip.

[Trevor Asquerthian]

I’ll answer my own post… use CC2014.1 and

”
Find and select all clips in a sequence matching search criteria

With the Timeline panel active for a selected sequence, select Edit > Find. Or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F (Windows), or Command+F (Mac).
Enter the search criteria.
Press Find All.

”

(use mediatype contains ‘offline’)

[Trevor Asquerthian]

The other bit that annoys me when trimming is that the timeline panel doesn’t update… i.e. the CTI doesn’t play across the edit

[Trevor Asquerthian]

[James Patterson] “When you enter trim mode deselecting AV tracks has no effect, so you can’t deselect the audio and just roll back the video for example.”

Well the ‘target tracks’ buttons have no effect once you are in trim mode.
You can select/deselect with your pointing device by Shift+Command and clicking on the relevant side/centre for ripple/roll variations.
So in the simplest V1A1 roll trim – shift+command+click on centre of A1 edit to remove it from the trim and just roll the video.

[James Patterson] “Is there a way to have the slip functionality with keystrokes and not by using the mouse, I know you you can slip 1 or many frames with keystrokes but you only seem to get the slip monitor when using the slip tool with the mouse- like FCP.”

The keystrokes will slip (you must have the clip selected, unlike Avid) but the 4-up display does only seem to appear when slipping with the mouse.

Agreed that it’s close to the Avid trimming, but not quite there yet. adobe.com/go/wish – they do seem to listen