Will Oswald
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Absolutely correct but my point was that if that button is selected it no longer behaves as you describe. It may have been some help to trying to get back to the conventional way of working.
Regards!
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Yes it drove me nuts too. It is button at the top of time-line that links “synced” clips, called lined selection toggle. The Icon looks like 3 horizontal bars and a chain link down the right side. Try toggling it off. Only took me an hour to find:)
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The silence is deafening. A bit of a worry really.
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To be honest coming from a film then Lightworks background but now using Avid because “it is the standard” i.e. they had the best sales team, I find it odd that people like editing on a keyboard at all. I don’t play my MS flight sim without a joystick! The manipulation of clips and frames and sound is vastly improved with a good tactile interface. As to FCP I am this very week renting a machine and starting to teach myself with my trusty “FCP for Avid Editors” book. Looks fairly similar operationally but I’m not so sure organisationally when one is on a large project. Avid was always very good at effects, Lightworks at editing, FCP ???. I’m a freelance editor and I have to follow the producers and moneymen – long hours and RSI here we come. Finally in the UK the news that the BBC, a big employer, is going to FCP in a big way forces my hand, I have to be able to use it – however they are trying to get rid of the profession of editing althogether – the producers/ directors will be cutting their own stuff, they call them Preditors – in order to save money. Oh Hum!
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Good thought – wish I had thought of it!
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Good idea. But it was the fact that I had to open every bin that was the slow bit (I had 60 scene bins, 30 rushes reel bins, 15 misc. bins for graphic effects etc. plus the Assembly bin and a cutting copy bin. My error was to revert to a Lightworks way of working where bins/galleries are not important in the Avid sense and I can search by any attribute to create new bins/galleries.)
I shall apply your idea though to my work flow. Many thanks
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Yeah so do I and then I also create separate bins for scene assms., daily assms.,cutting copies, multi layer effects, graphics etc, etc. But I was really hammering along and forgot to file it, closed the bin and the rest is history. Thanks for your interest though!
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Thank you for the insight.
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I was hoping for a global fix otherwise it means around 60 or 70 “lifts” to clear out a rather complex tracklay for a 50 minute film. However thanks for the suggestion and interest.
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Actually I just realised losing stuff is not our fault. We have been brow beaten by software designers into believing if anything goes wrong we are the dumb ones. As professionals we need certain tools to make life easier but it seems sometimes designers would much rather spend time writing code to make yet another useless video transition effect than serious organisational stuff. But please I must stop ranting. Life is short.
Love and peace.