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Revision as of 15:27, 31 May 2024

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Trim Mode

  • Unwanted zoomed image in Trim Mode
    • Command-click the image until size is restored [1]

Script Integration

  • Adding takes with resets to your script bin:
    • add the take to the script bin spanning the relevant lines of the script
      • add a script mark that starts on first action
      • add a second script mark where action ends (before the first reset action begins)
    • add the same take to the script bin in the same manner as you would add a second take
      • add a script mark that starts on second action
      • add a second script mark where second action ends (before the third reset action begins)
    • repeat until there are no more resets to add
    • select the take lines in the script and select Script > ScriptSync
      • in the dialog box select "sync between first and last mark"
        • (this will contain the ScriptSync phonetic-indexing analysis to the portions of takes between the "action" and "cut" script marks you entered above, each time you added the same take)
    • that is all -- you're done [2]
  • mouse scrolling with shift-command scrolls the script page left-right
  • highlighting text in the script bin and option-dragging will make a copy of that text where you release the dragged cursor on the page

Time Warp

  • Time Warp can be embedded in a clip by applying Auto-Sync [3]

Codecs

  • to install the DNxHD codecs use MediaComposerLegacyComponents.

Keyboard

  • holding Command key while scrolling mouse wheel in script bin scrolls page to page rather than line to line

Graphics

  • Applying Matte Key effects settings to other Matte Key clips
    • "Option+drag the effect icon from the effect editor to a bin, and then option+drag that effect from the bin on to the existing matte key that you’d like to change. With matte keys, option+drag creates an effect without the key source, but copies over all parameter settings (like shadows.)" [4]

Import

  • Batch re-importing doesn't delete the old media. [5]

Export

  • to overcome the 2GB AAF file size limit, check the "AAF Edit Protocol" box in the AAF Export Settings. [6]
  • Color Scaling settings for same as source DNxHD export:
    • "Keep as Legal Range" if going into Resolve
    • "Scale from Legal Range to Full Range" if viewing only in QuickTime Player
      • blacks will appear milky in Resolve if "Scale from Legal Range" used [7]

Download

Timeline

  • subsequent presses of the "enter" key after entering a +/- timecode in the Composer window will continue to advance/decrement the cursor by the entered numeric amount [9]
  • the "f" key toggles the Composer timecode entry between frames and hh:mm:ss:ff [10]
  • Top and Tail buttons [11]
  • Resume Trim: Option-U [12]
  • to unlock all tracks in a sequence, select all tracks, then go to menu Clip / Unlock Tracks
  • dragging a segment with SHIFT+ALT+COMMAND to another part of the timeline will duplicate that segment [13]
  • Tracks appear in the wrong numeric order
    • Solution: drag the tracks into the right order and then save that as a new timeline setting
  • Remember track selection when re-loading clip into source monitor
    • "uncheck the "auto_enable_source_tracks" under composer_settings/edit" [14]
  • "The only way NOT to select filler is if you hold OPT and click on the SELECT ALL FORWARD or SELECT ALL BEHIND commands." [15]

Media

  • option-dragging a clip from Finder/Explorer into a bin brings the media in as AMA linked. [16]
  • Console command to link media over network
  • IOT0.tio files on your media drive -- they are left over by PathDiag application and are safe to delete later [19]
  • Use Source Browser to relink AMA clips [20]

Bug workarounds

  • If command-' is moving your Timeline window to the wrong monitor, quit Avid and delete the Settings.xml file in your project and restart Avid.
  • to rebuild Marker Frames if they change to wrong image just create a new video track

Audio

  • To fit audio within a specific length and keep the pitch the same use the TimeShift AudioSuite plugin. [21]
  • Audio Hardware Calibration window is accessible within the Calibration window, within the Hardware tab of the Audio Project Settings. [22]
  • Use Dny3 Compressor/Limiter[23] and EQ3 7-Band audio plugins to improve dialog intelligibility. [24]
  • in order for external USB microphone (like Blue Snowball) to appear and be able to capture audio in Avid, do a hardware disable of I/O device (like BlackMagic Intensity Pro) using the button along the top of the timeline
  • To bring up the Add Track dialog box, press option-command-U. This will allow you to pick what number the track should be.
  • delete all audio dissolves in sequence: "Park on a dissolve, go into effects editor, lasso all the dissolves, hit delete." [25]

Bins

  • The new Set Default Bin View option in the Bin Settings window allows you to set a default bin view when creating a new bin.
  • Right click and select Source Settings to apply a LUT to a clip. Right click the sequence and select Refresh to apply colour change to clips in sequence.
  • bin filter text box filters based on column selected [26]

Effects

  • To change the direction of a Horizontal Wipe, set the first keyframe to to 100 and the last keyframe to 0. [27]

ISIS Storage

  • Use Firefox for the ISIS Management Console as Chrome will never save the option to Always Allow Flash. [28]

Crashes

  • If Avid will not open and just crashes and startup:
    • Go to Users / Shared / AvidMediaComposer then delete the Avid FatalErrorReports folder [29]

References

  1. Jump up https://community.avid.com/forums/p/31399/918012.aspx
  2. Jump up https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxyme-tremblay-94165499/
  3. Jump up http://community.avid.com/forums/p/197791/885952.aspx#885952
  4. Jump up https://community.avid.com/forums/p/134210/764286.aspx#764286
  5. Jump up https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/45/896673#906400
  6. Jump up John Nicholls
  7. Jump up Redlab
  8. Jump up Eddie Retamal, Pivotal Post
  9. Jump up Craig Webster
  10. Jump up Craig Webster
  11. Jump up How to do a Quick Trim - Top & Tail in Avid Media Composer
  12. Jump up Option+U. It resumes a previous complicated asymmetrical trim from where you left off.
  13. Jump up https://community.avid.com/forums/p/97828/859615.aspx#859615
  14. Jump up https://community.avid.com/forums/t/120111.aspx
  15. Jump up https://community.avid.com/forums/p/132963/758275.aspx#758275
  16. Jump up Louis Casado
  17. Jump up Louis Casado
  18. Jump up https://community.avid.com/forums/t/60999.aspx
  19. Jump up Lupe Avina, Pivotal Post
  20. Jump up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1_yIZzM1JE
  21. Jump up http://c2.avid.com/blogs/training/archive/2008/01/28/time-shift-audio-plug-in.aspx
  22. Jump up http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/user_guide/en272751
  23. Jump up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mORT3YSmeA
  24. Jump up Christopher Minns
  25. Jump up https://community.avid.com/forums/p/62367/381810.aspx#381810
  26. Jump up file:///Applications/Avid%20Media%20Composer/Help/MCHelp.html#page/Help%2FBins.20.59.html
  27. Jump up https://community.avid.com/forums/t/128021.aspx
  28. Jump up ISIS management console broken in latest chrome update
  29. Jump up https://community.avid.com/forums/p/205871/922479.aspx#922479