Avid Media Composer Tips

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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
  • highlight 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