Even more Twitter Tips for Avid Editors
#Shortcut of the Day: In #Avid MC map menu items to keyboard using ‘Menu to Button’ Reassignment in Command Palette. pic.twitter.com/XoMgFduAZF
— Josh Short (@editvideofaster) June 9, 2014
In this third instalment of my growing series of Twitter based tips for Avid editors, from Avid editors you can learn a lot of very useful things. The best way to get the most out of each Tweet is to hit the date stamp and read the full conversation, for example the tweet above launched a conversation 19 tweets long…
@shortedits I’m enjoying adding ‘Site Settings’ to give me cross over in my test ‘User Profiles’ pic.twitter.com/Ylr9s5HXso — Robert Pitman (@robert_pitman) June 10, 2014
One of the editors who has featured here most often is Josh Short – originally tweeting under the handle @shortedits, he has recently renamed his Twitter handle to @editvideofaster – in line with a brand new website he is in the process of building, called www.editvideofaster.com. It’s being added to but I’m sure Josh will have great content so be sure to check back regularly.
@shortedits I’m enjoying adding ‘Site Settings’ to give me cross over in my test ‘User Profiles’ pic.twitter.com/Ylr9s5HXso
— Robert Pitman (@robert_pitman) June 10, 2014
Also check out Twitter Tips for Avid Editors Part One & Part Two plus the Avid category (62 posts and counting) on the right hand side of this blog, including my series of posts called ‘Diary of An Avid Switcher‘ – which I shall hopefully be continuing soon, so stay tuned for that!
Editing Tips For Avid Editors
#Avid @MediaComposer Timeline ‘Focus’ button scales the Timeline so each second of your sequence equals 90 pixels of your display. — Robert Pitman (@robert_pitman) April 28, 2014
#Shortcut of the Day: In Avid MC use Opt(Alt)+double-click on clip/seq icon in bin to open in separate monitor instead of Source Monitor.
— Josh Short (@editvideofaster) May 2, 2014
#Avid #tip: To close all open bins at once, select a bin, then go to Windows>Close All #MediaComposer — Clint Till (@ClintTill) May 1, 2014
#Avid Tip: Get Sharper Titles in HD only projects: type HDTitleFilter in the Console @Avid @MediaComposer #postchat pic.twitter.com/BRUvy41MsK
— Wim Van den Broeck (@editorbelga) June 16, 2014
#Shortcut of the Day: In Avid MC use Collapse to create a Submaster effect for In/Out Points of selected tracks. pic.twitter.com/vy7IMDUjxW — Josh Short (@editvideofaster) May 8, 2014
@shortedits @editorbelga Top and Tail are one of my all time favourite @MediaComposer shortcuts. Keyboard Shift+I or Shift+O #Avid #postchat
— Robert Pitman (@robert_pitman) May 10, 2014
You can find Reverse Match Frame in the Other tab in the Command Palette. FWIW my shortcut is Shift+` (accent/tilde) — Josh Short (@editvideofaster) May 1, 2014
#Avid #tip: to play a thumbnail in a bin w/o loading it into the Source monitor, simply highlight the clip in the bin & hit “L” or spacebar
— Clint Till (@ClintTill) May 12, 2014
Three #Avid #MediaComposer Tips. Download larger graphic: http://t.co/zMuZpI640Z — pic: pic.twitter.com/YZbbpY0qjK — Benjamin Hershleder (@Hershleder) May 12, 2014
In this, and the next, tweet from author and Avid trainer Benjamin Hershleder you can also download a high res version of this image which makes it much easier to pick up his three great monitor tips. If you like this kind of thing then you should definitely check out Ben’s Avid Media Composer Cookbook.
#Avid #MediaComposer Tips for version 7 & later — larger pic: http://t.co/kVc1za8KOf — twitter-pic: pic.twitter.com/H9XMlUUpYy
— Benjamin Hershleder (@Hershleder) June 16, 2014
#Avid @MediaComposer Add Opt (Alt) to your Subclip shortcut will open “Select a Bin’ for that Subclip #PostDontStop pic.twitter.com/z9XnPDRiLZ — Robert Pitman (@robert_pitman) June 15, 2014
#Shortcut of the Day: In #Avid hold Opt(Alt)+Render Effect to render effect to default drive w/o opening dialogue box pic.twitter.com/tc3Lapvu1V
— Josh Short (@editvideofaster) May 16, 2014
#Shortcut of the Day: If Avid is “choking” on a complicated sequence during playback, set In/Out Pts around area and use Play In-to-Out (6). — Josh Short (@editvideofaster) June 11, 2014
#Shortcut of the Day: Duplicate your Avid MC sequences often and move them into an Old Seqs bin. Small files but the backups could save you. — Josh Short (@editvideofaster) May 23, 2014
#Shortcut of the Day: In Avid MC use Step In and Step Out to navigate nested effects instead of double-clicking them. pic.twitter.com/ZX4FMd6DMX
— Josh Short (@editvideofaster) June 10, 2014
#Shortcut of the Day: In Avid MC use Reverse Match Frame to find frame in Source Monitor on Timeline. pic.twitter.com/muUvjcwNQQ — Josh Short (@editvideofaster) May 1, 2014
