Quicktips 2011 Day 16: Restore Default Patch in Avid Media Composer

This Reader Quicktip comes from Josh Petok. If you’re an Avid Media Composer editor then you know you can load a sequence into the Source monitor and edit that into another timeline (which you can do in Final Cut Pro too but this is an Avid tip). If you’ve ever noticed the totally mixed up video and audio patches that happen after that then read on for an easy fix.

HPA Tech Retreat 2011 Day 1

HPA set the stage for the Super Session with these words:

“With all the options in workflow today, it seems no two projects are exactly alike.  Just like snowflakes, our projects begin beautiful, shiny, and a unique wonder to behold. But as they slowly drift to their final destination, they seem to just turn into slush, as we leave them behind searching for our next wonderful, pristine, new way.”

Quicktips 2011 Day 15: Create audio synced subclips from overcranked footage

This Reader Quicktip comes from Matthew Gilna in Los Angeles. He’s been working on a cool series called The LXD or League of Extraordinary Dancers. This Quicktip is a technique that he’s been using quite a lot on this series to create new synced clips when he has to sync video with separate audio.

In Appreciation Of The Lowly Wipe

While editing Michele Yamazaki’s upcoming book on After Effects plug-ins, she reminded us of the classic, then-revolutionary video Cry by the English singer/songwriter/music video producer duo of Lol Creme and Kevin Godley. Created prior to the days of morphing software, it pushed the limits of what could be done with soft-edge wipes between carefully aligned shots, dropping more than one jaw as a result. (Yes, today’s more sophisticated eyes will pick apart the flaws - but keep in mind this was all done in analog, over 25 years ago.)

Quicktips 2011 Day 14: Better performance for .motn files in FCP Timeline

This Reader Quicktip is all the way from Lu Nelson in Berlin. If you use Apple Motion a lot and integrate those Motion project files in your Final Cut Pro timeline then read on for what could be a nice realtime trick.

Quicktips 2011 Day 13: Overwrite bin column layout upon changes

My editing user settings are constantly evolving. One things that changes a lot are the bin column layouts that I recall for various editing tasks. I use many different columns for both Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro. I very often resize columns and add or remove headings to saved layouts. Rather than always save a new heading or repeatedly change the same saved layout over and over I will save and overwrite an existing column layout.

How Would You Build The Entertainment Business From Scratch?

Philip & I originally talked about the concept of starting over in production with a green field – no established starting points – in episode 11.
In this episode we take it a little deeper as there is a lot of ground to cover.
How would a new studio look? What would distribution look like? Would it be a return to the studio system approach of old?
These are just a few of the many areas we tackle in this episode of the Terence & Philip show.

Quicktips 2011 Day 12: Dupe detection in Avid, FCP and kinda in Premiere Pro but not really

Dupe detection is one of those great little features that you don’t have to have in your editing application but it certainly makes tracking used footage in an edit much easier. For those unfamiliar, dupe detection tracks footage used in an edit and identifies duplicate shots in the timeline with colored lines in the clip. I did a post about Final Cut Pro’s dupe detection and DSLR footage a while back but this Quicktip looks at it again and Avid Media Composer as well. And while Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 doesn’t have dupe detection it can show you what clips have been used.

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