Interesting topic but you made a basic mistake - when you topped the first "erm" at 1'38" all your interview footage (v1, a1, a2) shifted up the timeline by that amount, but everything else stayed put. Time sensitive cutaways/b-roll on v2 (or above) have fallen out of sync relative to the interview footage (same with any important music edits and graphics overlays etc.). If you don't catch this error straight away you'll spend a long time fixing things later. I use top tail all the time but you have to be more careful - I usually use them in conjunction with sync lock buttons. I've still not found a practical example of the extend edit function (I used to use this in FCP, but it feels a little clunky in avid) - how was it useful there? You seem to already know what dialog you were about to reveal but usually that's not the case
thank you joe for pointing this out. i was about to leave a comment on the same, but you covered it. this has been my main frustration with avid tutorials from the company. they make everything seem la-de-da easy when in fact their lessons are damning to real world environments. i cant believe her sync locks are not on, and in a timeline such as this.
I learned to use the extend tool when I was working with a version of avid in which the reaction of trim tool became really slow (probably a combination of a version and not well configured shared network ), from that time I basically use it all the time as a faster trim tool. If you now exactly how much you want extend something (in most cases more than a couple of frames) it works great.
Tail & Top perfect tool - I've binded to the 3 and 4 keys - works brilliant to me., but you need to beware you can get out of sync with your tracks off - it's good tool when you cut and re-order direct sounds without proper shots over it. Extend Edit looks like a regular option :-) I use it since I started editing.
Yeah, I agree. I probably wouldn't use Top/Tail as in this example, assuming I cared about keeping my V2 cutaways in sync downstream. I use a lot when doing assemblies, or cutdowns and radio edits of interviews.
Thank you for that! Im working now in a TV News Channel but im having some kind of speed problems with the journalists. I come from Trailers and Documental where you have more extended and creative time. What woud be your advice to boost up my editing time? BR
the best thing to do to please a journalist is make deadline. they don't know quality if it hits them in the face...and really neither does the viewer. Pick your shot, make your decision quickly and move on. Always keep one eye on the clock. If you get a chance to view footage before the journalist enters room/cubicle, start editing together the b-roll. Editing is basically cutting out the crap you will never use leaving you with the good stuff. When they record vo, put it in timeline and work backwards to cut out the bad takes...quicker if working from back to front. I had to edit open teases for the news broadcast airing immediately after Olympic coverage. I'd come in 2 hours before deadline, scroll through 5 or 6 hours of olympic coverage and start assembling the highlight shots for the tease. Quick, clean replays (no graphics) of the action and make it exciting (easy with the Olympics). Most times I would have already assembled the b-roll prior to getting the script. I already knew what the big story was so I'd plan accordingly. It's not about editing fast. It's about being prepared. The script would call for nat sound and I would just cover that with the more exciting stuff I already prepared. A little effort on the front end will save your butt when it comes to deadline. Know your edit system, but the most time consuming task is choosing shots. Make a decision FAST and move on!
My name is Spring P. Tate, and I'm a Entertainment Art student studying Film at College for Creative Studies. I am learning Avid Media Composer Ultimate on my laptop, using the book Avid Media Composer 6: Part 1-Editing Essentials. Its because our school no longer teaching Avid Media Composer CS6 anymore. The teacher's had a hard time teaching students, and the student's had a hard time learning it. But as of 2017 they discontinued the program on our computers. They told me the licensing was too expensive. But I am a fighter. I know for a fact that Avid is Industry standard, period! I know I have to know Avid to work with the professionals relating to editing major films. What advice can you offer me or any help of ANY KIND...... could you do for me to learn everything I need to know about Avid Media Composer. I just ordered the book a few years ago, but with this new Avid Media Composer Ultimate I now have on my laptop, I can get to work. The problem I'm having is the when it comes to working with BINS... it asked me to look at BIN VIEW MENU, but the icons at the bottom are different than the book. The icons I see doesn't show a triangle pointing down for me to click on to display the menu to click on TEXT, FRAME, and SCRIPT. When you click on the two column roll icon image, it displays as the TEXT itself, and the icon next to it displays as the FRAME icon, than next to it is the script icon. Just between me and you that can be confusing, when you read and look at the images next to the direction to know act to do next. It doesn't show the way it supposed to be seen in the bins. When it says a icon is on the right side, its really on the left side. And vise versa ..But I'm not giving up. I am a HomeHelp provider for my mom, who has early symptoms of demential, and Sun-Down Syndrome, who just turn 90 years old last week, and I'm taking care of her by myself. But you know what, I'm not complaining, simply put God says, 'You take care of the people you love, and God will take care of you. And thats all I need to focus on. And on top of that my moms in good health, THANK GOD..! But I also want to have a career to be proud of and have the financial stability to have a family of my own some day. There's only one professor at my school knows Avid like the back of my hand. But school is out and for the summer my goal is to at least understand and know the simple basics of learning Avid and to edit my my films on Avid for now on until I graduate. I will be the only one at my school learning Avid Media Composer. But I just don't want to be one of my classmates out there, still looking for a job. I want companies to see what I've done with Avid relating to editing my films and know I am worth investing in. Just now a friend of minds walked in the room at school, where I sometimes come to look up info like yours here on Avid on youtube. And when he read what I was typing he just said, 'asked the lady is it possible would she would like to be a mentor to you in learning about Avid. As well as preparing oneself for the film industry. So I'm thinking...WOW..COOL.. So the question is does the icons I talked about are fine as long as I see the actual icon to work on. Also is there a possible chance that you could be a mentor to me in learning about Avid, and learning from one of the best regarding editing films for the film industry. If you would like to help a future film maker, actor, writer, producer and director. I would really appreciate ALL.....the help I can get. I can share my work with you of what I've done so far at my school. And get help from someone like you with hands on experience from the industry whose worked with many great editors can help me improve my work. What you shown in this youtube clip I was inspired to simply wanting to know more... If you can help, you can email me at: state@collegeforcreativestudies.edu Thank you,
Interesting topic but you made a basic mistake - when you topped the first "erm" at 1'38" all your interview footage (v1, a1, a2) shifted up the timeline by that amount, but everything else stayed put. Time sensitive cutaways/b-roll on v2 (or above) have fallen out of sync relative to the interview footage (same with any important music edits and graphics overlays etc.). If you don't catch this error straight away you'll spend a long time fixing things later. I use top tail all the time but you have to be more careful - I usually use them in conjunction with sync lock buttons. I've still not found a practical example of the extend edit function (I used to use this in FCP, but it feels a little clunky in avid) - how was it useful there? You seem to already know what dialog you were about to reveal but usually that's not the case
thank you joe for pointing this out. i was about to leave a comment on the same, but you covered it. this has been my main frustration with avid tutorials from the company. they make everything seem la-de-da easy when in fact their lessons are damning to real world environments. i cant believe her sync locks are not on, and in a timeline such as this.
I learned to use the extend tool when I was working with a version of avid in which the reaction of trim tool became really slow (probably a combination of a version and not well configured shared network ), from that time I basically use it all the time as a faster trim tool. If you now exactly how much you want extend something (in most cases more than a couple of frames) it works great.
@@SikDigitz The fact that they published it like this goes to show that they don't even know their own software.
Thanks for posting. The video you are cutting, with the editors being interviewed, looks interesting- where can I view it?
Tail & Top perfect tool - I've binded to the 3 and 4 keys - works brilliant to me., but you need to beware you can get out of sync with your tracks off - it's good tool when you cut and re-order direct sounds without proper shots over it. Extend Edit looks like a regular option :-) I use it since I started editing.
Yeah, I agree. I probably wouldn't use Top/Tail as in this example, assuming I cared about keeping my V2 cutaways in sync downstream. I use a lot when doing assemblies, or cutdowns and radio edits of interviews.
The footage you're working with looks amazing. Do you know what camera was used?
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Thank you for that! Im working now in a TV News Channel but im having some kind of speed problems with the journalists. I come from Trailers and Documental where you have more extended and creative time. What woud be your advice to boost up my editing time? BR
the best thing to do to please a journalist is make deadline. they don't know quality if it hits them in the face...and really neither does the viewer. Pick your shot, make your decision quickly and move on. Always keep one eye on the clock. If you get a chance to view footage before the journalist enters room/cubicle, start editing together the b-roll. Editing is basically cutting out the crap you will never use leaving you with the good stuff. When they record vo, put it in timeline and work backwards to cut out the bad takes...quicker if working from back to front.
I had to edit open teases for the news broadcast airing immediately after Olympic coverage. I'd come in 2 hours before deadline, scroll through 5 or 6 hours of olympic coverage and start assembling the highlight shots for the tease. Quick, clean replays (no graphics) of the action and make it exciting (easy with the Olympics). Most times I would have already assembled the b-roll prior to getting the script. I already knew what the big story was so I'd plan accordingly. It's not about editing fast. It's about being prepared. The script would call for nat sound and I would just cover that with the more exciting stuff I already prepared. A little effort on the front end will save your butt when it comes to deadline. Know your edit system, but the most time consuming task is choosing shots. Make a decision FAST and move on!
My name is Spring P. Tate, and I'm a Entertainment Art student studying Film at College for Creative Studies. I am learning Avid Media Composer Ultimate on my laptop, using the book Avid Media Composer 6: Part 1-Editing Essentials. Its because our school no longer teaching Avid Media Composer CS6 anymore. The teacher's had a hard time teaching students, and the student's had a hard time learning it. But as of 2017 they discontinued the program on our computers. They told me the licensing was too expensive. But I am a fighter. I know for a fact that Avid is Industry standard, period!
I know I have to know Avid to work with the professionals relating to editing major films.
What advice can you offer me or any help of ANY KIND...... could you do for me to learn everything I need to know about Avid Media Composer.
I just ordered the book a few years ago, but with this new Avid Media Composer Ultimate I now have on my laptop, I can get to work.
The problem I'm having is the when it comes to working with BINS... it asked me to look at BIN VIEW MENU, but the icons at the bottom are different than the book. The icons I see doesn't show a triangle pointing down for me to click on to display the menu to click on TEXT, FRAME, and SCRIPT. When you click on the two column roll icon image, it displays as the TEXT itself, and the icon next to it displays as the FRAME icon, than next to it is the script icon.
Just between me and you that can be confusing, when you read and look at the images next to the direction to know act to do next. It doesn't show the way it supposed to be seen in the bins.
When it says a icon is on the right side, its really on the left side.
And vise versa ..But I'm not giving up. I am a HomeHelp provider for my mom, who has early symptoms of demential, and Sun-Down Syndrome, who just turn 90 years old last week, and I'm taking care of her by myself. But you know what, I'm not complaining, simply put God says, 'You take care of the people you love, and God will take care of you. And thats all I need to focus on. And on top of that my moms in good health, THANK GOD..!
But I also want to have a career to be proud of and have the financial stability to have a family of my own some day.
There's only one professor at my school knows Avid like the back of my hand. But school is out and for the summer my goal is to at least understand and know the simple basics of learning Avid and to edit my my films on Avid for now on until I graduate. I will be the only one at my school learning Avid Media Composer. But I just don't want to be one of my classmates out there, still looking for a job. I want companies to see what I've done with Avid relating to editing my films and know I am worth investing in.
Just now a friend of minds walked in the room at school, where I sometimes come to look up info like yours here on Avid on youtube. And when he read what I was typing he just said, 'asked the lady is it possible would she would like to be a mentor to you in learning about Avid. As well as preparing oneself for the film industry. So I'm thinking...WOW..COOL..
So the question is does the icons I talked about are fine as long as I see the actual icon to work on. Also is there a possible chance that you could be a mentor to me in learning about Avid, and learning from one of the best regarding editing films for the film industry.
If you would like to help a future film maker, actor, writer, producer and director. I would really appreciate ALL.....the help I can get. I can share my work with you of what I've done so far at my school. And get help from someone like you with hands on experience from the industry whose worked with many great editors can help me improve my work.
What you shown in this youtube clip I was inspired to simply wanting to know more...
If you can help, you can email me at: state@collegeforcreativestudies.edu
Thank you,
you can download full manuals from their website, no need for books
How to center the play head in center in one position while the timeline plays, how to do that pls explain.
que lastima que este tutorial no este en español.