Avid Notes
Importing footage:
Short cuts:
You can use mark begin+mark end then delete segment short cut to delete; That is bit old style. Introducing cut points and select clip is easier. There is no predefined shortcut for create-cutpoint; You should create it. E.g: e
Ctrl+Alt+Right/Left Arrow => Moves with in begin/end of the clips; Ctrl+Arrows => Moves to cut begining. Caution: Do not select clip + first frame of next clip. You will lose one frame of next clip !!!
Faster short cuts to select clip:
Ctrl+3 == settings => Keyboard
Ctrl+Shift+F = Full screen play
The Avid Attic folder contains backup files of each bin in a project
You create subclip in a bin in order to reuse that portion multiple times.
You can share bins across projects.
To locate clip/bin from timeline frame, use Find-Bin command. The reverse function -- from source window, you can do reverse find frame to locate specific timeline sequence that is using the current frame.
You can import shot log file ?
AMA === Avid Media Access
Material Exchange Format (MXF).
Transcoding needed because original coding (like mp4 or Cine-DNG) can not be used by AVID.
For example, you've been given a motion graphic that contains an Alpha Channel (transparency information) that is meant to be composited on top of video. AMA linking will not recognize the Alpha Channel, so you must import it.
Mark clip button (T) selects the longest interval where all selected tracks have same split point.
Multi-Camera: Shift-Ctrl-U => Group the clip first; Then invoke multi camera view; Create timeline out of this clip (How?). Play the source and keep clicking source window relevant things get captured in timeline. Useful only for long time programs. Initial sync can be based on markers in each clip.
EDL file need to be exported for each video. Keep the convention that V2 is on top of V1 etc. The order of applying the video matters. You can also export using AAF format which does not need to be exported multiple times for each video track. EDL format mpegstreamclip - 3rd party tool can be used with export:quick-time-reference file. (video and audio separate tracks exported that can be converted by these tools). Othertools: Carbon coder; Need files in same machine.
EDL Flow: Resolve => Import 4K clips => Export AVID MXF format 720p file => it creates individual clips (option should be selected to export individual clips) (maintain filename) => Copy to AVID-Media-Files/2/ dir; AVID refresh creats single mdb (ignore msm); Go to Bin; Import => the mdb file; All clips gets imported. Do your edits; Top level Output => Export to EDL => project.edl is created.
Resolve => Bin right click => Import EDL => Timeline gets created with the name of EDL.
Edit => Add node at clip level; chain nodes; Go to Gallery and drag and drop preset corrections; Use ROTO effect for oval shaped area effect. or use pen for custom shape.
Export for professional movies => DPX format 2K resolution at 24fps. For rough edits, quicktime fullhd.
20 mins per reel for professional movies. approx 7 or 8 reels. Cube 5.1 (6 audio channel) files one video approx 2TB;
most common grading software: Resolve, baselight (most professional), quantel, scratch;
sound effect; bgm; editing; mixing; dubbing; color correction or DI; CG (titling/ special effects; with blood oozing, etc)
Workflow:
rough cut => Input: All clips; Output: Qt movie (7 reels 7 mov files) (Avid)
dubbing => Input: mov Output: wav (7 wav) (Protools) sync check keep it in separate track. Make trims.
bgm => Input: 20 mov files (Protools etc) Output: going to mixing.
sound effect => Input: 20 mov files; Output: wav files sync check; minor cut changes allowed. Total frames remain intact.
mixing => bgm, sound effect, dubbing, song; Output: 5.1 channel; Editing output: 2 channel iterate on mixing.
Send to cube; Editor approves.
Short movie: Everything comes to Avid; Take output.
Notes From Episodes:
Project Window
Settings => double click Bin => Auto save interval
double click Composer => Button Display One Row (instead of two rows
if you need) General Settings => Start time code say: 59:00:00
(why?!) Double click Media Creation => Exclude system drive; Double
Click Keyboard => Ctrl+3 command palette; button assignment vs active
palette
Bin view customize= From your bin window select bottom 2nd button=>select columns=>save view as.
Make notes using 4th button at the bottom for each clip/sequence.
From bin view, using frame view, use Ctrl-L,K to enlarge/shrink the frames; Use L,K to play the frames.
Organize the bins under folders like: Audio/ImportedClips/Sequences/etc. under project window=>Bins;
Episode 2:
Episode 3:
Questions: - DMF Service not running!!! Background transcoding does not work. - What is dynamic media folders ? - Find frame does not work -- says clip does not have timecode !!! - You can import shot log file ?
Effects:
- Quick transitions SEttings=>Effect => (Bled == Quick transitions)
==> apply each effect Fine tune effects => With in timeline top left
=> Effect Editor. => Short cut key can be assigned. Remove effect =>
timeline icon. Clip => Render In/Out ; Render At Position; Render
Effect has icon at timeline.
Separate Layer Effects: 3D Warp => Drag the effect into the clip. => Click Effects Editor => KeyFrame hot key => ' (Creates keyframe at current position) Set parameters for start and end keyframes ; => Render to play => Green dot means render option not required. on-the-fly rendering may be bit slower. Effects Editor => Bottom Right => Keyframe Graphs
Completely Uninstall: http://avid.force.com/pkb/LegacySearch?DocId=274185&Hilite=uninstall%2Freinstall
Effects Editor => Pink triangle => Keyframe
mp4 splitting: ffmpeg -i 40minvideo.mp4 -t 1500 -acodec copy -vcodec copy 25minvideo.mp4 -t 1500 processes the first 1500 seconds (25 min * 60 sec/min)
-acodec copy and -vcodec copy copy the codec data without transcoding http://askubuntu.com/questions/35605/splitting-an-mp4-file ffmpeg -acodec copy -vcodec copy -ss START -t LENGTH -i ORIGINALFILE.mp4 OUTFILE.mp4 ffmpeg -acodec copy -vcodec copy -ss 0 -t 00:15:00 -i ORIGINALFILE.mp4 OUTFILE-1.mp4
ffmpeg -acodec copy -vcodec copy -ss 00:15:00 -t 00:15:00 -i ORIGINALFILE.mp4 OUTFILE-2.mp4
ffmpeg -acodec copy -vcodec copy -ss 00:30:00 -t 00:15:00 -i ORIGINALFILE.mp4 OUTFILE-3.mp4 http://icephoenix.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ffmpeg-split.zip
ffmpeg-split.py <filename.mp4> <seconds> Will split the files into chunks. https://github.com/c0decracker/video-splitter
You need to tell ffmpeg to copy all output streams with the -c copy option, and additionally map everything from input to
the output with -map 0. This is mentioned in all examples of the segment
muxer.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -f segment -segment_times 10,20 -c copy -map 0 output02%d.mp4 The segment_times provides cut points offsets in seconds;
Alt+drag effect => apply multiple effect; double click to reveal effects; Draf effect => overwrites other effect; customized effects can be stored in bins;
For images, use frameflex effect.
You can ctrl-c, ctrl-v key frame parameters using keyframe on timeline (' quote key)
You can promote resize effect to 3D Warp.
For netsting effects, you need to do: Alt-Drag the effect
You can drag your custom transitions to bin and reuse; Drag them to new "Quick Transitions" bin, then the will appear for you after pressing "/" key.
Most Common effects, in the order of importance:
Effect Description
Blend Dissolve (Quick transition). Implies some time elapsed in between.
Dip to Color => Used at end of movie. Picture-in-picture effect.
Super Impose effect; You can promote this to 3D Warp.
FrameFlex For image/video import. Uses high resolution image/video for refocus/recrop. (Builtin Effect) Resize Image->Resize; Timeline view Zoom out view 75%; To zoom-in drag rectangular square outside (It is counter intuitive. It is not a Crop!). Zoom Image->Avid Pan and Zoom
Always run project in Draft quality (1/8th resolution) or Best Performance (1/16th) not in Full quality. Red line in playback indicates dropped frames; yellow line indicates processor stressed. Using draft quality renders it in realtime without hickups.
Why would you create MarkIn/Out ?
Difference between v and Ctrl-V ?
v always takes the source from current source window between markers; Ctrl-V takes from clip-board. You can Ctrl-C a segment from sequence and paste in another place in same sequence by using Ctrl-V.
What is unique about Trim tool ?
The red trim can introduce space never ripples. It can trim current and adjacent clips. The yellow trip never introduces space but can widen or shorten the clip. If you are more comfortable with editing with source window, you will not use Trim tool much. Otherwise you can edit timeline with Trim tool there itself.
To enter Slide roll mode:
Note: Slide involves double roller trim vs single roller trim.
When do you use consolidate ? * If the file is already in same frame rate and size and just needs MXF wrapper, use consolidate; otherwise use transcoding.
How to slide ?
It is like one BIG bin where all clips appear. You can custom sift (search) the clips and see them.
It is a grep for your editor! Ctrl-F => You can search by bin columns, markers, timelines, clips the names or comments, anything you want!
One is time code another one is Edge Code.
Why Sync Lock ?
Select segment (red/yellow arrow) then press backspace.
Note: Simple Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V will not work as you expect!!!
Use Ctrl+ Alt +c, which loads the copied material into the source monitor. Then drag the source monitor contents to your new audio tracks, or patch your tracks and overwrite onto them. Create In-Out points at source timeline if needed.
Tools > Audiosuite has a Gain that can add another 96dB.
Choose clip right click, apply gain, -10db or +10db; On timeline, choose audio Clip Gain, Use number pad enter -12
Turn on caps-Lock.
Make In-Point in video at prominent noise (click Take) in source monitor. Drag audio clip to source monitor and Make In-Point on the same point. Now On the bin group this video and audio, right click => AutoSync => Source In-Points. (Other options are: Timecode, out points, aux timecode, etc).
AMA Link the images; Select the image right click => Source Settings => Set the raster size to match with project size using Frame Flex. Stretching gone. Higher quality images can be reframed in timeline using effect editor => Frame Flex.
Do not "import" (only AML Link) the images since it will lose it's zoomability if the original image is big.
Load source clip into source monitor, Mark In-Out. Click 'Motion Editor' key => Allows you to create a slow motion or faster motion new clip in the same bin. Say -200% for reverse fast motion. Click on 'Fit to fill' to compute the % speed based on current clip size in timeline. You can use 'Strobe Motion' for step-wise change every 5 frames etc.
For Timewarp effect, choose and drag: Effects => Timewarp => Timewarp | SpeedBump
Drag Image=>Stabilize to clip in timeline. Automatically tracking window appears with fluidwindow stabilizer engine. You can change this by clicking Effect Editor => Correlation Stabilizer Engine => Select a high contrast area to help stabilizing. Stabilizing is achieved by auto-scaling (around 110 to 130%) and making counter movements.
On top of stabilize effect, you can choose to nest other effect like zoom-in but not zoom-out because, the black outline will appear.
To review how it did it, go to timeline monitor, zoom-out scrub through play.
Alt - Right click outside timeline and Insert New Video Track, choose 1, confirm insert after warning that track already exists. Just right click without Alt would just insert new track without prompting user.
Go to background; drag Image -> Blur effect -> Draw rectangle and blur entire background. ; Go to foreground; Drag Key => Spectra Matte to clip. Make sure you are viewing in Full Quality; Effect Editor => Remove green => Show Alpha in black and white to see what is removed ! We need to remove all grey areas in foreground. Chroma Control => Reduce Tolerance; increase key saturation line; Scrub through the video in alpha to make sure the grey foreground bits vanish.
Matte Processing => increase Matte Blur (which blurs between background and foreground); Then choose Erode to blur from background to foreground. (Dilate is blur from inside out) Increase spill angle offset.
Can use scaling to increase/decrease foreground size. You can promote this to 3D warp !!!
Shortcuts in the order of most used commands:
Function Shortcut User Comments
Key Key
NextFrame LR-Arrows 1 Frame at a time.
PrevFrame
Begin/End of Clip Home/End Shift+LR-Arrows
Play Space
Switch Source/Timeline Esc Quick switch to preview source/timeline
Cycle OpenWindows Ctrl-Tab
Jump 10 frames Alt-LR Also 1, 2
Create Edit Point H You are at 1st Frame of next clip.
Go to next Cut a/s In source window it acts like Home/End keys.
In time line, it moves up/down next edit point.
Moves to 1st frame, goes to edit mode.
Ctrl-Drag In timeline moves to 1st frame of next edit,
be in normal play mode.
Ctrl+Click Snaps to 1st frame while you are near clip.
Alt+Ctrl+Drag Goes to next edit point but to last frame.
Go to In/Out q/w
Play clip/timeline j-k-l Multiple J plays it backward Fast. K Pause;
Select Segment T Auto creates Mark-In/Outs.
Select Smallest
segment (ignore Alt-T Auto Creates Mark-In/Outs
selected tracks)
Lift/Extract Segment z (lift) or x Alt+z/x to auto put in source window.
Copy clip/subclip/ c or Ctrl-C Copies region between I&O marks
segment Subclip or subsequence.
Paste Clip/region Ctrl+V
At current point
From clipboard.
Insert source clip/region b-overwrite into timeline
v-insert into timeline; You can have only IN and/or OUT points marked
in source or timeline. (Even only marking OUT is allowed)
The insertion will happen accordingly
Duplicate Clip Ctrl-D
Create Group Clip S+Ctr+G
Info of Clip Ctr+I
Open Clip on popup Alt+DoubleClick
Edit Subsequence Ctrl+Opt+C copies IN-OUT subsequence to source monitor.
Select from there and import into another sequence or segment.
Dragging:
Drag clip between bins Alt+Drag
Drag subsequence to bin Alt+Drag You cant convert seq to clip, but you can
use it like clip as long as it is in your bin!
Drag+duplicate clip
in timeline Alt+Drag
Drag Segment A(Overwrite)/ Click Drag segment
S(Insert);
Drag segment + head snap Ctrl+Drag Snaps head with cut points while dragging.
Drag segment + tail snap Alt+Ctrl+Drag Snaps tail with cut points while dragging.
Select Multiple Segments Alt+Lasso
Trimming:
Left/Right Trimming Use Yellow Trim one side - No space is created!
Red Trim creates empty space.
Resizing:
Larger/Smaller Ctr-L(Large)/ Used in Bins, Timeline Window.
Ctrl-K(Small)
Ctrl-Alt-L/K Adjust wave form size.
Auto Adj Timeline Width Ctrl+/
Magnify selected area Ctrl+M, select area.
for viewing Ctrl+J to return.
Create Audio/Video Track Ctr+Y or Ctrl+U
Create Audio/Video
Specific number Track Al+Ctrl+Y or U
Play In to Out 6
Move clip across tracks, Ctrl+Shift+Drag
maintain same position.
FullScreen Toggle Ctrl+Shift+F
Match Frame:
To do match frame on lower track, go to track, right click, select Match Frame Track.
Notes:
For some special effects:
Baselight(hardware), quantel, scratch(torrent) -- redo editing effects in DI.
Key => SpectraMatte (Most common) Effects.
Key => ChromaKey,
RGB Keyer
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