This is going to sound like another whine of mine but come on, life shouldn't be this hard.
13 minute program, say 8 tracks of video and 4 of audio, the audio is mostly cloned tracks routed to buses and the video apart from the live track is lots of stills with masks, keyframed track motion etc, etc.
So the client sees the preview and wants me to cut a few seconds out of it about 1 minute in. This should be a piece of cake.
Well OK, I'm going to have to massage the audio a tad, that means unlock the audio from the vision so the audio and video are cut at slightly different points, call it a J cut if you will. But lets not complicate the basic task worrying about the audio, just being able to do the basic cut easily would make my day.
Thing is, damned if I can see a safe, quick way to do this simple task without risking screwing up things down the track (literaly).
Here's what I do know.
Ripple edit is guarnteed to screw things up.
After I split the track my grouping gets lost.
None of the stills are grouped to anything but what would I group them to anyway.
The only logical approach seems to be, ensure Ripple Edit is OFF. Split and trim out unwanted part. The using selection tool select everything downstream, then turn Ripple Edit ON and drag the end to close the gap.
Two problems here.
1) Trying to find a precise edit point is real hard with a few seconds of black between segments.
2) It's very hard to see what you're selecting with the Selection Tool when you've got lots of tiny events and lots of tracks.
I hope this is just me not paying attention in class, I hope I'll get a detention for not doing my homework, the alternative is kind of sickening to contemplate.
Bob.
13 minute program, say 8 tracks of video and 4 of audio, the audio is mostly cloned tracks routed to buses and the video apart from the live track is lots of stills with masks, keyframed track motion etc, etc.
So the client sees the preview and wants me to cut a few seconds out of it about 1 minute in. This should be a piece of cake.
Well OK, I'm going to have to massage the audio a tad, that means unlock the audio from the vision so the audio and video are cut at slightly different points, call it a J cut if you will. But lets not complicate the basic task worrying about the audio, just being able to do the basic cut easily would make my day.
Thing is, damned if I can see a safe, quick way to do this simple task without risking screwing up things down the track (literaly).
Here's what I do know.
Ripple edit is guarnteed to screw things up.
After I split the track my grouping gets lost.
None of the stills are grouped to anything but what would I group them to anyway.
The only logical approach seems to be, ensure Ripple Edit is OFF. Split and trim out unwanted part. The using selection tool select everything downstream, then turn Ripple Edit ON and drag the end to close the gap.
Two problems here.
1) Trying to find a precise edit point is real hard with a few seconds of black between segments.
2) It's very hard to see what you're selecting with the Selection Tool when you've got lots of tiny events and lots of tracks.
I hope this is just me not paying attention in class, I hope I'll get a detention for not doing my homework, the alternative is kind of sickening to contemplate.
Bob.