The Editblog

It was a crazy, busy month of February at the Editblog on PVC where we attempted one QuickTip a day (as well as all the other tasks of editing) for the entire month. They all went up (usually before noonish), some for Avid, some for Final Cut Pro with a few others thrown in the mix as well. Here are links to them all:

Quicktip Day 01: Use that CAPS LOCK! – FCP

Quicktip Day 02: Map your 9-split exactly to the keypad – FCP

Quicktip Day 03: Project folders in the Finder sidebar – Mac OS

Quicktip Day 04: Tear off the Avid tool palette

Quicktip Day 05: FCP Keyboard changes are viewable in the menus

Quicktip Day 06: Edit FCP Column Heading

Quicktip Day 07:  Custom Avid bin column headings

Quicktip Day 08: Play Base Layer Only – FCP

Quicktip Day 09: Save FCP Column Layouts

Quicktip Day 10: Save Avid Column Layouts

Quicktip Day 11: turn on settings in User Preferences – FCP

Quicktip Day 12: Expos̩ to the function keys РMac OS

Quicktip Day 13: Check Your FCP AV Devices

Quicktip Valentine’s Day 14: Insert a ? or a ? – Mac OS

Quicktip Day 15: Option click to select a file name …. or not? – Mac OS

Quicktip Day 16: Expand all FCP tracks via mouse

Quicktip Day 17: Add Avid filler at start

Quicktip Day 18: Determine total Avid bin duration

Quicktip Day 19: Try the option and shift modifier keys under the Finder menus – Mac OS

Quicktip Day 20: Annotate pictures with Preview – Mac OS

Quicktip Day 21: Set the FCP Logging Bin

Quicktip Day 22: slate buttons to increment numbers – FCP

Quicktip Day 23: Saving a Custom Avid Effect

Quicktip Day 24: Apply Saved Avid Effect to Multiple Clips

Quicktip Day 25: Access Custom Avid Effect

Quicktip Day 26: Saving EDL Comments in Avid

Quicktip Day 27: Promote to Avid Advanced Keyframes

Quicktip Day 28: Turn off Video Scopes Playback – FCP

With the shortened month of February and to commemorate the Editblog now airing at the Pro Video Coalition I thought it might be fun to try and post a Quicktip a day for the entire month. Mostly all Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer related these are simple little things that many will already know, many will not. I hope they will be useful. They started yesterday on February 1 with this tip on using the CAPS LOCK in FCP and continued today with this one on multicam editing keyboard key placement. I hope you will follow along at the Editblog on PVC. (here’s the RSS feed direct link)

Do you ever wonder how long a Compressor encode might take? I finally figured this out the other day…

If you open the Batch Monitor and click the info button on the currently running encode:

You get an information window. Right there in the window is a Time Remaining entry!

This was probably located in the manual somewhere but who has time to read those things?

In Avid Media Composer, to apply a single effect to multiple clips at once, first select all of the clips in the timeline with segment mode:

Then double click the desired effect in the effect palette or a custom effect you’ve saved into a bin.

The effect will then be applied to all selected clips in the timeline: