Comments on: How to make bulletproof Avid multigroups

By: Final Cut Studio 3 and Avid feature requests « view from the cutting room floor

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:54:27 +0000

[...] that takes forever (up to several hours if you have a ton of cameras and a lot of clips). See my popular post on multigrouping for the detailed tutorial. Since all of the mental work is done at that point, why can’t Avid just make a multigroup [...]

By: Dear Production: JAM SYNC YOUR DAMN CAMERAS! « Notes from the Edit Bay

Dear Production: JAM SYNC YOUR DAMN CAMERAS! « Notes from the Edit Bay — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:41:31 +0000

[...] be looking for: Tim Leavitt over at View From The Cutting Room Floor has a great blog post about fool-proof Avid MultiGroups. That describes the process you have to go through if you’re editing in Avid and you have [...]

By: Alburn

Alburn — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:00:42 +0000

I wish Adam would fill us in on how he groups in final cut. The multigroup in avid is elegant and a mainstay of reality editing. Of done right your multigroup never has a black space waiting for cameras to turn back on.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:11:48 +0000

FCP is so much better than Avid

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In FCP I can multiclip 4 or 5 days of shooting on a 3 camera production in a few hours. On Avid sometimes I can’t even finish a whole day in 10 hours of work!!!!! Avid is weak for Reality shows. FCP is 100X faster and better for this.

Come on Avid! lets get it together here!

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:53:13 +0000

I know how to group with AUX TC just fine, but when I group, because of the match frame I’m getting the source audio in the group. The source audio in this project isn’t working correctly and now I need to add new audio tracks.

I keep getting the error ‘clips with different audio rates cannot be grouped’ however, when I imported the audio I had the selection ‘convert source sample rate to project sample rate’ selected. How can I group in this new audio?

Thanks

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:47:48 +0000

Thanks Tim for explaining my above queries in detail!

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:20:19 +0000

Hey Tim,
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with everyone!! I have been searching all over the web for how to multigroup and I don’t think there is any succinct source except for your article here. I am a FCP editor, trying to make the switch to Avid. Your blog is helping me a lot. I have a couple of question- they might be real simple but I can’t seem to figure them out. (btw. I am working on Media Composer on a Mac.)
In your above article, ‘How to make bulletproof Avid multigroups’, (regarding step1) what do you mean by sorting the clips? How do you physically sort clips by using the timecode and tape names… or by Auxillary TC (step9)?
(regarding step 5) how do you get the bin of master clips to display the field “Auxiliary TC 1″?
And in your other article, ‘A few useful Avid keyboard sortcuts’, where do you get the “More detail”, “Less detail”, “Expert Render”, “Render” commands so that you can map them on your keyboard. Also how do you map– “Show Entire Sequence” to both “Page Up” and “Page Down” with the “Shift” button depressed. And how to map “Deselect All” to the “Shift-S” key and map “Select All” to the“Shift-A” key? (The keyboard mapping in FCP is quite different from that of Avid)
If these questions require lengthy writing and you are too busy, do you mind contacting me at my personal email and maybe we can talk briefly on the phone? I would much appreciate that.
Thanks again for all the knowledge- you’re a life saver! And if you have any questions regarding FCP, feel free to holler.
Rahul
Editor, Los Angeles

By: Jason Diamond

Jason Diamond — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:09:17 +0000

this is an amazing trick and i love you for it!

By: Jason Diamond

Jason Diamond — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:08:55 +0000

Again from the earlier post.to add filler at the end of a seq.

All you need to do is add an edit mark at the end of the seq on a empty section of a track and “trim” out that edit. it basically adds black since it an empty section of the track. video or audio.
i know it sounds tedious but once you do it a few times its very fast and easy. so is adding the “add filler at start” command to the keyboard.

By: Multi Clips « H o l l y n - w o o d (Norman, that is)

Multi Clips « H o l l y n - w o o d (Norman, that is) — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:57:15 +0000

[...] Tim Leavitt, over on his blog, View From The Cutting Room Floor (that reminds me of my old series of editor interviews in the Editors Guild Magazine, which we used to call The View From The Cutting Room Ceiling) has a posting about how to create bullet-proof multi-group clips in the Avid. [...]