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Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook

You're reading from   Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook What better way to learn the professional editing possibilities of Avid Media Composer than by trying out practical, real-world examples? This book has over 160 hands-on recipes and guidance covering both basic and advanced techniques.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693004
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Assets into Your Media Composer Project FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing Your Work Environment 3. Polishing Gems 4. Creating Split Edits 5. Maintaining and Regaining Sync 6. Managing Your Media Files 7. Mono and Stereo Audio Mixing 8. Editing with Group Clips and MultiCamera Mode 9. Output Tips and Tricks Additional Tips, Tricks, and Explanations Details on Trimming, Slipping, Sliding, and Segment Mode Helpful Details about MultiCamera Editing Index

Extracting with Sync Locks enabled


If you haven't already read the introduction to the previous Opening up the sequence using Splice with Sync Locks enabled recipe, then you may find it helpful as it includes an overview of Sync Locks as well.

This recipe presents a situation where Sync Locks will save us some steps because we won't have to reconfigure the Track Selectors from whatever configuration they happen to be set at a particular moment.

Getting ready

The situation in this example is the following:

  • Loaded in the Timeline Window is a sequence that contains one video track and four audio tracks.

  • The last edit was Lifting out some music on track A4, so that happens to be the only track that's enabled at the moment. Refer to the following screenshot:

How to do it…

The goal in this example is to Extract a pause in the dialog of shot 11F/3 (see the previous screenshot). Note that this will, of course, create a jump cut in the video and that issue will be corrected by covering it with a reaction...

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