Every week, Frame.io Insider asks one among our professional contributors to share a tip, software, or method that they use on a regular basis and couldn’t dwell with out. This week, Chris Tennant exhibits you how one can maintain your incessantly used results presets shut in Avid Media Composer.
How to create Effects Preset Bins in Avid Media Composer
When enhancing tasks in Avid Media Composer, it’s frequent to make use of the identical results repeatedly based mostly on the visible language of the piece. For occasion, when you’re enhancing an archival documentary, you may want to make use of 3D Warp to zoom in on a whole lot of pictures all through the timeline. Alternatively, when you’re enhancing a dialogue-driven piece, you may make use of Fluidmorphs to masks cuts in dialog. (And let’s not neglect about Star Wipe, which all of us use each day.)
Constantly searching down these results within the Effect Palette will be time-consuming. A quicker method is to avoid wasting your incessantly used results into bins. This will be completed by opening the Effect Editor and clicking on the small purple icon subsequent to the impact title. Then, drag the impact into an empty bin as when you’re making a sub-clip. That’s it! The impact will seem in your bin, full with all of its impact parameters. To make it simpler to acknowledge, give the impact a reputation that displays its saved parameters, akin to “ZOOM TO 200%”. Then, sooner or later, you may merely drag this impact immediately onto the clips in your timeline, saving you time and problem.
As an assistant editor, I typically create outputs from the timeline that require completely different burn-in and watermark specs. To streamline my very own course of, I create a bin referred to as AE TOOLS inside every venture. I’ll create Timecode Burn-in presets for VFX outputs, sound outputs, colour outputs, and some other watermarks that get used incessantly. This method is quicker than doing it manually, and it’s additionally much less vulnerable to error.
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