Comments on: Avid DS Timecode Boxes: A Must for Every NLE http://guardianstudios.com/avid-ds-timecode-boxes-a-must-for-every-nle creating the alternative Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rick http://guardianstudios.com/avid-ds-timecode-boxes-a-must-for-every-nle/comment-page-1#comment-20 Rick Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:28:02 +0000 http://guardianstudios.com/?p=808#comment-20 I am almost exclusively a DS editor, and this feature is one of my most used. When I am working with clips, transitions or effects, these timecode boxes allow you to manipulate the element you have selected with one fell swoop. <br><br> One method in particular that was not mentioned, which I use often, is changing the duration AND position at the same time of an effect after it is already applied to a clip. By default when an effect is added to a clip it fills the entire length of the clip. Typing a duration into the duration timecode box while this effect is selected will re-size the effect to that duration starting at the head of the clip as expected, but by putting a minus sign AFTER the number, like 10- , will make the effect 10 frames long and snap it to the end of the clip! Great for making different durations of effects that might be used at the end of clips, like fades, blurs, shakes, etc. and yet being in precise control over how many frames they are without needing to drag them to the end. I am almost exclusively a DS editor, and this feature is one of my most used. When I am working with clips, transitions or effects, these timecode boxes allow you to manipulate the element you have selected with one fell swoop.

One method in particular that was not mentioned, which I use often, is changing the duration AND position at the same time of an effect after it is already applied to a clip. By default when an effect is added to a clip it fills the entire length of the clip. Typing a duration into the duration timecode box while this effect is selected will re-size the effect to that duration starting at the head of the clip as expected, but by putting a minus sign AFTER the number, like 10- , will make the effect 10 frames long and snap it to the end of the clip! Great for making different durations of effects that might be used at the end of clips, like fades, blurs, shakes, etc. and yet being in precise control over how many frames they are without needing to drag them to the end.

]]> By: Rick http://guardianstudios.com/avid-ds-timecode-boxes-a-must-for-every-nle/comment-page-1#comment-16 Rick Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:28:02 +0000 http://guardianstudios.com/?p=808#comment-16 I am almost exclusively a DS editor, and this feature is one of my most used. When I am working with clips, transitions or effects, these timecode boxes allow you to manipulate the element you have selected with one fell swoop. <br><br> One method in particular that was not mentioned, which I use often, is changing the duration AND position at the same time of an effect after it is already applied to a clip. By default when an effect is added to a clip it fills the entire length of the clip. Typing a duration into the duration timecode box while this effect is selected will re-size the effect to that duration starting at the head of the clip as expected, but by putting a minus sign AFTER the number, like 10- , will make the effect 10 frames long and snap it to the end of the clip! Great for making different durations of effects that might be used at the end of clips, like fades, blurs, shakes, etc. and yet being in precise control over how many frames they are without needing to drag them to the end. I am almost exclusively a DS editor, and this feature is one of my most used. When I am working with clips, transitions or effects, these timecode boxes allow you to manipulate the element you have selected with one fell swoop.

One method in particular that was not mentioned, which I use often, is changing the duration AND position at the same time of an effect after it is already applied to a clip. By default when an effect is added to a clip it fills the entire length of the clip. Typing a duration into the duration timecode box while this effect is selected will re-size the effect to that duration starting at the head of the clip as expected, but by putting a minus sign AFTER the number, like 10- , will make the effect 10 frames long and snap it to the end of the clip! Great for making different durations of effects that might be used at the end of clips, like fades, blurs, shakes, etc. and yet being in precise control over how many frames they are without needing to drag them to the end.

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