Avid Quests; Color Corrects, EQ, Audio, Aspect Ratios...
by Bulletproof George
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Feb 6, 2006 at 7:04:06 pm
Hey there. Embarked on editing a little somethin somethin on avid for the first time, and came upon a few snags...
-How do you properly use the color correction? As is i've just been futzing with it and seen no difference.
-How does one equalize different audio problems? Such as, isolating certain sounds and raising and lowering audio on the video clips. (I also have access to an MBox, would this be useful towards these audio endeavors and if so how?)
-Also, How would i make my edited clips into one complete clip on the timeline, so i can delete my raw footage?
-Finally, i've been able to convert footage shot in 4:3 to 16:9, but the image just seems stretched on widescreen TVs, is there anyway to enhance the 4:3 to 16:9 so it fits the composer monitor or am i just dillusional?
Re: Avid Quests; Color Corrects, EQ, Audio, Aspect Ratios... by Jon Zanone on Feb 7, 2006 at 12:48:50 pm
[Bulletproof George]"-How do you properly use the color correction? As is i've just been futzing with it and seen no difference.
Are you using curves or HSL? If you look at the top left corner of the CC window, you'll see a tab for the two. HSL is meant for more subtle changes, and curves offer a more drastic change. Try to get a hold of the books that should have come with the system - there is a good one on CC.
[Bulletproof George]-How does one equalize different audio problems? Such as, isolating certain sounds and raising and lowering audio on the video clips. (I also have access to an MBox, would this be useful towards these audio endeavors and if so how?)
In tools there are three tools audio suite, audio tool and EQ. Do you not have books on this system? F1 will bring you directly to the help files...
[Bulletproof George]-Also, How would i make my edited clips into one complete clip on the timeline, so i can delete my raw footage?
Again, covered extensively in the manual. Basically, if I understand your question, you want to delete media after you've created a timeline. If you do that, you'll delete all the media you used in your timeline. Remember the time is just a pointer to the media. if you digitize thirty seconds of media and use three seconds, you'll still have 30 seconds of media. Do a search on decompose in the help files, or the manual.
[Bulletproof George]-Finally, i've been able to convert footage shot in 4:3 to 16:9, but the image just seems stretched on widescreen TVs, is there anyway to enhance the 4:3 to 16:9 so it fits the composer monitor or am i just dillusional?"
You must resize you 4:3 footage - you'll end up with black bars at the top, or really poor zoomed in footage, but either way, you will have to conform your 4:3 footage to 16:9....
You might want to spend some time with the tutorial included with every Avid. It's a great jumping off point to answer a lot of these questions. Read the manual, and if you can afford it, Avid has three really good training DVD's on their website...
Jon
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