I cannot tell you how much this video has helped me in the past few weeks. Had a VFX editor leave our current production and I was asked to step up from AE to VFX editor for the final episode of the series. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Richard I'm having to use the subclip method for VFX pulls on my new show and this is going to be a huuuge time saver! Thank you for sharing this methodology!
Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I have just one question, I saw another tutorial, where she said that you can also add handle frames later when you go to DaVinci (import AAF to export EXR from DaVinci colormanaged). Does that really work? Would an AAF already include some kind of handle frames so I won't have to do all the work in Avid? Thank you so much for your help.
Thank you for the tutorial! I have one question. When I relink my sequence with the pull subclips, although I trimmed one shot beyond the handles delivered to the vendor, it still relinks with the subclip. Could you tell me why is that?
What keyboard shortcut did you use to delete all the unselected tracks? Pressing delete typically deletes all the selected tracks, and I'm not having any luck with holding option while pressing delete.
Thanks for the great tutorial. Some very clever, time saving insight here. Just one question, when you decomposed sub clips with 16 frame handles, why do you need to dupe a sequence into a separate bin, show ref clips and relink the subs to the masters in that separate bin. Can’t you simply relink the decomposed sub clips to the media on the drive, without the extra steps?
I saw what you're asking now. You're asking why I relink the new subclips to the full length master clips. I don't have an answer for you. I haven't done it. I'd offer, try it. I'm always open to simplification of these techniques.
@@straycatds Thanks so much for taking the time to get back to me so quickly. It’s at around 7:45. I love idea of not manually cutting subs. Again, thanks so much for the tutorial. Will come in handy.
Question - when I decompose the sequence and get new clips, the new.01 master clips have the added handle length, but the new.01 subclips do not. I made sure I was following steps correctly and that I am working with subclips already - any ideas why I might have gotten this result?
I haven't experienced this. All subclips are cut length only, while the master clips have handles? Did you check the options when you decomposed, particularly imported vs captured clips. If your clips have the tape column filled out, you want to select "captured" clips. If your clips were imported and linked and transcoded, you'll want to use the "Imported" option, or as a catch all, you can select "Imported and Captured" but I usually avoid that option because I might have postvis that I don't want to decompose.
Watching this had me very confused and feeling "daunted". This means I probably shouldn't try to be a AE, correct? So many steps and panels for what seems like a straightforward task.
It's challenging but in no way unconquerable. It just depends on how bad you want to learn it. Go through it again and let us know where you're getting tripped up.
Hi Matthew. Don't get bogged down with the idea what seems like a straightforward tasks. Everything about editing, and especially assistant editing seems like it should be straightforward until you actually do it. The numerous issues with footage, frame rates, compositing, organization and especially VFX. With VFX, no matter how well planned, storyboarded, previsualized, prepared and executed, something invariably doesn't go quite as planned and creative solutions need to be sought out. It's the nature of the beast. It's important to note, there are faster and more straightforward ways to do this same technique, but this technique allows for easy revision. It's one thing to build a composite shot quickly, but if it's not built in a way to supports it, any revision might require you to rebuild from scratch. That's the value of this technique. With regard to the daunting nature of it, I've been assistant editing for 14 almost 15 years. I'm still learning new things. If you want to do it, just jump in. It will be a lifelong learning process.
while decomposing the sequence it just create master clips and subclass are not been created manually and master clips are also showing offline media - any idea why I might have got this result
If your timeline didn't originally use subclips, then the you won't get subclips when you decompose. What is common is that your dailies will have all tracks form your production sound recorder, but you'll subclip out just the picture and the mix track for the editor, matching into it when you need to pull out an individual lav or boom.
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In my advanced editing class we actually had to edit bingo night. What a throwback!
This shit is brilliant! This should be in Avid VFX workflows 101. Oh the agony this would have saved. Can't believe no one ever taught me this.
Glad it was helpful. Thanks for the kind feedback!
I cannot tell you how much this video has helped me in the past few weeks. Had a VFX editor leave our current production and I was asked to step up from AE to VFX editor for the final episode of the series. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Richard I'm having to use the subclip method for VFX pulls on my new show and this is going to be a huuuge time saver! Thank you for sharing this methodology!
Brilliant techinique ! I heartfelt thanks to you for sharing this idea.
Thank you! Cheers!
Fantastic thank you!
You're very welcome!
Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I have just one question, I saw another tutorial, where she said that you can also add handle frames later when you go to DaVinci (import AAF to export EXR from DaVinci colormanaged). Does that really work? Would an AAF already include some kind of handle frames so I won't have to do all the work in Avid? Thank you so much for your help.
You can set the set the length of handles in the export dialog window.
Thank you for the tutorial!
I have one question. When I relink my sequence with the pull subclips, although I trimmed one shot beyond the handles delivered to the vendor, it still relinks with the subclip. Could you tell me why is that?
What keyboard shortcut did you use to delete all the unselected tracks? Pressing delete typically deletes all the selected tracks, and I'm not having any luck with holding option while pressing delete.
Same here, I don't get it. I tried all kind of shortcuts... alt delete, command delete et c....
Thanks for the great tutorial. Some very clever, time saving insight here.
Just one question, when you decomposed sub clips with 16 frame handles, why do you need to dupe a sequence into a separate bin, show ref clips and relink the subs to the masters in that separate bin. Can’t you simply relink the decomposed sub clips to the media on the drive, without the extra steps?
Please post the timecode in the video that you're referring to.
I saw what you're asking now. You're asking why I relink the new subclips to the full length master clips. I don't have an answer for you. I haven't done it. I'd offer, try it. I'm always open to simplification of these techniques.
@@straycatds Thanks so much for taking the time to get back to me so quickly. It’s at around 7:45.
I love idea of not manually cutting subs. Again, thanks so much for the tutorial. Will come in handy.
Question - when I decompose the sequence and get new clips, the new.01 master clips have the added handle length, but the new.01 subclips do not. I made sure I was following steps correctly and that I am working with subclips already - any ideas why I might have gotten this result?
I haven't experienced this. All subclips are cut length only, while the master clips have handles? Did you check the options when you decomposed, particularly imported vs captured clips. If your clips have the tape column filled out, you want to select "captured" clips. If your clips were imported and linked and transcoded, you'll want to use the "Imported" option, or as a catch all, you can select "Imported and Captured" but I usually avoid that option because I might have postvis that I don't want to decompose.
Watching this had me very confused and feeling "daunted". This means I probably shouldn't try to be a AE, correct? So many steps and panels for what seems like a straightforward task.
It's challenging but in no way unconquerable. It just depends on how bad you want to learn it. Go through it again and let us know where you're getting tripped up.
Hi Matthew. Don't get bogged down with the idea what seems like a straightforward tasks. Everything about editing, and especially assistant editing seems like it should be straightforward until you actually do it. The numerous issues with footage, frame rates, compositing, organization and especially VFX. With VFX, no matter how well planned, storyboarded, previsualized, prepared and executed, something invariably doesn't go quite as planned and creative solutions need to be sought out. It's the nature of the beast.
It's important to note, there are faster and more straightforward ways to do this same technique, but this technique allows for easy revision. It's one thing to build a composite shot quickly, but if it's not built in a way to supports it, any revision might require you to rebuild from scratch. That's the value of this technique.
With regard to the daunting nature of it, I've been assistant editing for 14 almost 15 years. I'm still learning new things. If you want to do it, just jump in. It will be a lifelong learning process.
while decomposing the sequence it just create master clips and subclass are not been created manually and master clips are also showing offline media - any idea why I might have got this result
If your timeline didn't originally use subclips, then the you won't get subclips when you decompose. What is common is that your dailies will have all tracks form your production sound recorder, but you'll subclip out just the picture and the mix track for the editor, matching into it when you need to pull out an individual lav or boom.