How to copy effect attributes to other clips in Avid

When you want to apply same effect to few different clips in timeline in Avid:

1. General effects:
1) Select clip with effect you want to copy, open Effects palette
2) Click on the small violet icon and drag it to the bin. Now you have your effect settings saved to the bin. You can rename it whatever you want.
3) You can apply it for any clip in the project just by selecting clip and double-clicking on the effect in the bin.

2. Matte key.
The idea is the same as in General effects, but while dragging the icon from the Effect pallete, hold Alt key, this way the parameters will be copied without the sourse.

Avid user settings location (PC)

Today short but useful post.

When you add new user settings to Avid Media Composer, if you are on PC, you have to copy folder with your settings here:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Avid Media Composer\Avid Users\user\

Great tutorial on WHIP Pan transition (Birdman style cuts)

Today I want to share with you great tutorial on whip transition - invisible cuts, which look like long pan without editing. Video by Boon Loves Video

Surrealistic VR: Dreams of Dali 360°

Just imagine if virtual reality was available to Salvador Dali. A short glimpse of it shows the video made for the Dali exhibition in Florida.  You can travel inside 1935 painting Archeological Reminiscence of Millet’s “Angelus” using VR glasses or just to see on Youtube or on your phone

Creative control - very good film about today's world

I thought this movie would be some hi-tech film about our hi-tech future and virtual reality. And I'm glad my expectations were wrong. The film is full of irony, and if you work in media, and ever worked for advertisement, you'll see many familiar scenes from life. There are clients, creatives who look the same, some yoga and enlightenment, contemporary art, virtual love  - all what is so common in today's life. And a lot of truth behind all this. Highly recommend!

FCP 7 and El Captian are not friends

I've recently had to update computer with Mac OS to El Captain. And I do not recommend to do it if you're going to use old FCP 7 on it. The main problems I have encountered until now:

OPPRESSED MAJORITY (Majorité Opprimée), by Eleonore Pourriat

The French short film by Eleonore Pourriat. This hilariuos short shows the sexism if the world would be all feminist. It's a mirror image of what women usually face and underlines how wierd are the situations if the man finds himself in the opposite position.

New blog about travel!

Editor is not sitting all the time behind the computer. For better ideas and inspiration one need vacations! I introduce a new page on my blog editorvacation.blogspot.com  (link is always on the right)  - Editor on vacation! Here I will share some useful travel tips and experiences, which maybe will answer the questions you're usually have before the trip, but can't find the answers. The first series of posts will be about Poros island in Greece, where I am happy to be currently:)  

Codecs and containers explained

Really great animation in a very simple way explains the essential information about codecs and containers. By Florian Fahrenberger

Avid: how to list all effects in timeline + source and clip inforamtion

To display all effects/source information/clip information open Console (Tools ->Console) and run scripts below:
1. dumpfxsummary  - shows all effects, effect plug-ins and how many times it was used
2. dumpclipsummary - shows all clips used in sequence
3. dumpsourcesummary  - show all import paths for your media. No information on media if it was consolidated.

Examples (what you will get in reports):

Credits roll in Avid: how to add logos

There are 2 ways you can get logos in your credits roll:
1. Creating roll in Avid Marquee
You find great tutorial below. There is only one important note to this: resize your logos to the size you need before import to Avid!. Especially it's important if you want to add several logos to your roll.

2. Creating roll in Photoshop and then importing in Marquee. This tutorial shows clever workaround:

Color Tutorial: Skin Softening

Simple tutorial on skin softening in Color.

Color Correction for Editors - great tutorial from Editor's Lounge

If you are unfamiliar with vectroscope, RGB parade and color correction basics this tutorial is for you. Simple, clear and very practical

Audio and video sync workflow for FCP7

Source materials:
Video: Sony FS 700, Canon Mark III. Video materials has their own audio track.
Sound: recordered separately
Tools: 
FCP 7, Plural Eyes 3.5

How to:  

How to send large files - free file transfer services I personally like

I usually use "WeTransfer" to send large files - I like the design, no need to register, unlimited number of files, automated email to a friend or client with a link and download confirmation. The only "but" of wetransfer is the 2gb limit. I've made my own research to see what are the wetransfer alternatives and the best file transfer sites with greater file size limit. Here I post my own list  - free services only, no registration needed, automated emails with links.

MyAirBridge

Size per file: 20 gb
Design:  clean and look much like wetransfer, but requiers few more steps to upload file.  
Download confirmation: YES
How long file is on the server:  3 days
Nice feature: while you're entering all information (email addresses, subject, text) it already uploads the files
Apps: Android and AppStore  - allow to upload up to 5gb with internet reconnect when using wifi

    FileMail

Size per file: 50gb
Design: everything is clear, but no beautiful background images

Download confirmation: YES
How long file is on the server: you can choose the number of days, but up to 7
+ multi-language interface, confirmation email is sent in language you've used during upload
Nice feature: you can have password protected page with your file (paid)
Apps: AppStore, Desktop (mac & pc) + Outlook addon, API

If you know more good resources please post in comments