Great point and very true. Should have mentioned it in the video but tbh when assisting I hadn't actually had to do ScriptSync much and when I did I suggested this to my editors and I was specifically told not to (they didn't want lots of subclips for all the 2nd actions). But it is a really great solution and was chatting to an AE friend recently who told me he does this for his Editors so good to know it is accepted at times!

Hi Nicole, welcome to the world of avid! I'm afraid I don't quite know what your question is though. Generally in avid you always have your project set to the frame rate you want to FINISH in. Then if you bring in material that is of a different frame rate, avid will automatically refine it for you for you to use in the 24fps project. That being said the one thing to be aware of is that 30fps won't retime perfectly to 24fps as they don't divide into each other and they are quite different frame rates so sound may drift out of sync.

@@theavidassistant Thanks so much for your quick reply Jack! Yes, I think the audio and video being out of sync because of the different frame rates is basically my problem. Do you know whether there's a way to fix this asynchronicity?

@@user-du5cd6pk4b I'm not sure it's possible (at least easily within Avid) to retime the sound so that it stays in sync. You would need new masters made at the correct frame rate. IF all of your material is going to be at 30fps then it might be easier to work in a 30fps project and then try and retime your master when the project is finished to 24fps. I've done that before, simpler process but we still used a facility to do the retime.

@@theavidassistant thank you, Jack!!

In the command palette under the "other" tab, can you try dragging and dropping the "add Op Key" function onto the key AFTER you've mapped the trim type/segment mode keys on. Not sure but this might solve it. Checking my own settings now it looks like I may have applied this without realising and that's what's done it.

@@theavidassistant thank you! that solves it

If you select "keep audio on clip with video" then it will add however many tracks of audio are on the source picture files. For me that's usually zero but assuming in your case there's one. Then setting range A1-A1 should be referring to the sync audio. So one track from camera, one track from sync audio.

@@theavidassistant Giving a bit more information to the problem. Resolve was used to sync the picture and sound from some rushes, by adjusting slightly if a few perfs out. Resolve project had original camera footage and original wavs linked inside it. This was then rendered to create video and audio mxf files. An ale including colour information was exported from the resolve timeline. The mxf video and audio files went into Avid MediaFiles folder/MXF folder into '2' folder. The ale was imported into the masterclips bin, 'Maintain events as logged' Clips relinked, remerged for missing data. Original source wavs were dragged into an audio bin, creating avid generated mxf's in a '1' folder in MXF folder. To autosync some subclips, the wav clips from the audio bin are dragged into the masterclips bin. They are all highlighted and then autosync selected. Synced by AUX TC1. If the "keep audio on clip with video" is not selected, then the synced single audio track links to the wav directly. But this wav will not be synced up as it was in Resolve, or is it? Am I right in thinking that the information from the AUX TC1 column, is the adjusted data that means the clips will be synced up properly, if linking to the wav directly, not the masterclip bin which has the sound rendered from resolve in the bin? Sorry it is so long, as is hard to describe well.

@@theavidassistant Posting again as may not have uploaded properly: Giving a bit more information to the problem. Resolve was used to sync the picture and sound from some rushes, by adjusting slightly if a few perfs out. Resolve project had original camera footage and original wavs linked inside it. This was then rendered to create video and audio mxf files. An ale including colour information was exported from the resolve timeline. The mxf video and audio files went into Avid MediaFiles folder/MXF folder into '2' folder. The ale was imported into the masterclips bin, 'Maintain events as logged' Clips relinked, remerged for missing data. Original source wavs were dragged into an audio bin, creating avid generated mxf's in a '1' folder in MXF folder. To autosync some subclips, the wav clips from the audio bin are dragged into the masterclips bin. They are all highlighted and then autosync selected. Synced by AUX TC1. If the "keep audio on clip with video" is not selected, then the synced single audio track links to the wav directly. But this wav will not be synced up as it was in Resolve, or is it? Am I right in thinking that the information from the AUX TC1 column, is the adjusted data that means the clips will be synced up properly, if linking to the wav directly, not the masterclip bin which has the sound rendered from resolve in the bin? Sorry it is so long, as is hard to describe well.

I have yes. Will need to go over it on KZbin (always have issues getting the downloadable to work on KZbin, Patreon is so much easier) but the Filters bin is something that's available there as well as a number of other things. Though to be honest all of the stuff in Filters area very simple templates to make and I change and tweak them for every project I do.

Hey! So you don't have to flatten the group to relink. The clips in avid stay the same, what changes is the media they are linking to 🙂

@@theavidassistant thanks for the reply, so the group clips will retain the .new.01(G) even after relink.

@craigslattery3001 Ah no they will still be groups of the same media but will reference what you've relinked them to. If you made subclips and grouped those then they will have the exact same name. If you grouped the source camera files then the name will change.

@@theavidassistant Thanks Jack, I don't quite understand what you mean, I think I may have messed up, I followed your Proxy workflow, transcoded all the camera media and created the group clips from the transcoded media. When I relink, the groups don't appear to be linking back to the camera media. A video on this would be great! Thanks again the videos are brilliant.👋👋

@@craigslattery3001 Right so this video is purely to do with making transcodes and relinking. It doesn't cover standard processes within Avid for stuff like renaming or grouping clips. One rule of thumb I have is I never rename clips when they are brought in, even (especially) transcodes. I'll make subclips of those transcoded master clips and rename those. Benefit here is that you can relink the subclips (and any group clips / multi-cam made from them) to different media but the subclip name is preserved. Plus all metadata is protected as you've not renamed the master clips. There's a series of videos in a playlist called AE100 on the channel. The section to do with sync'ing goes into this a good bit. But it's two long videos. For the benefit of explaining what subclips are, here's a short and simple sync'ing video that will show subclips: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXrKoaVrhreigdk

Technically both options will do this! You can't have gaps or edits in a clip. It's a match of two pieces of media. So if the audio cuts out half way through you would subclip the second bit out separately and that would be a MOS clip. Partly why I prefer sync maps as these are easier to spot as you do them.

You will need script sync which is included in the ultimate edition or can be purchased separately I think. Standard MC does not have the transcription features I'm afraid.

@@theavidassistant Cool thanks for that, you'd think Avid would add it as standard now that adobe do.

So if you are copying all of the media files to another server then it should be no worries to just move the whole thing. Moving selected data to a new location is where I always use MDV. The only other way I reliably know to move selected avid MXF data is by dumping it onto a sequence in avid and exporting an AAF with "copy all media" selected.

@@theavidassistant Thank you

So I have that for Assistant Editing workflows. Where I walk through the whole process for ingesting and prepping rushes for an editor in long form. Then another series for advanced 1st assistant stuff. Cutting however is so subjective. I can show how I would go about it but that would not be a short video. Plus every editor I've worked with does things differently. It's why I've kept the channel mostly technical or workflow stuff. Since it's objectively true. I have a series on Patreon/youtube members showing my subjective approaches to things but unsure how to bring that to this platform. I'll have a think about it. Maybe a new playlist of videos around cutting something in avid with tips and demos based on how I would go about things.

@@theavidassistant Ok no problem that makes total sense, maybe some time in the future a video where you could address some common issues during cutting like keeping all audio tracks in sync within complex timelines. Thanks for the reply.

@GoodladEdits no worries. For that I'd maybe check out the smart tools and trimming video on the channel. Should help. Personally I'm a big fan of the sync locks. I keep all tracks sync locked all the time and use yellow trim to trim and have all other media ripple in sync. Red if I just wanna take a small chunk of audio or video out but keep a gap where it was.

Thanks Curig! Planning to re-doing them this year now that I have a more established format of making these videos that's a bit more slick and will add more info into them too! Stay tuned ;)

That is a good point. I personally set it different in every macro I do depending on what I'm doing. In an ideal world I avoid mouse moves as they are less reliable and so in the last year or two I rely much more on keystrokes and app extensions. Maybe time for an updated macros video :)

nver mind. i just found that it is a timeline setting.

It's a timeline setting yes but should be enabled by default. You can also map a key to cycle through each, both or none :)

Hey! It's a Dell Ultrawide 34". Not sure of the exact model number as I got it a good few years ago but I can definitely vouch of that monitor size and format, it's terrific for avid work, having a big long timeline across the screen is awesome :)

Definitely not. I (and most folk I've met in post - though not all) never rename the source clips. After sync'ing we end up with sync'd subclips and they will be renamed as per the slate, likely using bulk edit if we have that data in the ALE (though I prefer to do it manually). Reason comes down to relinking and preserving the source data. Sure that data SHOULD always be in the tape/labroll column but it's still good practice to keep source clips named as per the camera since we will always end up with subclips anyway. I never cut with the source clips. Even if there is no sync sound I'll make a subclip and rename it to keep with this practice.

In terms of ramifications if you alter the metadata of any of the source clips I've seen it break the ability to relink to the source in online before or at the very least cause a lot of hassle getting it to work as we restore that data. I worked in a post facility before being an Assistant Editor years ago and we bumped into this once or twice.

Thanks for your prompt response mate!

Generally I’ve always created subs from an auto sequence video timeline synced to an auto sequenced audio timeline and would never touch the original ingest media. However, my assistant began renaming the originals and I really had to scrutinize why as I’ve personally never come across any relink issues. But I’m glad you’ve shed some light on this matter. Thanks again.

Wow thanks! Feel free to drop questions or comments or through email. I'm pretty slammed these days but will always get around to answering them eventually :)

@@theavidassistant Thanks! (Switched to my regular account) I actually just joined the membership to say thank you for all the work you put in. Great stuff!

@jthazz Thanks!🙏

How do you mean a searchable option? We can search through the transcript from the bottom of the window and we can search the project for any line spoken using the find window.

@@theavidassistant So I checked and you can find it with hitting "phrasefind AI" I didn't realize that. I was just hitting "find" thanks man!