Post Production

Repeat to Fill Selection. Repeat to Fill Selection. Repeat to Fill Selection. Repeat to Fill Selection.

by Major on August 24th, 2009 in Keyboard Shortcuts, Post Production

“Repeat to fill selection” is one of the most useful commands to use while editing.  It is located in the edit menu under “paste special”, and can also be accessed using the shortcut option+command+v.

There are 2 handy ways to use this command…

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Quick Video Import

by Evan on August 17th, 2009 in Keyboard Shortcuts, Post Production

Hold down the option key while dragging a video file onto the timeline, or bin to bypass the video import dialog in Pro Tools and automatically accept the defaults. This can be very handy when importing lots of video files.

Note: This only works from a digibase browser. ie: Workspace or Project browser. While not quite as handy, it’s still a time saver. Sorry for the confusion!

Toggle Transport Master

by Major on August 13th, 2009 in Keyboard Shortcuts, Post Production

For those of you using machine control, you can forget this annoying menu:

machinecontrol

To toggle through the transport master option (Pro Tools/Machine/MMC) hit Command+Backslash (/)

It will make you smiiiiiiiiile!

Audio Pull up/down

by Major on May 18th, 2009 in Post Production

This post is extremely post production related.  So I apologize in advance if you are not in audio post.  I would suggest however if you are a student, learn as much about video as you can now, because chances are you’ll end up in post anyway!

I. Frame Rates

The are several frame rates that you will come across in the post production world.

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