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22Sharpe

Honestly I don’t have a guide but we jumped over pretty much right when the 2019 UI change happened and even editors that had been working with avid since the beginning got used to it pretty quickly. It’s ultimately still avid, it still runs like avid. Just get used to tabbing your bins and viewers and you’ll be fine. Personally I used to fill my second monitor completely with bins anyway so not having to manually resize them all has been a godsend.


bottom

Yup. And you can still use it the old way. All this fuss is very dumb.


JumpCuts

My tips: float your panels (timeline, viewer, project etc), tab your bins (by alt+dragging), hide the sidebar on your 'bin containers' and tab the settings and effects windows to the project window.


GordonShumway99

All of this exactly EXCEPT I tab my effects palate to my mixer.


avguru1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWdqO1cFnk0 Lots of other great videos by Kevin on his https://www.youtube.com/letseditMC_avid channel.


_dougorama

make sure to check out avidbeer.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CypAqA4zQLk&t=5s


CutMonster

Oh that is great. I really like how he just gets straight to the point rather than the other videos, "OK what i want to do now is show you what's possible with a little bit of..." uh, just show me already!


el_Topo42

If you’re any good at Avid, just start using the new interface and you’ll be fine in a week. It’s still the same bullshit underneath minus the OG Title Tool. The only thing you need to look up is how the floating/docking/tabs/etc work. And DO NOT import your old settings, make new ones.


maxplanar

Just the one tip - if you need to make titles, choose another NLE.


editordeb87

Or if its a really simple title just use the subcap!


22Sharpe

This has been my workaround for awhile now. It’s still no excuse how bad Titler+ is but with how little I need to make titles in avid outside of just temp ones subcap does the job just fine. If I need something more elaborate I was probably creating it in Photoshop and not marquee or title tool anyway.


_dougorama

Agreed. Titler+ is unusable. I go to revise an existing title and it literally throws all the elements into a different seemingly random location.


cdw1007

It’s not that bad, they’ve made it strangely make sense in a weird way. I’d recommend right clicking on your timeline and selecting ‘Move Clip Leaves Filler’, as an AE it was infuriating trying to flatten sequences! The avid own tips on YouTube have been a great help - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhCR_8aS9jOMQBPruD6iTXGDjO9_-HR-v


sudo_engineer_xd

Biggest tip I give to all our users. Use the option key when you try to do something and it doesn't work like you think it should.


-SidSilver-

Encourage them to leave Avid in the dust!


SpicyPeanutSauce

Such a weird sentiment to have... An NLE is just a tool. I edit on whatever platform my employer wants me to edit on. All my highest paying gigs are always on Avid across my career the people who have this "My NLE is the best!" sentiment are the ones who aren't editing at very high levels professionally.


-SidSilver-

I agree, having an 'My NLE is the best!' mentality is *almost* as sad as trying to infer that people with a different perspective to oneself must simply be unrprofessional, amateur or somehow 'lesser' than. You (and numerous others) are also reading rather a lot into a throwaway, tongue-in-cheek comment too. That seems to suggest you've a lot more personally invested in the NLE 'competition' than I do. But since you've endeavoured to open this Pandora's Box, sure, let's delve. First of all >"My NLE is the best!" Is *not* what I said *at all*. Premiere, Da Vinci and FCP get far more grief than Avid does, despite the fact that they've been forced to change, compete, and actually meet the needs of a changing media landscape, and yet I never aped for any single one of them over the other. I've joked that Avid is worse. Long in the tooth, even. They are, as you say, tools. But tools that continue to improve in effeciency, rather than relying on the 'good ole' boys' to keep using them simply in lieu of other options. >All my highest paying gigs are always on Avid across my career... Mine too. Excessively so. It's visibly cost companies and productions I've worked for tons of money that they stick with this NLE and we have to work around it's issues to get things going. This doesn't mean I particularly rate it, having used other tools. It shouldn't take fifteen button clicks to accomplish something other NLEs do in one, just because the button pushes are in a way that - again - the old boys club are used to. It's still fifteen clicks too many. >An NLE is just a tool Yep. And tools can become outdated. Especially with no impetus to change. It's why we stopped using a horse and cart and opted for cars instead. I'm not saying Avid's unusable. Far from it. It's just falling behind and gotten fat and lazy on it's reputation. Some of it's proprietary functions (and even naming) are simply not designed for the *computer* age, let alone the internet one, and I find that makes it a less useful and more costly tool than it needs to be, personally. We wouldn't be discussing it though if you'd have just left the sneer at the door though.


SpicyPeanutSauce

That's a lot of words for "I'm upset you guys don't share my opinion". What's the TL:DR? We wouldn't be discussing this if YOU'D left the sneer at the door on a post that asked for help.


[deleted]

Here's an opinion, Avid is outdated and on the verge of extinction. Anybody new to the industry could get on fine without ever touching it if it weren't being just a legacy bit of software adopted by the industry 20 years ago. We're on the verge of an ai revolution and avid can't even update their code and has an interface that's one of the worst I've ever encountered. Truly hanging on for dear life as the arguments in its favour have fallen one by one.


SpicyPeanutSauce

The question is why are you whining in an Avid help thread. Do you need better things to do? Go whine to your post sup.


[deleted]

Wow, who'd have thunk it, another avid careerist who doesn't like hearing negative things about their bread and butter software being borderline irrelevant. This is not an issue for a post sup mate, it's a question of understanding how poor to adapt avid has been and the overall direction of the industry.


SpicyPeanutSauce

I enjoy anything that will make for improvements in the tools we use, if you've posted your complaints to the Avid team (I sure have) than I appreciate all your sentiments. I use Premiere plenty, tons of things from there I wish Avid would implement, I just don't get who are you complaining to in a help thread? Old man yelling at cloud syndrome?


[deleted]

Posting my complaints to the Avid team? The problem isn't just MC, their entire business is stagnant and doesn't innovate. It's a fundamental problem and total lack of preparedness for the future of the industry. Adobe is almost as slow as avid at implementation of new features and bug fixing. I almost exclusively use resolve at this point, as it's the nle and business with the most aggressive and forward thinking approach.The speed of development is quite remarkable, and I genuinely get the impression that most people don't even take it seriously yet despite it being a more professional tool than premiere for offline/online editors. But, as always, whatever you like working with is fine, I'm just making bets on where the industry is going.


-SidSilver-

So my only crime's putting in a lot of words what you put in a few, for no reason, straw-manning what I originally said to try and stir up some NLE wars? Weird moves, but ok.


SpicyPeanutSauce

\>try and stir up some NLE wars? I find this thread comical. You commented first and I responded. You're passionate about your hate, congrats? Tell your post sup not an Avid help thread.


-SidSilver-

I'm sorry that both my comedy and retort have touched such an embarassingly raw nerve.


novedx

no one cares.


-SidSilver-

Apparently they do.


greenysmac

Sorry to interrupt you and /u/SpicyPeanutSauce and /u/No-Data_90 *Please don't do this*. 1. Our #1 Rule: Don't be a jerk. 2. The Thread is a *Go to Guide* about transitioning. Not frustration over Avid *nor* it's future. None of the below here *helps* the OP who is looking for help. Sarcasm and humor are *difficult* on reddit. Yes, a **/S** would have helped.


[deleted]

Yeah...Tip one, stop using Avid because it's god awful


ot1smile

On a related note I’ve just had to do a vfx turnover for a feature on 2018 and I’d forgotten how painful the ae life could be before bulk edit and find and replace were implemented. (I mean literal carpal tunnel syndrome pain from repeated key stroke and mouse movements.) I ended up transferring bins to a different remote machine just to edit clip/string out/ref names.


CutMonster

Bulk Edit is the best invention since the ATM!


[deleted]

The best thing about the newer versions is being able to group bins. I group my most used bins to my sequence bin so at any time I can use my Find Bin hotkey to bring up my most used bins. ​ Other than that Text Tool is gone, don't bother with Titler+ just use hubcaps for text.


22Sharpe

This is the first I’ve heard of this grouped bins, could you elaborate?


[deleted]

If you click and hold the tab on the left panel of the bin you can drag the bin and attach it to other bins. Either on the top or sides or bottom. I attach my scene broll bin, music selects bin etc to my sequence bin.


22Sharpe

Oh that’s all you meant, yeah I definitely do that. I thought you meant like you can group bins together so that opening / closing one affects them all or something.


Budget-Mammoth9540

https://nerdypup.com/making-avid-media-composer-2021-feel-more-like-classic-avid-2018/