Modifying a Chunk's Bounds - Film Cue

[musicarteca]

2. Duplicate this main sequence (Sequences->Duplicate Chunk)

Here is a nice little tip, that I actually didn't know it could be done and discovered by accident: If you want to work your cue on a different project, you could select the region corresponding to your cue from you main sequence and bounce to disk as a QT movie. Now, bounce to disk actually trims the movie to your selection, this is very practical, because you can now open this mini movie on a different project and work the cue separately. Keep in mind that to do this, you should preferably have a QT with the TC burned in, as not to loose the TC reference to your main sequence. This is actually pretty much the way I work.

[zaque]

I would definitively change this step. Instead of duplicating the sequence, select in the timeline a region that corresponds to your first cue, add some pre roll and post roll time. In the transport window choose: "copy selection to new sequence". a new chunk will be created, and the audio from the movie will be copied only from the region selected. I would suggest that you start the selection from the beginning of a measure to make things easier. Maybe 3 measures before the relative cue start. This is very relative, because actually you do not, or should not have to worry about tempos on your main sequence.

The problem I ran into with the Copy Selection idea (that was what I started with) was that it didn't copy Locked Markers or my Track Folders but Duplicate Chunk does. So, I think I'm going to work with Duplicate Chunk for now.

Do not change the start time of the sequence, that will get the movie out of sync with the audio, which is what happened to you. What you have to to is simply go to where you want your playback to start and press the memory start and enable the auto rewind button, you can do the same at the end of the cue, copy the end spot to the memory stop, and enable the auto stop button. Now your playback is limited by the memory boundaries, which are the cue boundaries.

Yes, this does seem to work and perhaps I will try this. However, one little thing I found that I sort of like is that if I have the Start Time set to be measure -2 or something and then set my memory bounds to be the time code of measure 1, I can just Rewind once to get to measure 1 and press Rewind twice to get to -2 if I want to hear/see the pre-roll.

If you do not change your start time, then you don't have to worry about all this. No clunkyness included.

Well, I see your point here but changing the start time of the cue shouldn't cause all the extra steps, imo but that's just a matter of opinion, really.

Thanks for all your help! You've chimed in on a lot of my threads so far!

[zaque]

2. Duplicate this main sequence (Sequences->Duplicate Chunk)

Here is a nice little tip, that I actually didn't know it could be done and discovered by accident: If you want to work your cue on a different project, you could select the region corresponding to your cue from you main sequence and bounce to disk as a QT movie. Now, bounce to disk actually trims the movie to your selection, this is very practical, because you can now open this mini movie on a different project and work the cue separately. Keep in mind that to do this, you should preferably have a QT with the TC burned in, as not to loose the TC reference to your main sequence. This is actually pretty much the way I work.

I posted my last response while you were posting this one

I usually just use QT to crop the movie into cues and I always burn the time code into the QT file if it isn't supplied that way but I can see where your tip could be helpful. QT Sync is a nice (and free) tool in case anybody is looking for something to burn timecode into QT files.