AVID SHORTCUTS

Always create the following BINS (Quick Transitions and put all my favorites in there as they’ll show up when I use it), Effect Templates, Color Correction Templates, Titles, Renders, Motion FX). Then always make the following folders (01 CUTS, 02 FOOTAGE, 03 FX BINS, 04 STILLS, 05 MUSIC, 06 SFX, 07 GRFX, 08 VO)

Go to each window and go up to Edit – Set Font to Arial Black – 16. Then in timeline go to Clip Text and select Clip Name and Clip Duration.

To Disable/Enable a clip in the timeline, click Red Arrow/segment Mode to select the clip and then right-click and choose Mute and to turn back on, Unmute Clip.

USING AUTO COLOR CORRECTION

DO THIS: I can color correct an image with one button. Go to my Settings Tab and open Correction and then go to Auto Correct tab. Under the first/or only drop down menu select HSL Auto contrast (because we want to first set our whites and blacks). Then in the next/new drop down menu choose, HSL auto balance. So these are the two things that we did minus the saturation change, when we just performed our automatic color correction. Click OK. We've now programmed the color correction effect to do this. And then, if I come into my effect palette, you'll notice in the image category that I have something called a color correction effect. And that's what this is. I'm simply going to drag this effect onto this segment/clip and release. And you can see that all of my automatic corrections were done for me.

COMMON SHORTCUTS

In/Out – I and O

Mark Clip (In to Out) – T key

Go to In – Shift + I

Go to Out – Shift + O

Clear In – D key

Clear Out – F key

Clear In & Out – G key

Match Frame – Shift + F

Add Keyframe – Shift + K

Render effects – Shift + R

Beginning of a clip/timeline – Home key

Select In/Out – Shift + P

Play In to Out – Shift + L

Play Loop – Shift + ?/

Add Edit/Razorbalde – Shift + A

Extend Edit – E key

Lift – Z / Extract – X

Quick Transition – Shift + Q

Make Subclip – Shift + S

CAPS – Audio Scrubbing

Save ALL – Apple + 9 and Apple + S

End of a clip/timeline – End key

1234 – 10F left, 10F right, 1Frame L, 1Frame R

Enlarge – Apple + L / Reduce – Apple + K

Smart Toggle – N key

MODES

Source/Record Mode – F5

Trim Mode – F6

Effects Mode – F7

Color Correction Mode – F8

Full Screen Playback – F13

Toggle Source/Record Mode – Esc Key

EDIT TYPES

Splice-In (Insert Edit) – F9

Overwrite Edit – F10

Replace Edit – F11

Fit to Fill Edit – F-12

TOOLS

Audio Tool – Apple + 1

Calculator – Apple + 2

Command Palette – Apple + 3

Effect Palette – Apple + 8

Effect Editor – Shift + E

Title Tool – Shift + T

TIMELINE STUFF

Make sure Sync Lock is ALWAYS on

Yellow Smart Tool – V

Red Smart Tool – B

Go to Previous Edit – A

Go to Next Edit – S

New Video Track – Apple + Y

New Audio (Mono) – Apple + U

New Audio (Stereo) Shift + Apple + U

More Detail in Timeline – Up Arrow

Less Detail in Timeline – Down Arrow

Make Tracks in Timeline Larger – Apple + L

Make Tracks in Timeline Smaller – Apple + K

Audio Waveforms in timeline – Shift + W

Select all tracks to the Right – Shift + Right è

Select all tracks to the Left – Shift + Left ç

Select all tracks at once – Cmd + A

De-select all tracks – Cmd + Shift + A

TRIMMING

Trim Mode – U or F6

Trim A-side – P key

Trim A/B – [ - Left Bracket

Trim B-side - ] – Right Bracket

Trim Left 8 Frames – M key

Trim Right 8 Frames - / key

Trim Left 1 Frame – Comma key

Trim Right 1 Frame – Period key

Top – Shift U Tail – Shift + Y

Cmd + Click near an edit point – Snaps to it

Cmd + Option + Click – Snaps to tail end of clip

MARKERS

Marker (Red – Editorial Note) – Shift + M

Next Marker – Shift + Comma

Previous Marker – Shift + N

ADDITIONAL MARKERS

(F5 – Yellow – Producer’s Note)

(F6 – Blue – Color Correction Note)

(F7 – Green – Audio Note)

(F8 – Pink – Additional Note)

TRACKS

V1 – F1 A1 – Shift + F1

V2 – F2 A2 – Shift + F2

V3 – F3 A3 – Shift + F3

V4 – F4 A4 – Shift + F4