How to do these 3 things...

STYLZ

STYLZ

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in avid express pro

1. Split/razor a clip on the timeline, cut it i half or thirds or whatever. (ok figured this one out-ADD EDIT-)

2. Normalize an audio CLIP

3. Speed up or slow down a clip, say speed up to 200%. I see it in the effects but when I add it there is no control in the effects pallet.



thanks
 
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2) Not sure, but I think there might be a Normalize filter in the Audio Suite plug-ins. Open the Audio Suite which is under the Tools menu. Make sure that your audio tracks that you want to effect in the timeline are enabled (ie. if your clip is on A1-A2, click the track enable buttons at the head of the timeline for A1-A2). In the Audio Suite window that will have opened (it takes a couple moments for the plug-ins to be loaded), there should be a drop down where you can select the filter you want. I don't know if Normalize has editable parameters or not, but if so, those will open and you can tweak them. When you're done, hit the render button in the Audio Suite window, which will create new audio precomputes for your effected clips.

3) The Timewarp effects you see in the effects bin are presets from the more capable Timewarp effect in Media Composer. As such, they're set to a specific speed change, as indicated in their name. However, if you load the clip you want to speed up/slow down in your source monitor, you can create a new speed effected clip there. Look for the button (either under the Source monitor or in the hamburger menu) that looks like a film frame skewed to the right like it's in motion. Click that, and from there, you can either adjust by percent up or down, or set a specific number of frames to create. Be sure to set either Interpolated or VTR-style for the smoothest motion. When you're done, you'll be asked where to save the clip. This will render it as a new piece of media. It will then appear as a motion effect clip in whatever bin you specify.

The biggest advantage of the Timewarp presets is that they're real time; of course, you're limited to whatever presets they give you.
 
O.k. I did the normalize audio, thanks. Couldn't figure out how to change speed of clip already in timeline, don't think you can right? I see how to do it to a clip in source window though.

Hey thanks for taking the time to tell how to do those, I appreciate it.
 
STYLZ said:
Couldn't figure out how to change speed of clip already in timeline, don't think you can right?
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There is an effect called Trim to Fit. Apply that to the clip and when you use a trim roller it wil change the frame rate to match the duration. No frames will be lost, just sped up/slowed down.
 
Right; with Xpress Pro, there really isn't an easy way to change speed of a clip in the timeline. There are those couple presets in the Timewarp section of the effects bin, and those can be dropped directly on clips, but you're limited to whatever the presets do.

Motion effects must be created from the source monitor. If you already have the clip that you of want to change the speed of edited into the timeline, just park at the clip's inpoint and use match frame. This will load the clip into the source monitor, where you can do what I described earlier and then edit the slower/faster clip in place of the original.

Also, one other thing to keep in mind when using speed effects: if you can, always try to stick to an evenly divisible percentage when changing speed. In other words, for slower clips, use something like 10%, 25%, 33.3%, or 50%. For faster clips, you have a little more latitude, but again, multiples of 100 work nicely. The reason is that the program has to do less interpolation and creation of otherwise non-existent frames. The motion will look a lot smoother in the rendered clip.
 
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