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Edius 3.x Tips and Tricks

All menus in one
When I first started working with Edius I was extremely frustrated with the fact that the menus were hidden in obscure places. It was not until many months of using the program that I discovered that all of the drop down menus found along the top row of the "preview window" (Play/Record window) are accessible from the green and white round Edius logo found at the very top left hand corner of the preview monitor. Other drop down menus are found hidden behind other icons sprinkled throughout other windows, but it helps to know that many of the main settings may be accessed from this one button. All of the other drop down menus found along this top row are nested within this logo! Whenever this site refers to a menu setting by starting with the term "Logo", this is where we mean for your to go.

Adjusting Audio Levels on Clips
If you have come from another program, you are no doubt use to selecting a tool and using that tool to adjust the audio of a whole clip up or down in one sweeping motion with your mouse. In Edius, there is no tool and when you point your mouse at an audio rubber band to make your move, Edius adds a keyframe. When you move you mouse up or down you end up moving a keyframe instead of the whole clip. No worries... Just hold down the Alt key before you make your move.

Slip Trim Mode - Making fine adjustments to the in or out point of your video clip Watch Video
After placing a video clip, you may often wish to make a slight adjustment to the clip, especially after placing a transition. Rather then go back to the play monitor and pick a new in and out point, try holding down the Alt key while you scrub back and forth on the video clip in the time line with your mouse.

Making audio clips "dissolve down" to the timeline
When you start a new project, create a color matte, doesn't matter what color.(Color bars icon at top of Bin window). Drag the matte to the timeline. Notice that it also has a track of blank audio. Put that audio on the track(s) where you will want to have audio dissolving to the time line. Right click on the matte, select "remove group" and delete the matte, leaving only the audio. Stretch out out the audio as long as you like. Now when you place clips on the time line you will be able to place a audio dissolve to the track, by simply using your keyboard shortcut for dissolves. Drag a small portion of the audio clip back to your bin for future use.

Editing long audio files
Editors new to Edius sometimes express frustration that the audio wave form is not available in the play preview window. In other programs that they have worked with they have found this expandable waveform very useful as they pick in and out points from music, long interviews or raw narration recordings. One work around that I have found very easy to work with is to simply drag that long audio file down to an audio track, turn on wave form, expand the track for better viewing and cut the audio right on the track. Raw narrations can now be edited easier with the visual clues provided by the wave form. Selections from music files are easily cut and pasted or moved into place.

Effect Many Clips At Once
Lets say you need to do a panpot to 100 audio clips on the time line, or 50 need the same CC filter applied, you do not have to apply that filter one clip at a time. Once you have got the perfect filter defined on one clip, you can save that filter as a new personal preset filter and then apply that filter to all selected clips in one drop. To make a preset, select the clip that you have used to make the filter you want to use, right click on the filter in the "Information Palette", save as a preset, and note where that preset ends up in the "Effects Palette". Now select the group of clips that you want to effect with a lasso or if they are sprinkled through your timeline by clicking on them with the Cntl key pressed. Once you have all of the clips that you want to effect, drag the new customized effect on to any one of the selected clips and your done! Note: If you still have your original clip selected, that one clip will now have two effects on it and you will want to delete one.