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Creating timeline presets in Avid to edit in contexts

Creating timeline presets in Avid to edit in contexts

From the course: Video Post Productivity

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Creating timeline presets in Avid to edit in contexts

- [Instructor] In a previous lesson, I broke down the basic idea of what it means to edit in context using the GTD system. But just to briefly review, the idea is to organize your daily editing tasks into different mindsets, such as watching footage, doing your first cut to doing notes, music, sound effects, and so on. When organizing specific tasks in this way it minimizes the amount of time and energy required to shift your focus, which then allows you to edit faster and with more clarity. In this lesson, I'm going to walk you through how I specifically create timeline presets to help me stay focused. We're starting here in OmniFocus, which I showed you in previous lessons on the GTD system. Very briefly to review, step one was to capture all of our random tasks. Step two was to organize them into specific single actions, as well as projects. And then step three was to start organizing them into contexts. So you can see that we have music, dailies, first cuts, notes, sound FX, we…

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