So here is what I want to do: I want my movie to be exactly 1 minute long. Now before I start dragging my footage onto the time line I'd love to give my time line the length of exactly 1 minute to know where I have to stop and how much I still need to fill.

I was hoping "Add filler at start" would do that trick for me where I would just add a filler of 1 minute and THEN start working on my project.

Yet this doesn't seem to be possible so what am I doing wrong and what would be the best approach for a situation like this one?

Thanks in Advance

Hello DNStuff,

I am sure this suggestion is not the best one.
Hopefully others will suggest a more efficient way.

I would add a short clip to my blank timeline.
Then I would add a 1 minute filler at the start.

Work with the 1 minute filler.

When finished, delete the short clip from the end of your timeline.

Regards,
Douglas

 

Thanks a lot. This way certainly gets the job done and that's all I needed.

 

Yet I am curious of course if there are any other ways to do this. This seems like a quick and dirty solution (nothing really wrong with quick and dirty tough).

Thing is: Avid does not work with filler when there are no clips. You cannot have a black sequence of 1 minute. So having a tail leader (or just a single black frame of media) to mark the end of a section works best.

Create 1 minute of tone media drop it into an extra audio track. Mute it.

That now forms your 1 minute guide.

But your timeline timecode shows time so it's easy to see a minute and edit to it.

 

You can always create a dummy clip of 1 minute and place it on a higher V or A track like V10 or A16.

 

Michael

Open Title Tool, save it (I actually like to name mine "zwart")

Edit it into the Seq.

You need to have at least one clip in the Timeline order to have a Seqeunce.  Adding Filler at Start places Filler into the Seqeunce at the head end prior to your first clip, if you don't have clip, you can't add Filler.  

Kenton, that's Dutch for black. How come you label your titles in Dutch? :D

Job ter Burg:

Kenton, that's Dutch for black. How come you label your titles in Dutch? :D

Hey Job, ja - I have been naming my Black "zwart" for a very long time.  For a number of reasons, but the biggest one is probably because I used to do a daily show with 6 segments.  Each of those segments had to be individual clips for the playout server, but I would string them out into a single Timeline when I was ready to Render/Mixdown so that I could take a break.  After I did the full Mixdown, I would mark In/Out on each segment and make a SubSequence of it.  Then I would QTref export each of the SubSequences as my individual segments.  i'd get a/v sync issues on the QTref if it was just Filler, so I had to use Black.  

When I was ready to break up the segments after the Mixdown, I would park at the head of the sequence and hit CMD+F and type "black" into the search bar.  It would jump to every instance of a clip containing the word "black", but that didn't limit it to just my Black title clips, it would stop if there was a shot named "black car" or "black dog" or you name it.  I wanted to use a name for the Black cllps that would be unique and not likely anywhere else in my sequences.  So, I chose "zwart" because I knew it was Dutch for black.  

In the last few years, I've been interested to learn more about my Dutch side (some ancestors came to America in mid-1600's so I really know next to nothing about them), Deze zomer, Ik begon te leren Nederlands te spreken.  It's been slow going as I don't have native speakers to converse with and I haven't yet invested in Rosetta Stone.