Learn to create Science Fiction style Phaser Beams using Media Composer Paint. This effect can be used for weapons discharge from a space ship or a disruptor cannon, or for magical energy beams that fly through your scenes. The two-part tutorial uses Paint and Animatte to achieve this effect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GzG8ihjrt4

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Tools > Audiosuite has a Gain that can add another 96dB. For copy and paste of tracks to different tracks: Use cmd+ option+c, which loads the copied material into the source monitor. Then drag the source monitor contents to your new audio tracks, or patch your tracks and overwrite onto them.

HI Andrew, I think most people will be better off with their existing technique. The benefit of an AS-02 bundle is when you use it with systems and software that recognizes the AS-02 bundle and can extract from it the various versions (sequences) it needs for preparing content for different destinations and sources. -Woody

Hi Henrik, You're not wrong. I'm going to check a bit more on it tomorrow and post a follow-up. The behaviour you describe is consistent with what I see, but not necessarily consistent with the documentation on the format. http://www.avid.com/static/resources/common/documents/whitepapers/AS02_Whitepaper.pdf http://www.amwa.tv/projects/amwa_as

[quote user="AndrewAction"] [quote user="Woody"]It's not intended for different sequences that share almost no media. In that case, use a difference Volume for each sequence [/quote]In this case surely after a month or 2 overall this is less user friendly than managing the numbered MXF folders from the start with all projects

AS-11 defines how you use MXF to deliver finished programming to a broadcaster. It's not too related to AS-02, which defines a way to store multiple versions of a sequence and their media together.

It's more of a mastering / versioning method. The present implementation doesn't preserve the sequences in a way that you would be able to realistically edit them after bringing them back in. When you Link to Export Volume and bring the sequence back into the timeline, the edits are flattened. An AS-02 bundle (folder on the HDD) must contain

[quote user="CColton"] Seems like an open interchange format that, like MXF, is a container format, but can carry a lot of other data that MXF can't? [/quote] It is an exchange format, but it's not a container format like OMF or MXF. It's an organization of MXF files, along with some metadata to describe how they can and can't

AS-02 is MXF, with a very specifical file system organization. AS-02 is not a wrapper to replace MXF, it's a directory structure and set of rules for MXF when used for archiving/versioning sequences.