Avid Xpress Xpress Pro 5.5 User guide

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Avid Xpress Pro Advanced Guide • 0130-07617-01 Rev A • June 2006

Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 1 Using Desktop Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Creating an Automatic System Recovery Disk (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Dragging Windows (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Setting the Apple Color Scheme (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Changing Screen Resolution (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using the Avid Xpress Pro Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Deleting Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Chapter 2 Planning and Starting a Project: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Selecting a Project Format and Type: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Selecting a Project Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Considerations for 23.976 Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Supported Resolutions for 23.976 Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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Capturing with Advanced Pulldown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Video and Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Opening and Closing a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Changing Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Selecting a Shared Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Selecting an External Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Creating a New Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Using User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Creating a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Changing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Exporting a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Updating User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Deleting a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or Removable Media . . . . . . . . . . 68

Restoring from a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Ending an Edit Session: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Quitting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Turning Off Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Mounting and Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Unmounting Drives (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Unmounting Drives (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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Using the Bins Display: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Changing Bin Window Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using Flat View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Opening Selected Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Opening Bins from Other Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Viewing Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Understanding the Memory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Accessing the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Appearance Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Changing Shading Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Using Interface Appearance Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Linking User Settings and Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Shared Bins and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Working with Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with Shared Bins. . . 106

Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Chapter 4 Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using the Command Palette: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Mapping a Modifier Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using the Avid Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Getting Information with the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

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Checking the Hardware Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Configuring a Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Chapter 5 Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Logging Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Logging Preroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Logging Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Double-Checking the Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Understanding Avid Log Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Avid Log Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Global Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Data Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Sample Avid Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Compatible Log Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Logging Directly to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Logging with an Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Logging with a Non-Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Logging Film Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Displaying Film Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

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Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Entering Additional Timecodes (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Modifying Clip Information Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

The Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Using the Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Exporting Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Chapter 6 Preparing to Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Selecting Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Disabling Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Transfer Settings for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Setting Up the Audio Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Configuring the Sound Card (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Configuring the Sound Card with Surround Sound Capabilities

(Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Configuring Decks: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Deleting Deck Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Deck Settings Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Setting Up the Capture Tool: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Capturing Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Setting the Pulldown Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Film Project Pulldown and Transfer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Preparing for Audio Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Creating Tone Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Audio Meters in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the Meter Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

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Calibrating for Video Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Manually Calibrating for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Saving a Custom Default Setting for the Video Input Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Adjusting Video Levels Without Color Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Chapter 7 Capturing Media: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Adding Clip Names and Comments On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Monitoring DV Audio while Recording with an Avid Mojo Device and

Digi 002 Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Capturing Without Logging First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Capturing from One Point to Another. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Capturing from an IN Point to an OUT Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Capturing On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Capturing from a Non-Avid Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Remote Play, Capture, and Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Enabling Remote Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Setting up Your System for Remote Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Changing the Serial Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Creating Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Creating Subclips On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Creating Timed Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Changing Function Key Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

DV Capture Offset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Delaying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

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Patching When Capturing to the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Preparing to Batch Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Resizing the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Preparing Settings for Unattended Batch Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Batch Capturing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Recapturing Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Recapturing Master Clips and Subclips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Recapturing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Saving Two Versions of a Sequence When Recapturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Using Decompose When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Recapturing the Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Recapturing the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Other Capturing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Chapter 8 Importing Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Creating and Using Import Settings: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Creating a New Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Modifying an Existing Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Importing Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Understanding Multilayered Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Importing Multilayered Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Importing Media from XDCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Connecting the XDCAM Device (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Importing XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Using XDCAM Media on Macintosh Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

The Batch Import Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

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Selected Clips Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Import Target Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Import Options Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Starting the Reimport Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Importing Editcam Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Chapter 9 Organizing with Bins: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Object Icons in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Using Bin Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Displaying Custom Bin Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Lassoing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Duplicating Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Moving Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Deleting Clips, Subclips, and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Deleting Items from a Bin (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Deleting Items from a Bin (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Adding a Color Column to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Assigning a Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Assigning a Custom Source Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Limiting Color Choices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Sorting by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Sifting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Locking and Unlocking Items in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

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Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Using Text View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Moving and Rearranging Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Deleting a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Tracking Frames Based on File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Moving Within Column Cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Tracking 3-Perf Counts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Selecting an Edgecode Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Modifying Data Directly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Using the Modify Command to Modify Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Sorting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Using Frame View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Realigning Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Using Script View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Rearranging Clips in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

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Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Creating Video Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Creating Audio Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Chapter 10 Managing Media Files: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Using Panasonic DVCPRO P2 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Panasonic P2 Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

P2 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Editing with Media Created on Panasonic P2 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Mounting P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Copying P2 Files to a Local Media Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Updating the Drive List and Media Database for P2 Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Dragging P2 Master Clips from the Media Tool to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Working with Spanned Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Deleting P2 Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Relinking by Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Relinking to Selected Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Relinking Moved Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Chapter 11 Using Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Lined Script Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Explanation of Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Lining in the Digital Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

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Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Manipulating Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Changing the Font of the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Searching Through Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Using Scene and Page Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Adding a Scene or Page Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Changing a Scene or Page Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Deleting a Scene or Page Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Searching for a Scene or Page Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Conducting a Text Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Linking Clips to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Manipulating Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Selecting Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Resizing Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Moving a Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Manipulating Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Selecting Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

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Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Loading and Playing Marked Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Editing with the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Assembling a Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Chapter 12 Viewing and Marking Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Customizing the Monitor Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Changing the Source Monitor Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Using Dual Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Resizing Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Hiding the Video in the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Resizing the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Using the 16:9 Display Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Using 16:9 for 24p or 25p Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Displaying Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

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Displaying the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Setting the Font and Point Size for Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Selecting the Video Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset (Software Only or 1394). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Loading and Clearing Footage: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Switching Between Loaded Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Clearing Sequences from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Controlling Playback: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Stepping Forward and Backward by Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Understanding the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Play Length “In Use” Indicator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Marking and Subcataloging Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Opening the Locator Edit Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Editing Locator Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Viewing and Navigating in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Displaying the Timecode, Footage, or Frame Number in the

Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Displaying MetaSync Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Sorting Information in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Enlarging and Reducing Columns in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Exporting Locators from the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Importing Locators from the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

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Creating a Locator Text file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon from the Locators Window . . . . . 366

Accessing a Locator in a Clip or Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Using the Locators Window to Delete Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Finding Frames and Clips: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Searching a Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Matchframing Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Chapter 13 First Edits: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Performing a Splice-in Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Placing a Sequence into the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Chapter 14 Using the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Using the Track Selector Panel: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Cycling Through a Selection of Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Locking and Unlocking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Renaming Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Accessing the Timeline Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Highlighting Offline Media Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Highlighting Clips in a Mixed-Format Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

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Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Saving a Custom Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Navigating in the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Displaying Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Adding an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Removing Add Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Detecting Duplicate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Finding Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Editing in the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Suppressing the Four-Frame Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Bin Editing into the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Chapter 15 Working in Trim Mode: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Reviewing the Trim Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Reviewing an Edit with the Edit Review Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Reviewing an Edit with the Play Loop Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Trimming with the J-K-L Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Customizing Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Slipping or Sliding Clips or Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Selecting Clips or Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Performing the Slip or Slide Trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Maintaining Sync While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Adding Black While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

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