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Avid Media Composer Editing Guide • 0130-07971-01-G • December 2014

Contents

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Chapter 1 Editing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Starting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Preparing to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Editing a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Outputting a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Chapter 2 Starting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Turning on Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using the Macintosh Dock (Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the Keyboard for Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the Mouse Scroll Wheel for Navigating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Customizing Mouse Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Optimum Performance (Windows 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Optimum Performance (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Antivirus Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Starting Your Avid Editing Application (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Starting Your Avid Editing Application (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Application Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Licensing the Editing Application through Application Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Working with Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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Setting Project-Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Select Project Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Project Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Opening and Closing Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Deleting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Quitting and Turning Off Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Changing Project and User Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Overview of the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using the Bins Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Opening and Closing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Creating a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Viewing and Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Saving Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Saving Bins Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Filtering Bins in the Project Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using the Settings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Using the Format Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Using the Usage Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Displaying Disk Space Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Using the Info Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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Managing Bins and Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Understanding User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Managing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Customizing the Avid User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Image Cache Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Assigning a Workspace or Bin Layout Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using Bin Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Working with Bins and Projects in an Avid Shared Storage Environment . . . . . . . 118

Sharing Bins and Projects in Avid Shared Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Working with Locks and Shared Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Considerations for Working with Shared Bins and Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Chapter 4 Using Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Using Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Using a Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Deck Controller Window Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

The Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Understanding Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using The Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

External Controllers as Editing Control Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Chapter 5 Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Avid Log Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

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Global Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Column Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Data Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Sample Avid Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Creating an Avid Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Double-Checking Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Logging Directly into a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Logging with Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Using a Memory Mark When Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Logging with Non-Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Understanding the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Film-Related Log Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Displaying Film Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Entering Additional Timecodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Entering Ink Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Exporting Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Chapter 6 Preparing for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Logging and Shot Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Importing Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Preparing the Hardware for Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Getting Information About Striped Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Selecting the Sync Source for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Establishing Sync for Audio-Only Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Selecting Settings for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Selecting Video Resolutions and Media Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Disabling Video Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

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Setting Drive Filtering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Selecting Settings for Preroll Method and for Capturing Across Timecode Breaks 182

Capturing to Multiple Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

General Settings for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Capture-Related Settings for Film and 24p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Configuring Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Configuring a Deck or Multiple Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Deleting Deck Configuration Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Understanding Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Connecting a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Setting Up the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Opening the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Selecting a Deck in the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Activating Playback from an Available Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Selecting a Source Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Selecting Source Tracks and Audio Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Setting the Video and Audio Input in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Detecting a Valid or Locked Sync Signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Setting the Pulldown Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Film Project Pulldown and Transfer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Capturing Digital Audio in Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Selecting a Resolution in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Selecting a Target Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Selecting the Target Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Selecting a Custom Preroll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Preparing to Capture Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Audio Project Settings for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Selecting the Audio Sample Rate and Controlling Audio Sample Rate Conversion 208

Selecting the Audio File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Selecting the Audio Input Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Configuring the Sound Card (Software-Only Systems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Understanding the Audio Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Opening the Audio Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

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Adjusting Audio Input Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Creating Tone Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Calibrating Audio Hardware for Avid Nitris DX and Avid Mojo DX . . . . . . . . . . 217

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Preparing to Capture Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Opening the Video Input Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Using the Factory Preset Buttons in the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Calibrating Video Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Luminance Settings for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Limitations When Using Consumer Decks or Decks Without

Time-Base Correctors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Adjusting Video Levels for Tapes Without Color Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Capture Preparations Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Chapter 7 Capturing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Capturing and Logging at the Same Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Naming Clips and Adding Comments in the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Capturing by Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Capturing by Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Capturing On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Preparing to Autocapture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Capturing from a Non-Avid-Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Capturing Directly from a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Capturing DV 25 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Capturing DV 50, DVCPRO HD, or HDV Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Selecting a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Understanding DV Capture Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Capturing DV Material with Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Capturing Audio from a Music CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Frame Chase Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

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Understanding Frame Chase Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Enabling Frame Chase Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Requirements and Guidelines for Frame Chase Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Preparing to Batch Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Batch Capturing Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Recapturing and Decomposing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Understanding Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Understanding Decompose and Expert Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Decomposing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Using Expert Decompose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Recapturing a Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Alternate Source Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Using Capture Function Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Handling Errors During the Capture Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Creating Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Adding Markers On-the-Fly While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Adding Extra Text Fields in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Using Dolby E Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Selecting Dolby E Safe Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Capturing Media with Dolby E Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Delaying Audio During Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Working in Quick Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Capturing in Satellite Mode or No Device Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Scheduling a Capture Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Capturing Video Without Pulldown into a 24p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Remote Play, Capture, and Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

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Enabling Remote Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Setting up Your System for Remote Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Relinking Clips by Key Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

DV and HDV Scene Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Using the Panasonic VariCam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Chapter 8 Importing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Preparing to Import Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Creating and Modifying Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Importing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Importing with Multichannel Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Importing Audio Files from a Music CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Adjusting Gain Before Importing Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Sample Rate Conversion and Audio Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Setting Sample Rate Conversion Options Before Importing Audio Files . . . . . . . . 310

Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Support for Multilayered Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Importing Photoshop Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Importing Editcam Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Setting XDCAM Import Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Importing XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Importing XDCAM EX Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Automatically Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Copying XDCAM Proxy Media to a Local Drive or a Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Manually Importing XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Importing Essence Marks as Markers in XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Editing XDCAM Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Batch Importing High-Resolution XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disk . . . . . . . . 329

Editing and Finishing High-Resolution XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Importing P2 Clips and Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

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Importing Sequences from Pro Tools through Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method to Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Batch Import Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Chapter 9 Working with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Object Icons in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Sorting in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Sorting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Understanding Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Using Bin Tabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Duplicating, Copying, and Moving Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Deleting Items from a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Assigning Colors to Objects in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Selecting Sources Used by an Object in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Selecting Unreferenced Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Working with Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Moving, Aligning, and Deleting Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Duplicating Bin Columns with Timecode Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Changing a Custom Bin Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

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Adding a Metadata Bin Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Copying Information Between Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Modifying Clip Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Bin Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Modifying Data in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Modify Command Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Copying Information from Another Cell in a Custom Bin Column . . . . . . . . . . 379

Applying the Same Text to a Custom Column for Multiple Items . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Working with Film Information in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Film Scene Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Tracking Frames Based on File Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Tracking 3-Perf Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Selecting an Edgecode Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Creating a Storyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Understanding Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Working with Restricted Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Favorite Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Filtering Items in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Chapter 10 Acquisition of File-Based Media (AMA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

The Avid Media Access (AMA) Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Considerations and Limitations for AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Viewing Installed AMA Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Selecting the AMA Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

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Manually Copying File-Based Media to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Dragging and Dropping File-based Media Directly to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Creating Dynamic Media Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Starting and Stopping Avid Background Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Linking Media with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Relinking to AMA-Linked QuickTime Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

AMA Linking to DPX Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Linking to DPX Media with AMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Exporting as DPX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Spanned Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

AMA Linking with Ancillary Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

AMA Linking with Multichannel Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

The AMA Plug-in Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Using Virtual Volumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Virtual Volumes and AMA Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Deleting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Understanding the Source Settings Histogram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Adjusting the Source Settings Histogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Working with Export Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Creating an Export Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Moving Assets to an Export Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Committing Assets to an Export Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Archiving the AS-02 Bundle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Linking to an existing AS-02 Bundle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

AS-11 Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Chapter 11 AMA Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Using XDCAM and XDCAM EX and XDCAM SR AMA Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Using XDCAM Multiple Resolution Clips with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Switching Between Multiple Resolution Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Consolidating Multiple Resolution Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Using the P2 AMA Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Using the AVCHD AMA Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Using the Canon XF AMA Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

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Using the GFCAM AMA Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Using the RED AMA Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Preparing your RED Clip for Transcode, Mixdown, or Render. . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Adjusting RED Source Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Using RED Source Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Applying a RED Source Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Using the QuickTime AMA Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Adjusting QuickTime Source Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Applying a QuickTime Source Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Understanding the QuickTime Source Settings Histogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Using the MXF AMA Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Workflow for Editing Clips with Ancillary Data and AMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Chapter 12 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Working with Media Files in an Avid Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Using Avid Editing Systems in an Avid LANshare Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Viewing Media with a 100Base-T Connection to Avid ISIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Understanding Drive Mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Mounting and Unmounting Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Basic Media Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Using the Media Tool in an Avid Interplay Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Opening the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Consolidating Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Using the Consolidate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Using the Transcode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Consolidate or Transcode AMA Clips Only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Background Consolidate and Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

The Background Queue Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Using Background Consolidate and Transcode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Refreshing Media Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Deleting Unreferenced Clips and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

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Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Relinking by Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Relinking to Selected Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Relinking Tape and File Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Relinking Moved Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Archiving and Restoring Media Files to Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Restoring an Archive from Videotape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Sequence and Clip Information Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Summary Information Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Chapter 13 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Viewing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Customizing the Composer Window and Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Resizing the Composer Window and Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Displaying a Second Row of Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Displaying Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Using the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Using the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Activating and Deactivating the Client Monitor Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Selecting the Video Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Playing Video to a Full-Screen Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Using the Tool Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Loading Clips or Sequences into Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

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Switching Between Loaded Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Clearing Clips from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Controlling Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Playback Control Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Stepping Forward and Backward by Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Playback Control Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Playing Footage with the J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Using the Mouse for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Playing Back to a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Video Quality Options for Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Setting the Video Quality for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Creating Subsequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Using Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Suggested Uses for Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Adding Markers While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Adding Spanned Markers While Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Adding Markers On-the-Fly while Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Finding Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Finding Marker Comment Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Editing Marker Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Copying Markers from Source Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Marking an Area Using Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Moving to the Previous or Next Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Deleting Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Using the Markers Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Viewing Markers in the Markers Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

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Working in the Markers Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Exporting and Importing Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Creating a Marker Text (.txt) File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Copying and Pasting Markers Using the Markers Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Printing the Contents of the Markers Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Disabling the Marker Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Using Timecode to Find a Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Searching for a Clip or Sequence with Text Find. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Setting the Location of the SearchData folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Finding a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Sequence and Clip Information Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Summary Information Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Chapter 14 Creating and Editing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Entering Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Creating a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Changing the Name and Timecode for a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Track Display for New Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

User Preferences for Creating Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Making a First Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Performing an Insert or Splice-in Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

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