Avid Xpress Pro 4.5 User guide

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Contents

Using This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Accessing the Tutorial and Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Avid Educational Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Chapter 1 Desktop Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Creating an Automatic System Recovery Disk (Windows Only) . . . . . . 40

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Dragging Windows (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Setting the Apple Color Scheme (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Setting Your Screen Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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

Deleting Projects and User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Starting the Avid Application (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter 2 Planning and Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Types of Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Considerations for 23.976 Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Supported Resolutions for 23.976 Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Capturing with Advanced Pulldown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Project Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Sample Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Video and Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Opening and Closing a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Changing Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Selecting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Selecting a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Selecting an External Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Browsing for a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Creating a New Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Creating a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Changing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or Floppy Disk . . . . . . . . . 72

Restoring from a Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Ending an Edit Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Quitting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Turning Off Your Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Mounting and Unmounting Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Unmounting Drives (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Unmounting Drives (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Opening and Closing the Project Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Displaying Bin Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Changing Bin Display View Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Opening and Closing a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Opening Bins from Other Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Saving Bins Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . 94

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . 95

Using the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Understanding the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Reviewing Basic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Bin Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Transfer Settings for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Displaying Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Changing the Settings Scroll List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Selecting Another User. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Working with Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Duplicating Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Naming Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Selecting Among Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Deleting Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Copying Settings Between Settings Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Moving Settings Between Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using Site Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Displaying Project Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Viewing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Understanding the Memory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Accessing the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Customizing the Appearance of the

Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Appearance Tab Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Changing Shading Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Basic Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Color Correction Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Source/Record Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Effects Editing Toolset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Audio Editing Toolset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Capture Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Setting Up the LANshare Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Chapter 4 Using Basic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Using the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Understanding Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Using the Blank Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

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Mapping a Modifier Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Getting Information with the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Checking the Hardware Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Configuring a Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Chapter 5 Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Logging Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Logging Preroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame

Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Logging Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Double-Checking the Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Importing Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Windows) . . . . . . . . . 162

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Windows) . . . . . . . . 166

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . 167

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Macintosh). . . . . . . . 171

Compatible Log Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Logging Directly to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

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Logging with an Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Logging with a Non-Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Logging Film Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Displaying Film Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Entering Additional Timecodes (Option). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Modifying Clip Information Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

The Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Using the Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Exporting Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Chapter 6 Preparing to Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Viewing DV Media Before Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Selecting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Setting Media Creation Resolutions and Selecting Drives . . . . . . . . . . 198

Selecting a Video Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Selecting Drives in the Media Creation Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

General Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Capture Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Transfer Settings for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Setting Up the Audio Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Configuring the Sound Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Configuring the Sound Card with Surround Sound Capabilities (Windows

Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Configuring Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Deleting Deck Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

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Deck Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Setting Deck Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Setting Up the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Changing the Power Scheme (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Improving System Performance (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Opening the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Selecting a Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Selecting Audio Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Viewing Video Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Selecting a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Selecting Source Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Detecting Valid or Locked Capture Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Selecting a Resolution in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Selecting a Target Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Selecting the Target Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Targeting a Single Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Targeting Separate Drives for Video and Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Interpreting the Time-Remaining Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Capturing Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Setting the Pulldown Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Film Project Pulldown and Transfer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Preparing for Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Adjusting Audio Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Selecting the Audio File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Using the Audio Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Adjusting Audio Input Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Creating Tone Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Audio Meters in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

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Using the Meter Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix tool . . . . . . . . . 240

Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Compression Resolutions and Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Frame Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Digital Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Chapter 7 Capturing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Before You Begin Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Adding Clip Names and Comments On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Capturing Without Logging First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Capturing from One Point to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Capturing from an IN Point to an OUT Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Capturing On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Capturing from a Non-Avid-Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Capturing from a Non-Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

DV Scene Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Setting Up DV Scene Extraction Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Setting Up DV Scene Extraction After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Creating Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Changing Function Key Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

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DV Capture Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Delaying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Patching When Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Preparing to Batch Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Resizing the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Preparing Settings for Unattended Batch Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . 269

Batch Capturing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Recapturing Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Recapturing Master Clips and Subclips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Recapturing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Saving Two Versions of a Sequence When Recapturing. . . . . . . 272

Using Decompose When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Recapturing the Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . . . . 274

Recapturing the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Other Capturing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Chapter 8 Importing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Preparing to Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Creating and Using Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Creating a New Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Modifying an Existing Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Importing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Importing Audio Files from a Music CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method to Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

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Importing Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Understanding Multilayered Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Importing Multilayered Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

The Batch Import Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Selected Clips Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Import Target Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Import Options Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Starting the Reimport Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Chapter 9 Organizing with Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Using Bin Display Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Displaying Custom Bin Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Enabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Closing the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . 307

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . 307

Deleting a Bin with the SuperBin Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Lassoing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

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Selecting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Duplicating Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Deleting Clips, Sequences, or Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Using Flat View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Adding a Color Column to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Assigning a Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Assigning a Custom Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Limiting Color Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Sorting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Sifting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Using Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Showing and Hiding Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Deleting a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Tracking Frames Based on File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Moving Within Column Cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

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Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Using the Modify Command to Modify Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Sorting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Sorting Clips in Descending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Performing Multilevel Sorting with Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Using Frame View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Arranging Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Entering Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Creating Video Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Creating Audio Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Chapter 10 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Basic Media Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Opening the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Consolidating and Transcoding Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

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Understanding the Consolidate Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Using the Consolidate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Using the Transcode Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Loading the Media Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Relinking by Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Chapter 11 Using Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Explanation of Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Lining in the Digital Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a

Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Manipulating Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Changing the Font of the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

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Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Using Scene and Page Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Adding a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Changing a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Deleting a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Searching for a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Conducting a Text Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Linking Clips to the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Manipulating Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Resizing Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Hiding Slate Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Manipulating Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

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Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Loading and Playing Marked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Moving a Script Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Finding Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Editing with the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Assembling a Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Revising the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Chapter 12 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Customizing the Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Changing the Source Pop-up Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Using Dual Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Resizing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Hiding the Video in the Composer Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Resizing the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Using 16:9 for 24p or 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Displaying the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Setting the Font and Point Size for Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Connecting a Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

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