Avid Symphony Symphony 4.7 User guide

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Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Related Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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

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

Chapter 1 Editing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Editing Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Preparing to Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Editing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Finishing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Chapter 2 Desktop Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Working with the Desktop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Using the Macintosh Dock (Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Dragging Windows (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Setting the Apple Color Scheme (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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Setting Your Screen Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Changing Screen Resolution (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Using the Avid Symphony Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Deleting Projects and User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . 60

Starting the Avid Application (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Chapter 3 Starting a Work Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Opening and Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Identifying a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Creating a New User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Selecting an Existing User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Setting Film Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Selecting an Existing Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Nesting Projects in Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Opening a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or Floppy Disk . . . . . . . 77

Restoring from a Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Ending a Work Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Quitting the Avid Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Turning Off Your Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Mounting and Unmounting Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Mounting All Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Session Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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Chapter 4 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Viewing a List of Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Creating a Folder in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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

Opening and Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Opening Bins from Other Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Emptying the Trash in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Saving Bins Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Using the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

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

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Reviewing Basic Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Film Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Bin Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Interface Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Displaying Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Changing the Settings Scroll List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Selecting Another User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Working with Multiple Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Duplicating Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Naming Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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Selecting Among Multiple Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Deleting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Restoring Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Copying Settings Between Settings Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Using Site Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Viewing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Accessing the Hardware Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Displaying Usage Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Displaying Disk Space Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Changing Shading Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Switching Between Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Assigning a Workspace Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Understanding Avid Unity MediaNetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Shared Bins and Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

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Working with Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Chapter 5 Using Basic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Opening Toolsets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Customizing Toolsets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Using the Tools Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Using the Deck Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Using the Command Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Understanding Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Mapping Modifier Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Getting Information with the Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Using Avid System Test Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Using the Communication (Serial) Ports Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Configuring a Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Chapter 6 Organizing with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Preparing to Work with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Adjusting Audio Pan Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Adjusting Default Pan Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Center Pan Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

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Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Film Scene Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Enabling and Disabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Closing the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . 193

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . 193

Deleting a Bin with the SuperBin Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Using Bin Display Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Displaying Custom Bin Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Saving a Custom Bin View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Lassoing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Duplicating Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Deleting Clips, Subclips, and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Adding a Color Column to a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Assigning a Source Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Assigning a Custom Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Limiting Color Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Sifting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Sifting Within a Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

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Selecting Sources Used by an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Using Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Deleting a Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Changing a Custom Column Heading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Modifying Clip Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Copying Information from Another Cell in a Custom Column . 228

Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Sorting Clips in Ascending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Sorting Clips in Descending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Performing Multilevel Sorting with Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Sorting Clips by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Frame Counting for Timecodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . 232

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns. . . . . . . . 232

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Arranging Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

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Playing Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Creating Audio Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Storyboard Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Chapter 7 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Working with Media Files in an Avid Unity Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Configuring Avid Editing Systems to Work with MediaManager

and TransferManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Basic Media Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Opening the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Freeing Storage Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Consolidating Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Understanding the Consolidate Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Using the Consolidate Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Using Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . 271

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Restoring an Archive from Videotape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Relinking Clips to Media Files or Bin Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Relinking to Selected Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

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Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Unlinking Clips from Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Chapter 8 Using Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Explanation of Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Lining in the Digital Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Importing a Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window . . . 299

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Manipulating Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Changing the Font of the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Removing Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Searching Through Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Using Page and Scene Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Adding a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Changing a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Deleting a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Searching for a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Conducting a Text Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Linking Clips to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Interpolating Position for Script Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Manipulating Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Resizing Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

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Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Manipulating Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Displaying Take Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Playing Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Loading and Playing Marked Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Editing with the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Assembling a Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Chapter 9 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Customizing the Composer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Using 16:9 for 24p and 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

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Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Copying Text from the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Displaying Timecode in the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Displaying Multiple Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Understanding Composer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Color Framing Options (Edit Tab) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Miscellaneous Composer Options (Edit Tab) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Fast Forward and Rewind Options (FF/REW Tab) . . . . . . . . . 349

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Viewing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Fast Frame Display in 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Loading Footage into the Playback and Pop-up Monitors . . . . . . . 355

Loading Footage into the Source, Record, and

Pop-up Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Loading Multiple Clips or Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Using the Clip Name Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Switching Between Loaded Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Clearing Clips from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Resizing Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Hiding the Video in a Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Resizing a Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Customizing the Playback Monitor Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Controlling Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Using Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Play Reverse, Play, Pause, Stop, Rewind, and

Fast Forward Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Play Standby Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Step Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Using Single-Field Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Home, End, and Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

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Using the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Jogging with the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Shuttling with the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Marking IN to OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Moving IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Copying Locators from Source Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Understanding the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Displaying Timecode or Footage in the Locators Window . . . . 382

Sorting Information in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Accessing a Locator in a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Deleting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Searching for a Clip or Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Performing a Reverse Match Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Finding a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . 393

Finding a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

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Chapter 10 Editing in Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Entering Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Setting Up a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Changing the Sequence Name and Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

User Preferences for Creating Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Making an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Undoing or Redoing Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Performing an Overwrite Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Single-Mark Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Using Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Setting One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Adding a Second Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Extracting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Preserving Clipboard Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Adding Comments to Sequence Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Playing the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Playback Performance Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Setting a Limited Play Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Playing a Sequence Using a Limited Play Length. . . . . . . . . . 421

Fine-Tuning the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

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Chapter 11 Using the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Understanding Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Moving a Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Displaying Local and Source Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Displaying Source Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Displaying Local Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Changing the Timeline Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Showing Locators in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Saving a Customized Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Restoring the Default Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Timeline Settings Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Exploring the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar/Position Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Displaying Detail in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Zooming In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Focusing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Using the Full-Screen Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Understanding Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Segment Mode Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Selecting and Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Selecting Segments with the Segment Mode Pointer . . . . . . . 451

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Lassoing One or More Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Performing Segment Mode Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Understanding the Four-Frame Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Extracting/Splicing Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Lifting/Overwriting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Deleting Segments in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Marking Clips and Sequences in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . 459

Adding Comments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Using Advanced Timeline Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Bin Editing into the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . 461

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Editing with the Film Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands . . . . 464

Working with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Understanding Effects Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Understanding Nesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Using the Track Selector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Monitoring Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Monitoring Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Monitoring a Solo Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Patching Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Locking and Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Adding a Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Adding an Edit (Match Framing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Adding Edits to Filler Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Removing Match-Frame Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

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Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Additional Offline Aids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Detecting Duplicate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Adjusting Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Tracking Color Frame Shifts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Finding Black Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Finding Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Printing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Chapter 12 Working in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Understanding Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Quick Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Big Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Trim Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Entering and Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Entering Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Switching Between Quick Trim Mode and Finishing Mode. . . . . . . 498

Setting Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Exiting Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Using Basic Trim Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Selecting Trim Sides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Selecting Video Tracks in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Audio Solo in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Selecting Additional Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Performing a Basic Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Reviewing the Trim Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Reviewing an Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Trimming On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Dual-Image Playback During Trims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

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