Avid Xpress DV 3.5 User guide

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Avid Xpress DV User’s Guide • Part 0130-05339-01 • June 2002

Contents

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

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

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

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

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Related Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

How to Order Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Avid Educational Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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

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

Creating an Emergency Repair 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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

Setting Your Screen Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Changing Screen Resolution (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the Avid Xpress DV Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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

Using the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Deleting Projects and User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Starting the Avid Xpress DV Application (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Starting the Avid Xpress DV Application (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Chapter 2 Starting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Opening and Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Changing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Selecting a Shared Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Opening a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Creating a User Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Changing User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or

Floppy Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Restoring from a Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Ending an Edit Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Quitting the Avid Xpress DV Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Turning Off Your Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Mounting and Unmounting Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Unmounting Drives (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Unmounting Drives (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Mounting All Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Opening and Closing the Project Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Viewing a List of Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Displaying Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Changing Bin Display View Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Creating a Folder in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Opening and Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Opening Bins from Other Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Saving Bins Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Windows) . . . . . . . 89

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh). . . . . . . 91

Modifying the Creation Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Using the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Understanding the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Reviewing Basic Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Bin Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Interface Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Displaying Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Changing the Settings Scroll List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Selecting Another User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

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

Duplicating Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

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Naming Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Selecting Among Multiple Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Deleting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Copying Settings Between Settings Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Moving Settings Between Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using Site Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Displaying Project Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Viewing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Understanding the Memory Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Accessing the Hardware Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Customizing the Appearance of the

Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Appearance Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

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

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

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

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

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

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

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Assigning a Workspace Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Switching Between Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Basic Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Color Correction Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Source/Record Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Effects Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Audio Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Recording Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

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Customizing Toolsets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Setting Up the LANshare Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Chapter 4 Using Basic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using the Tools Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Using the Command Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Understanding Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Mapping the Modifier Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Getting Information with the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Checking the Hardware Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Using the Com (Serial) Ports Tool (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Chapter 5 Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Logging Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Logging Preroll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame

Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Logging Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Double-Checking the Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Importing Shot Log Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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Converting a Log File to an ALE File (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Converting a Log File to an ALE File (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Logging Directly to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Logging with an Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Logging with a Non-Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . 180

Exporting Shot Log Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Chapter 6 Preparing to Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Understanding Digital Video (DV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

What Is DV? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

What Is IEEE Standard 1394? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

What Is OHCI? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Selecting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

General Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Record Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

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

Deleting Deck Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Deck Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Setting Deck Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Setting Up the Record Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Opening the Record Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Selecting a Deck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Selecting Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Viewing Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Selecting a Tape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Selecting Source Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Choosing a Target Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Selecting the Target Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Targeting a Single Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Targeting Separate Drives for Video and Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Interpreting the Time-Remaining Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Recording to Multiple Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

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Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Recording Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Using Record Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

General Record Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Batch Record Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Edit Record Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Media Files Record Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

DV Options Record Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Preparing for Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Adjusting Audio Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Choosing the Audio File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Using the Audio Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Adjusting the Reference Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Adjusting Analog Audio Input Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Creating Tone Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Audio Meters in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Using the Meter Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Compression Resolutions and Storage Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Screen Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Digital Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Setting Media Creation Resolutions and Selecting Drives. . . . . . . 228

Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Chapter 7 Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Before You Begin Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Adding Clip Names and Comments On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

DV Capture Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Recording and Logging at the Same Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Recording from One Point to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Recording from an IN Point to an OUT Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Recording On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Autorecording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

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Recording from a Non-Avid-Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Recording with Time-of-Day Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

DV Scene Extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Setting Up DV Scene Extraction Before Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Setting Up DV Scene Extraction After Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Recording Audio from a Music CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Recording to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Patching When Recording to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Batch Recording from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Preparing to Batch Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Resizing the Record Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Preparing Settings for Unattended Batch Recording . . . . . . . . 253

Batch Recording Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Rerecording Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Rerecording Master Clips and Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Rerecording Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Saving Two Versions of a Sequence

When Rerecording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Rerecording the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Other Recording Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Chapter 8 Importing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Preparing to Import Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Creating and Using Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Creating a New Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Modifying an Existing Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Import Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Importing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method to Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Importing Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

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Understanding Multilayered Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Importing Multilayered Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

The Batch Import Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Selected Clips Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Import Target Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Import Options Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Starting the Reimport Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Chapter 9 Organizing with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Setting the Bin Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Using Bin Display Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Displaying Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Enabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Closing the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Moving Bins into and out of the

SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of

the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . 297

Deleting a Bin with the SuperBin Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Lassoing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Duplicating Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Copying Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Deleting Clips, Sequences, or Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

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Adding a Color Column to a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Assigning a Source Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Assigning a Custom Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Limiting Color Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Sorting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Sifting by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Sifting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Using Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Arranging Bin Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Moving and Rearranging Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Aligning Bin Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Deleting a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Using the Modify Command to Modify Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Copying Information Between Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Sorting Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Sorting Clips in Descending Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Performing Multilevel Sorting with Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Using Frame View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Rearranging Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Arranging Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

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Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Entering Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Creating Video Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Creating Audio Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Chapter 10 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Basic Media Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Opening the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Consolidating Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Understanding the Consolidate Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Using the Consolidate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Loading the Media Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Chapter 11 Using Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Explanation of Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Lining in the Digital Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

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Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Script Window Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a

Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Exploring the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Adjusting the Script Margins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Manipulating Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Changing the Font of the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Selecting Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Using Scene and Page Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Adding a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Changing a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Deleting a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Searching for a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Conducting a Text Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Linking Clips to the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Manipulating Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Resizing Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Manipulating Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

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Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Playing Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Placing Script Marks Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Automating Screening and Marking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Loading and Playing Marked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Finding Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Editing with the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Assembling a Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Revising the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Chapter 12 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Customizing the Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Changing the Source Pop-up Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Using Dual Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Resizing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Hiding the Video in the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Resizing the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Using the 16:9 Display Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Displaying Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Displaying the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Setting the Font and Point Size for Monitor Displays. . . . . . . . . . . 403

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Playing Video to the Client Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Connecting a Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Selecting the Client Monitor Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Supporting a Camera Without Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Viewing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Loading Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Using the Clip Name Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Switching Between Loaded Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Clearing Sequences from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Controlling Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Using Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Understanding the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Shuttling with J-K-L Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Navigating with Home, End, and Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Play Length “In Use” Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Clearing a Mark and Setting a New One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Dragging IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Using the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Using Locators to Mark an Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Deleting a Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Viewing and Navigating in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . 429

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Sorting Information in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Accessing a Locator in a Sequence or Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Printing the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Using the Locators Window to Delete Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Displaying Information in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Finding Frames and Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Using Frame Offset Timecode to Cue a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Using Timecode to Find a Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Searching a Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Matchframing Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Chapter 13 First Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Setting Up a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Creating a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Changing Sequence Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Changing the Start Timecode for Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Making the First Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Beginning to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Monitoring Audio While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Performing an Overwrite Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Extracting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Placing a Sequence into the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

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Recovering Material from the Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Playing the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Playing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Improving Playback Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Proceeding with Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Chapter 14 Using the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Accessing the Timeline Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Saving a Custom Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Restoring the Default Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Navigating in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Displaying Detail in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

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

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

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

Monitoring Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Monitoring a Solo Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Cycling Through a Selection of Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Locking and Unlocking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Patching Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

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

Deleting Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Adding an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Removing Add Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

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