Avid Symphony 4.0 User guide

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Contents
Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Accessing the Goodies Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 1 Working with the Project Window: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Managing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Guidelines for Project Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Adjusting Automatic Saves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using the Info Display to View Memory Information and Access
the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Usage Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Displaying Usage Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Displaying Disk Space Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Customizing the Avid User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Changing Button and Toolbar Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
User-Customized Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Working with Bins and Projects in an Avid Unity Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Understanding Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Sharing Only Bins in Avid Unity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Sharing Bins and Projects in Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Locks and Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Working with Locks and Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with
Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Shared Bin Lock Icon Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 2 Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Using a Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Deck Controller Window Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
The Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Understanding Button Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Mapping User-Selectable Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Blank Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Modifier Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Using the Avid Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
The Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Displaying System Information in the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Reviewing a Log of Errors in the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Getting Information with the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
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Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
External Controllers as Editing Control Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chapter 3 Logging: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Using Avid Log Exchange to Prepare Log Files for Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Avid Log Exchange Stores ASC Color Decision List (CDL) Parameters . . . . . . 92
Log Formats Compatible with Avid Log Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Avid Log Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Global Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Column Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Data Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Sample Avid Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Creating an Avid Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Double-Checking Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Transferring Bins from MediaLog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Logging Directly into a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Tips for Logging Preroll, Logging Timecode, and Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . 106
Logging with Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Logging with Non-Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Understanding the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Film-Related Log Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Displaying Film Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
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Entering Additional Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Entering Ink Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Exporting Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Chapter 4 Capturing Media: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Advanced Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Selecting Settings for Capturing Across Timecode Breaks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Preroll Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
General Settings for Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Settings for Film and 24p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Disabling Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Preparing for Audio Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Creating Tone Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Analog and Microphone Input Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Changing Audio Hardware Calibration Settings for Avid Nitris . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Calibrating Audio Input Channels for Avid Nitris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Calibrating Audio Output Channels for Avid Nitris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Audio Hardware Calibration for Avid Nitris DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Using the Default Audio Calibration for Avid Nitris DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Using a Tone Generator to Calibrate Audio Input Channels for
Avid Nitris DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Using an External Meter to Calibrate Audio Output Channels for
Avid Nitris DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Preparing for Video Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Limitations When Using Consumer Decks or Decks Without
Time-Base Correctors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
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Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Saving Calibration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Saving a Custom Default Setting for the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Adjusting Video Levels for Tapes Without Color Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Using Capture Function Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Special Capture Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Logging Errors to the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Opening the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Considerations for Creating Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Creating Subclips While Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Creating Timed Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Understanding Locators On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Adding Locators On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Controlling Decks from the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Mapping the Record Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Returning to the Previous Place in the Select Tape Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Understanding DV Capture Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
RS-422 Controlling a DV Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
FireWire Configuration Without Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
FireWire Configuration with Encoded Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Capture with No Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Capturing DV Material with Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Delaying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Live Capture with External Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Preparing for Capturing with External Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Patching When Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Capturing Video Without Pulldown into a 24p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Remote Play, Capture, and Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
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Enabling Remote Play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Setting up Your System for Remote Punch-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Using Serial Drivers with Remote Play and Capture (Windows Only). . . . . . . 177
Relinking Clips by Key Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
DV and HDV Scene Extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Setting Up DV and HDV Scene Extraction Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Setting Up DV Scene Extraction After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Using the Panasonic VariCam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Chapter 5 Importing Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Example of Multilayered Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Support for Multilayered Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Preserving Layer Effects in Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Importing Multilayered Photoshop Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Importing Editcam Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Restrictions on Importing Editcam Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Importing Sequences from Pro Tools through Interplay (Windows Only) . . . . . . . 195
Chapter 6 Working with Bins: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Advanced Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Film Scene Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Displaying Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Sequence and Clip Information Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Understanding Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
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Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Selecting Sources Used by an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Selecting Unreferenced Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Text View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Manipulating Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Duplicating Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Changing a Custom Bin Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Adding a Metadata Bin Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Tracking Frames Based on File Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Managing Clip Information in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Modifiable Bin Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Using the Modify Command to Modify Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Modifying Data with the Modify Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Copying Information from Another Cell in a Custom Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Tracking 3-Perf Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Selecting an Edgecode Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Bin Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Displaying or Outputting Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Editing with Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Disassociating Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
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Viewing Restriction Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Changing Restriction Comments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Searching the Database for Restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Digital Bars and Tone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Creating Audio Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Chapter 7 File Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Sony XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Sony XDCAM EX Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
XDCAM and XDCAM EX Formats and Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Working with XDCAM HD Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Installing the XDCAM Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Connecting the XDCAM or XDCAM EX Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Ejecting an XDCAM EX Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Panasonic P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Panasonic P2 Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
P2 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Preparing to Mount P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Setting up a P2 Card Reader (Windows only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Mounting P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Copying P2 Files to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Sharing P2 Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Working with Spanned Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Ikegami GFCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
GFCAM Formats and Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
GFCAM Files and Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Connecting the GFPAK Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Spanned Clips and GFCAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
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Copying GFCAM Files to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
The Avid Media Access (AMA) Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Selecting the AMA Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Viewing Installed AMA Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Understanding Linking with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Linking Media with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Using Virtual Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Virtual Volumes and AMA Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Workflow for Editing XDCAM and XDCAM EX Clips with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Playing XDCAM or XDCAM EX Media on an Avid Symphony with
Avid Nitris Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Workflow for Editing P2 Clips with AMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Workflow for Editing GFCAM Clips with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Working with Shot Marks and Check Marks with GFCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . 268
Deleting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Import and Export Workflow for File-Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Setting XDCAM Import Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Importing XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Importing XDCAM EX Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Automatically Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Copying XDCAM Proxy Media to a Local Drive or a Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Manually Importing XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Importing Essence Marks as Locators in XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Editing XDCAM Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Batch Importing High-Resolution XDCAM Media from the
XDCAM Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Editing and Finishing High-Resolution XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Exporting Media to XDCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Exporting to XDCAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Workflow for Editing with P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Importing P2 Clips and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
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Dragging P2 Master Clips from the Media Tool to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Exporting Your Clip or Sequence to a P2 Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Chapter 8 Managing Media Files: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Relink Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Relinking and New Project Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Relinking Clips to a New Project Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Relinking by Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Restoring an Archive from Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Sequence and Clip Information Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Chapter 9 Script-Based Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Lined Script Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Lining in the Digital Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Selecting Text Encoding for Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
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Working with Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Changing the Font Used in Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Selecting Text in the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Using Page and Scene Numbers in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Conducting a Text Search in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Linking Clips to the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Working with Slates in the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Resizing Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Holding Slates On Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Hiding Slate Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Working with Takes in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Indicating Off-Screen Dialog in a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Using Color Indicators in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Using Real-Time Screening and Marking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Marking with ScriptSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
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Loading and Playing Marked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Moving a Script Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Editing From the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Assembling a Rough Cut From the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Interactive Screenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Chapter 10 Viewing and Marking Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Using the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Using the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Adjusting the Play Delay Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Suggested Uses for Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Adding Locators On-the-Fly while Playing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Finding Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Editing Locator Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Copying Locators from Source Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Viewing Locators in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Working in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Exporting and Importing Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Creating a Locator Text (.txt) File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
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Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Disabling the Locator Edit Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Sequence and Clip Information Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Chapter 11 Creating and Editing Sequences: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
User Preferences for Creating Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Enabling Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Adding Comments to Sequence Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Playback Performance Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Autosyncing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Understanding Autosyncing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Creating an Autosynced Subclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
AutoSequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Understanding AutoSequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Adding Audio to Original Videotape Using AutoSequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Resyncing Subframe Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Understanding Subframe Resyncing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Resyncing Audio for a Selected Subclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Managing Sync with Multiple Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Understanding Sync Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Syncing with Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Using Add Edit When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Ganging Footage in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Sync Point Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Using MetaSync to Synchronize Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Chapter 12 Using the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Timeline Views: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Changing the Timeline Background or Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
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Showing Locators in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Navigating in the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Using the Full-Screen Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Advanced Timeline Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Bin Editing into the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Add Edit (Match Frame) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Adding a Match-Frame Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Adding Edits to Filler Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Removing Match-Frame Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Dupe Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Activating Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Methods for Changing Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Adjusting Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Tracking Color Frame Shifts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Chapter 13 Working in Trim Mode: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Maintaining Sync While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Adding Black When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Slipping or Sliding Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Lassoing Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
The Four-Frame Slip/Slide Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Performing a Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
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Avid Symphony 4.0 User guide

Category
Audio editing software
Type
User guide

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