Avid Xpress Xpress Pro 4.0 User guide

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User´s Guide for Avid Xpress Pro, Avid Xpress DV • Part 0130-05674-01 • September 2003

Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Accessing the Tutorial and Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Avid Educational Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Chapter 1 Desktop Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Working with the Desktop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Creating an Automatic System Recovery Disk (Windows Only) . . . 38

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Dragging Windows (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Setting the Apple Color Scheme (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Setting Your Screen Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Changing Screen Resolution (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using the Avid Xpress Pro or Avid Xpress DV Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Deleting Projects and User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Starting the Avid Application (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Chapter 2 Planning and Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Types of Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Capturing with Advanced Pulldown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Project Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

NTSC and PAL Image Sizes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Sample Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Video and Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Opening and Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Changing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Selecting a Shared Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Selecting an External Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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

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

Creating a User Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Changing User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or

Floppy Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Restoring from a Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Ending an Edit Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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

Turning Off Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Mounting and Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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

Unmounting Drives (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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

Viewing a List of Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Displaying Bin Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Changing Bin Display View Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Creating a Folder in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Opening and Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Opening Bins from Other Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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

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

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh). . . . . . . 97

Using the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Understanding the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Reviewing Basic Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Bin Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Transfer Settings for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Displaying Project Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Changing the Settings Scroll List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Selecting Another User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Working with Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Duplicating Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Naming Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Selecting Among Multiple Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Deleting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Copying Settings Between Settings Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Moving Settings Between Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using Site Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Displaying Project Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Viewing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Understanding the Memory Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Accessing the Hardware Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Customizing the Appearance of the

Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Appearance Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Changing Shading Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Basic Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Color Correction Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Source/Record Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Effects Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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Audio Editing Toolset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Capture Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Customizing Toolsets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Customizing Your Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Setting Up the LANshare Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Chapter 4 Using Basic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using the Tools Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Using the Command Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Understanding Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Mapping a Modifier Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Getting Information with the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . 159

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Checking the Hardware Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Chapter 5 Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Logging Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Logging Preroll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

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Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode . . . . 164

Logging Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Double-Checking the Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Using a Memory Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Importing Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

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

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Converting a Log File to an ALE File (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Creating Avid Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Applications for Creating Avid Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Required Information for Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Creating an Avid Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Logging Directly to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Logging with an Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Logging with a Non-Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . 186

Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . 190

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

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

Using the Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Setting Up the Audio Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Configuring the Sound Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Configuring Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Deleting Deck Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Deck Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Setting Deck Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Setting Up the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Changing the Power Scheme (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Improving System Performance (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Opening the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Selecting a Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Selecting Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Viewing Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Selecting a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Selecting Source Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Selecting a Resolution in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Selecting a Format in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Selecting a Target Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Selecting the Target Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Targeting a Single Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Targeting Separate Drives for Video and Audio . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Interpreting the Time-Remaining Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Capturing to Multiple Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Capturing Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Preparing for Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Adjusting Audio Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Selecting the Audio File Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Using the Audio Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Adjusting Audio Input Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Creating Tone Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Audio Meters in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Using the Meter Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

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Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix tool. . . . . . . 237

Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix tool. . . . . . . . . . 238

Compression Resolutions and Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Frame Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Digital Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Chapter 7 Capturing Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Before You Begin Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Adding Clip Names and Comments On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Capturing Without Logging First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Capturing from One Point to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Capturing from an IN Point to an OUT Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Setting Both Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Setting Only One Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Capturing On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Capturing from a Non-Avid-Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

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

DV Scene Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Setting Up DV Scene Extraction Before Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

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

DV Capture Offset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Patching When Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Preparing to Batch Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Resizing the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Preparing Settings for Unattended Batch Capturing . . . . . . . . 266

Batch Capturing Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Recapturing Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

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Recapturing Master Clips and Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Recapturing Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Saving Two Versions of a Sequence

When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Using Decompose When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Recapturing the Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . 272

Recapturing the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Other Capturing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Chapter 8 Importing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Preparing to Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Creating and Using Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Creating a New Import Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Modifying an Existing Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

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

Importing Audio Files from a Music CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method to Import Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Importing Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

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

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

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

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . 308

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

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

Lassoing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

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

Duplicating Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

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

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Adding a Color Column to a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

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

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

Limiting Color Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

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

Sifting by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Sifting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Using Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

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Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Deleting a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

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

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

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

Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

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

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

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

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

Performing Multilevel Sorting with Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

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

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

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

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

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

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

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

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

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

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

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Using the Consolidate Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

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

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

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

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

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

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

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

Relinking to Selected Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Chapter 11 Using Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Lined Script Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Explanation of Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Lining in the Digital Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Script Integration Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

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

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a

Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

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Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Manipulating Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Changing the Font of the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Removing Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Searching Through Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Using Scene and Page Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Adding a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Changing a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Deleting a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Searching for a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Conducting a Text Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Linking Clips to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Interpolating Position for Script Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Manipulating Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Resizing Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Showing One Take Per Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Manipulating Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Playing Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

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Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Loading and Playing Marked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Editing with the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Assembling a Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Chapter 12 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Customizing the Monitor Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Changing the Source Pop-up Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Using Dual Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Resizing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Hiding the Video in the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Resizing the Composer Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Using 16:9 for 24p or 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Displaying the Timecode Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Setting the Font and Point Size for Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Connecting a Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Selecting the Client Monitor Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Viewing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

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Loading Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Using the Clip Name Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Switching Between Loaded Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Clearing Sequences from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Controlling Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Using Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Understanding the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Shuttling with J-K-L Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Navigating with Home, End, and Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Play Length “In Use” Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Clearing a Mark and Setting a New One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Dragging IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Using the Timeline Top Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Creating Subclips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p or 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Adding Locators While Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Using Locators to Mark an Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Deleting a Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Viewing and Navigating in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . 446

Sorting Information in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Accessing a Locator in a Sequence or Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Printing the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Using the Locators Window to Delete Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . 448

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Displaying Information in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Finding Frames and Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Using Frame Offset Timecode to Cue a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Searching a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Matchframing Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Chapter 13 First Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Setting Up a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Creating a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Changing Sequence Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Changing the Start Timecode for Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Making the First Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Beginning to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Undoing or Redoing Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Monitoring Audio While Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Extracting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Copying Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Placing a Sequence into the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Recovering Material from the Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Playing the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Playing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Proceeding with Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

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