Avid Media Composer 10.0 User guide

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Editing Guide

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Avid Media Composer and Film Composer Editing Guide • Part 0130-05012-01 Rev. A

• April 2002

Contents

Using This Guide

Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Related Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

How to Order Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Chapter 1 Editing Overview

Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Preparing to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Editing a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Chapter 2 Desktop Basics (Windows)

Working with the Desktop (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Working with Windows (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Dragging Windows Without Showing

the Contents (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Setting Your Screen Resolution (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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Understanding the Avid Media Composer and Film Composer

Folders (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders (Windows) . . 55

Exploring the Avid Projects and Avid Users

Folders (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Changing Project and User Names (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Deleting Projects and User Profiles (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

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

Starting the Avid Application (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Chapter 3 Desktop Basics (Macintosh)

Understanding the Avid Media Composer and

Avid Film Composer Folders (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users

Folders (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Exploring the Avid Projects and Avid Users

Folders (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Changing Project and User Names (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Deleting Projects and User Profiles (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Retrieving Bin Files from the Attic Folder (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Chapter 4 Starting a Work Session

Opening and Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Identifying a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Creating a New User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Selecting an Existing User. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Setting Film Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Selecting an Existing Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Nesting Projects in Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Saving Your Project Information (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Saving Your Project Information (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Restoring from a Backup (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Restoring from a Backup (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Ending a Work Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Quitting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Turning Off Your Equipment (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Turning Off Your Equipment (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Mounting and Ejecting Media Drives (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Ejecting Drives (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Mounting All Drives (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Mounting and Ejecting Media Drives (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Ejecting Drives (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Mounting All Drives (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Session Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Chapter 5 Working with the Project Window

Exploring the Project Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Creating a Folder in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Renaming a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Opening and Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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Opening Bins from Other Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Emptying the Trash in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Saving Bins Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using the Settings Scroll List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Reviewing Basic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Film Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Bin Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Interface Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Keyboard Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Displaying Project Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Changing the Settings Scroll List Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Selecting Another User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Working with Multiple Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Duplicating Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Naming Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Selecting Among Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Deleting Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Restoring Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Copying Settings Between Settings Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using Site Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Viewing Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Accessing the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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Displaying Usage Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Displaying Disk Space Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Customizing the Avid User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Changing Shading Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Changing Button Separation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Changing Button Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Creating a New Workspace Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Linking User Settings and Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Switching Between Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Understanding Avid Unity MediaNet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network . . . . . . . . . . 164

Sharing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Shared Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Shared Bins and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Working with Locks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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Chapter 6 Using Basic Tools

Exploring Dialog Boxes and Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Using the Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Using the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Understanding Button Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Using the Blank Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Mapping Modifier Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Mapping Menu Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Activating Commands from the Command Palette. . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Avid Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Displaying System Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Getting Information with the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Using Avid System Test Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Using the Serial (COM) Ports Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Configuring a Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Chapter 7 Organizing with Bins

Preparing to Work with Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Adjusting Audio Pan Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Adjusting Default Pan Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Using the Center Pan Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Using Audio Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Film Scene Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

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Understanding Bin Display Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Bin Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Customizing Bin Views in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Saving a Custom Bin View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Duplicating Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Copying Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Deleting Clips, Subclips, Sequences, and Media Files . . . . . . . . 213

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Adding a Color Column to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Assigning a Source Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Assigning a Custom Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Limiting Color Choices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Sifting Within a Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Selecting Sources Used by an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

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Deleting a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Moving Within Column Cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Copying Information from Another Cell in a

Custom Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Sorting Clips in Ascending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Sorting Clips in Descending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Multilevel Sorting with Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Sorting Clips by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the

Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns . . . . . 246

Bin Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Arranging Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Playing Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

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Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Creating Audio Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Storyboard Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Chapter 8 Managing Media Files

Working with Media Files in an Avid Unity Environment. . . . . . . . 266

Configuring Avid Editing Systems to Work with

MediaManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Basic Media Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Opening the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Freeing Storage Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Consolidating Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Understanding the Consolidate Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Using the Consolidate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Using Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . 283

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Restoring an Archive from Videotape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Relinking Clips to Media Files or Bin Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Unlinking Clips from Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

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Chapter 9 Using Script Integration

Line Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Explanation of Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Lining in the Digital Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Using Script Integration in Video Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . 310

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a

Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Adjusting the Script Margins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Manipulating Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Changing the Font of the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Using Page and Scene Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Adding a Page or Scene Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Changing a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Deleting a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Searching for a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Conducting a Text Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Linking Clips to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Interpolating Position for Script Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Manipulating Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Resizing Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

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Showing One Take Per Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Moving a Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Manipulating Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Deleting Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Loading Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Playing Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Using Color Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Automating Screening and Marking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Loading and Playing Marked Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Deleting a Script Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Finding Clips and Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Editing with the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Assembling a Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Chapter 10 Viewing and Marking Footage

Customizing the Composer Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Using 16:9 for 24p and 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

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Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Copying Text from the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Displaying Timecode in the Timecode Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Displaying Multiple Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Understanding Composer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Color Framing Options (Edit Tab). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Miscellaneous Composer Options (Edit Tab). . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Fast Forward and Rewind Options (FF/REW Tab) . . . . . . 366

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Viewing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Fast Frame Display in 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Loading Footage into the Playback and Pop-up Monitors . . . . 372

Loading Footage into the Source, Record, and

Pop-up Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Loading Multiple Clips or Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Using the Clip Name Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Switching Between Loaded Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Clearing Clips from Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Resizing Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Hiding the Video in a Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Resizing a Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Customizing the Playback Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Controlling Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Using Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

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

Fast Forward Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Play Standby Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Step Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

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Using Single-Field Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Home, End, and Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Using the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Jogging with the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Shuttling with the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Marking IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Moving IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . 392

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Copying Locators from Source Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Deleting Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Understanding the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Displaying Timecode or Footage in the

Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Sorting Information in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Accessing a Locator in a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . 402

Deleting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . 404

Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Searching for a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

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Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence . . . . . . . . 413

Finding a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Chapter 11 Editing in Source/Record Mode

Entering Source/Record Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Setting Up a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Changing the Sequence Name and Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

User Preferences for Creating Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Making an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Undoing or Redoing Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Performing an Overwrite Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Single-Mark Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Using Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Setting One Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Adding a Second Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Extracting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Copying Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Preserving Clipboard Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Adding Comments to Sequence Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

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Playing the New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Starting a Playback Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Playback Performance Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Setting a Limited Play Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Playing a Sequence Using a Limited Play Length . . . . . . . . 444

Fine-Tuning the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Chapter 12 Using the Timeline

Understanding Timeline Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline . . . . . . . . 452

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Moving a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Displaying Local and Source Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . 456

Displaying Source Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Displaying Local Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Changing the Timeline Background Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Showing Locators in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Saving a Customized Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Timeline Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Exploring the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar/Position Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Displaying Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

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Zooming In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Focusing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Using the Full-Screen Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Understanding Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Segment Mode Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Selecting and Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Selecting Segments with the Segment Mode Pointer . . . . . 476

Lassoing One or More Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Performing Segment Mode Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Understanding the Four-Frame Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Extracting/Splicing Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Lifting/Overwriting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Deleting Segments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Marking Clips and Sequences in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . 485

Adding Comments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Using Advanced Timeline Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Bin Editing into the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard . . . . 488

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and

Tail Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Working with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Understanding Effects Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Understanding Nesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Using the Track Selector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

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