Avid Xpress Pro 5.2 User guide

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Avid Xpress Pro Advanced Guide • 0130-07210-01 Rev A • September 2005

Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Accessing the Online Library and Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Avid Educational Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 1 Using Desktop Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Creating an Automatic System Recovery Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using the Windows Taskbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Dragging Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Setting the Avid Color Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Changing Screen Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using the Avid Xpress Pro HD Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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

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

Chapter 2 Planning and Starting a Project: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Selecting a Project Format and Type: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Selecting a Project Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Considerations for 23.976 Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Supported Resolutions for 23.976 Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Capturing with Advanced Pulldown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Video and Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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

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

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

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

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Selecting an External Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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

Creating a New Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Creating a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Changing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Exporting a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Updating User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or Removable Media . . . . . . . . . . 63

Restoring from a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Ending an Edit Session: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Quitting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Turning Off Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Mounting and Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using the Bins Display: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Changing Bin Window Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Creating a Folder in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using Flat View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Renaming a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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Opening Selected Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Opening Bins from Other Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Viewing Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Understanding the Memory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Accessing the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Appearance Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Changing Shading Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Using Interface Appearance Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Shared Bins and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Working with Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with Shared Bins. . . 100

Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Chapter 4 Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Using the Command Palette: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Mapping a Modifier Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Using the Avid Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Getting Information with the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Checking the Hardware Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Configuring a Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Chapter 5 Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Logging Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Logging Preroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

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Logging Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Double-Checking the Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Understanding Avid Log Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Avid Log Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Global Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Data Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Sample Avid Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Compatible Log Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Logging Directly to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Logging with an Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Logging with a Non-Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Logging Film Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Displaying Film Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Entering Additional Timecodes (Option). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Modifying Clip Information Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

The Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using the Modify Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Exporting Shot Log Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Chapter 6 Preparing to Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Selecting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

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Disabling Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Transfer Settings for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Setting Up the Audio Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Configuring the Sound Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Configuring the Sound Card with Surround Sound Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Configuring Decks: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Deleting Deck Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Deck Settings Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Setting Up the Capture Tool: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Capturing Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Setting the Pulldown Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Film Project Pulldown and Transfer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Preparing for Audio Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Creating Tone Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Audio Meters in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using the Meter Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Calibrating for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Manually Calibrating for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Saving a Custom Default Setting for the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Adjusting Video Levels Without Color Bars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Chapter 7 Capturing Media: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Adding Clip Names and Comments On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

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Monitoring DV Audio while Recording with Avid Mojo and

Digi 002 Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Capturing Without Logging First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Capturing from One Point to Another. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Capturing from an IN Point to an OUT Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Capturing On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Capturing from a Non-Avid Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Remote Play and Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Enabling Remote Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Changing the Serial Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Creating Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Changing Function Key Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

DV Capture Offset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Delaying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Patching When Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Preparing to Batch Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Resizing the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Preparing Settings for Unattended Batch Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Batch Capturing Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Recapturing Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Recapturing Master Clips and Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Recapturing Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Saving Two Versions of a Sequence When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Using Decompose When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Recapturing the Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

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Recapturing the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Other Capturing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Chapter 8 Importing Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Creating and Using Import Settings: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Creating a New Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Modifying an Existing Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Importing Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Understanding Multilayered Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Importing Multilayered Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Importing Media from XDCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Connecting the XDCAM Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Importing XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

The Batch Import Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Selected Clips Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Import Target Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Import Options Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Starting the Reimport Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Importing Editcam Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Chapter 9 Organizing with Bins: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Using Bin Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Displaying Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

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Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Lassoing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Duplicating Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Moving Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Deleting Clips, Sequences, or Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Adding a Color Column to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Assigning a Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Assigning a Custom Source Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Limiting Color Choices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Sorting by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Sifting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Locking and Unlocking Items in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Selecting Unreferenced Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Using Text View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Bin Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Deleting a Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Changing a Custom Column Heading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Tracking Frames Based on File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Managing Clip Information in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

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Tracking 3-Perf Counts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Selecting an Edgecode Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Modifying Data Directly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Using the Modify Command to Modify Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Sorting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Using Frame View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Arranging Frames in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Using Script View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Rearranging Clips in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Creating Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Creating Audio Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Chapter 10 Managing Media Files: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Using Panasonic DVCPRO P2 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Panasonic P2 Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

P2 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Editing with Media Created on Panasonic P2 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Mounting P2 Cards as a Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Updating the Drive List and Media Database for P2 Files . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Dragging P2 Master Clips from the Media Tool to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

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Copying P2 Files to a Local Media Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Deleting P2 Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Relinking by Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

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

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Relinking Moved Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Chapter 11 Using Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Lined Script Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Explanation of Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Lining in the Digital Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Script Window Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Script Settings Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Adjusting the Script Margins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Manipulating Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Changing the Font of the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Selecting Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Removing Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Using Scene and Page Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Adding a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Changing a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Deleting a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

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Searching for a Scene or Page Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Conducting a Text Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Linking Clips to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Manipulating Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Selecting Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Resizing Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Moving a Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Manipulating Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Selecting Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Loading Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Playing Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Loading and Playing Marked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Moving a Script Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Editing with the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

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Assembling a Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Chapter 12 Viewing and Marking Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Customizing the Monitor Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Changing the Source Monitor Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Using Dual Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Resizing Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Hiding the Video in the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Resizing the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Using the 16:9 Display Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Using 16:9 for 24p or 25p Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Displaying Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Displaying the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Setting the Font and Point Size for Monitor Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Playing Video to the Client Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Connecting a Client Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Selecting the Client Monitor Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset (Software Only or 1394) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Loading and Clearing Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Switching Between Loaded Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Clearing Sequences from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Optimizing Your Playback Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Controlling Playback: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Stepping Forward and Backward by Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Understanding the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Play Length “In Use” Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Marking and Subcataloging Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

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Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Opening the Locator Edit Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Editing Locator Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Viewing and Navigating in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Displaying the Timecode, Footage, or Frame Number in the

Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Displaying MetaSync Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Sorting Information in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Enlarging and Reducing Columns in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Exporting Locators from the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Importing Locators from the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Creating a Locator Text (.txt) file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . 349

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon from the Locators Window. . . . . 351

Accessing a Locator in a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Using the Locators Window to Delete Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Finding Frames and Clips: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Searching a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Matchframing Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Chapter 13 First Edits: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

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Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Placing a Sequence into the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Chapter 14 Using the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Using the Track Selector Panel: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Cycling Through a Selection of Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Locking and Unlocking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Renaming Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Accessing the Timeline Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Highlighting Offline Media Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Changing the Timeline Track Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Saving a Custom Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Replacing a Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Navigating in the Timeline: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Displaying Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Adding an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Removing Add Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Backtiming Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Detecting Duplicate Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Finding Flash Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Editing in the Timeline: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Suppressing the Four-Frame Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

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Bin Editing into the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Chapter 15 Working in Trim Mode: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Reviewing the Trim Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Reviewing an Edit with the Edit Review Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Reviewing an Edit with the Play Loop Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Trimming with the J-K-L Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Customizing Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Slipping or Sliding Clips or Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Selecting Clips or Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Performing the Slip or Slide Trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Maintaining Sync While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Adding Black While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Chapter 16 Working with Audio: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Smooth Scrub Versus Digital Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Selecting Tracks for Scrubbing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Using Digital Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Adjusting Digital Scrub Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Performing the Digital Scrub Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Identifying the Sample Rate by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Rendering and Unrendering Order for Audio Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Adjusting Clip Gain and Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Viewing Clip Gain and Automation Gain Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Adjusting Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Applying Pan Value Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Ganging and Adjusting Multiple Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Rendering an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

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