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Footage

Arizona Images — KNX-TV Production — Courtesy of Granite Broadcasting, Inc.,

Editor/Producer Bryan Foote.

Canyonlands — Courtesy of the National Park Service/Department of the Interior.

“Tigers: Tracking a Legend” — Courtesy of www.wildlifeworlds.com, Carol Amore, Executive Producer.

Tornados + Belle Isle footage — Courtesy of KWTV News 9

WCAU Fire Story — Courtesy of NBC-10, Philadelphia, PA.

Women in Sports – Paragliding — Courtesy of Legendary Entertainment, Inc.

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Avid NewsCutter Products Editing Guide • Part 0130-05729-01 • May 2003

Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Avid Educational Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 1 Desktop Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Working with the Desktop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Using the Windows Taskbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Dragging Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Setting Your Screen Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Using the Avid Application Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Creating Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Deleting Projects and User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Starting the Avid Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Accepting Your Avid License Electronically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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Chapter 2 Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Opening and Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Changing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Selecting a Shared Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Selecting an External Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Setting Film Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Opening a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Creating a User Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Changing User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Restoring from a Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Ending an Edit Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Quitting the Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Turning Off Your Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Mounting and Ejecting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Ejecting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Mounting All Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Changing, Closing, and Reopening the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Displaying Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Creating a Folder in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Creating a New Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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Opening and Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Saving Bins Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Retrieving Bin Files from the Avid Attic Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Enabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Closing the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Deleting the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin. . . . . . . 77

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . 78

Using the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Types of Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Reviewing Basic Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Bin Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Film Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

General Interface Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Appearance Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Changing Shading Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Changing Button Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Displaying Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Changing the Settings Scroll List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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The Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Selecting Another User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Working with Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Duplicating Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Naming Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Selecting Among Multiple Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Deleting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Copying Settings Between Settings Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Moving Settings Between Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Using Site Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Selecting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Viewing the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Viewing System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

The Memory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

The Hardware Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Assigning a Workspace Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Switching Between Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Understanding Avid Unity MediaNetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Shared Bins and Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

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Working with Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Chapter 4 Using Basic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Opening Toolsets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

NRCS Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Capture Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Edit Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Effects Editing Toolset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Audio Editing Toolset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Color Correction Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Customizing Toolsets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Using the Tools Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using the Deck Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Using the Command Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Mapping the Modifier Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Getting Information with the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Checking the Hardware Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Using the Communication (Serial) Ports Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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Chapter 5 Organizing with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using Bin Display Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Changing the Bin Display View Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Saving a Custom Bin View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

The Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Setting the Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Setting the Text Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Setting the Point Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Duplicating Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Deleting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Adding a Color Column to a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Assigning a Source Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Assigning a Custom Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Limiting Color Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Sorting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Sifting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Locking and Unlocking Items in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Using Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Organizing Bin Information in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Arranging Bin Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Moving and Rearranging Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

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Deleting Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Duplicating Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Modifying Data by Using the Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Sorting Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Sorting Clips in Ascending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Sorting Clips in Descending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Performing Multilevel Sorting with Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Sorting Clips by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . 175

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns. . . . . . . . 175

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Arranging Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Entering Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

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Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Creating Audio Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Chapter 6 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Working with Media Files in an Avid Unity Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Configuring Avid Editing Systems to Work with MediaManager

and TransferManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Setting up the LANshare Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

PortServer Pro Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

ProEncode Support on the PortServer Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Basic Media Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Opening the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Consolidating Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

The Consolidate/Transcode Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Using the Consolidate/Transcode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Using the Transcode Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Relinking to Selected Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Using Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . 216

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Restoring an Archive from Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

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Chapter 7 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Customizing the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Expanding the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Changing the Pop-up Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Using the 16:9 Display Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Using 16:9 for 24p and 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Displaying Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Displaying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Copying Text from the Info Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Displaying the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Displaying Multiple Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Setting the Font and Point Size for Monitor Displays. . . . . . . . . . . 233

Pop-up Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Displaying a Second Row of Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Viewing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Loading Clips or Sequences into the Source/Record Monitor . . . . 234

Loading Clips or Sequences into a Pop-up Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Using the Clip Name Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Switching Between Loaded Clips or Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Clearing Clips or Sequences from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Resizing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Hiding the Video in the Source/Record Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Resizing the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Controlling Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Using Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Stepping Forward and Backward by Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Using the Avid Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Shuttling with the J-K-L Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Navigating with Home, End, and Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Playing in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

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Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Selecting the Client Monitor Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Supporting a Camera Without Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Play Length “In Use” Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Clearing a Mark and Setting a New One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Dragging IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Opening the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Using the Tool Palette Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Using the Tool Palette from the Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Using the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Using Locators to Mark an Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Viewing and Navigating in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Sorting Information in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Accessing a Locator in a Sequence or Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Deleting Locators by Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . 264

Displaying Information in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

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Finding Frames and Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Using Frame Offset Timecode to Cue a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Using Timecode to Find a Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Searching for a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Using Match Frame to Locate the Source Clips of

Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . 272

Chapter 8 First Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Starting a New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Changing the Sequence Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Changing the Start Timecode for Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

MetaSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Making the First Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Beginning to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Monitoring Audio While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Performing an Overwrite Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Extracting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

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Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Placing a Sequence into the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Recovering Material from the Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Playing the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Playing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Improving Playback Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Proceeding with Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Chapter 9 Using the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Accessing the Timeline Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Displaying Local and Source Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Displaying Source Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Displaying Local Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Saving a Custom Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Restoring the Default Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Navigating in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Displaying Detail in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Zooming In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Focusing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Viewing Video Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

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Selecting and Deselecting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Selecting Segments with the Segment Mode Pointer . . . . . . . 305

Selecting One or More Segments by Lassoing . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Editing in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Segment Mode Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Extracting/Splicing-in Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Lifting/Overwriting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Deleting Segments with Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Bin Editing into the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Using the Top and Tail Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Setting the Duration for Filler at the Start of a Sequence . . . . . . . 316

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Effects Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Nesting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Using the Track Selector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Monitoring Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Monitoring Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Monitoring a Solo Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Cycling Through a Selection of Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Performing an Alternate Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Locking Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Patching Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Adding an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Removing Match-Frame Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

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Chapter 10 Working in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Customizing Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Using Basic Trim Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Entering Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Exiting Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Selecting Trim Sides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Selecting Additional Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Performing a Basic Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Trimming with the J-K-L Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Trimming On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Trimming Video Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Slipping or Sliding Clips or Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Selecting Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Slipping or Sliding Segments in a Four-Frame Display . . . . . . 342

Performing the Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Reviewing the Trim Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Reviewing an Edit with the Edit Review Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Reviewing an Edit with the Play Loop Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Maintaining Sync While Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Adding Black While Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Chapter 11 Working with Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Audio Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Accessing Audio Effect Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Audio Editing Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Soloing Audio Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Smooth Scrub Versus Digital Scrub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Selecting Tracks for Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

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Using Digital Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Adjusting Digital Scrub Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Performing the Digital Scrub Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Adjusting Default Pan Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Dealing with Low Latency Audio in Your Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Adjusting for Audio Latency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Displaying Waveform Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Adjusting Volume Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Using the Audio Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Resizing the Audio Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Adjusting One Audio Track at a Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Changing an Audio Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Adjusting Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Applying Pan Value Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Ganging and Adjusting Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Rendering an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Modifying Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Creating or Modifying an Audio Pan/Vol Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Modifying How the System Interprets Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Adjusting Volume While Playing an Audio Mix Effect . . . . . . . . . . 373

Limitations on Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Improving Response Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Using Audio Gain Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Automation Gain Values and System Clip Gain Values . . . . . . . . 376

Adjusting Volume in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Deleting Audio Gain Keyframes in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Moving Audio Gain Keyframes in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Using an External Fader or Mixer to Adjust Volume . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

The Automation Gain Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Track Solo Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Position Indicator Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Selecting Tracks in the Automation Gain Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Automation Gain Tool Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

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Recording Automation Gain Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Using the Automation Gain Tool Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Using a Keyboard Shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Using the Audio EQ Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Audio EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Basic EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

EQ-Specific Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Applying Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Removing Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Audio EQ Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Low Shelf Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Small Octave Range Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Applying an EQ Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Creating Your Own Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Adding an EQ Template to the Fast Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Installing AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Using Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline . . . . . . . . 409

Using a Plug-in Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

AudioSuite Plug-in Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Rendering Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Creating New Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

AudioSuite Controls for Creating New Master Clips . . . . . . . . 412

Mono, Stereo, and Multichannel Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Creating New Master Clips by Using Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Using AudioSuite Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Plug-in Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Troubleshooting AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Canceling a Render Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Addressing Errors When Rendering a Plug-in Effect . . . . . . . . 419

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