Avid Media Composer 11.0 User guide

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Avid Media Composer and Film Composer Effects Guide • Part 0130-05014-01 Rev. A •

April 2002

Contents

Chapter 1 Preparing to Work with Effects

Types of Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Overview of Horizontal, Vertical, and Nested Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Effects Creation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Real-Time and Downstream Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Downstream Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Playing Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Playback Capabilities for Two-Stream Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Playback Capabilities for Single-Stream

Uncompressed Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Additional Suggestions for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Hardware Limitations for Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Combined Rendering of Real-Time and

Non-Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Displaying Effects On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Interrupting Render On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Working with Effects in 24p or 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Displaying the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Resizing the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Displaying Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using Third-Party Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

AVX Plug-ins and Memory Usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

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Installing Photoshop-Compatible Plug-in Effects

(Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Installing AVX Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Locating the AVX_Plug-Ins Folder (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . 65

Upgrading AVX Plug-ins and Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Assigning Multiple Tracks in Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using AVX Plug-in Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Accessing an AVX Custom Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Custom AVX Controls in the Effect Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Troubleshooting AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Plug-In Does Not Appear in the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Plug-In Does Not Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

The Avid System Cannot Render the Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Blank Effect Icons in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Missing Effect Categories in the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . 72

The Avid System Is Running Out of Free Memory. . . . . . . . 72

Changing Timeline View Settings for Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Adjusting Trim Settings for Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chapter 2 Basics of Effects Editing

Deconstructing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Applying Effects to a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Applying an Effect to a Single Transition or Segment . . . . . . . . . 78

Applying an Effect to Multiple Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Applying an Effect to Multiple Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Deleting Effects in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Deleting a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Deleting Multiple Transition Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Deleting Multiple Segment Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using the Fade Effect Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Working with Transition Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Types of Transition Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Applying a Dissolve Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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Using the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Using the Transition Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Using the Quick Transition Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Using the Quick Transition Button to Apply

Effects to Multiple Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Understanding the Graphical Display in the

Quick Transition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Adding Fades (Dissolves) with the Head Fade and

Tail Fade Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Sizing the Effect to Fit the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Trimming a Transition Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Chapter 3 Customizing Effects

Entering Effect Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Customizing the Effect Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Using Big Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons in Effect Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Understanding the Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Displaying the Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . 109

Working with the Effect Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Setting the Effect Grid Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Displaying Position Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using Local Grid Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Obtaining Position Information in a Film Project . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Position Information for the Paint and AniMatte Effects . . 117

Position Information for the Blowup Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Navigating in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Changing Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Single-Field Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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Using the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Effect Editor Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Moving an Enlarged Image in Effect Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Selecting a Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Changing a Parameter with a Slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Accessing an Effect’s Additional Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Adjusting a Color Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Using the Eyedropper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using the Macintosh Color Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Replacing an Effect with the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Understanding Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using Standard Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Adding a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Selecting a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Moving a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Changing a Standard Keyframe’s Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Copying and Pasting Standard Keyframe Parameters . . . . . . . 136

Deleting a Standard Keyframe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Working with Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Promotion Paths for Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Opening Keyframe Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Effect Editor Controls for Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Shortcut Menus for the Motion Effect Editor and

Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Adding and Deleting Keyframes for Advanced Keyframes . . . 144

Using the Add Keyframe Mode Menu and the Delete

Keyframe Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Moving a Keyframe in a Keyframe Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Selecting and Deselecting Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Elastic Keyframes and Fixed Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

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Parameter Changes at Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Options for Controlling Parameter Changes

at Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Adjusting a Parameter Value with the Bézier

Interpolation Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Changing the Adjustment Method for the

Bézier Interpolation Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Align Keyframes and Slip Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Aligning Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Slipping Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Extrapolate and Hold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Adjusting the View in a Keyframe Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Zoom and Scroll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Resizing the Keyframe Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Moving the Keyframe Graph View Up or Down . . . . . . . . . 175

Resetting the Graph View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Options for Using Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Defining a Motion Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Moving the Image Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Using an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Saving an Effect Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Applying an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Chapter 4 Playing and Rendering Effects

Playing an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Basic Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Playing an Effect in a Continuous Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Playing a Preview of an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Rendering Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Creating and Using Render Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Creating a New Render Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Adjusting Render Settings Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Activating a Render Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

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Rendering a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Rendering Effects at Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Rendering Effects Between IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Saving a Partially Completed Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Partially Completed Render Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Interrupting a Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Customizing Render Range Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

ExpertRender. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Rendering Effects by Using ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Modifying ExpertRender Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Some Considerations When Using ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Examples of ExpertRender Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Example 1: Nested Effect with Dissolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Example 2: Multilayer Sequence with a 3D Effect. . . . . . . . 209

Example 3: Titles with a Dissolve Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Rendering Effects for the Media Station XL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Modifying the Render to Media Station XL Results. . . . . . . . . . 216

Managing Effect Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Understanding Effect Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Revealing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Deleting Effect Media Files from a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Chapter 5 Creating and Customizing Motion Effects

Understanding Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Creating Traditional Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Playing and Rendering Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Rendering Considerations When Creating

Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Rendering and Rerendering Existing Motion Effects . . . . . 230

Understanding Motion Effect Type Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . 232

About Motion Effects in 24p or 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Freeze Frame Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Creating a Rolling Clip That Freezes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

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Creating a Traditional Variable Speed Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Using the Fit to Fill Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Creating a Traditional Strobe Motion Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Working with the Timewarp Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Speed and Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Interpolation Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Rendering Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Creating a Timewarp Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Promoting Traditional Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Opening the Motion Effect Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Understanding the Motion Effect Editor Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Selecting the Active Control Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Setting Input Format and Output Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Selecting a Rendering Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Speed Graph Display and Position Graph Display. . . . . . . . . . . 260

Changing a Graph Display with the Scale Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Motion Effect Editor Fast Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Toolbar Buttons for the Active Control Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Using the Timewarp Speed Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Using the Source Anchor Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Using the Timewarp Position Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Setting Up the Motion Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Timewarp Effect Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Speed Graph Example: Creating a Rolling Clip That Freezes . . 272

Speed Graph Variations: Moving Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Strobe Motion Using the Timewarp Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Setting Effect Position with the Position Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Position Graph Example: Reverse Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Using the Region Stabilize Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Stabilizing an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Making Adjustments to the Region of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

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Chapter 6 Creating Layered and Nested Effects

Creating Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Using the Chroma Key Effect and the RGB Keyer . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Creating a Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Using Post-Key Color Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Creating a Luma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Creating a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Real-Time Moving Mattes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Using the Color Effect to Prepare a High-Contrast Image . . . . 298

Working with Imported Graphics and Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Editing with Imported Matte Key Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Editing with Imported Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Using the Reformat Effects and the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . 303

Understanding the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Working with the Reformat Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Outputting the Media with the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . 306

Positioning the Pan and Scan Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Applying the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Selecting the Source and Target Aspect Ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Setting Up Your Monitors for the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . 311

Viewing Pan and Scan Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Using the Effect Grid with the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . 314

Setting an Origin in the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Subdividing the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Using the Wire Frame in the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Scaling the Wire Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Positioning the Wire Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Adjusting the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Combining the Pan and Scan Effect with Transition Effects. . . 321

Placing Pan and Scan Effects on the Video Track. . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Nesting Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Stepping Into and Out of Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Expanding Nested Effects in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

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Creating a Simple Nested Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Changing the Order of Nested Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Nesting a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Submaster Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Applying the Submaster Effect to a Multilayered Sequence . . . 332

Using the Submaster Effect with a Series of Short Clips . . . . . . 334

Collapsing Layers into One Submaster Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Performing a Video Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Chapter 7 Working with 3D Effects

Understanding 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Turning the 3D Effects Option On and Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Turning the 3D Effects Option On and Off at Startup. . . . . 341

Turning the 3D Effects Option On and Off in the Console. 342

Accessing 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Applying the 3D Warp Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Promoting 2D Effects to 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Using Matte Keys with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Understanding the 3D Effects Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Moving in 3D Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

The 3D Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Rotation Axes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Accessing 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Manipulating 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Resetting Default Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Using Effect Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Zooming In or Out on the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Manipulating 3D Effects Directly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Manipulating 3D Effect Handles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Using the Motion Path Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Creating Custom 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Some Tips for Creating 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

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Creating a Page Curl Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

A Simple Variation on the Page Turn Transition . . . . . . . . 359

Creating a Splash Dissolve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Turning a Splash into a Flat Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Creating a Cropped Foreground Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Using the Spline Parameters with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Corner Pinning an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Creating a Stamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Using Axis for a Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Applying a Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Using Avid Xpress 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Chapter 8 Creating Titles and Graphic Objects

Workflow for Creating and Editing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Downstream Keying of Titles and Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Opening the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Understanding the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Understanding the Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Using the Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Setting Up the Drawing Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Installing Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Previewing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Using Title and Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Using Safe Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Selecting a Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Using a Video Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Updating the Video Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Creating a Color Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Displaying a Grid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Snapping to a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Bringing the Title Tool to the Foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Using the 16:9 Display Format for Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

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Working with Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Creating Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Copying and Pasting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Resizing Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Repositioning Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Editing a Text String. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Formatting the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Setting the Default Text Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Selecting a Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Changing the Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Making Text Bold or Italic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Justifying the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Kerning the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Adjusting Leading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Working with the Drawing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Creating Graphic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Drawing a Square or Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Drawing a Circle or Oval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Drawing a Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Selecting Line Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Rounding Corners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Selecting a Line or Border Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Adding Arrowheads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Changing Arrowhead Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Creating Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Page Count Limits for Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . 411

Using Auto Size Mode for Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . 411

Setting Up Text Formatting for Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . 412

Workflow Options for Creating Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Typing the Text in a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Resizing the Width of a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Scrolling Through a Rolling or Crawling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Going to a Page in a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

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Adding Pages to a Rolling or Crawling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Copying or Moving Objects to Pages in a

Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Inserting Blank Pages in a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . 417

Deleting Pages in a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Formatting Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Selecting Colors and Setting Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Adjusting the Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Blending Two Colors in an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Adjusting the Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Blending Transparency of Fills and Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Working with Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Applying Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Adjusting Shadow Color and Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Adjusting Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Setting Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Adjusting Shadow Softness On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Viewing Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Creating a Glow Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Manipulating Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Basic Object Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Layering Text and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Locking and Unlocking Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Aligning Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Distributing Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Saving Titles and Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Matching Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Saving a Title and Exiting the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Saving Multiple Titles in a Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Using a Keyboard Shortcut to Save a Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Using the Fast Save Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Saving a Title with Fast Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

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Viewing Fast-Saved Titles in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Revising a Title in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Creating and Using Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Creating Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Using Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Working with Titles on Systems with 24p or 25p Support . . . . . . . . 443

Creating Titles on Systems with 24p or 25p Support . . . . . . . . . 444

Saving Titles on Systems with 24p or 25p Support . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Saving and Recalling Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Saving a Title Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Title Style Sheet Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Recalling a Title Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Confirming Function Key Mapping of Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Applying Title Styles to Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Managing Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Exporting a Title as a Graphics File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Chapter 9 Editing with Titles

Workflow for Editing with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Downstream Keying of Titles and Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Restrictions of Downstream Key Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Converting Downstream Key Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Restrictions of Non-Downstream Key Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Playback Capabilities of Title Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Playback Capabilities for Titles with Two Video Streams . 459

Playback Capabilities for Titles with One Video Stream . . 460

Title Effect Clips in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Displaying Title Frames in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Editing a Title into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Setting Marks in a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Splicing or Overwriting a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Dragging a Marked Title into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

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Dragging an Unmarked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Trimming the Duration of Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . 468

Removing a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Replacing a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Fading a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Adjusting Title Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Revising a Title in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Working with Existing Multiformat Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Replacing Fill Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Rendering Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Re-creating Title Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Re-creating Title Media from the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Creating Media for Unrendered Titles in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Re-creating Title Media on Systems with 24p or 25p Support . 479

Promoting a 2D Title to 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Troubleshooting Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Downstream Key Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Wrong Title Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Chapter 10 Intraframe Editing

Understanding the Intraframe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Rendering Intraframe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Rendering Paint Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Rendering AniMatte Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Getting Started with the Paint and AniMatte Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Applying the Paint or AniMatte Effect to a Sequence . . . . . . . . 488

Using the Effect Editor with the Paint Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Using the Effect Editor with the AniMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Editing with Single-Field Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Using Effect Templates with the Intraframe Effects. . . . . . . . . . 493

Using the Intraframe Drawing Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Understanding Intraframe Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Using an Optional Pen Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

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Using the Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Choosing a Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Shortcut for Selecting a Color with the Brush Tool . . . . . . . 496

Painting with the Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Creating a Custom Brush Head from a Template . . . . . . . . 497

Saving a Brush Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Using Path to Create a Signature Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Using the Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Creating Rectangular Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Creating Oval Shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Drawing Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Creating Polygons with Straight-Line Segments . . . . . . . . . 505

Creating Polygons with Curved Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Creating a Straight Line Following a Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Creating Curved Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Changing the Parameters of a Painted Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Working with Vector-Based Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

The Elements of Vector-Based Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Getting Started with Bézier Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Transforming a Rectangle into a Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Experimenting with Direction Handles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Creating a Corner Join . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Modifying Lines and Curves Summarized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Painting a New Object with Bézier Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Adding a Control Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Removing a Control Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Moving to Adjacent Control Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Moving Control Points Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Moving Control Points and Objects in Small Increments. . . . . . 526

Previsualization Marker Tool for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Applying a Previsualization Marker Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Creating a Cut List with Previsualization

Marker Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

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Manipulating Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Moving Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Reshaping Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Reshaping Objects Created with the Curve Tool. . . . . . . . . 531

Rotating Intraframe Objects Along the Z Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Scaling Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Changing Intraframe Object Parameters over Time. . . . . . . . . . 535

Layering, Grouping, and Locking Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Layering with the Paint Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Layering with the AniMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Locating Layered Objects with the Outline/Path Button . . . . . 536

Bringing Objects and Mattes Forward by One Layer . . . . . 537

Sending Objects and Mattes Backward by One Layer . . . . 537

Bringing Objects and Mattes to the Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Sending Objects or Mattes to the Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Grouping and Ungrouping Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Locking and Unlocking Intraframe Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Exporting a Matte PICT File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Scratch Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Understanding Scratch Removal Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Processing by Frame or Field When Using Scratch Removal . . 544

Understanding Frame Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Understanding Field Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Removing a Flaw Within a Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Removing a Flaw by Using Nearby Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Selecting Material to Use When Correcting Flaws . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Isolating a Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Isolating a Flaw by Using the Scratch Removal Button . . . 549

Isolating a Flaw by Using Add Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Detecting Video Dropout in 24p or 25p Material . . . . . . . . 551

Removing a Flaw by Using Intraframe Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Drawing a Shape over a Flaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Dragging Replacement Material over a Flaw. . . . . . . . . . . . 555

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