Avid Symphony Nitris 1.5 User guide

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Avid Symphony Nitris Advanced Guide • Part 0130-07613-01 • June 2006

Contents

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

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

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

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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

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

Chapter 1 Working with the Project Window: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Managing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Creating a User Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Changing User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Exporting a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Updating User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Deleting User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Viewing Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Accessing the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Displaying Usage Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Displaying Disk Space Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Changing Interface Component Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Changing Button and Toolbar Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Changing Font and Point Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Customizing Your Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Creating a New Workspace Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Linking User Settings and Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Sharing Bins and Projects in an Avid Unity Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Understanding Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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

Working with Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Shared Bin Lock Icon Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter 2 Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using the Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Understanding Button Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Mapping Modifier Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Using the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Displaying System Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Getting Information with the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using External Controllers as Editing Control Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Chapter 3 Logging: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Preparing Log Files for Import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Compatible Log Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Understanding Avid Log Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Avid Log Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Global Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Data Entries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Sample Avid Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Creating Avid Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Transferring Bins from MediaLog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Transferring Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Associating the Bin with Your Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Double-Checking the Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Logging Directly into a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Tips for Logging Preroll, Logging Timecode, and Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . 105

Logging with an Avid-Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Logging with Non-Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

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Logging Film Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Displaying Film Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Entering Additional Timecodes (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Entering the Ink Number (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Entering Additional Film Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Modifying Clip Information Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Exporting Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Chapter 4 Capturing Media: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Advanced Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Capturing Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

General Settings for Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Settings for Film and 24p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Disabling Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Understanding Drop-Frame Timecode and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode. . . . . . . . 135

Preparing for Audio Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Creating Tone Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Adjusting Volume Control in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Analog Input Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Microphone Input Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

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Changing the Audio Hardware Calibration Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Calibrating Audio Input Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Calibrating Audio Output Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Preparing for Video Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Limitation When Using Consumer Decks or Decks Without

Time-Base Correctors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Saving a Custom Default Setting for the Video Input Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Adjusting Video Levels for Tapes Without Color Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using Function Keys When Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Special Capture Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Logging Errors to the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Creating Subclips While Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Creating Timed Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Adding Locators On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Mapping the Record Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Live Capture with External Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Patching When Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Capturing Video Without Pulldown into a 24p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Remote Play, Capture, and Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Enabling Remote Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Setting up Your System for Remote Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Avid Serial Driver and Remote Play and Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Relinking Clips by Key Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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Chapter 5 Importing Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Importing Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Understanding Multilayered Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Importing Multilayered Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Importing Editcam Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Chapter 6 Working with Bins: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Object Icons in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Advanced Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Film Scene Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Displaying Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Selecting Sources Used by an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Using Text View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Manipulating Bin Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Duplicating a Bin Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Changing a Custom Bin Column Heading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Tracking Frames Based on File Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Moving Within Column Cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

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Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Using the Modify Command to Modify Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Copying Information from Another Cell in a Custom Column . . . . . . . . . . 204

Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Tracking 3-Perf Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Selecting an Edgecode Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Frame Counting for Timecodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Bin Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Working with Restricted Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Displaying or Outputting Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Disassociating Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Viewing Restriction Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Changing Restriction Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Searching the Database for Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Creating Audio Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Chapter 7 Managing Media Files: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Working with Media Files in an Avid Unity Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Configuring Avid Editing Systems to Work with the Asset Manager and

Avid Interplay Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Support for an Avid Unity LANshare Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Mounting and Unmounting Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Unmounting Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

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Using Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Restoring an Archive from Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Relink Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Relinking Clips to a New Project Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Relinking by Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Chapter 8 Using Script Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Explanation of Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Lining in the Digital Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Manipulating Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Changing the Font of the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

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Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Using Page and Scene Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Adding a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Changing a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Deleting a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Searching for a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Conducting a Text Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Linking Clips to the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Manipulating Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Resizing Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Hiding Slate Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Showing One Take Per Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Manipulating Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Loading and Playing Marked Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

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Moving a Script Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Editing with the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Assembling a Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Interactive Screenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Chapter 9 Viewing and Marking Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Displaying Timecode in the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Finding Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Editing Locator Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Copying Locators from Source Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Viewing Locators in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Working in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Exporting and Importing Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Creating a Locator Text (.txt) File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . 292

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

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Chapter 10 Editing in Source/Record Mode: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

User Preferences for Creating Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Using Phantom Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Setting One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Adding a Second Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Adding Comments to Sequence Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Playback Performance Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Autosyncing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Using the AutoSequence Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Resyncing Subframe Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Managing Sync with Multiple Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Using Sync Lock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Syncing with Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Adjusting the Sync Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Using Add Edit When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Ganging Footage in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Using Sync Point Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Chapter 11 Using the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Timeline Views: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Displaying Local and Source Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Changing the Timeline Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Showing Locators in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Timeline Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Navigating in the Timeline: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Using the Full-Screen Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

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Using Advanced Timeline Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Bin Editing into the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Adding an Edit (Match Framing). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Adding Edits to Filler Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Removing Match-Frame Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Additional Offline Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Detecting Duplicate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Adjusting Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Tracking Color Frame Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Chapter 12 Working in Trim Mode: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Slipping or Sliding Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Selecting Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

The Four-Frame Slip/Slide Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Performing the Slip or Slide Trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Slipping Shots in Source/Record Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Using the Transition Corner Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Chapter 13 Working with Audio: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Audio Gain Staging and an Audio Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Rendering and Unrendering Order for Audio Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Viewing Clip Gain and Automation Gain Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Adjusting Volume While Playing a Clip Gain Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Limitations on Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Improving Response Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

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Using External Fader Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Adjusting the Pan of Individual Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to Record Automation Gain . . . . 347

Configuring the USB-to-MIDI Software for External Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Installing USB-to-MIDI Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Testing the Fader Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Switching Between MIDI Connections on the USB-to-MIDI Converter . . . . . . 351

Troubleshooting the MIDI Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Using the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Using the Command|8 with Your Avid Editing System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Configuring the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Mapping Buttons and Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Button Layouts on the Command|8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Using Buttons to Change Focus in the

Avid Editing Application Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Using a Foot Pedal as a Foot Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Using a Command|8 to Record Automation Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Using the Latch Mode Feature on the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Using the FaderMaster Pro and MCS-3000X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

MCS-3000X Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Using the Snap Mode Feature on the MCS-3000X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Ganging Faders on the FaderMaster Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Using the Yamaha 01V/96 or the Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Setting Up the Yamaha 01V/96 or Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Initializing the Yamaha 01V/96 or Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Configuring the Yamaha 01V/96 or Yamaha 01V to Recognize

Control Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Starting the Avid System with the Yamaha 01V/96 or the

Yamaha 01V Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Operational Notes for the Yamaha 01V/96 and Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Soloing Avid System Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

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Using the Audio EQ Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Audio EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Basic EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

EQ-Specific Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Applying Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Removing Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Audio EQ Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Low Shelf Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Small Octave Range Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Applying an EQ Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Creating Your Own Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Adding an EQ Template to the Audio EQ Tool Fast Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Recording Voice-Over Narration Using Audio Punch-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Connecting Voice-Over Recording Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Understanding the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Creating the Voice-Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Scenarios for Using the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Monitoring Previously Recorded Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Using Peak Hold While Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Using the MCS3 with the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Using a GPI Device with the Audio Punch-In Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Understanding GPI Trigger Signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

GPI Signal Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Example of Linking GPI Actions to Trigger Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Connecting a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Configuring a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Working with GPI Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Creating a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

GPI Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

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Editing a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Deleting a GPI Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Displaying Audio Formats in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Chapter 14 Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Understanding Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Installing AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Using Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Using an AudioSuite Plug-In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

AudioSuite Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Rendering AudioSuite Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Creating New Master Clips with AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

AudioSuite Controls for Creating New Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Mono, Stereo, and Multichannel Processing in

AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Using AudioSuite Plug-ins to Create New Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Using AudioSuite Effect Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins in Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

AudioSuite Plug-in Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Troubleshooting AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Chorus AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

D-Verb AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Compressor AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Limiter AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Expander-Gate AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Gate AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

DeEsser AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

EQ AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Flanger AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Invert AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Duplicate AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Delay AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

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Multi-Tap Delay AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Normalize AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Gain AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Ping-Pong Delay AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Reverse AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

DC Offset Removal AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Signal Generator AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Time Compression Expansion AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Pitch Shift AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Non-Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Chapter 15 Exporting Frames, Clips, or Sequences: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Exporting OMFI and AAF Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Exporting Through OMF Interchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Exporting Through AAF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Selecting an OMFI or an AAF Transfer Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Exporting As an OMFI or an AAF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Guidelines for Exporting AAF Files to Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Exporting Projects and Bins Using AFE Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Improving Workflow Using Send To. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Send To DigiDelivery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Send To Digidesign Pro Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Send To DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Send To Sorenson Squeeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Send To Avid DS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Send To Third-Party Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Exporting Video in DV Stream Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Exporting QuickTime Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Exporting As a QuickTime Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Exporting As a QuickTime Reference Movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Using Avid Codecs for QuickTime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Exporting As an AVI File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Installing or Copying the Avid Codecs for QuickTime on Other Systems . . . . . . . 470

Exporting from a Third-Party QuickTime or AVI Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

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Avid Symphony Nitris 1.5 User guide

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