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Contents

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Accessing the Goodies Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Chapter 1 Working with the Project Window: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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

Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Guidelines for Project Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Adjusting Automatic Saves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using the Info Display to View Memory Information and Access

the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Customizing the Avid User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Changing Button and Toolbar Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

User-Customized Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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Working with Bins and Projects in an Avid Unity Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Understanding Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Sharing Only Bins in Avid Unity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Sharing Bins and Projects in Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Locks and Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Working with Locks and Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with Shared Bins. . . . 63

Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Shared Bin Lock Icon Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Chapter 2 Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using a Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Deck Controller Window Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

The Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Understanding Button Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

The Blank Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Modifier Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

The Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Displaying System Information in the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Reviewing a Log of Errors in the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Getting Information with the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

External Controllers as Editing Control Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

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Chapter 3 Logging: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using Avid Log Exchange to Prepare Log Files for Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Avid Log Exchange Stores ASC Color Decision List (CDL) Parameters . . . . . . 86

Log Formats Compatible with Avid Log Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Avid Log Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Global Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Column Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Data Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Sample Avid Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Creating an Avid Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Double-Checking Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Logging Directly into a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Tips for Logging Preroll, Logging Timecode, and Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Logging with Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Logging with Non-Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Understanding the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Chapter 4 Capturing Media: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Advanced Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Selecting Settings for Capturing Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Preroll Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

General Settings for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Settings for Film and 24p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Disabling Video Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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Preparing for Audio Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Creating Tone Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Changing Audio Hardware Calibration Settings for Avid Adrenaline . . . . . . . 125

Calibrating Audio Input Channels for Avid Adrenaline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Calibrating Audio Output Channels for Avid Adrenaline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Audio Hardware Calibration for Avid Nitris DX and Avid Mojo DX . . . . . . . . . 127

Using the Default Audio Calibration for Avid Nitris DX or Avid Mojo DX . . . . . 127

Using a Tone Generator to Calibrate Audio Input Channels for

Avid Nitris DX or Avid Mojo DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using an External Meter to Calibrate Audio Output Channels for

Avid Nitris DX and Avid Mojo DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Preparing for Video Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Limitations When Using Consumer Decks or Decks Without

Time-Base Correctors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Saving Calibration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Saving a Custom Default Setting for the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Adjusting Video Levels for Tapes Without Color Bars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Using Capture Function Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Special Capture Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Logging Errors to the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Opening the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Considerations for Creating Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Creating Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Creating Timed Subclips While Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Understanding Locators On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Adding Locators On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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Controlling Decks from the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Working in Quick Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Quick Record Condition Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Adding Extra Text Fields in the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Mapping the Record Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Returning to the Previous Place in the Select Tape Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Understanding DV Capture Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

RS-422 Controlling a DV Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

FireWire Configuration Without Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

FireWire Configuration with Encoded Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Capture with No Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Capturing DV Material with Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Delaying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Capturing in Satellite Mode or No Device Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Preparing to Capture with External Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Timed Captures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Setting a Timed Capture Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Patching When Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Capturing Video Without Pulldown into a 24p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Remote Play, Capture, and Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Enabling Remote Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Setting up Your System for Remote Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Using Serial Drivers with Remote Play and Capture (Windows Only) . . . . . . . 165

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

DV and HDV Scene Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Setting Up DV and HDV Scene Extraction Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Setting Up DV Scene Extraction After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Using the Panasonic VariCam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

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Chapter 5 Importing Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Example of Multilayered Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Support for Multilayered Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Preserving Layer Effects in Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Importing Editcam Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Restrictions on Importing Editcam Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Importing Sequences from Pro Tools through Interplay (Windows Only) . . . . . . . 181

Chapter 6 Working with Bins: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

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

Displaying Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Sequence and Clip Information Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Understanding Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Text View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Manipulating Bin Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Duplicating Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Changing a Custom Bin Column Heading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

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Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Modifiable Bin Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Using the Modify Command to Modify Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Modifying Data with the Modify Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Copying Information from Another Cell in a Custom Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Tracking 3-Perf Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Selecting an Edgecode Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Bin Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Displaying or Outputting Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Editing with Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Disassociating Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Viewing Restriction Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Changing Restriction Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Searching the Database for Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Creating Audio Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

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Chapter 7 File Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Sony XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Sony XDCAM EX Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

XDCAM and XDCAM EX Formats and Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Working with XDCAM HD Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Connecting the XDCAM or XDCAM EX Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Ejecting an XDCAM EX Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Panasonic P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Panasonic P2 Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

P2 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Preparing to Mount P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Setting up a P2 Card Reader (Windows only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Mounting P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Copying P2 Files to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Sharing P2 Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Deleting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Working with Spanned Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

The Avid Media Access (AMA) Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Selecting the AMA Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Viewing Installed AMA Plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Understanding Linking with AMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Linking Media with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Using Virtual Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Workflow for Editing XDCAM and XDCAM EX Clips with AMA. . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Working with Essence Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Workflow for Editing P2 Clips with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

The Import and Export Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Setting XDCAM Import Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Importing XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Importing XDCAM EX Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Automatically Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Device. . . . . . . . . . . . 248

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Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Copying XDCAM Proxy Media to a Local Drive or a Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Manually Importing XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Importing Essence Marks as Locators in XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Editing XDCAM Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Batch Importing High-Resolution XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disk. . . . . 253

Editing and Finishing High-Resolution XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Exporting Media to XDCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Exporting to XDCAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Workflow for Editing with P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Importing P2 Clips and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Dragging P2 Master Clips from the Media Tool to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Exporting Your Clip or Sequence to a P2 Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Chapter 8 Managing Media Files: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Relink Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Relinking and New Project Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Relinking Clips to a New Project Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Relinking by Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Relinking to Selected Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Relinking Moved Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Archive to Videotape Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Restoring an Archive from Videotape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Sequence and Clip Information Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

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Chapter 9 Script-Based Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Lined Script Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Lining in the Digital Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Selecting Text Encoding for Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Working with Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Changing the Font Used in Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Selecting Text in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Searching Through Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Using Page and Scene Numbers in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Conducting a Text Search in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Linking Clips to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Working with Slates in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Selecting Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Resizing Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Holding Slates On Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Moving a Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

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Working with Takes in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog in a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Using Color Indicators in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Using Real-Time Screening and Marking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Marking with ScriptSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Loading and Playing Marked Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Editing From the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Assembling a Rough Cut From the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Chapter 10 Viewing and Marking Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Using the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Using the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Using the Tool Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

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Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Suggested Uses for Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Adding Locators On-the-Fly while Playing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Finding Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Editing Locator Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Viewing Locators in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Working in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Exporting and Importing Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Creating a Locator Text (.txt) File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Disabling the Locator Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Sequence and Clip Information Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Chapter 11 Creating and Editing Sequences: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Enabling Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Adding Comments to Sequence Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Playback Performance Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Autosyncing Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Understanding Autosyncing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Creating an Autosynced Subclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Managing Sync with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Understanding Sync Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Syncing with Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Using Add Edit When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

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Ganging Footage in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Using MetaSync to Synchronize Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Chapter 12 Using the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Timeline Views: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Displaying Local and Source Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Changing the Timeline Background or Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Showing Locators in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Navigating in the Timeline: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Using the Full-Screen Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Advanced Timeline Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Bin Editing into the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Add Edit (Match Frame) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Adding a Match-Frame Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Adding Edits to Filler Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Removing Match-Frame Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Activating Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Methods for Changing Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Adjusting Handle Length in Dupe Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Printing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

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Chapter 13 Working in Trim Mode: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Maintaining Sync While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Adding Black When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Slipping or Sliding Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

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

Slipping or Sliding Segments in a Four-Frame Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Performing a Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Chapter 14 Working with Audio: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Audio Gain Staging and an Audio Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Rendering and Unrendering Order for Audio Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Viewing Clip Gain and Automation Gain Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Adjusting Volume While Playing a Clip Gain Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Improving Response Time When Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Using External Fader Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Adjusting the Pan of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to Record Automation Gain. . . . 395

Using the Digi 002 and the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Using the Digi 002 with Avid Input/Output Hardware (Windows Only) . . . . . . 397

Using the Command|8 with Your Avid Editing System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Configuring the Digi 002 or Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Mapping Buttons and Menu Commands for the Digi 002 or Command|8 . . . . 400

Button Layouts on the Digi 002 and Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Viewing Different Controller Button Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Mapping Controller Menu Commands for the Digi 002 or Command|8. . . . . . 403

Using Digi 002 or Command|8 Buttons to Change Focus in the

Avid Editing Application Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Using a Foot Pedal as a Foot Switch with the Digi 002 or Command|8 . . . . . 405

Switching Between the Digi 002 and Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

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