Avid Symphony Symphony Nitris 1.5 User guide

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Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Related Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Avid Educational Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Chapter 1 Editing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Starting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Preparing to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Editing a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Outputting a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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

Turning on Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using the Mouse Scroll Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Setting Up the Mouse Scroll Wheel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using the Mouse Scroll Wheel in the Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Starting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Opening and Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Select Project Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Opening an Existing Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Opening the Startup Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Deleting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Ending a Work Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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

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

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the Avid Projects and the Avid Users Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Changing Project and User Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or on Removable Media . . . . . . . . 58

Restoring from a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Retrieving Files from the Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Renaming a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Opening and Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Opening Bins from Other Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Deleting a Bin or Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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

Emptying the Trash in the Bins List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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

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Using the Settings Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Using the Format Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chapter 4 Capturing Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Importing Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Preparing the Hardware for Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Getting Information About Striped Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Selecting the Sync Source for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Establishing Sync for Audio-Only Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Selecting Settings for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Selecting Video Resolutions and Media Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Setting Drive Filtering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Configuring Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Configuring a Deck or Multiple Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Deleting Deck Configuration Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Setting Up the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Selecting a Deck in the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Selecting a Source Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Selecting Source Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Setting the Video and Audio Input in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Detecting a Locked Sync Signal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Setting the Pulldown Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Film Project Pulldown and Transfer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Capturing Digital Audio in Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Selecting a Resolution in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Selecting a Target Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Selecting the Target Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Targeting a Single Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Targeting Separate Drives for Audio and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Targeting a Drive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Interpreting the Time-Remaining Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Selecting a Custom Preroll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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Preparing for Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Adjusting Audio Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Selecting the Audio Sample Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Selecting the Audio File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Performing Audio Sample Rate Conversion During Capture . . . . . . . . . . 104

Selecting the Audio Input Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Using the Audio Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Adjusting Audio Input Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Preparing for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Using the Factory Preset Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Calibrating Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Capture Preparations Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Capturing and Logging at the Same Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Naming Clips and Adding Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Capturing from a Mark IN to a Mark OUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Capturing by Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Capturing by Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Capturing On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Capturing from a Non-Avid-Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Preparing to Batch Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Resizing the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Preparing Settings for Unattended Batch Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Batch Capturing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Recapturing Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Recapturing Master Clips and Subclips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Recapturing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Saving Two Versions of a Sequence When Recapturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Using Decompose When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Recapturing the Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

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Chapter 5 Importing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Preparing to Import Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Creating and Using Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Creating a New Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Modifying an Existing Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Importing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method to Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Batch Import Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Starting the Reimport Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Chapter 6 Working with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using Brief View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Realigning Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Adding Text in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Playing Clips in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Rearranging Clips in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Duplicating Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Moving Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Deleting Bin Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

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Enabling and Disabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Closing the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Deleting a Bin with the SuperBin Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Creating a Storyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Chapter 7 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Basic Media Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Using the Media Tool in an Avid Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Opening the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Consolidating Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Understanding the Consolidate Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Using the Consolidate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Consolidate Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using the Transcode Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Transcode Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Refreshing Media Directories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Deleting Unreferenced Clips and Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Chapter 8 Viewing and Marking Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Viewing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Customizing the Composer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Resizing the Composer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Resizing the Source and Record Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Resizing the Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Hiding the Video in a Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

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Displaying Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Playing Video to the Client Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Selecting the Video Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Loading Footage into the Source, Record, and Pop-up Monitors . . . . . . . . . . 193

Loading Multiple Clips or Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Using the Clip Name Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Switching Between Loaded Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Clearing Clips from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Controlling Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Using Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Play Reverse, Play, Pause, Stop, Rewind, and Fast Forward Buttons . . . 197

Play Standby Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Step Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Using Single-Field Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Home, End, and Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Using the Mouse for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Jogging with the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Shuttling with the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Optimizing Your Playback Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Marking IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Moving IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Creating Subsequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

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Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Searching for a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Finding a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Chapter 9 Editing in Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Entering Source/Record Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Setting Up a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Changing the Sequence Name and Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Making an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Creating an Instant Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Performing an Insert Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Single-Mark Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Extracting Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Using the Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Preserving Clipboard Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Playing the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Managing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

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Editing to Avoid Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Displaying Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Fixing Sync Breaks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Fixing Sync in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Fixing Sync in Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Fixing Sync in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Chapter 10 Using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Moving a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Highlighting Clips in a Mixed-Format Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Saving a Customized Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Replacing a Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Navigating in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar/Position Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Displaying Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Zooming In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Focusing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Using Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Segment Mode Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Selecting and Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Selecting Segments with the Segment Mode Pointer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Lassoing One or More Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Performing Segment Mode Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Understanding the Four-Frame Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Suppressing Four-Frame Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

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Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Extracting/Splicing Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Lifting/Overwriting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Deleting Segments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Marking Clips and Sequences in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Adding Comments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Working with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Using the Track Selector Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Monitoring Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Monitoring Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Monitoring Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Monitoring a Solo Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Patching Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Locking and Sync Locking Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Adding a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Chapter 11 Working in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Understanding Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Quick Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Big Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Trim Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Entering and Exiting Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Entering Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Switching Between Quick Trim Mode and the Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Setting Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

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Using Basic Trim Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Selecting Trim Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Selecting Video Tracks in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Audio Solo in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Selecting Additional Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Performing a Basic Trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Reviewing the Trim Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Reviewing an Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Trimming On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Dual-Image Playback During Trims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Maintaining Sync While Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Adding Black When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Chapter 12 Working with Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Exploring the Audio Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Accessing Audio Effect Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Audio Editing Aids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Smooth Scrub Versus Digital Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Selecting Tracks for Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Using the J-K-L Keys to Perform Smooth Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Using the Mouse to Perform Smooth Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Using Digital Audio Scrub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Adjusting Digital Scrub Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Performing the Digital Scrub Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Soloing Audio Tracks in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Displaying Waveform Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Identifying the Sample Rate by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Muting the Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

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Using the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Understanding the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Resizing the Audio Mixer Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Selecting Tracks in the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Using the Track Solo and Track Mute Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Interpreting Position Indicator Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Using Clip Gain and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Adjusting Clip Gain and Pan for Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Using the Audio Mixer Fast Menu in Clip Gain and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Modifying Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Modifying How the System Interprets Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Using the Center Pan Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Using Automation Gain and Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Using Automation Gain and Pan in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Deleting Automation Gain or Automation Pan Keyframes in the Timeline 315

Understanding Automation Gain and Pan Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Recording Automation Gain or Automation Pan Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Using the Audio Mixer Tool Sliders for Automation Gain and Pan. . . . . . 317

Using the Audio Mixer Fast Menu in Automation Gain and Pan Mode . . 319

Using Keyboard Shortcuts with Audio Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Using Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Using an External Controller in Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Using Live Mix Mode Without an External Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Switching Between Live Mix Mode and Other Audio Mixer Modes . . . . . . . . . 323

Using the Audio Mixer Mode Fast Menu in Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Fine-Tuning Audio Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Fading and Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Fading Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Converting the Audio Sample Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Changing the Audio Sample Rate for Sequences and Audio Clips. . . . . . . . . 329

Mixing Down Audio Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

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Chapter 13 Working with Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Types of Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Effects Creation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Real-Time Effects and Non-Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Effects and Project Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

AVX Plug-In Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Using the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Applying Effects From the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Using the Fade Effect Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Using the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Deleting Effects in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Deleting a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Deleting Multiple Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Sizing Effects to Fit the Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Adjusting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Entering Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Understanding Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Making Basic Effect Adjustments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Moving Through an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Working with Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Saving an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Applying an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Working with Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Understanding Standard Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Adding a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Selecting a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Moving a Standard Keyframe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Changing a Standard Keyframe’s Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Copying and Pasting Standard Keyframe Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Deleting a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Playing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Playing an Effect in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

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Playing Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Previewing Effect Frames with Render On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Interrupting Render On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Real-Time Playback of Video Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Understanding Real-Time Effects Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Understanding Real-Time Playback Information in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . 362

Turning Playback Performance Indicators On or Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Controlling Real-Time Effects Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Choosing Bit Depth for Effects Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Selecting the OpenGL Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Limiting the Number of Real-Time Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Basics of Effects Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Understanding Effects Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Rendering a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Rendering Effects at Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Rendering Effects Between IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Rerendering Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Understanding ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Using the ExpertRender Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Using the ExpertRender Command After a Real-Time Playback Attempt 375

Modifying ExpertRender Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Considerations When Using ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Chapter 14 Working with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Opening the Title Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Using Marquee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Workflow for Creating Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Understanding the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Using the Selection and Text Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

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

Previewing Titles with Anti-Aliasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Selecting a Background for Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

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Creating Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Sizing and Positioning Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Editing a Text String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Formatting Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Setting Default Text Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Selecting a Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Changing Point Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Making Text Bold or Italic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Justifying Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Kerning Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Adjusting Leading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Creating Graphic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Modifying and Manipulating Title Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Adding Shadows to Title Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Saving Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Saving a Title and Exiting the Title Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Saving Multiple Titles in a Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Using a Keyboard Shortcut to Save a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Using the Fast Save Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Revising a Title in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Editing with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Title Effect Clips in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Editing a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Setting Marks in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Splicing or Overwriting a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Dragging a Marked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Dragging an Unmarked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Trimming the Duration of Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Removing a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Replacing a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Fading a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

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Chapter 15 Avid Symphony Nitris Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

How Symphony Nitris Color Correction Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Reasons for Making Color Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Color Correction Mode Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Entering and Leaving Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Composer Window Monitors in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Switching Between Current and Reference Monitors Using the Escape Key . 418

Composer Window Buttons in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

The Client Monitor in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Color Correction Tool Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Making Basic Automatic Color Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Correcting Color Automatically Using the Color Correction Effect . . . . . . . . . 421

Correcting Color Automatically in the Hue Offsets Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Making a Basic Color Match Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Making a Manual Primary Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Making a Basic Secondary Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Safe Color Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Managing Safe Color Warnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Safe Color Warnings in the Composer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Chapter 16 Exporting Frames, Clips, or Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Understanding Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Preparing to Export a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Exporting Frames, Clips, or Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method to Export Frames, Clips, or Sequences . . . . . . 437

Customizing Export Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Chapter 17 Generating Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Preparing for Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Selecting the Sync Source for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Selecting Sync for HD Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Using LTC Timecode for Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Calibrating for Video Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Using the Factory Preset Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Basic Video Output Calibration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

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