Avid Xpress Pro 5.7 User guide

make manage move | media

™

Avid

®

Avid Xpress

®

Pro

Advanced Guide

2

Copyright and Disclaimer

Product specifications are subject to change without notice and do not represent a commitment on the part of Avid Technology,

Inc.

The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement. You can obtain a copy of that license by

visiting Avid's Web site at www.avid.com. The terms of that license are also available in the product in the same directory as

the software. The software may not be reverse assembled and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the

license agreement. It is against the law to copy the software on any medium except as specifically allowed in the license

agreement.

Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following United States Patents: 4,746,994; 4,970,663;

5,045,940; 5,267,351; 5,309,528; 5,355,450; 5,396,594; 5,440,348; 5,452,378; 5,467,288; 5,513,375; 5,528,310; 5,557,423;

5,568,275; 5,577,190; 5,584,006; 5,640,601; 5,644,364; 5,654,737; 5,715,018; 5,724,605; 5,726,717; 5,729,673; 5,745,637;

5,752,029; 5,754,851; 5,799,150; 5,812,216; 5,852,435; 5,584,006; 5,905,841; 5,929,836; 5,930,445; 5,946,445; 5,987,501;

6,016,152; 6,018,337; 6,023,531; 6,058,236; 6,061,758; 6,091,778; 6,105,083; 6,118,444; 6,128,001; 6,134,607; 6,137,919;

6,141,691; 6,198,477; 6,201,531; 6,223,211; 6,249,280; 6,269,195; 6,317,158; 6,317,515; 6,330,369; 6,351,557; 6,353,862;

6,357,047; 6,392,710; 6,404,435; 6,407,775; 6,417,891; 6,426,778; 6,477,271; 6,489,969; 6,512,522; 6,532,043; 6,546,190;

6,552,731; 6,553,142; 6,570,624; 6,571,255; 6,583,824; 6,618,547; 6,636,869; 6,665,450; 6,678,461; 6,687,407; 6,704,445;

6,747,705; 6,763,134; 6,766,063; 6,791,556; 6,810,157; 6,813,622; 6,847,373; 6,871,003; 6,871,161; 6,901,211; 6,907,191;

6,928,187; 6,933,948; 6,961,801; 7,043,058; 7,081,900; 7,103,231; D392,269; D396,853; D398,912.

Other patents are pending.

No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including

photocopying and recording, for any purpose without the express written permission of Avid Technology, Inc.

The following disclaimer is required by Apple Computer, Inc.

APPLE COMPUTER, INC. MAKES NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING

THIS PRODUCT, INCLUDING WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO ITS MERCHANTABILITY OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY

PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES IS NOT PERMITTED BY SOME STATES. THE

ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS WARRANTY PROVIDES YOU WITH SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS.

THERE MAY BE OTHER RIGHTS THAT YOU MAY HAVE WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.

The following disclaimer is required by Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics, Inc. for the use of their TIFF library:

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software [i.e., the TIFF library] and its documentation for any purpose

is hereby granted without fee, provided that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of

the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any

advertising or publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon

Graphics.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS-IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR

OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A

PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT

OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,

DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF

LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

The following disclaimer is required by the Independent JPEG Group:

This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

This Software may contain components licensed under the following conditions:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph

are duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such

distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the

University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written

permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,

INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A

PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

3

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby

granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission

notice appear in supporting documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby

granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission

notice appear in supporting documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that

the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in

supporting documentation, and that the name of Daniel Dardailler not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to

distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. Daniel Dardailler makes no representations about the

suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this

entire notice is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy or modification of this software and in all

copies of the supporting documentation for such software.

THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR,

NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR AT&T MAKES ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE

MERCHANTABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.

The following disclaimer is required by Nexidia Inc.:

Manufactured under license from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, U.S.A. Patent Pending.

The following disclaimer is required by Paradigm Matrix:

Portions of this software licensed from Paradigm Matrix.

The following disclaimer is required by Ray Sauers Associates, Inc.:

“Install-It” is licensed from Ray Sauers Associates, Inc. End-User is prohibited from taking any action to derive a source code

equivalent of “Install-It,” including by reverse assembly or reverse compilation, Ray Sauers Associates, Inc. shall in no event be

liable for any damages resulting from reseller’s failure to perform reseller’s obligation; or any damages arising from use or

operation of reseller’s products or the software; or any other damages, including but not limited to, incidental, direct, indirect,

special or consequential Damages including lost profits, or damages resulting from loss of use or inability to use reseller’s

products or the software for any reason including copyright or patent infringement, or lost data, even if Ray Sauers Associates

has been advised, knew or should have known of the possibility of such damages.

The following disclaimer is required by Videomedia, Inc.:

“Videomedia, Inc. makes no warranties whatsoever, either express or implied, regarding this product, including warranties with

respect to its merchantability or its fitness for any particular purpose.”

“This software contains V-LAN ver. 3.0 Command Protocols which communicate with V-LAN ver. 3.0 products developed by

Videomedia, Inc. and V-LAN ver. 3.0 compatible products developed by third parties under license from Videomedia, Inc. Use

of this software will allow “frame accurate” editing control of applicable videotape recorder decks, videodisc recorders/players

and the like.”

The following disclaimer is required by Altura Software, Inc. for the use of its Mac2Win software and Sample

Source Code:

4

The following disclaimer is required by Ultimatte Corporation:

Certain real-time compositing capabilities are provided under a license of such technology from Ultimatte Corporation and are

subject to copyright protection.

The following disclaimer is required by 3Prong.com Inc.:

Certain waveform and vector monitoring capabilities are provided under a license from 3Prong.com Inc.

The following disclaimer is required by Interplay Entertainment Corp.:

The “Interplay” name is used with the permission of Interplay Entertainment Corp., which bears no responsibility for Avid

products.

Attn. Government User(s). Restricted Rights Legend

U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS. This Software and its documentation are “commercial computer software” or

“commercial computer software documentation.” In the event that such Software or documentation is acquired by or on behalf

of a unit or agency of the U.S. Government, all rights with respect to this Software and documentation are subject to the terms

of the License Agreement, pursuant to FAR §12.212(a) and/or DFARS §227.7202-1(a), as applicable.

Trademarks

888 I/O, Adrenaline, AirPlay, AirSPACE, AirSPACE HD, AirSpeed, AniMatte, AudioSuite, AudioVision, AutoSync, Avid,

Avid DNA, Avid DNxcel, Avid DNxHD, AVIDdrive, AVIDdrive Towers, Avid DS Assist Station, Avid ISIS,

Avid Learning Excellerator, Avid Liquid, Avid Mojo, AvidNet, AvidNetwork, Avid Remote Response, AVIDstripe, Avid Unity,

Avid Unity ISIS, Avid Xpress, AVoption, AVX, CamCutter, ChromaCurve, ChromaWheel, DAE, Dazzle, Deko, DekoCast, D-Fi,

D-fx, DigiDelivery, Digidesign, Digidesign Audio Engine, Digidesign Intelligent Noise Reduction, DigiDrive,

Digital Nonlinear Accelerator, DigiTranslator, DINR, DNxchange, do more, D-Verb, Equinox, ExpertRender, Face Robot,

FieldPak, Film Composer, FilmScribe, FluidMotion, Frame Chase, HIIP, HyperSPACE, HyperSPACE HDCAM, IllusionFX,

Image Independence, iNEWS, iNEWS ControlAir, Instinct, Interplay, Intraframe, iS9, iS18, iS23, iS36, LaunchPad, Lightning,

Lo-Fi, Magic Mask, make manage move | media, Marquee, Matador, Maxim, MCXpress, Media Browse, Media Composer,

MediaDock, MediaDock Shuttle, Media Fusion, Media Illusion, MediaLog, Media Reader, Media Recorder, MEDIArray,

MediaShare, MediaStream, Meridien, MetaSync, MissionControl, NaturalMatch, Nearchive, NetReview, NewsCutter, Nitris,

OMF, OMF Interchange, OMM, Open Media Framework, Open Media Management, PCTV, Pinnacle MediaSuite,

Pinnacle Studio, Pinnacle Systems, ProEncode, Pro Tools, QuietDrive, Recti-Fi, RetroLoop, rS9, rS18, Sci-Fi, ScriptSync,

SecureProductionEnvironment, Show Center, Softimage, Sound Designer II, SPACE, SPACEShift, SpectraGraph,

SpectraMatte, SteadyGlide, Symphony, TARGA, Thunder, Trilligent, UnityRAID, Vari-Fi, Video RAID, Video Slave Driver,

VideoSPACE, and Xdeck are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. in the United States and/or

other countries.

Adobe and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States

and/or other countries. Apple and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other

countries. Windows is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other

countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

Footage

Arri — Courtesy of Arri/Fauer — John Fauer, Inc.

Bell South “Anticipation” — Courtesy of Two Headed Monster — Tucker/Wayne Atlanta/GMS.

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

Eco Challenge Morocco — Courtesy of Discovery Communications, Inc.

It’s Shuttletime — Courtesy of BCP & Canadian Airlines.

Nestlé Coffee Crisp — Courtesy of MacLaren McCann Canada.

Saturn “Calvin Egg” — Courtesy of Cossette Communications.

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

"The Big Swell" — Courtesy of Swell Pictures, Inc.

Windhorse — Courtesy of Paul Wagner Productions.

GOT FOOTAGE?

Editors — Filmmakers — Special Effects Artists — Game Developers — Animators — Educators — Broadcasters — Content

creators of every genre — Just finished an incredible project and want to share it with the world? Send us your reels and we

may use your footage in our show reel or demo!*

For a copy of our release and Avid’s mailing address, go to www.avid.com/footage.

*Note: Avid cannot guarantee the use of materials submitted.

Avid Xpress Pro Advanced Guide • 0130-07617-01 • March 2007

Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chapter 1 Using Desktop Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Creating an Automatic System Recovery Disk (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Dragging Windows (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting the Apple Color Scheme (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Changing Screen Resolution (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using the Avid Xpress Pro Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Deleting Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter 2 Planning and Starting a Project: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Selecting a Project Format and Type: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Selecting a Project Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Considerations for 23.976 Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Supported Resolutions for 23.976 Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

6

Capturing with Advanced Pulldown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Video and Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Opening and Closing a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Changing Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Selecting a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Selecting an External Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Creating a New Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Creating a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Changing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Exporting a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Updating User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Deleting a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or Removable Media . . . . . . . . . . 70

Restoring from a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Ending an Edit Session: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Quitting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Turning Off Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Mounting and Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Unmounting Drives (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Unmounting Drives (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Understanding the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

7

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Bins Display: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Changing Bin Window Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Using Flat View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Opening Selected Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Opening Bins from Other Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Adjusting the Frequency of Automatic Saves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Viewing Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Understanding the Memory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Accessing the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Appearance Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Changing Shading Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Understanding Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

8

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Customizing Your Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Creating a New Workspace Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Linking User Settings and Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Shared Bins and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Working with Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with Shared Bins. . . 108

Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Chapter 4 Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using the Command Palette: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Mapping a Modifier Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

9

Getting Information with the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Checking the Hardware Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Configuring a Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Chapter 5 Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Logging Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Logging Preroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Logging Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Double-Checking the Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Understanding Avid Log Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Avid Log Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Global Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Data Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Sample Avid Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Compatible Log Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Understanding the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Understanding the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Logging Directly to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Logging with an Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Logging with a Non-Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Logging Film Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

10

Displaying Film Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Entering Additional Timecodes (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Modifying Clip Information Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

The Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Using the Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Exporting Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Chapter 6 Preparing to Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Selecting Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Disabling Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Transfer Settings for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Setting Up the Audio Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Configuring the Sound Card (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Customizing the Sound Card Configuration (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Configuring the Sound Card with Surround Sound Capabilities

(Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Configuring Decks: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Deleting Deck Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Deck Settings Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Setting Up the Capture Tool: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Understanding the Preroll Method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Capturing Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Setting the Pulldown Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Film Project Pulldown and Transfer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Preparing for Audio Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Creating Tone Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Audio Meters in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

11

Using the Meter Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Calibrating for Video Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Manually Calibrating for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Saving a Custom Default Setting for the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Adjusting Video Levels Without Color Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Chapter 7 Capturing Media: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Adding Clip Names and Comments On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Monitoring DV Audio while Recording with an Avid Mojo Device and

Digi 002 Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Capturing Without Logging First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Capturing from One Point to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Capturing from an IN Point to an OUT Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Understanding Capture On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Capturing On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Understanding Autocapture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Capturing from a Non-Avid Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Remote Play, Capture, and Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Enabling Remote Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

12

Setting up Your System for Remote Punch-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Changing the Serial Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Creating Subclips While Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Creating Subclips On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Creating Timed Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Changing Function Key Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

DV Capture Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Delaying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Patching When Capturing to the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Preparing to Batch Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Resizing the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Preparing Settings for Unattended Batch Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Batch Capturing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Recapturing Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Recapturing Master Clips and Subclips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Recapturing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Saving Two Versions of a Sequence When Recapturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Understanding Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using Decompose When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Recapturing the Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Recapturing the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Other Capturing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Chapter 8 Importing Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Creating and Using Import Settings: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Creating a New Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Modifying an Existing Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Importing Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

13

Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Understanding Multilayered Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Importing Multilayered Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Importing Media from XDCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Connecting the XDCAM Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Working with XDCAM HD Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

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

Importing XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Automatically Importing Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Importing All Proxy Media from an XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Copying XDCAM Proxy Media to a Local Drive or a Server . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Manually Importing XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Importing Essence Marks as Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Editing the Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Batch Importing High-Resolution Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Editing and Finishing High-Resolution Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

The Batch Import Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Selected Clips Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Import Target Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Import Options Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Starting the Reimport Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Importing Editcam Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Chapter 9 Organizing with Bins: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Object Icons in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Using Bin Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Displaying Custom Bin Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

14

Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Bin Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Lassoing Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Selecting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Duplicating Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Adding Text to Multiple Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Deleting Clips, Subclips, and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Deleting Items from a Bin (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Deleting Items from a Bin (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Adding a Color Column to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Assigning a Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Assigning a Custom Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Limiting Color Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Sorting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Sifting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Locking and Unlocking Items in the Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Using Text View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Deleting a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Tracking Frames Based on File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

15

Managing Clip Information in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Tracking 3-Perf Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Selecting an Edgecode Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Using the Modify Command to Modify Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Sorting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Using Frame View: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Realigning Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Using Script View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Creating Video Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Creating Audio Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Chapter 10 Managing Media Files: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Using Panasonic DVCPRO P2 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Panasonic P2 Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

P2 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Workflow for Editing with P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Preparing to Mount P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

16

Mounting P2 Cards as Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Copying P2 Files to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Copying P2 Files to a Local Media Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Importing P2 Clips and Media Directly from a P2 Card or a

Copy of a P2 Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Dragging P2 Master Clips from the Media Tool to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Working with Spanned Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Sharing P2 Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Exporting Your Clip or Sequence to a P2 Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Deleting P2 Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Relinking by Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Chapter 11 Script-Based Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Explanation of Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Lining in the Digital Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Selecting Text Encoding for Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

17

Manipulating Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Changing the Font of the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Selecting Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Using Scene and Page Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Adding a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Changing a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Deleting a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Searching for a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Conducting a Text Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Linking Clips to the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Manipulating Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Resizing Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Hiding Slate Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Manipulating Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

18

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Loading and Playing Marked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Moving a Script Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Editing with the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Assembling a Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Interactive Screenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Chapter 12 Viewing and Marking Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Customizing the Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Changing the Source Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Using Dual Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Resizing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Hiding the Video in the Composer Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Resizing the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Using 16:9 for 24p or 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Tracking Format Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Displaying the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Setting the Font and Point Size for Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Selecting the Video Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset (Software Only or 1394). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Loading and Clearing Footage: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Switching Between Loaded Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

19

Clearing Sequences from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Controlling Playback: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Stepping Forward and Backward by Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Understanding the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Play Length “In Use” Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Marking and Subcataloging Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Adding Locators While Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Opening the Locator Edit Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Editing Locator Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Deleting Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Viewing and Navigating in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Displaying the Timecode, Footage, or Frame Number in the

Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Displaying MetaSync Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Sorting Information in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Enlarging and Reducing Columns in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Exporting Locators from the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Importing Locators from the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Creating a Locator Text file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon from the Locators Window . . . . . 384

Accessing a Locator in a Clip or Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Using the Locators Window to Delete Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Finding Frames and Clips: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

20

Searching a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Understanding Match Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Matchframing Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Chapter 13 First Edits: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Using the Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Placing a Sequence into the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Chapter 14 Using the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Using the Track Selector Panel: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Cycling Through a Selection of Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Understanding Track Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Locking and Unlocking Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Renaming Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Accessing the Timeline Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Using the Timeline Fast Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Highlighting Clips in a Mixed-Format Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Saving a Custom Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Navigating in the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Page is loading ...

Avid Xpress Pro 5.7 User guide

Related papers

Other documents