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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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