Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD 1.0 User guide

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Media Composer

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Editing Guide

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Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD Editing Guide • Part 0130-06753-01 Rev A •

December 2004

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Contents

Using This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Accessing the Online Library and Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Avid Educational Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Chapter 1 Editing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Starting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Preparing to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Editing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chapter 2 Desktop Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using the Windows Taskbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Dragging Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Setting Your Screen Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using the Avid Media Composer Adrenaline Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Deleting Projects and User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Retrieving Files from the Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Starting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Chapter 3 Starting a Work Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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

Changing Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Selecting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Using User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or on Removable Media . . 59

Restoring from a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Ending a Work Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Quitting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Turning Off Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Mounting and Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Session Check List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Chapter 4 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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

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

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Creating a Folder in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Renaming a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Opening and Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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

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

Emptying the Trash in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Saving Bins Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Reviewing Basic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Displaying Project Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Working with Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Using the Format Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Viewing Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Accessing the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Displaying Usage Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Displaying Disk Space Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Changing Shading Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

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Creating a New Workspace Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Linking User Settings and Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Understanding Avid Unity MediaNetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Working with Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working

with Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Chapter 5 Using Basic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Using the Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Using the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Understanding Button Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Mapping Modifier Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using the Avid Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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Displaying System Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Getting Information with the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Using the Communication (Serial) Ports Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Chapter 6 Organizing with Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Preparing to Work with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Adjusting Audio Pan Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Film Scene Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Enabling and Disabling the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Closing the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . 147

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . 148

Deleting a Bin with the SuperBin Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Using Bin Display Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Displaying Custom Bin Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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

Lassoing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

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

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

Moving Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

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

Deleting Clips, Subclips, and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

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Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Selecting Sources Used by an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Using Brief View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Arranging Frames in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Adding Text in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Playing Clips in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Rearranging Clips in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Creating Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Storyboard Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

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Chapter 7 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Working with Media Files in an Avid Unity Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Configuring Avid Editing Systems to Work with MediaManager

and TransferManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Support for an Avid Unity LANshare Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Basic Media Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Opening the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Freeing Storage Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Consolidating Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Understanding the Consolidate Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Using the Consolidate Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Using the Transcode Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Using Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Archive to Videotape Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Restoring an Archive from Videotape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Relinking by Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Relinking to Selected Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Relinking Moved Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Chapter 8 Using Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Lined Script Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

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Explanation of Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Lining in the Digital Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window. . . . . . 241

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Manipulating Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Changing the Font of the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Searching Through Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Using Page and Scene Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Conducting a Text Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Linking Clips to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Manipulating Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Selecting Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Resizing Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Moving a Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Manipulating Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

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Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Loading and Playing Marked Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Editing with the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Assembling a Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Chapter 9 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Customizing the Composer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Viewing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Using 16:9 for 24p and 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

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Tracking Format Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Displaying Timecode in the Timecode Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Understanding Composer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Connecting a Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Selecting the Client Monitor Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Viewing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Fast Frame Display in 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Loading and Clearing Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Loading Footage into the Source, Record, and Pop-up Monitors . . . . 293

Loading Multiple Clips or Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Using the Clip Name Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Playing Back Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Playing Back DV50 and DVCPRO HD Media Directly from

a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Playing Back to a DV Device (for DV25, DV50, and DVCPRO HD) . . 298

Optimizing Your Playback Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Resizing Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Hiding the Video in a Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Resizing a Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Customizing the Record Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Controlling Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Using Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Using Single-Field Step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Using the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

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Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Marking IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Moving IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Searching for a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Finding a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Chapter 10 Editing in Source/Record Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Entering Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Setting Up a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Changing the Sequence Name and Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Making an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Creating an Instant Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Performing an Insert Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

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Performing a Replace Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Single-Mark Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Using Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Setting One Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Adding a Second Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Extracting Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Using the Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Adding Comments to Sequence Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Playing the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Starting a Playback Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Playback Performance Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Fine-Tuning the Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Chapter 11 Using the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Understanding Timeline Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Using the Timeline Fast Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Displaying Local and Source Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Highlighting Offline Media Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Changing the Timeline Background Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Changing the Timeline Track Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Showing Locators in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Saving a Customized Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

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Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Timeline Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Exploring the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar/Position Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Displaying Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Zooming In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Focusing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Using the Full-Screen Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Viewing Video Qualities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Understanding Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Segment Mode Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Selecting and Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Performing Segment Mode Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Adding Comments in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Using Advanced Timeline Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Bin Editing into the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . 398

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands. . . . . . . . 401

Working with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Understanding Effects Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Understanding Nesting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Using the Track Selector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

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Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Monitoring Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Patching Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Locking and Sync Locking Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Adding a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Adding an Edit (Match Framing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Additional Offline Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Detecting Duplicate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Tracking Color Frame Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Chapter 12 Working in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Understanding Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Quick Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Big Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Trim Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Entering and Exiting Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Entering Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Switching Between Quick Trim Mode and the Record Monitor . . . . . . 430

Setting Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Using Basic Trim Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Selecting Trim Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Selecting Video Tracks in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Audio Solo in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Selecting Additional Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Performing a Basic Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

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Reviewing the Trim Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Reviewing an Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Trimming On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Dual-Image Playback During Trims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Slipping or Sliding Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Selecting Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

The Slip/Slide Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Performing the Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Slipping Shots in Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Maintaining Sync While Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Adding Black When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Using the Transition Corner Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Chapter 13 Working with Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Exploring the Audio Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Accessing Audio Effect Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Audio Editing Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Soloing Audio Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Using Digital Audio Scrub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Displaying Waveform Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Identifying the Sample Rate by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Muting the Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Using the Audio Mixer Tool to Adjust Volume and Pan in the Timeline . . . 465

Using the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Resizing the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

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Audio Gain Staging and an Audio Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Adjusting Clip Gain and Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Adjusting One Audio Track at a Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Ganging and Adjusting Multiple Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Rendering an Audio Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Modifying Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Adjusting Volume While Playing an Audio Mix Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Understanding Automation Gain and Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Adjusting Volume or Pan in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Using an External Fader or Mixer to Adjust Volume and Pan Values . 483

Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Adjusting the Pan of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Understanding Automation Gain and Pan Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Recording Automation Gain or Automation Pan Information. . . . . . . . 490

Using the Audio EQ Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Audio EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Applying Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Removing Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Audio EQ Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Understanding Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Installing AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Using Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . 512

Using a Plug-In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Rendering Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Creating New Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

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