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Avid
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Avid
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Media Composer
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Adrenaline
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HD
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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