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EVS XEDIO Cutter User Manual Version 4.2

USER MANUAL
XEDIO CUTTER
Version 4.2 - June 2012
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COPYRIGHT
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The information in this manual is furnished for informational use only and subject to change without notice. While every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this user manual is accurate, up-to-date and reliable, EVS Broadcast Equipment cannot be held responsible for inaccuracies or errors that may appear in th is publication.
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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................. III
WHAT’S NEW? ............................................................................................................... V
1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 1
1.1 PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 USER INTERFACE ...................................................................................................................... 1
1.2.1 Opening Xedio Cutter .............................................................................................................. 1
1.2.2 Overview of the Xedio Cutter Window ..................................................................................... 2
1.3 PROCESS OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................... 3
2. MEDIA MANAGER ................................................................................................. 4
2.1 PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................... 4
2.2 OVERVIEW OF THE MEDIA MANAGER .................................................................................... 4
2.3 MEDIA LIST ................................................................................................................................. 4
2.4 SEARCHING THE DATABASE .................................................................................................... 5
3. PLAYER................................................................................................................ 15
3.1 PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................. 15
3.2 OVERVIEW OF THE PLAYER PANE ........................................................................................ 15
3.3 VIDEO DISPLAY OF THE PLAYER ........................................................................................... 17
3.4 PLAYER FUNCTIONS ............................................................................................................... 18
3.4.1 Player Transport Controls ..................................................................................................... 18
3.4.2 Media Bar and Jog Bar ......................................................................................................... 20
3.4.3 Clip Creation Functions ......................................................................................................... 21
3.4.4 Timecode Information ........................................................................................................... 21
3.4.5 Clip Video and Audio Selection Functions ............................................................................ 22
3.4.6 Logs ...................................................................................................................................... 24
3.5 LOADING MEDIA ON THE PL AYER WINDOW......................................................................... 25
3.6 MAKING A CLIP ......................................................................................................................... 26
4. STORYBOARD ..................................................................................................... 27
4.1 PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................. 27
4.2 CREATING AND MANAGING THE STORYBOARD LIST ......................................................... 27
4.2.1 Adding a Clip to the Storyboard ............................................................................................ 27
4.2.2 Removing a Clip from the Storyboard ................................................................................... 28
4.2.3 Renaming a Clip in the Storyboard ....................................................................................... 28
4.2.4 Storyboard Display ................................................................................................................ 28
4.3 PREVIEWING THE LIST ............................................................................................................ 29
4.4 EXPORTING THE LIST ............................................................................................................. 30
4.4.1 How to Export the List to CleanEdit ....................................................................................... 30
4.4.2 Audio Management For the Exported Edit ............................................................................ 30
4.4.3 How to Export the List to a Playlist ........................................................................................ 31
4.4.4 How to Export the List as a File............................................................................................. 31
4.4.5 How to Export the List to Avid ............................................................................................... 32
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New options are available from the Video Display

What’s New?

The following table descr ibes the sections updated to reflect the new a nd modified features on Xedio Cutt er from Xedio Suite 4.02 (com pared to Xedio Suite 4.01).
In the user manual, the icon has been added on left margin to highlight information on new and updated features.
Click the section number (or the description) in the table to jump directly to the corresponding section.
Section Description
3.2 Everything that is outside the video content has the skin color. Video such as letterboxed or pillarboxed video will show black bars as these mattes are part of the video signal.
3.3 contextual menu.
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you need to enter your

1.1 PURPOSE

The Xedio Cutter is a module of the Xedio Suite of applications. It allows the selection of portions of m edia to be placed into a list t o export (the storyboard) as a “rough cut edit ”. This can then be refined and produced as a fin al edit using the more sophisticated tools available in the full non-linear timeline editing environment it provide s.

1.2 USER INT ERFACE

1. Introduction

1.2.1 OPENING XEDIO CUTTER

To start the Xedio Cutter application, click on the Xedio Cutter icon on the desktop.
This will display a login screen where username and password.
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color. Video such as letterboxed or pillarboxed video will

1.2.2 OVERVIEW OF THE XEDIO CUTTER WINDOW

The Xedio Cutter graphical interface consists of three main areas, besides the Menu bar. They are highlighted on the following screenshot and shortly described in the table below.
Note
The color of some user interface elements may vary with the Xedio skin installed.
Area Description
1. Player Pan e This is used to load and play media, to make clips and create the elements to place into the storyboard area. All types of media and clips can be played back but clips can only be made from video assets.
Everything that is outside the video content has the skin
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show black bars as these mattes are part of the video
It has the same powerful filtering and search
er parts of the Xedio Suite of
Area Description
signal When the Preview button is clicked, the Player window is
replaced by the Storyb oard Preview window.
2. Media Manager This is used to select the media to view in the Player window. attributes as oth applications: this makes finding the required material an easy process.
3. Storyboard When clips are ready to export, they are added to the Storyboard area using the drag-and-drop technique. The order in which the clips appear i n the list will be the order they are placed when e xported.

1.3 PROCESS OVE RVIEW

The use of Xedio Cutte r can be summarized as foll ows:
Step See …
1. Select a media from the Media Manager Section 2 on page 4
2. Load it on the Player Pane Section 3.5 on page 25
3. Make a new clip Section 3.6 on page 26
4. Send the clip to the Storyboard Section 4.2.1 on page 27
5. Preview the Storyboard in the Player P ane Section 4.3 on page 29
6. Export the Storyboard Section 4.4 on page 30
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2. Media Manager

2.1 PURPOSE

The Media Manager pane allows you to quickly fin d and browse the availabl e A/V media present within the database.

2.2 OVERVIEW OF THE M EDIA MANAGER

The upper part of the pane gives access to the different filters which can be applied to the media list.
At least two tabs exi st on the left of the Medi a Manager window.
• The Filter 0 tab: The element list displays the list of all media present in the
database, or it retur ns the result of a sear ch applied to the list.
• The Today tab: the el ement list shown the media w ith ‘creation date = toda y’.
Additional tabs are displayed when the users have saved filters applied to the database. Refer to sec tion ‘Using Saved Filters ’ on page 13 for more detail s.
Media items are displa yed in columns. The element list dis plays the list of all media present in the database, or it returns
the result of a searc h applied to the list.

2.3 MEDIA LIS T

DISPLAYED COLUMNS

It is possible to re-arrange the columns order, and to add or remove some columns.
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Opens the Render List window listing all types of
restore processes that were achieved for the selected
Opens the Media Properties window which shows the
displayed and allows to modify the media metadata
Right-clicking on any of the column headings displays a contextual menu. The Choose Displayed Columns option opens the Select Visible Columns window allowing you to choose the columns you want to be displayed in the element l ist.
The column width and or der can be adjusted using drag and drop techniques.

MEDIA LIST CONTEXTUAL MENU

A contextual menu is a vailable when you right-click on a media item in the l ist:
Menu Item Description Play Loads the media on the P layer window.
Render List
rendering that have b een done with the media.
Archive History Opens the Archive History window listing the archive and
media.
View Properties
properties for the selected media. If a default metadata profile has been defined for the media, a metadata tab is
values.

2.4 SEARCHING THE DATAB ASE

INTRODUCTION

When the database contains large amount s of data, it may become difficult to find a specific element. Th e Xedio Suite offers sever al ways to speed up your search:
• quick text search
• filters on parameters
By default, the columns that are taken into consideration for the Quick Text Search are the ones cu rrently visible in the grid.
If you wish to search in other columns, and view the string you are searching for in the columns, you can:
• add other columns to t he element list view
• use Filters, as expla ined in section ‘Advanc ed Filters’ on page 7
These search tools are explained in detail bel ow. Quick text search and filters on parameters, as well as several filters on
parameters, can be com bined and saved for later use. All the criteria must be met in the results list ( an ‘AND’ operator is applied). These Saved Filters can then be applied in one click.
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