Pinnacle Systems Instinct - 3.0 User’s Guide

Avid® Instinct

User’s Guide

Version 3.0

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Legal Notices

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

This product is subject to the terms and conditions of a software license agreement provided with the software. The product may only be used in accordance with the license agreement.

Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following United States Patents: 5,267,351; 5,309,528; 5,355,450; 5,396,594; 5,440,348; 5,467,288; 5,513,375; 5,528,310; 5,557,423; 5,577,190; 5,584,006; 5,640,601; 5,644,364; 5,654,737; 5,724,605; 5,726,717; 5,745,637; 5,752,029; 5,754,851; 5,799,150; 5,812,216; 5,828,678; 5,842,014; 5,852,435; 5,986,584; 5,999,406; 6,038,573; 6,069,668; 6,141,007; 6,211,869; 6,532,043; 6,546,190; 6,596,031; 6,747,705; 6,763,523; 6,766,357; 6,847,373; 7,081,900; 7,403,561; 7,433,519; 7,671,871; 7,684,096; D352,278; D372,478; D373,778; D392,267; D392,268; D392,269; D395,291; D396,853; D398,912. Other patents are pending.

Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following European Patents: 0506870; 0635188; 0674414; 0752174; 1111910; 1629675. Other patents are pending.

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Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software [i.e., the TIFF library] and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.

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

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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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

The following disclaimer is required by Paradigm Matrix:

Portions of this software licensed from Paradigm Matrix.

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

“Install-It” is licensed from Ray Sauers Associates, Inc. End-User is prohibited from taking any action to derive a source code equivalent of “Install-It,” including by reverse assembly or reverse compilation, Ray Sauers Associates, Inc. shall in no event be liable for any damages resulting from reseller’s failure to perform reseller’s obligation; or any damages arising from use or operation of reseller’s products or the software; or any other damages, including but not limited to, incidental, direct, indirect, special or consequential Damages including lost profits, or damages resulting from loss of use or inability to use reseller’s products or the software for any reason including copyright or patent infringement, or lost data, even if Ray Sauers Associates has been advised, knew or should have known of the possibility of such damages.

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“This software contains V-LAN ver. 3.0 Command Protocols which communicate with V-LAN ver. 3.0 products developed by Videomedia, Inc. and V-LAN ver. 3.0 compatible products developed by third parties under license from Videomedia, Inc. Use of this software will allow “frame accurate” editing control of applicable videotape recorder decks, videodisc recorders/players and the like.”

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Certain real-time compositing capabilities are provided under a license of such technology from Ultimatte Corporation and are subject to copyright protection.

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

The following disclaimer is required by Interplay Entertainment Corp.:

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

This product includes portions of the Alloy Look & Feel software from Incors GmbH.

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This product may include the JCifs library, for which the following notice applies:

Avid Interplay contains components licensed from LavanTech. These components may only be used as part of and in connection with Avid Interplay.

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Trademarks

003, 192 Digital I/O, 192 I/O, 96 I/O, 96i I/O, Adrenaline, AirSpeed, ALEX, Alienbrain, AME, AniMatte, Archive, Archive II, Assistant Station, AudioPages, AudioStation, AutoLoop, AutoSync, Avid, Avid Active, Avid Advanced Response, Avid DNA, Avid DNxcel, Avid DNxHD, Avid DS Assist Station, Avid Liquid, Avid Media Engine, Avid Media Processor, Avid MEDIArray, Avid Mojo, Avid Remote Response, Avid Unity, Avid Unity ISIS, Avid VideoRAID, AvidRAID, AvidShare, AVIDstripe, AVX, Axiom, Beat Detective, Beauty Without The Bandwidth, Beyond Reality, BF Essentials, Bomb Factory, Boom, Bruno, C|24, CaptureManager, ChromaCurve, ChromaWheel, Cineractive Engine, Cineractive Player, Cineractive Viewer, Color Conductor, Command|24, Command|8, Conectiv, Control|24, Cosmonaut Voice, CountDown, d2, d3, DAE, Dazzle, Dazzle Digital Video Creator, D-Command, D-Control, Deko, DekoCast, D-Fi, D-fx, Digi 003, DigiBase, DigiDelivery, Digidesign, Digidesign Audio Engine, Digidesign Development Partners, Digidesign Intelligent Noise Reduction, Digidesign TDM Bus, DigiLink, DigiMeter, DigiPanner, DigiProNet, DigiRack, DigiSerial, DigiSnake, DigiSystem, Digital Choreography, Digital Nonlinear Accelerator, DigiTest, DigiTranslator, DigiWear, DINR, DNxchange, DPP-1, D-Show, DSP Manager, DS-StorageCalc, DV Toolkit, DVD Complete, D-Verb, Eleven, EM, EveryPhase, Expander, ExpertRender, Fader Pack, Fairchild, FastBreak, Fast Track, Film Cutter, FilmScribe, Flexevent, FluidMotion, Frame Chase, FXDeko, HD Core, HD Process, HDPack, Home-to-Hollywood, HYBRID, HyperControl, HyperSPACE, HyperSPACE HDCAM, iKnowledge, Image Independence, Impact, Improv, iNEWS, iNEWS Assign, iNEWS ControlAir, Instantwrite, Instinct, Intelligent Content Management, Intelligent Digital Actor Technology, IntelliRender, Intelli-Sat, Intelli-sat Broadcasting Recording Manager, InterFX, Interplay, inTONE, Intraframe, iS Expander, ISIS, IsoSync, iS9, iS18, iS23, iS36, ISIS, IsoSync, KeyRig, KeyStudio, LaunchPad, LeaderPlus, LFX, Lightning, Link & Sync, ListSync, LKT-200, Lo-Fi, Luna, MachineControl, Magic Mask, Make Anything Hollywood, make manage move | media, Marquee, MassivePack, Massive Pack Pro, M-Audio, M-Audio Micro, Maxim, Mbox, Media Composer, MediaDock, MediaDock Shuttle, MediaFlow, MediaLog, MediaMatch, MediaMix, Media Reader, Media Recorder, MEDIArray, MediaServer, MediaShare, MetaFuze, MetaSync, MicroTrack, MIDI I/O, Midiman, Mix Rack, MixLab, Moviebox, Moviestar, MultiShell, NaturalMatch, NewsCutter, NewsView, Nitris, NL3D, NLP, Nova, NRV-10 interFX, NSDOS, NSWIN, Octane, OMF, OMF Interchange, OMM, OnDVD, Open Media Framework, Open Media Management, Ozone, Ozonic, Painterly Effects, Palladium, Personal Q, PET, Pinnacle, Pinnacle DistanTV, Pinnacle GenieBox, Pinnacle HomeMusic, Pinnacle MediaSuite, Pinnacle Mobile Media, Pinnacle Scorefitter, Pinnacle Studio, Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard, Pinnacle Systems, Pinnacle VideoSpin, Podcast Factory, PowerSwap, PRE, ProControl, ProEncode, Profiler, Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, Pro Tools M-Powered, Pro Transfer, Pro Tools, QuickPunch, QuietDrive, Realtime Motion Synthesis, Recti-Fi, Reel Tape Delay, Reel Tape Flanger, Reel Tape Saturation, Reprise, Res Rocket Surfer, Reso, RetroLoop, Reverb One, ReVibe, Revolution, rS9, rS18, RTAS, Salesview, Sci-Fi, Scorch, Scorefitter, ScriptSync, SecureProductionEnvironment, Serv|LT, Serv|GT, Session, Shape-to-Shape, ShuttleCase, Sibelius, SIDON, SimulPlay, SimulRecord, Slightly Rude Compressor, Smack!, Soft SampleCell, Soft-Clip Limiter, Solaris, SoundReplacer, SPACE, SPACEShift, SpectraGraph, SpectraMatte, SteadyGlide, Streamfactory, Streamgenie, StreamRAID, Strike, Structure, Studiophile, SubCap, Sundance Digital, Sundance, SurroundScope, Symphony, SYNC HD, Synchronic, SynchroScope, SYNC I/O, Syntax, TDM FlexCable, TechFlix, Tel-Ray, Thunder, Titansync, Titan, TL Aggro, TL AutoPan,

TL Drum Rehab, TL Everyphase, TL Fauxlder, TL In Tune, TL MasterMeter, TL Metro, TL Space, TL Utilities, tools for storytellers, Torq, Torq Xponent, Transfuser, Transit, TransJammer, Trigger Finger, Trillium Lane Labs, TruTouch, UnityRAID, Vari-Fi, Velvet, Video the Web Way, VideoRAID, VideoSPACE, VideoSpin, VTEM, Work-N-Play, Xdeck, X-Form, Xmon, XPAND!, Xponent, X-Session, and X-Session Pro are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

Footage

Arri — Courtesy of Arri/Fauer — John Fauer, Inc. Bell South “Anticipation” — Courtesy of Two Headed Monster — Tucker/Wayne Atlanta/GMS. Canyonlands — Courtesy of the National Park Service/Department of the Interior. Eco Challenge British Columbia — Courtesy of Eco Challenge Lifestyles, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Eco Challenge Morocco — Courtesy of Discovery Communications, Inc. It’s Shuttletime — Courtesy of BCP & Canadian Airlines. Nestlé Coffee Crisp — Courtesy of MacLaren McCann Canada. Saturn “Calvin Egg” — Courtesy of Cossette Communications. “Tigers: Tracking a Legend” — Courtesy of www.wildlifeworlds.com, Carol Amore, Executive Producer. "The Big Swell" — Courtesy of Swell Pictures, Inc. Windhorse — Courtesy of Paul Wagner Productions.

Arizona Images — KNTV Production — Courtesy of Granite Broadcasting, Inc., Editor/Producer Bryan Foote. Canyonlands — Courtesy of the National Park Service/Department of the Interior. Ice Island — Courtesy of Kurtis Productions, Ltd. Tornados + Belle Isle footage — Courtesy of KWTV News 9. WCAU Fire Story — Courtesy of NBC-10, Philadelphia, PA. Women in Sports – Paragliding — Courtesy of Legendary Entertainment, Inc.

News material provided by WFTV Television Inc.

Avid Instinct User’s Guide • 0130-07604-03 Rev A • May 2010 • This document is distributed by Avid in online (electronic) form only, and is not available for purchase in printed form.

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 1 Getting Started with Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

The iNEWS Newsroom Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Overview of the Newsroom Computer System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Asset Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Starting Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Logging In to Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Disabling Desktop Compositing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Exiting Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Automatic Backup of Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Working with MultiRez and Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Understanding the Application Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Video Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Voice-over Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

The Storyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Directory Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Research Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Navigating to a Folder That Contains a Selected Asset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Updating the Application Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Setting an Automatic Timeout for Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Chapter 2 Working with Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using the Directory Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Creating a Shortcut to a Directory or a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Removing a Shortcut to a Directory or a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Opening a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Creating a New Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

The Research Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Display Customizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Changing the Font. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Modifying the Display of the Research Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Hiding and Showing Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Saving a Custom Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Opening Multiple Tabs in the Research Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Editing Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Adding and Rearranging Text in a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Copying Locator Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Splitting Text into New Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Marking Text As Presenter Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Marking Text As Closed Caption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Adding a Production Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Deleting a Production Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Marking Text As Machine Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Marking Text As Normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Read Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Support for iNEWS Hyperlinks and Story Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Saved and Locked Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Saving Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Locking, Closing, and Deleting Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Offline Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Saving Stories in Offline Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Restoring Stories in Offline Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Restoring a Story after a Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Searching for Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Defining the Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the Search Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Chapter 3 Working with Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Working with Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Opening Media Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Creating and Deleting Media Folders and Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Moving, Copying, and Duplicating Clips or Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Customizing the Research Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Changing the Research Panel View Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

The Research Panel Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Media Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Sorting Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Hiding and Showing Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Adding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Selecting Values for a Custom Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Selecting Asset Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Displaying Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Creating New Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Enlarging or Reducing Column Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Renaming Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Adding Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Viewing Thumbnail Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Modifying Writable Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Saving a Custom Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Opening Multiple Tabs in the Research Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Viewing Locators and Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Overview of Finding Media Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Performing Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Keeping Your Search Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Chapter 4 Story Building Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Video Monitor Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Loading Clips in the Video Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Monitoring Audio and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Playing Video Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Using the Position Bar and the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using the Step Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Playing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Scrubbing Through the Storyline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Playing Footage with the J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Using the Zoom Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Marking and Cueing Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Marking In Points and Out Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Dragging In Points and Out Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Cueing the Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Reviewing an Out Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Video Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Sequence-Building Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Adding Video to a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Creating a Story with Video Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Working with Video in the Storyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Adding Video Clips to the Storyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Replacing Video Clips in the Storyline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Deleting Video Clips in the Storyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Story Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Adding and Deleting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Rearranging Segments by Dragging and Dropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Splitting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Adding Copy to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using Trim Mode to Adjust the Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using Auto Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Extending Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Extending Clips On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Saving Your Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Chapter 5 Using Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Before You Begin Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Recording Voice-over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Creating the Voice-over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Recording Voice-over Narration to Multiple Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using a Voice Clip for Voice-over Narration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Using Natural Sound and Sound-on-Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Adding Sound-on-Tape Tracks to the Storyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Disabling and Enabling the NAT Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Overriding the Default NAT and SOT Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Adding SOT Audio to B-Roll Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Inserting a SOT Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Adding B-Roll Footage to a SOT Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Creating Audio Overlaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Adjusting Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Monitoring Audio Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Adjusting Audio Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Working with Two Tracks for NAT and SOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Adding Audio Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Setting the Audio Dissolve Duration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Enabling Center-Panned Sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Chapter 6 Exporting Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Send to Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Exporting Stories for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Setting Working and Target Audio Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Exporting a Story to an Avid Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Checking Out a Sequence from Avid Interplay Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Checking Out a Sequence from the Avid Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Appendix A Using Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

General Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Video Monitor Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Storyline Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Directory Panel Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Research Panel Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Shortcuts for Foreign Language Keyboards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Using This Guide

Avid® Instinct™ is a tool for producers, writers, and journalists that allows them to write Avid iNEWS part of a larger newsroom computer system that includes an iNEWS server and an asset manager, which gives the user access to text and media used in creating stories for broadcast.

This guide contains all the task-oriented instructions, conceptual information, and reference material you need to use the story-creation features of your Avid application.

This guide is intended for all Instinct users, from beginning to advanced. You should be familiar with your Microsoft producing news broadcasts.

The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your

system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

stories and put together simple audio and video sequences. Avid Instinct is

About This Guide

This guide is designed to consolidate all the information you will need to take advantage of the many options that your Avid Instinct application offers.

The Contents lists all topics included in the book. They are presented with the following overall structure:

Windows® XP operating system, and with recording and

• Chapter 1, “Getting Started with Avid Instinct,” describes the overall organization of the iNEWS environment and the general features of the Instinct application.

• The main body of this guide follows the natural flow of your work, with clear and comprehensive step-by-step procedures.

• An appendix summarizes the keyboard shortcuts available to the user.

• Finally, a detailed Index helps you quickly locate specific topics.

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the

(Windows), (Windows only), (Macintosh), or (Macintosh only)

Bold font Bold font is primarily used in task instructions to identify user interface

Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.

Courier Bold font

A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.

items and keyboard sequences.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the

mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using your Avid product:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It is especially important to check each step of your workflow.

2. Check the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published:

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes,

they are shipped with your application and are also available online.

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is

supplied on your Avid installation CD or DVD as a PDF document (README_product.pdf) and is also available online.

You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To view these online versions, select ReadMe from the Help menu, or visit

the Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/readme.

3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

If You Need Help

4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport. Online services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read or join online message-board discussions.

Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Portal

You can quickly access the Interplay Help, PDF versions of the Interplay guides, and useful external links by viewing the Interplay User Information Center on the Interplay Portal. The Interplay Portal is a web site that runs on the Interplay Engine.

You can access the Interplay User Information Center through a browser from any system in the Interplay environment. You can also access it through the Help menu in Interplay Access and the Interplay Administrator.

The Interplay Help combines information from all Interplay guides in one Help system. It includes a combined index and a full-featured search. From the Interplay Portal, you can run the Help in a browser or download a compiled (.chm) version for use on other systems, such as a laptop.

To open the Interplay User Information Center through a browser:

1. Type the following line in a web browser:

http://Interplay_Engine_name

For Interplay_Engine_name substitute the name of the computer running the Interplay Engine software. For example, the following line opens the portal web page on a system named docwg:

http://docwg

2. Click the “Avid Interplay Documentation” link to access the User Information Center web page.

To open the Interplay User Information Center from Interplay Access or the Interplay Administrator:

t Select Help > Documentation Website on Server.

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For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and books, please visit www.avid.com/support and follow the Training links, or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843).

1 Getting Started with Avid Instinct

Avid Instinct provides you with the tools needed for writing iNEWS stories and building simple audio and video sequences to go with those stories. Instinct runs as an iNEWS client and is tightly integrated with both your iNEWS system and your asset manager. The application uses a script-based editing tool and a vertical story layout — called the Storyline — to organize your story elements.

Video and audio source material comes from your shared storage and is accessed by the asset manager. Instinct can search and browse the media database, and it can access media stored on your Avid Unity Working remotely eliminates the need to copy the information to a bin or folder.

Avid Instinct requires a license from your Avid Interplay system. For more information on

licenses, see the Avid Instinct ReadMe and your Avid Interplay documentation.

Instinct has the essential features to access the iNEWS server and be a part of an iNEWS environment. In addition, the application allows you to do the following:

• Create stories

• Add video and audio to your story

• Work with multiple resolutions in a single story

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MediaNetwork or Avid Unity ISIS® shared storage systems.

• Record voice-over narration

• Adjust audio tracks

• Export your story to a playback device or to an Avid editing system such as Avid NewsCutter

The following topics discuss some of the basic features of Avid Instinct:

• The iNEWS Newsroom Environment

• Starting Avid Instinct

• Logging In to Avid Instinct

• Automatic Backup of Stories

• Understanding the Application Layout

• Navigating to a Folder That Contains a Selected Asset

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1 Getting Started with Avid Instinct

• Updating the Application Display

• Setting an Automatic Timeout for Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct

The iNEWS Newsroom Environment

Instinct provides producers, writers, journalists, directors, and various technical personnel in a newsroom with an array of tools to make their jobs easier. The following topics provide an overview of concepts and terms used in the newsroom environment and some general information useful in understanding how Instinct is integrated with a full, digital broadcast solution:

• Overview of the Newsroom Computer System

• Avid Instinct

• Asset Manager

Overview of the Newsroom Computer System

The data you and others in your newsroom create — stories, scripts, news rundowns — are saved in a database on the iNEWS server. The iNEWS server is maintained by your system manager, and Instinct works as a client of the iNEWS server. The Instinct systems in your newsroom are linked together via a network so they can share information. When the iNEWS server receives new information — such as additions or changes to stories — that information can be accessed by clients connected to the server. This enables each system to access the most recent versions of stories and program rundowns, thereby allowing you to work faster and more efficiently.

Avid Instinct

Avid Instinct refers to the basic story building application that runs on the computer on which you work. From Instinct, you can create stories, edit scripts, and access wire stories. You can access media from the media server attached to your network, and you can use that media in your stories as you build a sequence that can then be sent to playback or edited further by video professionals in the newsroom.

Asset Manager

The iNEWS Newsroom Environment

In addition to running as a client of the iNEWS server, Instinct also runs as a client of an Avid Interplay provide access to shared media. The Avid Interplay system allows you to use all of the media clips available to you in a workgroup environment. As you build your story, you can use Instinct to browse and to access the media clips managed by Interplay, add the media clips to your story, and then save your sequence so that others can access your work.

Media clips reference the actual media files, which are stored on your Avid Unity shared

storage system.

Your Interplay administrator must set some site and user settings before you use Instinct. These settings are stored on the Interplay server and are used by Instinct when retrieving media objects managed by the Avid Interplay Engine. Site and user settings include the following:

• Video format (used as the default for stories you create in Instinct, the Video format must be set to either specific NTSC or PAL formats, or any format)

• Source and Storyline audio patching (used for mapping audio tracks)

• Audio parameters (target workspace for voice-over recording, audio rate, ducking volume, audio file format)

• Target and working resolutions

• User permissions for sending stories to playback and for modifying settings

• Avid Interplay Transfer settings

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server, which uses an asset manager called the Avid Interplay Engine to

These settings must be set by an administrator. For more information, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide or the Interplay Help.

1 Getting Started with Avid Instinct

Starting Avid Instinct

In addition to running as a client of Avid iNEWS and Interplay, Instinct accesses shared media stored on either an Avid Unity MediaNetwork system or an Avid Unity ISIS system. Avid Unity client applications should already be installed on your system; however, if you are not certain if the necessary software has been installed, see your system administrator.

To record a voice-over or to send material to playback, you need the following:

• An Avid Unity account with write access to at least one shared-storage workspace

• A workspace to which you have write access. This workspace is specified in the Editing Settings tab of the Application Database Settings in the Interplay Administrator, in the option “Media Creation Workspace.”

If your Windows username and password exactly match the Avid Unity username and password, access to the workspace is automatic. If your Windows username and password do not match, you need to log in through the Client Manager (for Avid Unity ISIS) or the Connection Manager (for Avid Unity MediaNetwork). See your system administrator for more information.

Before you start Instinct for the first time, the administrator for your Avid Interplay system must specify site settings for your system For information on Interplay settings, see the Avid

Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide.

Logging In to Avid Instinct

After Instinct launches, the Server Login dialog box appears. You must log in and select an asset manager and an iNEWS server before you can begin working on the application. In most instances, you only need to specify the asset manager and the iNEWS server the first time you launch Instinct after installation.

To log in from the Server Login dialog box:

1. Click the Start button, and then select Programs > Avid > Avid iNEWS Instinct. The first time you start Instinct, the License Agreement dialog box opens. You must

click Agree to accept the Avid license agreement. After the application initializes, the Server Login dialog box opens.

2. If your user names or your passwords for the asset manager and the iNEWS server are different, select Separate Login.

The Server Login dialog box expands to allow you to log in with separate user accounts on the asset manager and the iNEWS server.

Disabling Desktop Compositing

Separate login option

3. If necessary, enter the name of the Avid Interplay server in the Asset Manager Server text box.

4. If necessary, enter the name of your iNEWS server in the NRCS Server text box. If you do not know the name of the Interplay or the iNEWS server, contact your system administrator.

5. Type your user name in the User text box.

6. Type your password in the Password text box. Interplay passwords are case-sensitive.

7. Click the Login button. If the log in fails, the Server Login dialog box displays an X next to the server to

indicate a failure. Click the Login button again to retry. If the failure persists, see your system administrator.

The Avid Instinct main window appears.

Disabling Desktop Compositing

For proper playback in Interplay Assist or Avid Instinct on Windows Vista or Windows 7 systems, desktop compositing must be disabled. (Desktop compositing supports Aero desktop themes that include transparent window borders and other effects.)

1 Getting Started with Avid Instinct

Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct automatically disable desktop compositing when you launch the application and restore desktop compositing when you close the application. Alternatively, you can select a non-Aero desktop theme or disable desktop compositing through a system setting. These alternative methods prevent a brief flash from appearing when the application disables desktop compositing.

To disable desktop compositing:

1. Access the Control Panel.

2. Do one of the following:

t Click System and Security, then click System. t In Classic view, double-click System.

3. Click “Advanced system settings.”

4. In the System Properties window, click the Advanced tab.

5. Under the Performance area, click Settings.

6. Uncheck “Enable desktop composition.”

Exiting Instinct

To exit Avid Instinct:

t Select Exit from the File menu or press Ctrl+Q.

If you exit Avid Instinct, and attempt to open it immediately afterwards, you might get a message that another instance of the application is already running or is still exiting. Wait approximately thirty seconds and start the application again.

Automatic Backup of Stories

Avid Instinct automatically creates a local backup version of a story in case of a system crash, with “.backup” appended to the story name. If a story is open when Avid Instinct crashes, the next time you log in, a message is displayed, asking if you want to restore the locally backed up story.

• If you select Yes, the backup story is opened and added to the iNEWS queue. If you then want to replace the original story with the backup version, delete the original story and rename the backup version with the name of the original story.

• If you select No, the backup story is not added to the queue.

Working with MultiRez and Dynamic Relink

MultiRez (a term derived from “multiple resolutions”) allows you to associate a clip with multiple media files of different resolutions. For example, you can associate the same audio clip with both low-resolution MP2 and uncompressed PCM, and the uncompressed files can be associated with more than one sample rate or bit depth. MultiRez works with both audio and video files.

When you work with MultiRez, you can easily switch between the different resolutions. This switching is referred to as dynamic relink. Dynamic relink is useful when you want to work with low-resolution media (working resolution) and create your final output in high-resolution media (target resolution).

Your Interplay administrator sets dynamic relink options in two locations in the Avid Interplay Administrator: in the Editing Settings tab of the Application Database Settings and in the Instinct/Assist User Settings. If dynamic relink is enabled, the following relink options must be changed from the default value (“not set”) before the functionality is applied to a site or a user:

Option Setting Description

Dynamic Relink (Editing Settings tab, Application Database Settings)

Send to playback (Editing Settings tab, Application Database Settings)

Video Settings (Instinct/Assist User Settings)

Audio Settings (Instinct/Assist User Settings)

Enabled or Disabled Enables or disables Dynamic Relink.

Target resolution, primary

Audio Target Resolution

Working Resolution Sets the user’s working video resolution.

Working Resolution Sets the user’s working audio resolution. If

Sets a resolution for output to a playback device. The default is DV 25 411.

Sets an audio resolution for output to a playback device. The default is PCM. Also sets the Sample Rate and Bit Depth of the audio for playback.

the working resolution is set to PCM, you can select a sample rate and a bit depth for audio clips.

1 Getting Started with Avid Instinct

When your Avid Interplay administrator enables dynamic relink, Assist or Instinct loads video and audio clips in your working resolution. When you send a sequence to playback, the media clips are automatically relinked to the target resolution. If dynamic relink is disabled, Assist or Instinct loads clips using the resolution the media clips are currently linked to, and Instinct does not relink media when you export it.

For more information on Avid Interplay settings, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide or the Interplay Help.

To check if dynamic relink is enabled:

1. Select Help > About Avid Interplay Assist or Help > About Avid Interplay Instinct.

2. Click the MultiRez tab, and check that the Dynamic Relink Enabled option is set to Yes. MultiRez Enabled is also displayed and should be set to yes. MultiRez enabled means

that the application is capable of using MultiRez and dynamic relink.

3. Click OK.

Understanding the Application Layout

Becoming familiar with the layout of Avid Instinct will help you navigate through the application more quickly.

All of the work you do within Instinct is performed from the main window. From this window, you can navigate through your system, open queues and stories, edit and print scripts, browse media, assemble video and audio clips, prepare sequences, and search the database.

Instinct can display in both the traditional landscape mode and in portrait mode. Portrait mode allows you to take optimal advantage of the vertical layout of Instinct. See the Avid Instinct ReadMe for a list of supported video cards and video drivers that allow you to use portrait mode display.

Understanding the Application Layout

Video monitor

Storyline panel

Directory panel

Research panel

Voice-over controls

The main elements of the Instinct main window are labeled to guide you in the tasks that go into creating a story. The Instinct main window is made up of five components, which are described in the following sections:

• “Video Monitor” on page 26

• “Voice-over Controls” on page 26

• “The Storyline” on page 27

• “Directory Panel” on page 28

• “Research Panel” on page 29

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Timecode

Display buttons

Clip or Story name

Play and Mark buttons

Step buttons

Record button

Video Monitor

The Video monitor appears at the top of the main window. It displays the active video clip or sequence, along with the story name (or slug). Display buttons at the top of the monitor allow you to switch between the raw video (Source), the full sequence (Story), and the active clip in the Storyline (Trim). You can use the Play buttons, Mark buttons, and Step buttons to play, cue, and mark the clip as you create your story.

Voice-over Controls

You use the Voice-over controls for recording voice-over narration. You can set the input source and monitor the volume when you record audio.

The Storyline

Media column Story body

Story Form

Edit buttons

Production column

The Storyline is divided into three main parts:

• The Media column, a vertical layout of your story where you add and delete media clips as you build your story

• The Story body, where the text of your story appears and where you can edit and format the script for your story using the Edit buttons

• The Production column, which displays production cues containing playback instructions for devices such as video machines, still stores, and character generators.

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The Story Form appears at the top of the Storyline. You can set the Story Form to display or remain hidden as you work. The iNEWS server provides the Story Form headings.

To hide the Story Form:

t Select Story > Hide Story Fields.

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Directory Panel

The Directory panel lists the contents of the news and media databases you are accessing. The iNEWS tab includes all of the stories, scripts, assignments, rundowns, and notes stored on your iNEWS server. Using the tabs at the top of the panel, you can also view media stored on your media database.

iNEWS Tab: The iNEWS tab is your guide to iNEWS. It contains the directory or file structure of the iNEWS server. The iNEWS tab is one of the primary elements that make up the Instinct layout, and it can display the following kinds of information:

• Directories — Like file drawers in a file cabinet, directories are storage spaces. Directories can contain more directories (subdirectories) or queues. Directories do not contain stories.

• Queues — Like folders in a file drawer, queues are storage places within the iNEWS tab which allow you to view information in detailed categories. Stories are contained in queues.

• Rundowns — Rundowns are a special type of queue, one that contains timed-out lists of stories indicating the order in which they will run during a news program.

Some broadcast facilities refer to rundowns as lineups.

• Stories — Stories in iNEWS are documents found in queues in the iNEWS database. They can contain any type of information you need to save — from news stories to contact names and addresses. You can display an iNEWS story in its entirety in the

Research panel; however, because Instinct stories also contain media clips, you can display only the text of the story script in the Research panel. To see all of the elements of your story, you must open the story in the Storyline.

Media Tab: The Media tab displays all media folders accessible to Avid Interplay. Using a tree view, the Media tab shows you the following types of information:

• Directories — Directories are storage spaces that contain media folders. Directories do not display individual clips, which you can view in the Research panel.

• Media folders — Folders contain either other folders or the individual media files, such as video clips, that you use when building your stories.

Research Panel

The Research panel is where your active content is listed. It contains all queues, which allow you to open stories in the Storyline, and it lists all selected projects and media folders and catalogs managed by your asset manager. You can load stories and media from the Research panel, which keeps track of your assets in a tabbed window with iNEWS assets on the left of the Research panel and media assets listed on the right. You can also view logging information contained in locators and restrictions added to media clips.

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You also use the Research panel to access Instinct search functions. When you start a search, a Search tab opens in the Research panel. The Search tab allows you to search the iNEWS and the Interplay databases for all stories and media files that fit the search parameters you specify. You can also search any indexed queue or directory on your iNEWS server. Results for both media and iNEWS searches display in the Research panel.

You can change the display properties of the iNEWS tabs of the Research panel by using the

keyboard shortcuts described in “Modifying the Display of the Research Panel” on page 42.

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Navigating to a Folder That Contains a Selected Asset

You can use a command to navigate (go to) to a folder that contains a selected asset. You can also navigate to the folder that will hold the current story when it is saved.

To navigate to a folder that contains a selected media asset:

1. Right-click one of the following and select Open Enclosing Folder:

- An image in the Video monitor (Source mode or Trim mode)

- A clip in the Storyline

- An asset in the Research panel (any tab). The Open Enclosing Folder dialog box opens and displays a list of folders that contain

the asset.

2. Select a folder and click OK. The folder is selected in the directory tree and the contents of the folder are displayed in

a tab in the Research panel, with the selected asset highlighted.

To navigate to an Interplay folder in which a story will be saved:

t Right-click an image in the Video monitor in Story mode and select Open Enclosing

Folder. The folder is selected in the directory tree and the contents of the folder in which the

story will be saved are displayed in a tab in the Research panel. If the folder does not exist yet, the directory tree opens to the nearest location and no contents are displayed.

Updating the Application Display

If material is ingesting as you are working or other people are working in the same project, you might need to update the application display to see the latest content.

To update the application display, do one of the following:

t Select View > Refresh all. t Press F5.

The Directory panel, the Research panel, the Storyline, and the Video monitor update to the latest content. In the Research panel, this includes only the tab in front if you have more than one tab. Tabs that are behind the active tab don’t update. If you try to update before a previous update operation has completed, Instinct ignores the second attempt. Search result tabs are also not updated.

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