Pinnacle Systems Media Composer - 10.0 User Guide

Avid® Media Composer® and

Film Composer

Editing Guide

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Avid Media Composer and Film Composer Editing Guide • Part 0130-05012-01 Rev. A

• April 2002

Using This Guide

Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Related Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

How to Order Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Chapter 1 Editing Overview

Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Preparing to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Editing a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Chapter 2 Desktop Basics (Windows)

Working with the Desktop (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Working with Windows (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Dragging Windows Without Showing

the Contents (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Setting Your Screen Resolution (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Understanding the Avid Media Composer and Film Composer

Folders (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders (Windows) . . 55

Exploring the Avid Projects and Avid Users

Folders (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Changing Project and User Names (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Deleting Projects and User Profiles (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Retrieving Bin Files from the Attic Folder (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Starting the Avid Application (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Chapter 3 Desktop Basics (Macintosh)

Understanding the Avid Media Composer and

Avid Film Composer Folders (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users

Folders (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Exploring the Avid Projects and Avid Users

Folders (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Changing Project and User Names (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Deleting Projects and User Profiles (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Retrieving Bin Files from the Attic Folder (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Chapter 4 Starting a Work Session

Opening and Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Identifying a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Creating a New User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Selecting an Existing User. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Setting Film Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Selecting an Existing Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Nesting Projects in Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Saving Your Project Information (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Saving Your Project Information (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Restoring from a Backup (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Restoring from a Backup (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Ending a Work Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Quitting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Turning Off Your Equipment (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Turning Off Your Equipment (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Mounting and Ejecting Media Drives (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Ejecting Drives (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Mounting All Drives (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Mounting and Ejecting Media Drives (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Ejecting Drives (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Mounting All Drives (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Session Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Chapter 5 Working with the Project Window

Exploring the Project Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Creating a Folder in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Renaming a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Opening and Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Opening Bins from Other Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Emptying the Trash in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Saving Bins Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using the Settings Scroll List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Reviewing Basic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Film Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Bin Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Interface Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Keyboard Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Displaying Project Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Changing the Settings Scroll List Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Selecting Another User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Working with Multiple Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Duplicating Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Naming Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Selecting Among Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Deleting Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Restoring Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Copying Settings Between Settings Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using Site Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Viewing Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Accessing the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Displaying Usage Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Displaying Disk Space Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Customizing the Avid User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Changing Shading Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Changing Button Separation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Changing Button Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Creating a New Workspace Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Linking User Settings and Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Switching Between Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Understanding Avid Unity MediaNet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network . . . . . . . . . . 164

Sharing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Shared Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Shared Bins and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Working with Locks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Chapter 6 Using Basic Tools

Exploring Dialog Boxes and Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Using the Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Using the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Understanding Button Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Using the Blank Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Mapping Modifier Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Mapping Menu Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Activating Commands from the Command Palette. . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Avid Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Displaying System Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Getting Information with the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Using Avid System Test Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Using the Serial (COM) Ports Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Configuring a Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Chapter 7 Organizing with Bins

Preparing to Work with Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Adjusting Audio Pan Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Adjusting Default Pan Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Using the Center Pan Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Using Audio Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Film Scene Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Understanding Bin Display Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Bin Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Customizing Bin Views in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Saving a Custom Bin View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Duplicating Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Copying Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Deleting Clips, Subclips, Sequences, and Media Files . . . . . . . . 213

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Adding a Color Column to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Assigning a Source Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Assigning a Custom Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Limiting Color Choices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Sifting Within a Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Selecting Sources Used by an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Deleting a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Moving Within Column Cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Copying Information from Another Cell in a

Custom Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Sorting Clips in Ascending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Sorting Clips in Descending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Multilevel Sorting with Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Sorting Clips by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the

Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns . . . . . 246

Bin Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Arranging Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Playing Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Creating Audio Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Storyboard Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Chapter 8 Managing Media Files

Working with Media Files in an Avid Unity Environment. . . . . . . . 266

Configuring Avid Editing Systems to Work with

MediaManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Basic Media Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Opening the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Freeing Storage Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Consolidating Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Understanding the Consolidate Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Using the Consolidate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Using Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . 283

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Restoring an Archive from Videotape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Relinking Clips to Media Files or Bin Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Unlinking Clips from Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Chapter 9 Using Script Integration

Line Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Explanation of Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Lining in the Digital Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Using Script Integration in Video Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . 310

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a

Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Adjusting the Script Margins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Manipulating Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Changing the Font of the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Using Page and Scene Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Adding a Page or Scene Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Changing a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Deleting a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Searching for a Page or Scene Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Conducting a Text Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Linking Clips to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Interpolating Position for Script Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Manipulating Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Resizing Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Showing One Take Per Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Moving a Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Manipulating Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Deleting Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Loading Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Playing Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Using Color Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Automating Screening and Marking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Loading and Playing Marked Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Deleting a Script Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Finding Clips and Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Editing with the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Assembling a Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Chapter 10 Viewing and Marking Footage

Customizing the Composer Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Using 16:9 for 24p and 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Copying Text from the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Displaying Timecode in the Timecode Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Displaying Multiple Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Understanding Composer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Color Framing Options (Edit Tab). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Miscellaneous Composer Options (Edit Tab). . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Fast Forward and Rewind Options (FF/REW Tab) . . . . . . 366

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Viewing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Fast Frame Display in 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Loading Footage into the Playback and Pop-up Monitors . . . . 372

Loading Footage into the Source, Record, and

Pop-up Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Loading Multiple Clips or Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Using the Clip Name Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Switching Between Loaded Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Clearing Clips from Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Resizing Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Hiding the Video in a Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Resizing a Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Customizing the Playback Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Controlling Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Using Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Play Reverse, Play, Pause, Stop, Rewind, and

Fast Forward Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Play Standby Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Step Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Using Single-Field Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Home, End, and Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Using the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Jogging with the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Shuttling with the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Marking IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Moving IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . 392

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Copying Locators from Source Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Deleting Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Understanding the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Displaying Timecode or Footage in the

Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Sorting Information in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Accessing a Locator in a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . 402

Deleting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . 404

Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Searching for a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence . . . . . . . . 413

Finding a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Chapter 11 Editing in Source/Record Mode

Entering Source/Record Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Setting Up a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Changing the Sequence Name and Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

User Preferences for Creating Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Making an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Undoing or Redoing Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Performing an Overwrite Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Single-Mark Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Using Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Setting One Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Adding a Second Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Extracting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Copying Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Preserving Clipboard Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Adding Comments to Sequence Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Playing the New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Starting a Playback Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Playback Performance Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Setting a Limited Play Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Playing a Sequence Using a Limited Play Length . . . . . . . . 444

Fine-Tuning the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Chapter 12 Using the Timeline

Understanding Timeline Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline . . . . . . . . 452

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Moving a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Displaying Local and Source Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . 456

Displaying Source Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Displaying Local Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Changing the Timeline Background Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Showing Locators in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Saving a Customized Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Timeline Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Exploring the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar/Position Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Displaying Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Zooming In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Focusing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Using the Full-Screen Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Understanding Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Segment Mode Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Selecting and Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Selecting Segments with the Segment Mode Pointer . . . . . 476

Lassoing One or More Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Performing Segment Mode Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Understanding the Four-Frame Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Extracting/Splicing Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Lifting/Overwriting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Deleting Segments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Marking Clips and Sequences in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . 485

Adding Comments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Using Advanced Timeline Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Bin Editing into the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard . . . . 488

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and

Tail Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Working with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Understanding Effects Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Understanding Nesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Using the Track Selector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Monitoring Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Monitoring Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Monitoring a Solo Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Patching Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Locking and Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Locking Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Adding a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Adding an Edit (Match Framing). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Adding Edits to Filler Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Removing Match-Frame Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Backtiming Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Additional Offline Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Detecting Duplicate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Adjusting Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Tracking Color Frame Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Finding Black Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Finding Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Chapter 13 Working in Trim Mode

Understanding Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Quick Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Big Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Trim Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Entering and Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Entering Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Switching Between Quick Trim Mode and the

Playback Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Setting Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Exiting Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Using Basic Trim Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Selecting Trim Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Selecting Video Tracks in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Audio Solo in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Selecting Additional Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Performing a Basic Trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Reviewing the Trim Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Reviewing an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Trimming On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Dual-Image Playback During Trims. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Creating Overlap Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Slipping or Sliding Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Selecting Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

The Slip/Slide Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Performing the Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Slipping Shots in Source/Record Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Maintaining Sync While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Adding Black When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Using the Transition Corner Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Chapter 14 Working with Audio

Exploring the Audio Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Accessing Audio Effect Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Audio Editing Aids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Soloing Audio Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Smooth Scrub Versus Digital Scrub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Selecting Tracks for Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Using the J-K-L Keys to Perform Smooth Scrub. . . . . . . . . . 559

Using the Mouse to Perform Smooth Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Using Digital Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Adjusting Digital Scrub Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Performing the Digital Scrub Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Displaying Waveform Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Identifying the Sample Rate by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Muting the Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Using the Audio Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Resizing the Audio Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Adjusting One Audio Track at a Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Changing an Audio Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Adjusting Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Applying Pan Value Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Ganging and Adjusting Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Rendering an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Modifying Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Creating or Modifying an Audio Pan/Vol Effect. . . . . . . . . 576

Modifying How the System Interprets Pan

During Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Adjusting Volume While Playing an Audio Mix Effect . . . . . . . 578

Limitations on Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Improving Response Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Using Audio Gain Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Automation Gain Values and System Clip Gain Values . . . . . . 580

Adjusting Volume in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Deleting Audio Gain Keyframes in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . 584

Moving Audio Gain Keyframes in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . 584

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to

Adjust Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Understanding the Automation Gain Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Track Solo Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Position Indicator Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Selecting Tracks in the Automation Gain Tool . . . . . . . . . . 592

Automation Gain Tool Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Recording Automation Gain Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Using the Automation Gain Tool Sliders to

Record Gain Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Using a Keyboard Shortcut When Editing

Audio Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to

Record Audio Gain Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Using the Audio EQ Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Audio EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

Basic EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

EQ-Specific Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Applying Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Removing Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Audio EQ Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Low Shelf Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Small Octave Range Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Applying an EQ Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Creating Your Own Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Adding an EQ Template to the Audio EQ Tool

Fast Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Understanding Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Installing AudioSuite Plug-Ins (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Installing AudioSuite Plug-Ins (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

Starting and Quitting the DAE Application

(Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

Setting Playback Buffer Size (Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Using Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline . . . . 621

Using a Plug-In Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

AudioSuite Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Rendering Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Creating New Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

AudioSuite Controls for Creating New Master Clips . . . . . 625

Mono, Stereo, and Multichannel Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Using AudioSuite Plug-ins to Create New Master

Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Using AudioSuite Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Plug-in Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633

Troubleshooting AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633

Addressing Memory Allocation Problems

(Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Canceling a Render Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

Addressing Error Messages When Rendering a

Plug-in Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

Understanding Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

Creating Voice-Overs Using the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . 639

Connecting the Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Creating the Voice-Over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Scenarios for Using the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Monitoring the Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Monitoring Previously Recorded Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Using Peak Hold While Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Using the MCS3 with the Audio Punch-In Tool. . . . . . . . . . 644

Voice-Over Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Using a GPI Device with the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Understanding GPI Trigger Signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

GPI Signal Sequence When Using the Audio Punch-In

Tool Without Preroll or Postroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

GPI Signal Sequence When Using the Audio Punch-In

Tool with Preroll and Postroll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

Example of Linking GPI Actions to Trigger Signals . . . . . . 649

Connecting a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Configuring a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Creating a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Editing a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Deleting a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Fine-Tuning Audio Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Fading and Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Fading Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658

Mixing Down Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

Changing the Sample Rate for Sequences and Audio Clips. . . . . . . 661

Displaying Audio Formats in Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Working with Zaxcom Deva and Aaton InDaw Audio . . . . . . . . . . 663

Chapter 15 Syncing Methods

Autosyncing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Using the AutoSequence Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Resyncing Subframe Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Managing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Editing to Avoid Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Displaying Sync Breaks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Fixing Sync Breaks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Fixing Sync in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Fixing Sync in Source/Record Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Fixing Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Managing Sync with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Using Sync Lock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

Syncing with Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

Using Add Edit When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Using Sync Point Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Ganging Footage in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Match Framing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Chapter 16 MultiCamera Editing

Understanding Grouping and Multigrouping Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Creating Group Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Creating Multigroup Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

MultiCamera Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

Full-Monitor Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

Quad Split Source View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

Nine Split Source View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Playing a Linecut on the Source and Client Monitors . . . . . . . . 699

MultiCamera Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

MultiCamera Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Switching Clips with the Arrow Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

Cutting On-the-Fly with MultiCam Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Editing and Playing Back a Linecut in MultiCamera

Edit Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Using the Add Edit Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Using the Group Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Using the Multi-angle View Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Using Match Frame in MultiCamera Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

MultiCamera Workflow Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Selective Camera Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Cutting On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Combination Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712

Additional Offline Editing Aids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Appendix A Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins

Accessing the AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Description of Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

Invert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718

Duplicate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718

Normalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718

Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Signal Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

DC Offset Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Time Compression Expansion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Master Clip Mode Parallel Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

Time Compression Expansion Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

Pitch Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

Pitch Shift Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

EQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

EQ II Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

Compressor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Using Compression Effectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Compressor Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Limiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Limiter Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736

Gate Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736

Expander/Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737

Expander/Gate Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738

Mod Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Mod Delay Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Additional Supported Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Digidesign Intelligent Noise Reduction (DINR)—

Broadband Noise Reduction (BNR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Focusrite d3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Maxim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Digidesign D-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Digidesign D-FX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Appendix B Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer

Using the FaderMaster Pro and MCS-3000X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

MCS-3000X Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Using the Snap Mode Feature on the MCS-3000X. . . . . . . . . . . . 749

Ganging Faders on the FaderMaster Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750

Using the Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750

Setting Up the Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751

Initializing the Yamaha 01V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Configuring the Mixer to Recognize MIDI Control

Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Starting the Avid System with the Yamaha 01V Attached . . . . 753

Operational Notes for the Yamaha 01V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

Soloing Avid System Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

Appendix C Keyboard Shortcuts: Macintosh and Windows Equivalents

Command Key = Control Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758

Option Key = Alt Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758

Macintosh Control Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Other Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

Appendix D Using the MCS3 Controller

Configuring the MCS3 Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762

Using the Default Button Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

Default Navigation Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

Default Function Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

Mapping MCS3 Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

Configuring a Shifted Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Customizing the Maximum Jog Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Customizing the Maximum Shuttle Speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768

Creating Multiple Controller Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Editing Footage with the MCS3 Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Moving Through Footage in Jog Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Moving Through Footage in Shuttle Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Using the MCS3 for Editing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

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