Pinnacle Systems Media Composer Adrenaline - 1.0 User’s Guide

Avid® Media Composer

Adrenaline

Editing Guide

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Avid Media Composer Adrenaline Editing Guide • Part 0130-05721-01 • May 2003

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Accessing the Tutorial and Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Avid Educational Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Chapter 1 Editing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Editing Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Preparing to Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Editing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Chapter 2 Desktop Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Working with the Desktop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using the Macintosh Dock (Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Dragging Windows (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting Your Screen Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Changing Screen Resolution (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using the Avid Media Composer Adrenaline Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Using the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Deleting Projects and User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . 53

Starting the Avid Application (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Chapter 3 Starting a Work Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Opening and Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Changing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Selecting a Shared Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Selecting an External Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Creating a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Changing User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or Floppy Disk . . . . . . . 74

Restoring from a Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Ending a Work Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Quitting the Avid Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Turning Off Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Mounting and Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Session Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Chapter 4 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Creating a Folder in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Opening and Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Opening Bins from Other Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Emptying the Trash in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Saving Bins Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Reviewing Basic Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Displaying Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Changing the Settings Scroll List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Selecting Another User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Working with Multiple Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Duplicating Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Naming Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Selecting Among Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Deleting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Restoring Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Copying Settings Between Settings Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Using Site Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Viewing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Accessing the Hardware Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Displaying Usage Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Displaying Disk Space Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Changing Shading Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Customizing Your Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Switching Between Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Assigning a Workspace Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Understanding Avid Unity MediaNetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Shared Bins and Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Working with Locks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Chapter 5 Using Basic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Customizing Toolsets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Using the Tools Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using the Deck Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using the Command Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Understanding Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Mapping Modifier Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Getting Information with the Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Using the Communication (Serial) Ports Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Chapter 6 Organizing with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Preparing to Work with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Adjusting Audio Pan Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Adjusting Default Pan Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Using the Center Pan Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Film Scene Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Enabling and Disabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Closing the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . 168

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . 169

Deleting a Bin with the SuperBin Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Using Bin Display Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Displaying Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Lassoing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Duplicating Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Deleting Clips, Subclips, and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Adding a Color Column to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Assigning a Source Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Assigning a Custom Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Limiting Color Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Sifting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Sifting Within a Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Selecting Sources Used by an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Using Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Arranging Bin Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Moving and Rearranging Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Deleting a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Changing a Custom Column Heading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Copying Information from Another Cell in a Custom Column . 199

Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Sorting Clips in Ascending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Sorting Clips in Descending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Performing Multilevel Sorting with Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Sorting Clips by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . 203

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns. . . . . . . . 203

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Arranging Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Playing Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Creating Video Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Creating Audio Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Storyboard Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Chapter 7 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Working with Media Files in an Avid Unity Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Configuring Avid Editing Systems to Work with MediaManager

and TransferManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Support for an Avid Unity LANshare Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Basic Media Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Opening the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Freeing Storage Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Consolidating Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Understanding the Consolidate Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Using the Consolidate Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Using the Transcode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Using Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . 241

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Restoring an Archive from Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Relinking Clips to Media Files or Bin Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Relinking to Selected Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Relinking Consolidated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Unlinking Clips from Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Chapter 8 Using Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Lined Script Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Explanation of Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Lining in the Digital Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Script Window Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window . . . 266

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Manipulating Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Changing the Font of the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Removing Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Searching Through Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Using Page and Scene Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Adding a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Changing a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Deleting a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Searching for a Page or Scene Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Conducting a Text Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Linking Clips to the Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Interpolating Position for Script Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Manipulating Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Resizing Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Hiding Slate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Showing One Take Per Slate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Manipulating Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Displaying Take Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Playing Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Loading and Playing Marked Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Editing with the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Assembling a Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Chapter 9 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Customizing the Composer Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Viewing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Using 16:9 for 24p and 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Copying Text from the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Displaying Timecode in the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Displaying Multiple Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Understanding Composer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Using the Tool Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Viewing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Fast Frame Display in 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Loading Footage into the Playback and Pop-up Monitors . . . . . . . 319

Loading Footage into the Source, Record, and Pop-up Monitors . 320

Loading Multiple Clips or Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Using the Clip Name Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Switching Between Loaded Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Clearing Clips from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Resizing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Hiding the Video in a Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Resizing a Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Customizing the Playback Monitor Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Controlling Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Using Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

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

Forward Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Play Standby Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Step Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Using Single-Field Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Home, End, and Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Using the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Jogging with the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Shuttling with the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Connecting a Client Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Selecting the Client Monitor Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Supporting a Camera Without Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Marking IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Moving IN to OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Dragging IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Copying Locators from Source Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Understanding the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Displaying Timecode or Footage in the Locators Window. . . . 348

Sorting Information in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Accessing a Locator in a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Deleting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Searching for a Clip or Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Performing a Reverse Match Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Finding a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . 359

Finding a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Chapter 10 Editing in Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Entering Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Setting Up a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Changing the Sequence Name and Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

User Preferences for Creating Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Making an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Undoing or Redoing Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Single-Mark Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Using Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Setting One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Adding a Second Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Extracting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Preserving Clipboard Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Adding Comments to Sequence Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Playing the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Playback Performance Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Setting a Limited Play Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Playing a Sequence Using a Limited Play Length. . . . . . . . . . 385

Fine-Tuning the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Chapter 11 Using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Understanding Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Moving a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Displaying Local and Source Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Displaying Source Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Displaying Local Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Changing the Timeline Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Showing Locators in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Saving a Customized Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Restoring the Default Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Timeline Settings Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Exploring the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar/Position Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Displaying Detail in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Zooming In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Focusing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Using the Full-Screen Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Viewing Full Quality and Draft Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Understanding Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Segment Mode Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Selecting and Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Selecting Segments with the Segment Mode Pointer . . . . . . . 411

Lassoing One or More Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Deselecting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Performing Segment Mode Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Understanding the Four-Frame Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Slipping or Sliding Segments in a Four-Frame Display . . . . . . . . . 415

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Extracting/Splicing Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Lifting/Overwriting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Deleting Segments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Marking Clips and Sequences in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . 420

Adding Comments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Using Advanced Timeline Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Bin Editing into the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . 422

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands . . . . 425

Working with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Understanding Effects Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Understanding Nesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Using the Track Selector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Monitoring Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Monitoring Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Monitoring a Solo Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Patching Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Locking and Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Adding a Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Adding an Edit (Match Framing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Adding Edits to Filler Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Removing Match-Frame Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Additional Offline Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Detecting Duplicate Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Adjusting Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Tracking Color Frame Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Finding Black Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Finding Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Printing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Chapter 12 Working in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Understanding Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Quick Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Big Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Trim Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Entering and Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Entering Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Switching Between Quick Trim Mode and the Playback

Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Setting Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Exiting Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Using Basic Trim Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Selecting Trim Sides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Selecting Video Tracks in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Audio Solo in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Selecting Additional Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Performing a Basic Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Reviewing the Trim Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Reviewing an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Trimming On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Dual-Image Playback During Trims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Slipping or Sliding Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Selecting Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

The Slip/Slide Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Performing the Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Slipping Shots in Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Maintaining Sync While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Adding Black When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Using the Transition Corner Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Chapter 13 Working with Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Exploring the Audio Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Accessing Audio Effect Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Audio Editing Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Soloing Audio Tracks in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Smooth Scrub Versus Digital Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Selecting Tracks for Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Using the J-K-L Keys to Perform Smooth Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Using the Mouse to Perform Smooth Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Using Digital Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Adjusting Digital Scrub Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Performing the Digital Scrub Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Displaying Waveform Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Identifying the Sample Rate by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Muting the Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Using the Audio Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Resizing the Audio Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Adjusting One Audio Track at a Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Changing an Audio Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Adjusting Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Applying Pan Value Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Ganging and Adjusting Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Rendering an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Modifying Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Creating or Modifying an Audio Pan/Vol Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Modifying How the System Interprets Pan During

Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Adjusting Volume While Playing an Audio Mix Effect. . . . . . . . . . . 503

Limitations on Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Improving Response Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Using Audio Gain Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Automation Gain Values and System Clip Gain Values . . . . . . . . . 506

Adjusting Volume in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Deleting Audio Gain Keyframes in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Moving Audio Gain Keyframes in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to Adjust Volume . . . 511

Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Understanding the Automation Gain Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Track Solo Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Position Indicator Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Selecting Tracks in the Automation Gain Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Automation Gain Tool Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Recording Automation Gain Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Using the Automation Gain Tool Sliders to Record Gain

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Using a Keyboard Shortcut When Editing Audio

Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to Record

Audio Gain Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Using the Audio EQ Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Audio EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Basic EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

EQ-Specific Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Applying Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Removing Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Audio EQ Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Low Shelf Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Small Octave Range Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Applying an EQ Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Creating Your Own Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Adding an EQ Template to the Audio EQ Tool Fast Menu . . . 537

Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Understanding Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Installing AudioSuite Plug-Ins (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Installing AudioSuite Plug-Ins (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Starting and Quitting the DAE Application (Macintosh Only) . . . . . 542

Setting Playback Buffer Size (Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Using Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline . . . . . . . . 544

Using a Plug-In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

AudioSuite Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Rendering Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Creating New Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

AudioSuite Controls for Creating New Master Clips . . . . . . . . 547

Mono, Stereo, and Multichannel Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Using AudioSuite Plug-ins to Create New Master Clips . . . . . 551

Using AudioSuite Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Plug-in Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Troubleshooting AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Addressing Memory Allocation Problems (Macintosh Only) . . 554

Canceling a Render Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Addressing Error Messages When Rendering a Plug-in

Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Understanding Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Creating Voice-Overs Using the Audio Punch-In Tool. . . . . . . . . . 559

Connecting the Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Creating the Voice-Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Scenarios for Using the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Monitoring the Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Monitoring Previously Recorded Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Using Peak Hold While Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Voice-Over Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Using a GPI Device with the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Understanding GPI Trigger Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

GPI Signal Sequence When Using the Audio Punch-In

Tool Without Preroll or Postroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

GPI Signal Sequence When Using the Audio Punch-In

Tool with Preroll and Postroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Example of Linking GPI Actions to Trigger Signals . . . . . . . . . 567

Connecting a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Configuring a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Creating a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Editing a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Deleting a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Fine-Tuning Audio Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Fading and Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Fading Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Dipping Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Mixing Down Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Changing the Sample Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Displaying Audio Formats in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Chapter 14 Syncing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Autosyncing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Using the AutoSequence Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Resyncing Subframe Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Managing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Editing to Avoid Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Displaying Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Fixing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Fixing Sync in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Fixing Sync in Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Fixing Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Managing Sync with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Using Sync Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Syncing with Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Using Add Edit When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Using Sync Point Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Ganging Footage in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Match framing Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Chapter 15 MultiCamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Understanding Grouping and Multigrouping Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Creating Group Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

Creating Multigroup Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

MultiCamera Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Full-Monitor Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Quad Split Source View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Nine Split Source View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Playing a Linecut on the Source and Client Monitors . . . . . . . . . . 606

MultiCamera Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

MultiCamera Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Switching Clips with the Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Using the Add Edit Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Using the Group Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Using the Multi-angle View Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Using Match Frame in MultiCamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

MultiCamera Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Selective Camera Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Figures

Figure 1 Sample Statistics File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Figure 2 Sample Spreadsheet Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Figure 3 Tracking Information Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Figure 4 Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Figure 5 Timeline Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Figure 6 Track Selector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Figure 7 V-LAN VLXi Controller and VLXi-GT GPI. . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Tables

Table 1 Project Types for Media Composer Adrenaline

Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Table 2 Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Table 3 Settings Display Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Table 4 Navigation Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Table 5 Object Icon Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Table 6 Range Menu Items for Explicit Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183

Table 7 Range Menu Items for Implicit Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Table 8 Modifiable Bin Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Table 9 Modify Command Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197

Table 10 Timecode Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Table 11 Timecode Frame Counts for Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Table 12 Bin Column Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

Table 13 Consolidate/Transcode Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236

Table 14 Consolidate-Only Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237

Table 15 Transcode-Only Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238

Table 16 Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Table 17 Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306

Table 18 Shuttle Using J-K-L Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331

Table 19 Timeline Fast Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391

Table 20 Number of Tracks Versus Scrub Speeds . . . . . . . . . . . .486

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of an Avid™ system. You can use your system to create broadcast-quality output incorporating every possible production element from full-speed, high-resolution footage, to multimedia artwork and animation, to computer-generated effects and titling.

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.

Who Should Use This Guide

This guide is intended for all Avid Media Composer® Adrenaline™ users, from beginning to advanced, who are interested in learning essential skills for assembling programs of any length in the Avid nonlinear environment and finishing high-end, uncompressed, quality television programs and commercials.

About This Guide

This guide will be your primary learning tool for editing procedures as you progress through early projects and will remain your principal source for procedures in the future. This self-training guide, in combination with the accompanying documentation, provides comprehensive task-oriented instructions for using the system.

Using This Guide

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

• Chapter 1, “Editing Overview,” helps you to get oriented with beginning concepts and a general workflow, and provides valuable pointers to keep in mind as you proceed.

• Chapter 2 through Chapter 15 follow the natural flow of your work, with clear and comprehensive step-by-step procedures.

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

Symbols and Conventions

Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows XP and Mac OS X operating systems. When the text applies to a specific operating system, it is marked as follows:

• (Windows) or (Windows only) means the information applies to the Windows XP operating system.

• (Macintosh) or (Macintosh only) means the information applies to the Mac OS X operating system.

The majority of screen shots in this document were captured on a Windows XP system, but the information applies to both Windows XP and Mac OS X systems. Where differences exist, both Windows XP and Mac OS X screen shots are shown.

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

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.

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