Pinnacle Systems Media Composer First User’s Guide

Avid® Media Composer | First

User’s Guide

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

Avid Media Composer | First User’s Guide • Created 8/25/17

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 1 Media Composer | First Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Downloading and Installing Media Composer | First. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Launching Media Composer | First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Creating a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Accessing Your Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Accessing and Previewing Your Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Importing or Linking Your Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Creating a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Adding Clips to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Editing the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Adding Effects to Your Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Adjusting Audio with “Ducking” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Publishing Your Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Create a Publishing Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Chapter 2 Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Turning on Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using the Mac Dock (Mac Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using the Keyboard for Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Antivirus Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Working with Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Setting Project-Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Opening and Closing Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Deleting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Quitting and Turning Off Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Overview of the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the Bins Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Opening and Closing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Creating a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Viewing and Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Saving Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Saving Bins Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using the Settings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the Format Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the Usage Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the Info Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Customizing the Avid User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Overriding Bin and Project Font and Font Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Setting the Media Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Using Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Chapter 4 Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using the Tools Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

The Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Understanding Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using The Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Chapter 5 Working with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Object Icons in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Sorting in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Sorting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Understanding Bin Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Saving a Custom Bin View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Duplicating and Moving Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Deleting Items from a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Assigning Colors to Objects in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Selecting Sources Used by an Object in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Selecting Unreferenced Items in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Working with Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Moving, Aligning, and Deleting Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Changing a Custom Bin Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Copying Information Between Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Modifying Data in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Modify Command Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Copying Information from Another Cell in a Custom Bin Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Applying the Same Text to a Custom Column for Multiple Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Filtering Items in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Chapter 6 Ingesting Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Source Browser Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Accessing and Previewing Your Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Linking Your Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Linking with Multichannel Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Relinking to Linked QuickTime Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Importing Your Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Importing Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Importing Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Importing Photoshop Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Chapter 7 Managing Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Opening the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Consolidating Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Transcoding Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Deleting Unreferenced Clips and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Sequence and Clip Information Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Summary Information Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Chapter 8 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Viewing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Customizing the Composer Window and Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Resizing the Composer Window and Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Displaying Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Using the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Playing Video to a Full-Screen Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Using the Tool Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Loading Clips or Sequences into Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Switching Between Loaded Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Clearing Clips from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Controlling Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Playback Control Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Playback Control Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Playing Footage with the J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Using the Mouse for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Video Quality Options for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Setting the Video Quality for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Creating Subclips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Creating Subsequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Using Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Suggested Uses for Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Adding Markers While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Adding Markers On-the-Fly while Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Finding Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Finding Marker Comment Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Editing Marker Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Marking an Area Using Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Moving to the Previous or Next Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Deleting Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using the Markers Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Viewing Markers in the Markers Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Working in the Markers Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Exporting and Importing Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Creating a Marker Text (.txt) File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Printing the Contents of the Markers Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Disabling the Marker Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Using Timecode to Find a Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Searching for a Clip or Sequence with Text Find. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Sequence and Clip Information Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Summary Information Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Chapter 9 Creating and Editing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Creating a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Track Display for New Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Making a First Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Performing an Insert or Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Performing an Overwrite Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Using the Avid Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Adding Notes to Clips in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Playing Back a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Playback Performance Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Setting Video Memory and Video Frame Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Understanding Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Fixing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Understanding Sync Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Using Add Edit When Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Ganging Footage in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Sync Point Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Working with Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Chapter 10 Using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Timeline Fast Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Enlarging and Reducing Timeline Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Moving Timeline Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Displaying Clip Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Changing the Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Clip Color for Proxy Clips in Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Showing Markers in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Showing Adapter Icons in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Changing the Background Color of a Project Window or Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Setting the Playback Option for the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Disabling the Smart Tool in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the Full-Screen Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

The Timeline Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

The Track Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Track Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Managing Customized Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Using Timeline View Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Navigating in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Understanding the Timeline Position Indicator and Scroll Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Switching to the Timeline Position Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Zooming and Focusing in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Vertical Scrolling in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Working with Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Guidelines for Segment Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Selecting and Deselecting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Live Dragging in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Creating a Sequence Based on Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Linked Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Selecting Linked Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Selecting Multiple Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Excluding Filler when Selecting Multiple Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Selecting Filler with Segment Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Four-Frame Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Suppressing Four-Frame Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Maintaining Sync with Segment Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Moving Segments with Drag and Drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Copying and Dragging Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Dragging Nonadjacent Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Deleting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Marking Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Setting the Default Segment Edit Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Enabling Only One Segment Edit Tool at a Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Bin Editing into the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Working with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Understanding the Track Selector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Selecting Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Understanding Track Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Monitoring and Soloing Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Patching Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Performing an Alternate Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Muting Individual Clips in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Disabling a Video Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Understanding Locking and Sync Locking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Locking and Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Adding and Deleting Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Splitting Stereo Tracks to Mono Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Backtiming Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

In to Out Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Working with Add Edits (Match Frames). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Activating Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Printing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Searching for Text in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Chapter 11 Working with Trim Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Trimming with the Timeline Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Timeline Trim States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Selecting Trim Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Selecting Video Tracks for Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Selecting Additional Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Soloing Audio while Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Overwrite Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Ripple Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Dual-Roller Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Refining Trims. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Reviewing Trim Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Trimming On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

End of Trim Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Maintaining Sync While Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Slipping or Sliding Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Selecting Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Performing a Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Trimming in Two Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Chapter 12 Working with Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Overview of Audio Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Creating Tone Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Audio Ducking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Fading and Dipping Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Working with Multichannel Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Modifying Track Formats in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

The Track Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Using the Track Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Soloing Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Making Tracks Inactive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Selecting Tracks for Audio Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Performing Digital Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Audio Displays in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Displaying Audio Waveforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Displaying Volume and Pan Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Using Audio Meters in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Displaying Audio Formats in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Using the Audio Mixer Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Accessing the Audio Mixer and Audio Mixer Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Audio Mixer Tool Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Resizing the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Track Selection in the Audio Mixer Tool and in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Using the Track Solo and Track Mute Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Rendering and Unrendering Order for Audio Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Audio Volume Staging and an Audio Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Using Clip Volume and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Adjusting Clip Volume and Pan for Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Audio Mixer Fast Menu: Clip Volume and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Adjusting Volume While Playing a Clip Volume Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Improving Response Time When Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Using the Center Pan Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Isolating Clip Portions for Audio Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Using Volume and Pan Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Using Volume and Pan Automation in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Volume and Pan Automation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Understanding Volume or Pan Automation Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Using the Audio Mixer Tool for Volume and Pan Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Audio Mixer Tool Fast Menu: Volume and Pan Automation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Using Keyboard Shortcuts with Audio Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Copying, Pasting and Moving Audio Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Creating a New Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Copy and Paste Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Copy and Paste by Lassoing an Area of Audio Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Copy and Paste a Whole Region or Marked Region of Audio Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Moving Keyframes in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Removing Hidden Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Using Live Mix Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Entering Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Using Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Switching Between Live Mix Mode and Other Audio Mixer Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Audio Mixer Tool Fast Menu: Live Mix Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Live Mix Mode Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Adjusting Audio Clip Gain in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Mixing Down Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Using the Audio EQ Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Audio EQ Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Applying Audio EQ Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Removing Audio EQ Effects with the Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Removing Audio EQ Effects with the Remove Effect Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Audio EQ Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Understanding the Audio Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Recording Voice-Over Narration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Audio Punch-in Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Audio Punch-in Tool Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Recording Voice-Over Narration Using Audio Punch-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Extended Audio Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Monitoring Previously Recorded Tracks While Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . 301

Audio Punch-In Support for Open I/O Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Using Peak Hold While Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Chapter 13 Using Audio Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Audio Effects Plug-Ins Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Audio Track Effect Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Inserting an Audio Track Effect Plug-In on a Track in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Editing an Audio Track Effect Plug-In on a Track in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Moving and Copying Audio Track Effect Inserts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Ordering Audio Track Effect Inserts on a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Removing Audio Track Effect Inserts on a Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Using Audio Track Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Avid AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Using Avid AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Common Buttons in the AudioSuite Plug-In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

AudioSuite Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Real-time EQ and AudioSuite Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Rendering AudioSuite Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Creating New Master Clips with AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

AudioSuite Controls for Creating New Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Mono, Stereo, and Multichannel Processing in AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Using AudioSuite Plug-ins to Create New Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Using AudioSuite Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins in Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

AudioSuite Plug-in Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Troubleshooting AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Core Avid Audio Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

AIR Chorus (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

AIR Distortion (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

AIR Dynamic Delay (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

AIR Enhancer (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

AIR Ensemble (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

AIR Filter Gate (Audio Track Effect). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

AIR Flanger (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

AIR Frequency Shifter (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

AIR Fuzz-Wah (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

AIR Kill EQ (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

AIR Lo Fi (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

AIR Multi-Chorus (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

AIR Multi-Delay (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

AIR Non-Linear Reverb (Audio Track Effect). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

AIR Phaser (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

AIR Reverb (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

AIR Spring Reverb (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

AIR Stereo Width (Audio Track Effect). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

AIR Talkbox (Audio Track Effect). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

AIR Vintage Filter (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Bomb Factory BF76 (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Channel Strip (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Compressor/Limiter III — Dynamics III (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . 350

D-Verb (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

DC Offset Removal (AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

DeEsser III — Dynamics III (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Dither (Audio Track Effect). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Down Mixer (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Duplicate (AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Eleven Free (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

EQ (AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Expander/Gate III — Dynamics III (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Funk Logic Mastererizer (AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Gain (AudioSuite). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Invert (AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Lo-Fi Plug-In (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Maxim (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Mod Delay III (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Normalize (AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Pitch Shift (AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Pow-r Dither (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Recti-Fi (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Reverse (AudioSuite). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

SansAmp PSA-1 (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Sci-Fi (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Signal Generator (Audio Track Effect and AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Time Compression Expansion (AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Time Shift (AudioSuite) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Trim (Audio Track Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Chapter 14 MultiCamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Understanding Grouping Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Creating Group Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

MultiCamera Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

MultiCamera Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Using the Add Edit Button During Multicamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Using the Multi-angle View Menus During Multicamera Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Using Match Frame in MultiCamera Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Selective Camera Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Chapter 15 The Avid Marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Purchasing and Downloading Plug-ins from the Avid Marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Upgrading to Avid Media Composer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Chapter 16 Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Understanding Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Viewing and Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Duplicating Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Naming Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Selecting Among Multiple Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Deleting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Restoring Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Audio Ducking Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Bin Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Full Screen Playback Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Keyboard Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Link Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Media Cache Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Media Creation Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Timeline Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Chapter 17 International Character Support (ICS) in Avid Editing Applications. . . . . . . . 405

Choosing a Locale on an English Language Operating System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Using a Local Language Operating System

(Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Non-English Character Support (Mac) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Non-English Character Support (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Using Foreign Keyboard Mapping (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Considerations for International Character Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Using This Guide

This guide contains the task-oriented instructions, conceptual information, and reference information you need to use the features of your Avid editing application. The contents of this guide is also available in the Help.

This guide is intended for all users, from beginning to advanced.

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

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

(Windows), (Windows only), (Mac), or (Mac only)

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

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

Courier Bold font

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

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

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

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

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

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

items and keyboard sequences.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

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

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

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using your Avid product:

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

2. Check the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published. You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To view these online versions, select ReadMe from the Help menu, or visit the Knowledge Base at

www.avid.com/support.

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

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

5. For Avid Community support visit the Media Composer | First Community Forum where you can get help and advice from other Avid users.

6. Watch the Get Started Fast Tutorials.

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

1 Media Composer | First Quick Start

The following topics provide a quick start for installing and using Media Composer | First. This document is meant to get you running quickly with Media Composer | First.

• Downloading and Installing Media Composer | First

• Launching Media Composer | First

• Creating a Project

• Accessing Your Footage

• Creating a Sequence

• Publishing Your Story

Downloading and Installing Media Composer | First

Use the following procedure to access and install Media Composer | First.

To access the download for Media Composer | First:

1. Go to http://www.avid.com/media-composer-first

2. You must have an Avid Master Account. Follow the on screen instructions to either Login in (if you already have an account) or create an Avid Master Account. The on screen instructions will step you through creating an Avid Master Account, verifying your email address, and downloading Media Composer | First. Once the download is complete, continue with installing the application.

(Windows) To install the Avid software:

1. Access the file you downloaded.

2. Click to launch the Media Composer | First installer. A window will open with instructions as well as options for choosing file locations and other custom settings.

3. Follow the on screen instructions.

4. When prompted, choose to restart the computer.

The installation process adds a Media Composer | First icon to the Desktop icon and a pointer to your Avid editing application in the Start menu. The installation process also adds an Application Manager icon to the Toolbar menu. The Application Manager allows you to view the installed Avid applications and try new offerings.

5. Once you restart your system, the Application Manager launches.

Downloading and Installing Media Composer | First

6. Sign In to your Avid Master Account. NOTE: You cannot launch Media Composer | First if you are not signed into your Avid Master Account. Continue with Launching Media

Composer | First.

(Macintosh) To install Media Composer | First:

1. Access the file you downloaded.

2. Double-click the .pkg file with the editing application name.

3. Follow the on screen instructions.

4. When prompted, choose to restart the computer.

The installation process adds a Media Composer First icon to the Dock. The installation process also adds an Application Manager icon to the Dock. The Application Manager allows you to view the installed Avid applications and try new offerings.

5. Once you restart, the Application Manager launches.

6. Sign In to your Avid Master Account. NOTE: You cannot launch Media Composer | First if you are not signed into your Avid Master Account. Continue with Launching Media

Composer | First.

Launching Media Composer | First

Perform the following to launch Media Composer | First:

(Windows) To start your Avid editing application, do one of the following:

t Click Start > All Programs > Avid > Media Composer | First.

t Double-click the Media Composer | First desktop icon.

The Media Composer | First application opens.

(Macintosh) To start your Avid editing application, do one of the following:

t Click the alias icon for your Avid editing application on the Dock.

t Select Go > Applications, and double-click the Avid editing application folder. Then double-

click the Media Composer | First application file.

The Media Composer | First application opens.

Launching Media Composer | First

Creating a Project

When you first open Media Composer | First, a window opens where you can create a project or open an existing project.

To create a project:

1. Enter a name for your project in the Create Project text box.

2. Click Create.

The application opens with a default workspace.

Creating a Project

Top row: Project Window, Sequence Bin and Clip Bin, Source and Record monitors Bottom row: Source Browser, Timeline

The following describes the windows that initially open when you create a project:

Window Description

Project Window The Project window is a central location for

important information and tools that you need as you work on your project. The Project window has tabs that allow you to choose from the following:

• Bins - lets you create and open bins.

• Settings - lets you view and modify settings.

• Effects icon - lets you access a library of effects.

• Format - displays the Raster Dimension and Frame Rate.

• Usage - lets you view information about the work session usage.

• Info - lets you view information about system memory usage and system hardware configuration.

Sequence Bin and Clips Bin Bins are locations for organizing and managing

your media. You can create up to 5 bins.

Source and Record Monitors The Source Monitor (left monitor) displays the

currently loaded clip. The Record Monitor (right monitor) displays the frame at the current position of a loaded sequence in the Timeline.

Source Browser The Source Browser window allows you to import

or link your media. You can also preview your footage before you commit the clip(s) into a bin.

Window Description

Timeline Media Composer | First represents each edit and

Accessing Your Footage

Once you have created a project, use the Source Browser to access and preview your footage. Once you decide on the footage you want for your sequence, use the Source Browser to import or link to your media.

Accessing Your Footage

effect on the Timeline to help you track and manipulate the elements of your sequence. The Timeline continuously updates as you work, displaying icons and information that you can customize in various ways. The Timeline also has its own set of editing tools for creating and revising edits and transitions across multiple tracks.

The audio and video tracks in the Timeline play in the Record monitor. You can continually edit your sequence and review your changes until you are pleased with the result.

Accessing and Previewing Your Media

You can preview your media in the Source Browser before you commit the clip(s) into a bin.

To access and preview your media:

1. In the Explore area of the Source Browser window, browse to the location of the media you want to preview.

The clips will populate the right pane of the Source Browser with the frame clip representation (thumbnails).

Accessing Your Footage

2. Press Ctrl + L (Windows) or Command + L (Mac) to enlarge the thumbnails.

3. Place your cursor so it hovers over the thumbnail of the clip. While hovering, move the cursor to the edges of the thumbnail to preview the footage. You can also use the JKL keys to shuttle through the thumbnail. (Use L to move forward, K to pause, and J to move backward.)

4. (Optional) You can drag a clip from the Source Browser to the Source monitor to review the clip. Dragging to the Source monitor does not commit the clip to the bin.

5. (Optional) You can also choose to view the clips in text view, rather than in thumbnail view by clicking the Text View button at the bottom of the display pane.

6. Continue with Importing or Linking Your Media.

For additional details on the Source Browser, see “Source Browser Overview” in the Help.

Importing or Linking Your Media

In the Source Browser Window, you can choose to either import or link your media. Linking allows you to quickly link to the files without importing, transcoding, or copying them. Once you link to the files, you can immediately drag them to your Timeline and start editing. Importing will actually import the media files to the bin. (The import process can take longer than linking.)

To link or import the media files:

1. Once you have previewed the clips you want in the Source Browser window, select the Link button if you want to link to them or select the Import button if you want to import the files.

2. Select the clips you want and drag and drop them to the bin. (Ctrl+click or Shift+click to select multiple files.)

Creating a Sequence

If you chose to Import, a Project Properties dialog box appears showing the image size and edit rate of the first clip you are importing to the bin. You can click OK to accept the selected clip size and edit rate, or select another raster size and edit rate from the menus.

If you chose to Link rather than import, the Project Properties dialog box will appear when you drag the first linked clip to the Timeline.

The clips appear in the bin. Linked clips appear with a link on the clip icon.

You can also import or link clips by selecting them, right clicking and selecting Add to Bin.

Creating a Sequence

Once you have your media in the bin, you can begin to assemble the clips into the Timeline to create your sequence. The following topics cover a basic workflow to edit your sequence.

• Marking IN and OUT Points

• Adding Clips to the Timeline

• Trimming

• Adding Effects to Your Sequence

• Adjusting Audio with “Ducking”

• Publishing Your Story

Marking IN and OUT Points

You can mark IN and OUT points in your footage to indicate selected material, for example, the portion of a clip that you want to edit into a sequence. You can also easily clear or move these marks. Even if your marks are not accurate now, your Avid editing application lets you trim the edit points and fine-tune the sequence later without reediting the material.

To mark IN and OUT points:

1. Double click a clip in the bin to load it into the Source monitor.

2. Play, step, or shuttle through the material by using the blue bar, J-K-L, or the Play, Rewind, and Fast forward buttons.

Creating a Sequence

Blue bar, Rewind - Fast Forward- Step Backward - Step Forward buttons, Play button

3. Mark an IN point by doing the following:

t Click the Mark IN button under the monitor to mark an IN point and stop playback.

In the monitor, a Sawtooth icon appears on the left to indicate the mark IN frame.

Sawtooth icon in the frame, and marked IN point, in the monitor

4. Continue moving through the material.

Creating a Sequence

5. Mark an OUT point by doing the following:

t Click the Mark OUT button under the monitor to mark an OUT point and stop playback.

In the monitor, a Sawtooth icon appears on the right to indicate the mark OUT frame.

If you need to move a mark icon, simply press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) while dragging the icon to a new location.

6. Continue loading your clips in the Source Monitor and marking the material you want to add to your sequence with IN and OUT points. Once you have finished marking IN and OUT marks for your source material, continue with Adding Clips to the Timeline.

For more details on marking your footage, see “Viewing and Marking Footage” in the Help.

Adding Clips to the Timeline

You can create a sequence by loading the clips directly into the Timeline.

To create a sequence:

1. In the bin, select the first clip you want to add to the sequence and double-click to load the clip in the Source Monitor.

2. Drag the selected clip to the Timeline.

If the first clip you are dragging to the Timeline is a linked clip, the Project Properties dialog box opens.

Editing the Sequence

3. The dialog box shows the image size and edit rate of the first clip you are dragging to the Timeline. You can click OK to accept the selected clip size and edit rate, or select another raster size and edit rate from the menus.

The selected clip appears in the Record Monitor and a graphical representation appears in the Timeline.

4. In the bin, double click to load the next clip you want to add to the sequence to the Source Monitor and click the Splice-In button below the Source Monitor.

5. Continue loading the clips in the Source Monitor and then click the Splice-In button to add the clip to the sequence.

6. Once you have finished adding clips to the sequence, you can edit the sequence by trimming, adding effects, and adjusting audio. See Editing the Sequence.

For more details on working in the Timeline, see “Using the Timeline” in the Help.

Editing the Sequence

Once you have added the clips you want to the sequence, you can continue to fine tune the sequence by trimming, adding effects, and adjusting audio.

Trimming

Basic editing of a sequence initially produces a rough cut, which is loosely defined as a series of straight-cut edits with many rough edges and few effects. After creating a rough cut, you can use trim edits to fine-tune the transitions between each clip or between whole segments.

To perform a trim:

1. Click the Trim mode button to enter Trim mode.

Editing the Sequence

2. Once you enter Trim mode, the Composer monitor changes to display Trim mode for trimming transitions. Outgoing frames appear on the left monitor and incoming frames appear on the right. Trim rollers appear at the nearest transition in the Timeline.

3. If you want to trim frames from the outgoing clip, click in the left monitor and then drag the trim roller at the transition in the Timeline to the left to trim the frames. If you want to trim frames from the incoming clip, click the right monitor and then drag the roller to trim the frames.

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