Pinnacle Systems NewsCutter - 6.1 User's Guide

Avid® NewsCutter® Products

Editing Guide

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Avid NewsCutter Products Editing Guide • 0130-06888-01 • March 2005

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

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

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Avid Educational Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Chapter 1 Desktop Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Using the Windows Taskbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Dragging Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Setting Your Screen Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using the Avid Application Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Creating Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Deleting Projects and User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Starting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Accepting Your Avid License Electronically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 2 Starting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Opening and Closing a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Changing Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Selecting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Selecting a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Selecting an External Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Browsing for a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating a New Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Using User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Creating a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Changing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Exporting a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Updating User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Restoring from a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Ending an Edit Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Quitting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Turning Off Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Mounting and Ejecting Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Ejecting Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Changing, Closing, and Reopening the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Displaying Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Renaming a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Opening and Closing a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Opening Selected Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Saving Bins Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Retrieving Bin Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Enabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Closing the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Deleting the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . 75

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Settings Scroll List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

The Settings Scroll List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Types of Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Reviewing Basic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Bin Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

General Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Interface Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

General Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Appearance Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Changing Shading Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Changing Button Separation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Displaying Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Changing the Settings Scroll List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Selecting Another User. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Working with Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Duplicating Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Naming Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Selecting Among Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Deleting Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Copying Settings Between Settings Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Moving Settings Between Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Using Site Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Selecting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Viewing the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Using the Format Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

The Memory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

The Hardware Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Understanding Avid Unity MediaNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Shared Bins and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Suggestions for Improving Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Working with Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Shared Bin Lock Icon Bug. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Chapter 4 Using Basic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

NRCS Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Capture Toolset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Edit Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Effects Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Audio Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Color Correction Toolset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Using the Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Mapping the Modifier Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Using the Avid Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Getting Information with the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Checking the Hardware Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Chapter 5 Organizing with Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Basic Bin Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Using Bin Display Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Changing the Bin Display View Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Customizing Bin Views in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

The Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Setting the Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Setting the Text Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Setting the Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Duplicating Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Moving Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Deleting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Adding a Color Column to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Assigning a Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Assigning a Custom Source Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Limiting Color Choices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Sorting by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Locking and Unlocking Items in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Selecting Unreferenced Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Using Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Organizing Bin Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Deleting Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Duplicating Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Managing Clip Information in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Moving Within Column Cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Modifying Data Directly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Modifying Data by Using the Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Sorting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Sorting Clips in Ascending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Sorting Clips in Descending Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Performing Multilevel Sorting with Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Sorting Clips by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . . . 169

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns . . . . . . . . . . 170

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Arranging Frames in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Entering Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Adding Text in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Rearranging Clips in Script View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Creating Video Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Creating Audio Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Chapter 6 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Working with Media Files in an Avid Unity Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Configuring Avid Editing Systems to Work with MediaManager

and TransferManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Setting up the LANshare Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

PortServer Pro Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

ProEncode Support on the PortServer Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Basic Media Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Opening the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Consolidating and Transcoding Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

The Consolidate/Transcode Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Using the Consolidate Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Using the Transcode Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Using Panasonic DVCPRO P2 Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Panasonic P2 Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

P2 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Editing with Media Created on Panasonic P2 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . 205

Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Mounting P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Updating the Drive List and Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Dragging P2 Master Clips from the Media Tool to a Bin. . . . . . . . 207

Copying P2 Files to a Local Media Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Sharing P2 Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Deleting P2 Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Relinking by Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Using Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Restoring an Archive from Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Chapter 7 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Customizing the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Expanding the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Changing the Pop-up Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Using 16:9 for 24p and 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Tracking Format Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Displaying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Copying Text from the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Displaying the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Displaying Multiple Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Setting the Font and Point Size for Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Pop-up Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Displaying a Second Row of Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Viewing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Loading Clips or Sequences into the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . 239

Loading Clips or Sequences into a Pop-up Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Using the Clip Name Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Switching Between Loaded Clips or Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Clearing Clips or Sequences from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Playing Back Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Playing Back DV 50 and DVCPRO HD Media Directly from a

DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Playing Back to a DV Device (for DV 25, DV 50, and

DVCPRO HD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Playing Through a Separate 1394 Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Optimizing Your Playback Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Resizing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Hiding the Video in the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Resizing the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Controlling Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Using Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Stepping Forward and Backward by Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Using the Avid Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Shuttling with the J-K-L Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Navigating with Home, End, and Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Playing in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Selecting the Client Monitor Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Play Length “In Use” Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Marking IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Clearing a Mark and Setting a New One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Dragging IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Marking Audio Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Opening the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Using the Tool Palette Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Using the Tool Palette from the Record Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Using Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Ways to Use Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Opening the Locator Edit Pane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Viewing and Navigating in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Displaying the Timecode, Footage, or Frame Number in

the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Displaying MetaSync Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Sorting Information in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Enlarging and Reducing Columns in the Locators Window . . . . . 275

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Exporting Locators from the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Importing Locators from the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Creating a Locator Text (.txt) file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . 277

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon from the

Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Accessing a Locator in a Clip or Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Deleting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Finding Frames and Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Using Frame Offset Timecode to Cue a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Searching for a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Using Match Frame to Locate the Source Clips of Motion Effects . . . . 286

Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Chapter 8 First Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Starting a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Changing the Sequence Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Changing the Start Timecode for Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Synchronizing Metadata Using MetaSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Making the First Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Beginning to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Creating an Instant Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Monitoring Audio While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Performing a Replace Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Extracting Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Using the Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Placing a Sequence into the Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Preserving Clipboard Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Playing the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Playing a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Starting a Playback Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Improving Playback Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Proceeding with Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Chapter 9 Using the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Accessing the Timeline Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Using the Timeline Fast Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Assigning Local Colors to Clips in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Displaying Local and Source Colors in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Displaying Source Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Displaying Local Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Saving a Custom Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Navigating in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Displaying Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Zooming In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Focusing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Viewing Video Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Selecting and Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Selecting Segments with the Segment Mode Pointer . . . . . . . . . . 320

Selecting One or More Segments by Lassoing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Editing in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Segment Mode Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Extracting/Splicing-in Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Lifting/Overwriting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Deleting Segments with Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Bin Editing into the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Using the Top and Tail Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Setting the Duration for Filler at the Start of a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . 330

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Effects Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Nesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Using the Track Selector Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Monitoring Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Monitoring Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Monitoring Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Monitoring a Solo Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Cycling Through a Selection of Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Performing an Alternate Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Patching Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Adding an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Removing Match Frame Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Chapter 10 Working in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Customizing Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Using Basic Trim Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Entering Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Selecting Trim Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Selecting Additional Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Performing a Basic Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Trimming with the J-K-L Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Trimming On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Trimming Video Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Slipping or Sliding Clips or Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Selecting Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Slipping or Sliding Segments in a Four-Frame Display . . . . . . . . . 353

Performing the Slip or Slide Trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Reviewing the Trim Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Reviewing an Edit with the Edit Review Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Reviewing an Edit with the Play Loop Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Maintaining Sync While Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Adding Black While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Chapter 11 Working with Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Audio Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Accessing Audio Effect Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Audio Editing Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Soloing Audio Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Smooth Scrub Versus Digital Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Selecting Tracks for Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Using Digital Audio Scrub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Adjusting Digital Scrub Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Performing the Digital Scrub Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Adjusting Default Pan Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Displaying Waveform Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Adjusting Volume Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Adjusting Buffer Size (Software-only Models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Using the Audio Mixer Tool to Adjust Volume and Pan in the Timeline . . . 375

Using the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Resizing the Audio Mixer Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Audio Gain Staging and an Audio Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Rendering and Unrendering Order for Audio Effects . . . . . . . . . . 379

Viewing Clip Gain and Automation Gain Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Adjusting Clip Gain and Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Adjusting One Audio Track at a Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Changing an Audio Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Adjusting Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Applying Pan Value Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Ganging and Adjusting Multiple Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Rendering an Audio Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Modifying Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Creating or Modifying an Audio Pan/Vol Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Modifying How the System Interprets Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Adjusting Volume While Playing an Audio Mix Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Limitations on Adjusting Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Improving Response Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Understanding Automation Gain and Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Adjusting Volume or Pan in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Deleting Automation Gain or Automation Pan Keyframes

in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Moving Automation Gain or Automation Pan Keyframes

in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Using an External Fader or Mixer to Adjust Volume and

Pan Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Adjusting the Pan of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Understanding Automation Gain and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Track Solo and Track Mute Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Position Indicator Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Applying Automation Gain and Pan Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Audio Mixer Tool Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Recording Automation Gain or Automation Pan Information . . . . . . . . 399

Using the Audio Mixer Tool Sliders for Automation Gain

and Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Using a Keyboard Shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to Record

Automation Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Using a Command|8 to Record Automation Pan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Using the Audio EQ Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Audio EQ Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Basic EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

EQ-Specific Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Applying Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Removing Audio EQ Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Audio EQ Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Low Shelf Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Small Octave Range Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Applying an EQ Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Creating Your Own Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Adding an EQ Template to the Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Installing AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Using Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Using a Plug-in Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

AudioSuite Plug-in Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Rendering Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Creating New Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

AudioSuite Controls for Creating New Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . 423

Mono, Stereo, and Multichannel Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Creating New Master Clips by Using Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Using AudioSuite Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Plug-in Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Troubleshooting AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Canceling a Render Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Addressing Errors When Rendering a Plug-in Effect . . . . . . . . . . 430

Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Creating the Voice-Over with the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Using the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Connecting the Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Creating the Voice-Over with the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . 436

Scenarios for Using the Audio Punch-In Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Using a GPI Device with the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Understanding GPI Trigger Signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

GPI Signal Sequence When Using the Audio Punch-In Tool

Without Preroll or Postroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

GPI Signal Sequence When Using the Audio Punch-In Tool

with Preroll and Postroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Example of Linking GPI Actions to Trigger Signals . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Voice-Over Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Monitoring the Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Monitoring Previously Recorded Tracks While Recording

a Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Using Automatic Voice-Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Fine-Tuning Audio Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Fading and Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Fading Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Mixing Down Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Changing the Sample Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Identifying the Sample Rate by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Displaying Audio Formats in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Chapter 12 Syncing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Autosyncing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Managing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Editing to Avoid Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Fixing Sync Breaks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Fixing Sync in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Fixing Sync in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Managing Sync with Multiple Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Using Sync Lock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Syncing with Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Using Add Edit When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Ganging Footage in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Match Framing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Chapter 13 MultiCamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Understanding Grouping and Multigrouping Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Creating Group Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Creating Multigroup Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

MultiCamera Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Full-Monitor Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Quad Split Source View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Nine Split Source View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

MultiCamera Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Limitations on Playback of MultiCamera Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

MultiCamera Editing Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Switching Clips with the Arrow Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Using the Add Edit Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Using the Group Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Using the Multi-angle View Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Using Match Frame in MultiCamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

MultiCamera Workflow and Selective Camera Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Tables

Project Types for Avid Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Settings Scroll List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Customizable Interface Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Settings Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Object Icon Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Font and Point Size Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Direct Modification Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Modify Command Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Timecode Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Timecode Frame Counts for Record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Consolidate/Transcode Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Transcode Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Relink Dialog Box Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Relink Specific Resolution Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Tracking Format Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Playback on an Avid system with a DV device connected

to a 1394 card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Playback on an Avid system with no DV device connected . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Playback on an Avid DNA system (SD project). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Playback on an Avid DNA system (HD project) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Timeline Fast Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Key Functions in Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Number of Tracks and Scrub Speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Audio Mixer Fast Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Using This Guide

Avid® NewsCutter® systems help editors, journalists, Web authors, and other professionals create broadcast-quality output. Users can incorporate production elements from full-speed, high-resolution footage, to multimedia artwork and animation, to computer-generated effects and titling.

This guide is intended for all NewsCutter products users, from beginning to advanced. You should be familiar with your Microsoft operating system, and with recording and producing news broadcasts.

The documentation describes the features and hardware of all NewsCutter models. Therefore, your system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

Windows® XP

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and

Margin tips

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

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.

subcommands) in the 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 symbol represents the Apple or Command key. Press and hold the Command key and another key to perform a keyboard shortcut.

In the margin, you will find tips that help you perform tasks more easily and efficiently.

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

Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to

indicate variables.

Courier Bold font

Ctrl+key or mouse action k+key or mouse action

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the mouse action. For example, k+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.

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