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Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Avid Educational Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 1 Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Turning on Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the Windows Taskbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Understanding Mouse Scroll Wheel Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Customizing Mouse Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Starting Your Avid Editing Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Working with Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Understanding the Select Project Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Opening an Existing Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Deleting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Ending a Work Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Quitting Your Avid Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Turning Off Your Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Understanding the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Changing Project and User Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or on Removable Media . . . . . . . . 48
Restoring from a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Working with the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Understanding the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 2 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Understanding the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Controlling Project Window Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using the Bins Tab in the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Renaming a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Opening and Closing Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Deleting a Bin or Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Emptying the Trash in the Bins List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Saving Bins Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Using the Settings Tab in the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Using the Format Tab in the Project Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Chapter 3 Capturing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Understanding Logging and Shot Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Importing Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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Preparing the Hardware for Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Getting Information About Striped Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Establishing Sync for Audio-Only Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Selecting Settings for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Understanding Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Selecting Video Resolutions and Media Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Setting Drive Filtering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Configuring Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Configuring a Deck or Multiple Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Deleting Deck Configuration Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Capturing DV Media Directly from a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Connecting a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Selecting a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Capturing DV 25 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Capturing DV 50, DVCPRO HD, or HDV Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Setting Up the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Opening the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Changing the Power Scheme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Selecting a Deck in the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Selecting a Source Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Selecting Source Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Setting the Video and Audio Input in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Detecting a Valid or Locked Sync Signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Selecting a Resolution in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Selecting a Target Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Selecting the Target Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Targeting a Single Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Targeting Separate Drives for Audio and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Targeting a Drive Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Interpreting the Time-Remaining Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Selecting a Custom Preroll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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Preparing for Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Understanding Audio Project Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Selecting the Audio Sample Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Understanding Audio Files and Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Selecting the Audio File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Selecting the Audio Input Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Configuring the Sound Card (Software-Only Systems). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Sound Card Configuration with Surround Sound Capabilities
(Software-Only Systems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Understanding the Audio Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Opening and Sizing the Audio Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Adjusting Audio Input Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Preparing for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Opening the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Using the Factory Preset Buttons in the Video Input Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Preparing to Calibrate Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Calibrating Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Capture Preparations Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Capturing and Logging at the Same Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Naming Clips and Adding Comments in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Capturing from a Mark IN to a Mark OUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Capturing by Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Capturing by Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Capturing On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Preparing to Autocapture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Capturing Audio from a Music CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Frame Chase Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Understanding Frame Chase Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Enabling Frame Chase Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Requirements and Guidelines for Frame Chase Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
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Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Preparing to Batch Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Batch Capturing Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Recapturing Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Recapturing Master Clips and Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Recapturing Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Saving Two Versions of a Sequence When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Using Decompose When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Recapturing the Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Chapter 4 Importing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Preparing to Import Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Creating and Using Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Creating a New Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Modifying an Existing Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Importing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Importing Audio Files from a Music CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Using the Drag-and-Drop Method to Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Using the Batch Import Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Starting the Reimport Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 5 Working with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Understanding Object Icons in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Understanding Bin Highlight Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Using Brief View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Enlarging or Reducing Frame Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Realigning Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
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Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Playing Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Basic Bin Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Selecting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Duplicating Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Deleting Bin Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Enabling and Disabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Closing the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Deleting a Bin with the SuperBin Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Creating a Storyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Chapter 6 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Working with Media Files in an Avid Interplay Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Configuring Avid Editing Systems to Work with the
Interplay Engine and Interplay Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Using Avid Editing Systems in an Avid Workgroup Environment . . . . . . . . . . 167
Using Avid Editing Systems in an Avid Unity LANshare Workgroup. . . . . . . . 167
Viewing Media with a 100Base-T Connection to Avid Unity ISIS . . . . . . . . . . 168
Mounting and Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
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Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Basic Media Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Using the Media Tool in an Avid Interplay Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Opening the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Consolidating Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Understanding the Consolidate Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Using the Consolidate Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Consolidate Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Using the Transcode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Transcode Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Refreshing Media Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Deleting Unreferenced Clips and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Chapter 7 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Viewing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Customizing the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Resizing Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Resizing the Source/Record Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Expanding the Source/Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Hiding the Video in a Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Using the 16:9 Display Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Displaying a Second Row of Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Displaying Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Playing Video to the Client Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Selecting the Video Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Playing Video to a Full-Screen Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Loading Clips or Sequences into Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Resizing Pop-up Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
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Switching Between Loaded Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Clearing Clips from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Controlling Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Using Buttons to Control Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Stepping Forward and Backward by Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Using the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Playing Footage with the J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Navigating with Home, End, and Arrow Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Playing Back to a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Optimizing Your Playback Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Understanding Video Quality for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Setting the Video Quality for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Marking IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Marking an Entire Clip or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Searching for a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Understanding Match Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Chapter 8 Creating and Editing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Creating a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Changing the Name and Timecode for a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Understanding Track Display for a New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
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Making a First Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Creating an Instant Rough Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Performing an Insert or Splice-in Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Extracting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Preserving Clipboard Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Playing Back a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Managing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Editing to Avoid Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Displaying Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Fixing Sync Breaks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Chapter 9 Using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Enlarging and Reducing Timeline Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Highlighting Clips in a Mixed-Format Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Saving a Customized Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Replacing a Timeline View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Navigating in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Using the Timeline Scroll Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Displaying Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
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Zooming In and Out in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Focusing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Using Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Selecting and Deselecting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Guidelines for Selecting and Lassoing Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Performing Segment Mode Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Extracting/Splicing Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Lifting/Overwriting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Deleting Segments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Marking Clips and Sequences in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Working with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Understanding the Track Selector Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Monitoring and Soloing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Understanding Track Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Performing an Alternate Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Patching Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Locking and Sync Locking Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Adding a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Understanding Backtiming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Chapter 10 Working in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Understanding Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Quick Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Big Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Trim Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
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Entering and Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Switching Between Quick Trim Mode and the Record Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Using Basic Trim Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Selecting Trim Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Selecting Video Tracks in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Audio Solo in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Selecting Additional Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Performing a Basic Trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Reviewing Trim Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Reviewing an Edit with the Play Loop Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Reviewing an Edit with the Edit Review Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Trimming with the J-K-L Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Trimming On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Chapter 11 Working with Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Overview of Audio Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Accessing Audio Effect Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Audio Editing Aids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Understanding Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Selecting Tracks for Audio Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Performing Smooth Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Understanding Digital Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Adjusting Digital Scrub Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Performing Digital Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Soloing Audio Tracks in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Displaying Waveform Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Using Audio Meters in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Adjusting Volume Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Adjusting Buffer Size (Software-only Models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Identifying the Sample Rate by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Muting the Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
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Using the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Accessing the Audio Mixer and Audio Mixer Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Understanding Audio Mixer Tool Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Resizing the Audio Mixer Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Selecting Tracks in the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Using the Track Solo and Track Mute Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Interpreting Position Indicator Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Using Clip Gain and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Adjusting Clip Gain and Pan for Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Using the Audio Mixer Fast Menu in Clip Gain and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Modifying Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Modifying How the System Interprets Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Using the Center Pan Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Using Automation Gain and Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Using Automation Gain and Pan in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Deleting Automation Gain or Automation Pan Keyframes in the Timeline . . . 317
Understanding Automation Gain and Pan Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Recording Automation Gain or Automation Pan Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Using the Audio Mixer Tool Sliders for Automation Gain and Pan. . . . . . 319
Using the Audio Mixer Fast Menu in Automation Gain
and Pan Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Using Keyboard Shortcuts with Audio Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Using Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Using an External Controller in Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Using Live Mix Mode Without an External Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Switching Between Live Mix Mode and Other Audio Mixer Modes . . . . . . . . . 326
Using the Audio Mixer Mode Fast Menu in Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Fine-Tuning Audio Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Fading and Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Fading Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
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Converting the Audio Sample Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Changing the Audio Sample Rate for Sequences and Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . 333
Mixing Down Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Chapter 12 Working with Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Types of Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Effects Creation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Real-Time Effects and Non-Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Effects and Project Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
AVX Plug-In Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Understanding the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Displaying and Adjusting the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Applying Effects From the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Using the Fade Effect Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Using the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Deleting Effects in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Sizing Effects to Fit the Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Adjusting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Entering Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Understanding Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Making Basic Effect Adjustments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Moving Through an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Working with Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Saving an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Applying an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Working with Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Understanding Standard Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Adding a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Selecting a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Moving a Standard Keyframe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Changing a Standard Keyframe’s Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Copying and Pasting Standard Keyframe Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Deleting a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
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Playing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Playing an Effect in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Playing Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Understanding Render On-the-Fly for Effect Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Using Render On-the-Fly for Effect Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Real-Time Playback of Video Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Understanding Real-Time Effects Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Understanding Real-Time Playback Information in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . 366
Turning Playback Performance Indicators On or Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Controlling Real-Time Effects Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Choosing Bit Depth for Effects Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Prefilling the Video Display Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Selecting the OpenGL Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Limiting the Number of Real-Time Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Playing Effects Back at Different Video Qualities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Basics of Effects Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Understanding Effects Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Rendering a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Rendering Effects at Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Rendering Effects Between IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Rerendering Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Understanding ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Using the ExpertRender Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Using the ExpertRender Command After a Real-Time
Playback Attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Modifying ExpertRender Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Considerations When Using ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Chapter 13 Working with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Opening the Title Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Using Marquee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Workflow for Creating Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Understanding the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
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Using the Selection and Text Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Setting Up the Drawing Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Previewing Titles with Anti-Aliasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in the Title Tool. . . . . . . . . . 394
Selecting a Background for Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Creating Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Sizing and Positioning Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Editing a Text String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Formatting Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Setting Default Text Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Selecting a Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Changing Point Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Making Text Bold or Italic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Justifying Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Understanding Kerning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Kerning Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Adjusting Leading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Creating Graphic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Modifying and Manipulating Title Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Adding Shadows to Title Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Saving Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Saving a Title and Exiting the Title Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Saving Multiple Titles in a Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Using a Keyboard Shortcut to Save a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Using the Fast Save Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Revising a Title in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Editing with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Title Effect Clips in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Editing a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Setting Marks in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Splicing or Overwriting a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Dragging a Marked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
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Dragging an Unmarked Title into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Trimming the Duration of Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Removing a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Replacing a Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Fading a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Chapter 14 Color Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
How Avid Color Correction Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Reasons for Making Color Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Color Correction Mode Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Entering and Leaving Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Understanding Color Correction Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Monitor Buttons in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
The Client Monitor in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Color Correction Tool Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Making Basic Color Corrections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Correcting Color Automatically Using the Color Correction Effect . . . . . . . . . 426
Correcting Color Automatically in the Hue Offsets Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Color Match Corrections in the Curves Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Safe Color Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Managing Safe Color Warnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Safe Color Warnings in the Monitor Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Chapter 15 Exporting and Transferring Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Understanding Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Preparing to Export a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Exporting Frames, Clips, or Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Using the Drag-and-Drop Method for Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Using Avid Interplay Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Customizing Export Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Transferring Project and Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Methods for Transferring Files Between Avid Editing Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Using Nonshared Storage to Transfer Project and Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . 443
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Chapter 16 Generating Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Preparing for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Selecting the Device for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Selecting the Sync Source for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Selecting Sync for HD Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Using LTC Timecode for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Selecting a Video Output Signal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Calibrating for Video Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Using the Factory Preset Buttons in the Video Output Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Basic Video Output Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Adjusting Phase Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Preparing for Audio Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Setting the Calibration Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Calibrating Global Output Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Setting Audio Output Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Preparing Record Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Frame-Accurate Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Recording Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Enabling Assemble-Edit Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Using ExpertRender to Prepare Effects for a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Using the Digital Cut Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
Selecting a Deck in the Digital Cut Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Previewing a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Recording a Digital Cut to Tape (Remote Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
Crash Recording Through Remote Deck Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Recording a Digital Cut to Tape (Local Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Understanding Passthrough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Chapter 17 Using the NRCS Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Configuring the NRCS Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Configuring the ENPS Server for Avid Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Configuring the NRCS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Starting the NRCS Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Understanding the NRCS Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
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Using the Directory Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Opening a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Creating a Shortcut to a Directory (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Removing a Shortcut to a Directory (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Deleting a Story (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Changing the Text Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Editing Story Text (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Rearranging Text in a Story (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Marking Text As Presenter Instructions (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Marking Text As Closed Caption (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Adding a Production Cue (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
Deleting a Production Cue (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Marking Text As Machine Control (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Formatting Text (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Marking Text As Normal (iNEWS Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Adding a Loaded Cue (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Using a Loaded Cue (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
Deleting a Loaded Cue (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
Finding the Read Time of a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
Building a Sequence from a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Script-Based IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Setting Timeline IN and OUT Points Based on Story Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Associating a Sequence with a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Adjusting the Story Timing (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Adjusting the Story Timing with a Time Marker (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Adjusting the Story Timing with a Time Pad (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Using Associated Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Saving Changes to a Story (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
Using the Post to Web Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
Processing the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Creating a Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Linking Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
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Using Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
The Story Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
The Text Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
The Clip Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
The Videoformat Tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
The Hyperclip Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Using a Template with Post to Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Posting a Story to the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Sending and Receiving NRCS Mail (iNEWS Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Sending NRCS Tool Mail (iNEWS only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Receiving NRCS Tool Mail (iNEWS only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Disconnecting from Your NRCS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Chapter 18 Working with the Avid Interplay Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Using Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Connecting to the Avid Interplay Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Mounting Workspaces on an Avid Unity MediaNetwork System . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Mounting Workspaces on an Avid Unity ISIS System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
Configuring Interplay Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Opening the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Managing Remote Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Understanding Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
Understanding Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Reviewing Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Moving, Copying, and Deleting Avid Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Moving and Copying Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Deleting Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Creating Folders and Shortcuts in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Modifying the Display of the Interplay Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
Media Column Headings in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
Moving and Rearranging Columns in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Hiding and Showing Columns in the Interplay Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Adding Columns in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Creating New Columns in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
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Enlarging or Reducing Column Width in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . 539
Renaming Clips in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
Adding Comments in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
Using the Property Merge Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Using Custom Layouts for the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Opening Multiple Tabs in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
Setting the Interplay Window Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Editing with Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
Working with Avid Assets in the Interplay Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
Checking Avid Assets Out of the Interplay Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
Checking Avid Assets In to the Interplay Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
Automatically Checking In Avid Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Updating Remote Assets in Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Working with In-Progress Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
Editing with In-Progress Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
Limitations When Working With In-Progress Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
Finding Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
Overview of Finding Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
Performing Searches on Interplay Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Keeping Search Results in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Capturing Media to Interplay Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Chapter 19 Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Understanding MultiRez and Proxy Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Creating Multiple Resolutions of a Master Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Batch Capturing Multiple Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Batch Importing Multiple Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Understanding How Clips and Media Are Associated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Single Clip, Multiple Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
Multiple Clips, Multiple Resolutions, and the Affinity Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Partial Clips, Multiple Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
MultiRez Tape Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
Understanding Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
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Working with MultiRez and Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Using the Dynamic Relink Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574
Enabling Dynamic Relink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Applying Working Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Applying Target Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
Dynamically Relinking to the Target Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Dynamic Relink Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Relinking in Frame Chase Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
Using the Relink Dialog Box in an Avid Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Displaying Whether Media Is Available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
Using the MultiRez Button to Show Available Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
Using Clip Coloring to Show Available Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Examples of MultiRez Clip Coloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
MultiRez Button Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
MultiRez Bin Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Deleting MultiRez Clips and Media from a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Working with Partially Online Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
Consolidating and Transcoding a Portion of a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Viewing a Source Clip in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Consolidating and Deleting Original Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602
Partially Restoring from an Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
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Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of an Avid editing application. You can use your application to create broadcast-quality output incorporating every possible production element from full-speed, high-resolution footage, to multimedia artwork and animation, to computer-generated effects and titling.
This guide contains the task-oriented instructions and conceptual information you need to use the basic features of your Avid editing application. The Advanced Guide for your Avid editing application, available as a PDF document in the Online Library, is a companion to this guide. The Advanced Guide contains instructions and conceptual information for advanced features of your Avid editing application, as well as reference information. The contents of both guides are available in the Help.
This guide is intended primarily for users who are new to Avid editing products, but also contains information that is important for experienced users.
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The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.
Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action
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> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the
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Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.
Courier Bold font
Alt+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the
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.
Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.
mouse action. For example, Ctrl+drag.
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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 for the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published:
- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes,
they ship with your application and are also available online.
- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is
supplied on your Avid installation CD or DVD as a PDF document (README_product.pdf). It is also available online.
You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To view these online versions, select ReadMe from the Help menu or visit the
Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/readme.
3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.
If You Need Help
4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport. Online services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read/join online message-board discussions.

Accessing the Online Library

The Online Library for your Avid editing application contains all the product documentation in PDF format, including a Master Glossary of all specialized terminology used in the documentation for Avid products.
Most Avid online libraries also include multimedia content such as tutorials and feature presentations. This multimedia content is an excellent first resource for learning how to use your application or for helping you understand a particular feature or workflow.
The Online Library for your Avid editing application is installed along with the application itself.
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You will need Adobe® Reader® to view the PDF documentation online. You can download the latest version from the Adobe web site.
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Using This Guide
To access the Online Library, do one of the following:
t From your Avid editing application, select Help > Online Library.
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application] Online Library.
t Browse to the Online Library folder, and then double-click the MainMenu file.
The Online Library folder is in the same location as the application itself, for example: C:\Program Files\Avid\[Avid editing application]\Online Library
desktop, select Start > All Programs > Avid > [Avid editing

How to Order Documentation

To order additional copies of this documentation from within the United States, call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843). If you are placing an order from outside the United States, contact your local Avid representative.

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To learn about Avid's new online learning environment, Avid Learning Excellerator (ALEX), visit http://learn.avid.com.
For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and books, please visit www.avid.com/training or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843).
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