Pinnacle Systems NewsCutter XP User's Guide

Avid® NewsCutter® XP

Effects Guide

Release 2.0

for the Windows 2000® Operating System

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Avid NewsCutter XP Effects Guide for the Windows 2000 Operating System • Part 0130-04910-01 Rev. A • July 2001

Using This Guide

Who Should Use This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

About This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Related Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Chapter 1 Preparing to Work with Effects

Effect Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Effects Creation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Displaying Effects On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Interrupting Render On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Using the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Displaying the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Resizing the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Understanding the Color Coding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Displaying Effect Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Playing Effects in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Using Third-Party Plug-in Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Chapter 2 Basics of Effects Editing

Deconstructing Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Applying Effects to a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Applying an Effect to a Single Transition or Segment . . . . . . . 39

Dragging an Effect from the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Double-Clicking an Effect Icon in the Effect Palette . . . . . 41

Applying an Effect to Multiple Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Applying an Effect to Multiple Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Deleting Effects in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Deleting a Single Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Deleting Multiple Transition Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Deleting Multiple Segment Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Using the Fade Effect Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Working with Transition Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Types of Transition Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Applying a Dissolve Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using the Effect Palette to Create a Dissolve E ffect . . . . . . 50

Using the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the Quick Transition Button to Apply Effects to

Multiple Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Understanding the Graphical Displa y in the Quick

Transition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Adjusting the Effect by Dragging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Repositioning the Effect with the Alignment Buttons. . . . 61

Creating a Dissolve in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Sizing the Effect to Fit the Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Trimming a Transition Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Creating Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Rendering Considerations When Creating Motion Effects . . . 64

Rendering and Rerendering Existing Motion Effects . . . . . . . . 66

Understanding Motion Effect Type Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Creating a Freeze Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Controlling a Freeze Frame w ith a Single Button or Key . . . . . 71

Creating a Rolling Clip That F reezes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Creating a Variable Speed Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Creating a Strobe Motion Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Creating Mosaic Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Using the Effect Editor with the Mosaic Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Creating a Mosaic Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Modifying a Mosaic Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Stabilizing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Using the Region Stabilize Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Making Adjustments to the Region of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Chapter 3 Customizing Effects with the Effect Editor

Opening the Effect Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Customizing the Effect Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Understanding the Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Displaying the Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines . . . . . . . 94

Moving an Enlarged Image in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . 95

Changing Position in an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Using the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Effect Editor Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

About Effect Para m ete rs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using Parameter Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Using Parameter Enable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Using the Other Options Button to Access Parameters. . . . . . 105

Adjusting a Color Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Using the Eyedropper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Using Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Adding a Keyframe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Selecting a Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Moving a Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Changing a Keyframe’s Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Copying and Pasting Keyframe Paramete rs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Deleting a Keyframe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Manipulating Effects Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Defining Motion Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Moving the Image Directly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Resizing a Foreground Image by Dragging Handles. . . . . . . . 116

Using an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Saving an Effect Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Applying an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Playing an Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Basic Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Playing an Effect in a Continuous Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Playing a Preview of an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Rendering Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Creating and Using Render Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Creating a New Render Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Adjusting Render Settings Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Activating a Render Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Partial Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Interrupting Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Customizing Render Ranges Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Rendering a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Rendering Effects at Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Rendering Effects Between IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using the ExpertRender Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Using ExpertRender to Render Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Modifying ExpertRender Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Considerations When Using the ExpertRender

Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Examples of ExpertRender Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Example 1: Nested Effect with Dissolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Example 2: Titles with a Dissolve Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Managing Effect Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Understanding Effect Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Revealing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Deleting Effect Media Files from a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Chapter 4 Creating Layered and Nested Effects

Creating Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Using the Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

About the Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Creating a Chroma Key Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Creating a Luma Key Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Creating a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Using the Color Effec t to Prepar e a High-Contrast Image . . . 155

Working with Imported Graphics and Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Editing with Imported Matte Key Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Editing with Imported Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Nesting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Expanding Nested Effects in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Creating a Simple Nested Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Nesting a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Submaster Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Applying the Submaster Effect to a Multilayered

Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Using the Submaster Effect with a Series of Short Clips . . . . 170

Collapsing Layers into One Submaster Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Performing a Video Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Chapter 5 Creating Titles and Graphic Objects

Creating Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Opening the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Understanding the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Understanding the Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Using the Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Setting Up the Drawing Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Installing Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Previewing Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Using Title and Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Using Safe Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Selecting a Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Using a Video Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Updating the Video Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Creating a Color Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Alignment Grid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Displaying a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Snapping to a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Bringing the Title Tool to the Foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Creating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Copying and Pasting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Resizing Text Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Repositioning Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Editing a Text String. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Formatting the Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Selecting Text for Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Setting the Default Text Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Selecting a Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Changing the Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Changing the Point Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Making Text Bold or Italic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Justifying the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Kerning the Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Adjusting Leading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Creating Graphic Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Drawing a Square or Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Drawing a Circ le or Oval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Drawing a Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Selecting Line Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Rounding Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Selecting a Line or Border Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Adding Arrowheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Changing Arrowhead Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Creating Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Page Count Limits for Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Using Auto Size Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Setting Up Text Formatting for Craw ling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Workflow Options for Creating Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Typing the Crawling Title Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Resizing the Width of a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Scrolling Through a Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Going to a Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Adding Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Copying or Moving Objects to Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Inserting Blank Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Deleting Additional Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Formatting Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Selecting Colors and Setting Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Adjusting the Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Blending Two Colors in an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Using the Title Tool Color Picker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Adjusting the Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Blending Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

W o rki ng with Shadows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Applying Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Adjusting Shadow Color and Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Adjusting Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Setting Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Adjusting Shadow Softness On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Viewing Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Creating a Glow Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Manipulating Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Basic Manipulation Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Layering Text and Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Locking and Unlocking Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Alignin g Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Distributing Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Saving Titles and Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Saving a Title and Exiting the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Saving Multiple Titles in a Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Using the Fast Save Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Saving a Title with Fast Save. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Viewing Fast-Saved Titles in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Rendering Fast-Saved T it les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Revising a Title in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Saving and Recalling Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Saving a Title Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Recalling a Title Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Confirming Function Key Mapping of Title Styles . . . . . 240

Applying Title Styles to Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Managing Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Creating and Using Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Creating T itle Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Using Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Exporting a Title as a Graphics File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Chapter 6 Editing with Titles

Workflow for Editing with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Restrictions on Title Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

About Title Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Displaying T itle Frames in the Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Editing a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Setting Marks in Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Splicing or Overwriting a Title into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Dragging a Marked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Dragging an Unmarked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Trimming the Du ration of Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Removing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Replacing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Fading a Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Adjusting Title Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Revising a Title in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Replacing Fill Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Rendering T itle s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Re-creating Title Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Troubleshooting Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Title Does Not Display over Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Wrong Title Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Chapter 7 2D Effects Reference

2D Effects Paramete rs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Global and Keyframeable Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Color Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Luma Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Luma Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Luma Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Chroma Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Color Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Color Gain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Key Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Secondary Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Spill Suppression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Matrix Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Mosaic Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Feathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Mosaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Motion Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Freeze Frame Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Variable Speed and Strobe Motion Parameters. . . . . . . . . 291

Plug-in Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Region Stabilize Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Region of Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Auto Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Scaling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Transition Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Transition Effect Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Transition Effect Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

2D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Blend Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Dip to Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Fade from Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Fade to Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Picture-in-Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Superimpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Box Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Bottom Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Left Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Right Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Top Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Conceal Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Edge Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Horizontal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Horizontal Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Lower Left Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Lower Right Diagonal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Upper Left Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Upper Right Diagonal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Vertical Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Vertical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Color Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Flip-Flop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Mosaic Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Region Stabilize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Resize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Submaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Chroma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Luma Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Matte Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

L-Conceal Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Bottom Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Matrix Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Grid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

One-Way Row. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Speckle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Spiral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Zig-Zag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Freeze Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Variable Speed and Strobe Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Peel Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Bottom Left Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Bottom Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Top Left Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Top Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Push Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Sawtooth Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Horizontal Sawtooth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Horizontal Open Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Vertical Open Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Vertical Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Shape Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

4 Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Center Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Circle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Ellipse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Horizontal Bands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Horizontal Blinds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Vertical Blinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Spin Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

X Spin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Y Spin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Squeeze Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Bottom Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Bottom Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Centered Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Horizontal Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Left Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Right Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Top Centered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Vertical Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Title Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Comparison of Similar Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Appendix A Using AVX Plug-Ins

Installing AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Locating the AVX_Plug-Ins Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Upgrading AVX Plug-ins and Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Assigning Multiple Tracks in Plug-in Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Using AVX Plug-in Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Accessing an AVX Custom Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Custom AVX Controls in the Effect Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Troubleshooting AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Plug-in Does Not Appear in the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Plug-in Does Not Load. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

NewsCutter XP Cannot Render the Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Blank Effect Icons in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Missing Effect Categories in the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Index

Tables

Table 2-1 Playback Capabilities of Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Table 3-1 Effect Editor Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Table 3-2 Render Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Table 5-1 Toolbar Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Table 5-2 Maximum Pages and Object Heights for Titles. . . . . 205

Using This Guide

This guide is your introduction to the wealth of effects and design

options available for use in your projects. This release of the Avid NewsCutter in creating professional broadcast output. You also have at your fingertips all the sophisticated effects capabilities of a high-end postproduction suite, combined with the versatility of a digital nonlinear editing system.

You can use the tools an d techniq ues described in this guide to create and incorporate into your sequence titles and effects with a wide variety of attributes. This guide also describes how to apply third-party plug-in effect filters for stunning effects formerly available only on high-end graphics workstations.

The documentation describes the fea tures and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system might not contain certa i n features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

XP system includes the standard editing features used

Who Should Use This Guide

This guide is intended for all NewsCutter XP users, from beginning to advanced. The term “user’s guide” refers to the Avid NewsCutter XP

User’s Guide.

About This Guide

This guide leads you through even the most complex procedures with task-oriented instructions. The informatio n provided here builds on editing procedures described in the user’s guide for NewsCutter XP, while adding a complete explanation of all the tools and techniques required to create, apply, and adjust various effects and graphics, including useful tips, shortcuts, and custom options.

Keep the Avid NewsCutter XP User’s Guide and the Avid NewsCutter XP Quick Reference available during each editing session.

The Contents lists all topics included in the guide. They cover the following general areas:

• Effects editing: Chapters 1 through 4 of this guide describe various beginning and advanced techniques for incorporating literally hundreds of digital video effects (DVEs), third-party effect filters, keys, and layering options.

• Creating and editing titles and graphic objects: Chapter 5 and

Chapter 6 cover titling and use of the tools to create and control

the attributes of on-screen text, backgrounds, lines, boxes, ovals, and other graphics objects. You can create multiple titles without exiting the Title tool, and apply shadows, color, transparency, layers, and alignment to both objects and text.

• 2D effects reference: Chapter 7 provides quick access to specific information about the 2D effects and parameters available with NewsCutter XP.

• Using AVX plug-ins: Appendix A covers the installation, use, and troubleshooting of third-party plug-ins supported by the Avid Visual Extensions (AVX

™

) standard.

• The Index helps you locate specific topics.

Symbols and Conventions

Look here in the margin for tips.

Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows

The NewsCutter XP documentation uses the following special symbols and conventions:

1. Numbered lists, when the order of the items is important.

• Bulleted lists, when the order of the items is unimportant.

t One arrow indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

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

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

2000 operating system.

a. Alphabetical lists, when the order of secondary items is

important.

- Indented dashed lists, when the order of secondary items is

unimportant.

list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

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 guide or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

If You Need Help

If you’re having trouble using NewsCutter XP, you should:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide.

2. Check the documentation that came with your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

3. Check the release notes supplied with your Avid application for information on accessing the Avid Web site and the Avid Knowledge Center.

4. For support services, call Avid Customer Support:

-Broadcast products — call 800-NEWS-DNG (639-7364).

-Postproduction products — call 800-80 0-AVID (2843).

Related Informati on

The followi ng do c u me n t s provide more information about NewsCutter XP:

• Avid NewsCutter XP Release Notes

This document describes new features, hardware and software requirements, software installation instructions, and summary information on system and memory requirements.

• Avid NewsCutter XP Setup Guide

This guide provides installation and configuration ins tructions as well as suggestions for troubleshoot ing problems that might arise with system hardware.

• Avid NewsCutter XP User’s Guide

This guide provides complete information on all editing tasks, such as recording footage, viewing and marking footage, editing, trimming, importing, exporting, and generating final output. This guide also provides a glossary that defines and explains many industry terms.

• Avid NewsCutter XP Quick Reference Card

This folded card lists convenient keyboard shortcuts.

• Avid Products Collaboration Guide This guide provides step-by-step instructions for transferring

project files, audio files, and graphics and effects files between various Avid products.

The most recent update of the Avid Products Collaboration Guide is provided online. Check the release notes supplied with your Avid application for information on a cces sing online documentation.

• Avid NewsCutter XP Online Publications

This online collection provides electronic versions of this guide and other guides listed in this section. You can view these

documents with Adobe

Acrobat® Reader™, which you can install

from the CD-ROM.

• Avid NewsCutter XP Help The NewsCutter XP application includes a Help system that can

be viewed using your default Web browser. Help can be run as a standalone application from the Avid NewsCutter XP Online

Publications CD-ROM.

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Avid Technology continuously seeks to improve its documentation. We value your comments about this guide, the Help, the Online Publications CD-ROM, and other Avid-supplied documentation.

Simply e-mail your documentatio n comments to Av id Technology at

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How to Order Documentation

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

CHAPTER 1

Preparing to Work with Effects

NewsCutter XP offers many effects that you can apply to your sequences. This chapter describes concepts you should understand before you begin creating and editing effects into sequences.

• Effect Types

• Effects Creation Tools

• Using the Effect Palette

• Playing Effects in a Sequence

• Using Third-Party Plug-in Effects

Effect Types

Much overlapping occurs between the various types of effects you can create, as well as the methods used to create them. Your system offers four basic effect types.

• Transition effects (dissolves, wipes, and so forth) are applied at the cut point between two video clips that are on the same video track (that is, the same video layer). For more informatio n on creating transition effects, see Chapter 2, “Basics of Effects Editing” and Chapter 3, “Customizing Effects with the Effect Editor.”

• Segment effects are applied to an entire clip or group of clips. There are two types of segment effects:

-A single-layer segment effect, such as the Mask effect, is

applied to a segment on one video track. Single-layer segment effects use one stream of video. For more information on creating single-layer segment effects, see Chapter 2, “Basics of Effects Editing” and Chapte r 3, “Customizing Effects with the Effect Editor.”

-A multilayer segment effect, such as the Picture-in-Picture

effect, is applied to the top layer or a middle layer of segments that contain two or more video tracks that will be played simultaneously. For more information on techniques for creating multilayer effects, see Chapter 4, “Creating Layered and Nested Effects.”

• Title eff ects are created with the Title tool and are edited onto their own layers in a sequence. For more information on techniques for creating and editing title effects, see Chapter 5, “Creating Tit les and Graphic Objects” and Chapter 6, “Editing with Titles.”

• Motion effects (freeze frame, variable speed, and strobe) are created by manipulating the playback characteristics of a clip of footage. For more information on techniques for creating motion effects, see Chapter 2, “Basics of Effects Editing.”

Effects Creation Tools

The following chart presents the basic tools used to create effects.

Sources of effects:

Effect Palette

Apply transition and segment effects directly to tracks.

Effects editing in default editing mo de:

Motion Effect dialog box

Title tool

Title and motion effects appear first as clips in the bin.

Edit effect clips into the Timeline.

Effects adjustment in Effect mode:

Effect Preview monitor: Allows you to preview an effect, manipulate keyframes, and manipulate wire-frame representations of the effect.

Effect Edi tor: Allows you to adjust effect parameters.

Displaying Effects On-the-Fly

The Render On-the-Fly option allows y ou to preview non-real-time effects frame by frame, immediately after applying them.

To display effects immediately during effects editing:

t Choose Render On-the-Fly from the Clip menu.

Interrupting Render On-the-Fly

Using Render On-the-Fly can slow down your editing of a sequence. If you are compositing and then change the frame you are monitoring, the system automatically renders the single frame.

Instead of waiting for the system to finish rendering, you can interrupt Render On-the-Fly . Interrupting Render On-the-Fly interrupts only the rendering of non-real-time effects.

To interrupt Render On-the-Fly, do one of the following:

t Drag the position indicator in the Timeline.

While you are dragging, the sequence appears in the Source/Record monitor as it would if Render On-the-Fly were not selected from the Clip menu.

t If you click in the Timeline and the system begins to re nder,

quickly move to another location in th e Timeline. This interrupts the rendering process until you release the mouse button.

Using the Effect Palette

The Effect Palette is a window that lists all the effects available on NewsCutter XP. Other effects that are available on your system depend on what third-party plug-ins you m ight have installed. You select transition and segment effects from the Effect Palette.

The left side of the Effect Palette displays a scrollable list of effect categories that includes the following sta nd ard categories as well as categories for any third-party plug-ins you have installed.

• AVX Sample

• Blend

• Box Wipe

• Conceal

• Edge Wipe

• Image

• Key

• L-Conceal

• Matrix Wipe

• Peel

• Push

• Sawtooth Wipe

• Shape Wipe

• Spin

• Squeeze

The effect categories list also includes open bins when those bins contain effect templates or other kinds of effect files.

The right side of the Effect Palette shows a list of the individual effects that are available for the currently selected effect category. Each effect has its own effect icon.

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