Pinnacle Systems NewsCutter XP Getting Started Guide
Avid
Getting Started Guide
®
NewsCutter® XP
Release 1.5
for the Windows NT® Operating System
a
tools for storytellers™
© 2000 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.
Avid NewsCutter XP Getting Started Guide for the Windows NT Operating System •
Part 0130-04661-01 Rev. A • August 2000
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Contents
Chapter 1 Setting Up Your Avid NewsCutter XP System
Check List for Setting Up Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Turning On Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Setting Your Screen Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Preparing Your Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Overview of Partitioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Supported File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Checking Your Internal Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Creating Primary Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Formatting Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Creating a Disk Configuration Floppy Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Testing Drives on Windows NT Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing Avid NewsCutter XP Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing Avid NewsCutter XP Software and All Components .
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Installing Selected Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Performing a Custom Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Modifying, Repairing, or Removing Avid NewsCutter XP . . . 30
Installing AvidNet Transfer Tool Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing EDL Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Creating an Emergency Repair Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Installing the Avid NewsCutter XP Tutorial Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Turning Off Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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Chapter 2 About Avid NewsCutter XP
About Digital Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Nonlinear Editing with Avid NewsCutter XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Avid NewsCutter XP Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Subclips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The Attic Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
The Avid NewsCutter XP File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Project Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Preparing to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Editing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Generating Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 3 Learning How to Use Avid NewsCutter XP
Using the Tutorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Opening and Closing the Help System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Getting Help for Windows and Dialog Boxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Getting Help for Screen Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Printing Help Topics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using Online Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Tips and Other Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 4 Starting a Project and Creating a Simple Sequence
Starting Avid NewsCutter XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Using the Open Project Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Creating a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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Selecting and Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Creating a Simple Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Closing the Project and Quitting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Chapter 5 Playing and Marking Clips
Exploring the Project Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
The Bins Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
The Settings Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Opening a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Viewing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Using Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Using Frame View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Switching Between Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Playing Clips in a Source Pop-up Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Using the Keyboard to Play Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Using Buttons and the Position Indicator to Play Clips . . . . . . 80
Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Marking the First Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Marking Another Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Playing a Sequence in a Source Pop-up Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Using Timecode to Find a Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
About Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Using Timecode to Mark IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using Frame Offset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Clearing IN Points and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Saving Your Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Chapter 6 Creating a Sequence
Working in the Avid NewsCutter XP Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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Minimizing Avid NewsCutter XP Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Default Locations for the Avid NewsCutter XP Windows . . . . 95
Making the First Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Playing a Video Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Dragging a Video Clip and Creating a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Moving and Renaming the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Opening a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Opening and Using the Tool Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Opening and Tearing Off the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Displaying Button Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Splicing in an Audio Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Using Digital Audio Scrub to Locate a Specific Frame of Audio
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Playing IN to OUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Splicing in the Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Reviewing Your Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Exploring the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Displaying More or Less Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Navigating in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Using the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Using the Scroll Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Using the Track Selector Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Monitoring Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Splicing in a Video Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Adding Additional Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Splicing in the Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Splicing a Clip into the Middle of a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Moving to the Head of a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Splicing in the Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Undoing an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Splicing in a Music Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Opening and Marking the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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Patching Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Selecting the Tracks to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Splicing in the Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Reviewing Your Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Confirming the Duration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Chapter 7 Building a Sequence
Storyboard Editing the Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Creating the Storyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Editing the Clips into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Overwriting Clips into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Backtiming an Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Rearranging Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Overwriting with a Three-Point Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Using Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Changing the Order of Clips in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Removing Footage from a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Removing Footage and Closing the Resulting Gap . . . . . 126
Removing Footage and Retaining the Resulting Gap . . . 127
Replacing a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Adjusting Both Sides of a Transition (Dual-Roller Trimming) . .
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Single-Roller Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Adding the Final Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Working with Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Adjusting Audio Pan (Balance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Adjusting Audio Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
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Chapter 8 Adding Effects
Effects Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Transition Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Segment Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Dissolving Between Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Creating a Series of Dissolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Rendering a Series of Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Adding Additional Dissolves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Changing the Position of a Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Adding a Picture-in-Picture Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Displaying the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Using the Second Video Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Creating the Picture-in-Picture Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Resizing the Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Previewing the Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Adjusting the Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Fading In and Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Rendering the Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Adding a Flop Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Chapter 9 Creating Titles
Creating a New Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Adding a Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Positioning and Aligning Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Saving a Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Editing the Title into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Fading a Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Editing a Saved Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Changing Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Saving the Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Editing the Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Renaming Your Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
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Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Chapter 10 Generating Output
Creating a Movie for the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
About Media Cleaner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Preparing the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Exporting with Media Cleaner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Exporting a QuickTime Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Using the QuickTime DV Codec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Exporting the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Outputting a Digital Cut to Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
About Remote and Local Deck Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Changing the Timecode of the Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Configuring Your Camera or Video Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Recording a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Chapter 11 Backing Up and Deleting a Project
Backing Up Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Deleting a Project Folder and Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Deleting a Project Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Deleting Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Appendix A Connecting the Hardware and Editing Equipment
Connecting the Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Connecting the Application Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Connecting the External SCSI Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Installation Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Placing the Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Cabling the Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Determining the SCSI IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
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Setting the SCSI IDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Connecting the Editing Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Overview of the Hardware Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Cables Needed to Connect the Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Cables Shipped with the Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Optional Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Connecting a Digital Video Deck or Camera to the Computer . .
206
Connecting an Analog Video Deck to the Computer. . . . . . . . 209
Controlling an Analog Video Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Problems Viewing Recorded Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Index
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Figures
Figure A-1 System Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Figure A-2 Application Key Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Figure A-3 External SCSI Connector Location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Figure A-4 Placing the External SCSI Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Figure A-5 Example of a Chain of SCSI Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Figure A-6 Cable and Terminator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Figure A-7 Connecting the Adapter Cable to the External SCSI. 196
Figure A-8 Connecting the Adapter Cable to the First SCSI Drive .
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Figure A-9 Connecting the Interconnect Cable Between SCSI Drives
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Figure A-10 Connecting the LVD Terminator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Figure A-11 Setting the SCSI IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Figure A-12 SCSI ID Switch Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Figure A-13 SCSI ID Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Figure A-14 Computer Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Figure A-15 Connecting the Digital Video Deck or Camera . . . . . 206
Figure A-16 Connecting an Analog Video Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Figure A-17 Analog Video Deck Control Cabling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Figure A-18 Video Display Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Figure A-19 Data Path for Recorded Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
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Tables
Table 1-1 Check List for Setting Up Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Table 1-2 Custom Installation Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Tab le A- 1 Numbers Associated with
SCSI Switch Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Tab le A- 2 Connecting the Digital Video Deck or Camera
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Tab le A- 3 Connecting an Analog Video Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
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CHAPTER 1
Setting Up Your
Avid NewsCutter XP System
This chapter describes how to set up your Avid NewsCutter XP
system. It consists of the following sections:
• Check List for Setting Up Your System
• Turning On Your Equipment
• Preparing Your Drives
• Installing Avid NewsCutter XP Software
• Installing AvidNet Transfer Tool Software
• Installing EDL Manager
• Creating an Emergency Repair Disk
• Installing the Avid NewsCutter XP Tutorial Files
• Turning Off Your Equipment
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Check List for Setting Up Your System
The check list in Ta bl e 1- 1 lists the tasks you need to complete before
you can use your Avid NewsCutter XP system.
Table 1-1 Check List for Setting Up Your System
To See
Set up your computer hardware:
computer, monitor, mouse, keyboard
Install the application key and printer Appendix A
Connect your optional external drives Appendix A
Connect your camera or video deck
(you can connect these after you install
the software if you prefer)
Turn on your equipment “Turning On Your Equipment” on
Prepare your drives “Preparing Your Drives” on page 17
Install Avid NewsCutter XP software “Installing Avid NewsCutter XP
Create an emergency repair disk “Creating an Emergency Repair
Install Avid NewsCutter XP tutorial
files (optional)
Appendix A
Appendix A
page 15
Software” on page 25
Disk” on page 35
“Installing the Avid NewsCutter XP
Tutorial Files” on page 36
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Turning On Your Equipment
After you have connected your equipment, turn on the various
components. If you have connected external drives, you need to shut
down and restart your computer before the computer can detect and
use the external drives.
If any part of your system fails to turn on, make sure its electrical cord
is plugged snugly into an appropriate electrical outlet or power strip.
For more information, see the instructions for setting up your
computer hardware.
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For information on your
Windows NT features,
such as the desktop and
icons, see your
Windows NT
documentation.
If you fail to follow the proper sequence for starting your system,
you could damage your computer or storage drives.
Turn on the components in the following order:
1. External media drives: Your system might include one or more
external media drives. Turn on the drive or drives before starting
the computer. Allow 10 to 15 seconds for the drives to spin up to
speed before starting your computer.
2. Other peripheral hardware: Turn on all other peripheral units,
such as monitor and speakers. If you have connected a camera,
transcoder, or deck, turn them on now.
3. Computer:
a. Turn on your computer.
The computer goes through a self-check routine, and the
Windows NT startup screen appears.
b. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and log on.
The Windows NT desktop appears.
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To avoid system damage, do not disconnect or turn off the external
media drives while the computer is on.
Setting Your Screen Resolution
When running NewsCutter XP, Avid recommends that you set your
Windows NT screen resolution as follows:
1. Right-click on the desktop.
2. Choose properties from the shortcut menu.
The Display Properties dialog box appears.
3. Click the Settings tab.
4. Set the Desktop Area to 1024 x 768 pixels.
5. Set the Refresh Frequency to 75 Hertz.
6. Click OK.
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Preparing Your Drives
To use Avid NewsCutter XP software on a Windows NT system, you
need to partition and format the drives properly. Partitioning divides a
drive into sections, and formatting places a file system on each
partition.
Your computer contains two internal disk drives. One drive is already
partially partitioned and formatted (see “Checking Your Internal
Drives” on page 19). This partition contains the Windows NT
operating system. That’s why the Windows NT operating system
appears automatically when you turn on the computer.
This section includes the following information:
• Overview of Partitioning
• Supported File Systems
• Checking Your Internal Drives
• Creating Primary Partitions
• Formatting Partitions
• Creating a Disk Configuration Floppy Disk
• Testing Drives on Windows NT Systems
Overview of Partitioning
Windows NT allows you to create multiple partitions on a single
physical drive as a way to manage projects and files. The following are
two ways you can partition your drives.
The letters G through J
used are examples only.
• You can partition your drive as one primary partition, having the
partition represented by a drive letter.
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One partition
• You can have up to four primary partitions per drive. Each
partition is assigned a drive letter and cannot be further
subdivided.
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For specific recommendations for partitioning your drives, see
“Creating Primary Partitions” on page 20.
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You can also create a partition across more than one drive, which is
called striping drives. You do not need to stripe drives when you use
Avid NewsCutter XP. See the Windows NT documentation for striping
information.
Supported File Systems
G
Four partitions
H
IJ
Drive G
Drives G – J
Windows NT supports two file systems: the File Allocation Table
(FAT) and the New Technology File System (NTFS). FAT is primarily
used when backward compatibility is needed on operating systems
such as MS-DOS
systems should be limited to a 2-GB partition size to maintain this
backward compatibility. NTFS affords the user security, compression,
and other file recovery features. Drives employing NTFS support
partitions of any size. Avid recommends that you choose NTFS when
you partition your disk drives.
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or other versions of Windows. In general, FAT file
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One of your internal disk drives has a partition (designated drive C)
that contains the Windows NT operating system stored on a FAT file
system. You should not reformat this partition unless you need to
rebuild your system disk drive.
Checking Your Internal Drives
Your computer contains two internal disk drives. The first drive has a
2-GB partition that is formatted with a FAT file system. This partition
is your system or boot drive, which is designated drive C in the factory
default configuration. The remaining portion of this drive needs to be
partitioned and formatted before you install Avid NewsCutter XP
software.
The second drive is intended to be used as a media drive (see “Media
Files” on page 41). You need to partition and format this drive also.
To check if you need to partition and format these drives:
1. Start Windows NT 4.0 and log in to an account with
administrative privileges.
2. Click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Administrative
Tools, and select Disk Administrator. The Disk Administrator
window opens.
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3. Look at Disk 0 and Disk 1.
Your Disk 0 should look similar to Disk 0 in the following figure.
The figure shows Partition C on Disk 0, with a stripe across the
top, with IBM
You should not partition and format the partition that contains the
Windows NT operating system. In the factory default configuration,
this partition is designated drive C, as shown in the following
figure.
Any remaining portion of Disk 0 or Disk 1 that shows Free Space
needs to be partitioned and formatted.
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Preload and a FAT file system.
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9420 MB
Already partitioned and formatted
Needs partitioning and formatting
18428 MB
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Creating Primary Partitions
To create a primary partition:
1. Start Windows NT 4.0 and log in to an account with
administrative privileges. If you do not have administrative
privileges, see your system administrator to get privileges.
2. Click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Administrative
Tools, and select Disk Administrator. The first Disk Administrator
window opens.
3. From the Windows NT Disk Administrator, use the pointer to
select the portion of the disk on which you are going to create one
or more primary partitions.
4. From the Partition menu, choose Create.
The Create Primary Partition dialog box appears.
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5. Choose the size of the primary partition by typing a number or by
clicking the up or down arrow.
Avid recommends creating a second partition on the first internal
drive (Disk 0), using all the remaining space. Avid also
recommends creating one large partition on the second internal
drive (Disk 1). In both cases, use the maximum size for the
partition.
If you want to create multiple partitions, you can divide the
maximum size of the partition by the number of partitions (up to
4). Type that number in the Create partition of size text box.
6. Click OK to create the primary partition.
7. If you are formatting multiple partitions, repeat steps 3 through 6
to create up to four primary partitions.
8. From the Partition menu, choose Commit Changes Now.
The first Confirm dialog box appears.
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9. Click Yes.
The following Disk Administrator dialog box appears.
10. Click OK.
Formatting Partitions
To format the primary partitions you created:
1. From the Windows NT Disk Administrator, use the pointer to
select the primary partition that you are going to format.
2. From the Tools menu, choose Format.
The Format window opens.
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3. Choose NTFS File System.
4. Type a Volume Label Name that helps you define that partition.
You can enter up to 14 characters.
5. Select Quick Format.
6. Click Start to begin formatting.
The Format warning dialog box appears.
This warning refers only to the new partition, not previously
formatted partitions.
7. Click OK.
The Format Complete dialog box appears after formatting and
tells you the total disk space and the total disk space available on
the volume.
8. Click OK.
9. Repeat steps 1 through 8 until you have formatted all of the
primary partitions you created.
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Creating a Disk Configuration Floppy Disk
You should now save the new disk configuration on a floppy disk.
To create a configuration floppy disk:
1. Start Windows NT 4.0 and log in to an account with
administrative privileges. If you do not have administrative
privileges, see your system administrator to get privileges.
2. Click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Administrative
Tools, and select Disk Administrator. The first Disk Administrator
window opens.
3. Choose Configuration from the Partition menu and select Save.
4. A dialog box appears asking you to insert a floppy disk into the
floppy drive.
5. Click Yes.
Store the configuration floppy disk in a safe, dry, static-free location.
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Whenever you change your disk configuration, create a new configuration
floppy disk.
Testing Drives on Windows NT Systems
The Windows NT operating system contains a disk-checking feature in
the Properties section of each drive and a program named CHKDSK.
For information about how to use this feature and program, see the
Windows NT documentation.
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Installing Avid NewsCutter XP Software
This section describes how to install the Avid NewsCutter XP
application and its related components from the installation CD-ROM.
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In order to install or remove the application software, you need to use an
account with administrative privileges.
The following third-party software applications have been modified
to work properly with Avid software: LSX-MPEG and QuickTime
Downloading newer versions of these applications before they are
supported by Avid might cause problems. Avid recommends not
updating any of these applications until they are officially
supported by Avid. Check the Customer Service section of the Avid
Web site at www.avid.com.
Installing Avid NewsCutter XP Software and All Components
To install the Avid NewsCutter XP software and all related
components:
1. Quit all Windows NT applications.
2. Insert the Avid NewsCutter XP application CD-ROM into the CDROM drive.
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If the installation program doesn’t start automatically:
a. Double-click the My Computer icon.
b. Double-click your CD-ROM drive icon.
c. Double-click the Launch icon.
The opening window of the installer opens.
3. In the opening window, click Installers.
4. Click Install Avid NewsCutter XP.
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If you have not partitioned and formatted the second internal disk drive (in
addition to drive C) or additional external drives, a message appears. This
message informs you that you need at least two partitions to run
Avid NewsCutter XP. One partition is the boot drive (drive C), and the other
partition is used to store media. For instructions on partitioning and
formatting drives, see “Preparing Your Drives” on page 17.
If you have previously installed Avid NewsCutter XP, the
Welcome window for the Setup Maintenance program opens.
Follow the steps in “Modifying, Repairing, or Removing Avid
NewsCutter XP” on page 30
5. In the Welcome window, click Next.
6. In the License Agreement window, read the agreement, and then
click Yes to accept the terms of the agreement.
7. In the Choose Destination Location window, accept the default
path for the application folder (on drive C) by clicking Next. The
default path is:
C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid NewsCutter XP
8. In the Setup Type window, select an option:
• Select Typical to install all components. This is the
recommended installation.
• Select Custom to select the components you want to install.
See “Performing a Custom Installation” on page 29.
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9. After you have selected an option, click Next.
The AVX_Plug-In Location window opens and displays the
default destination as:
C:\Program Files\Avid\AVX_Plug-ins
10. Click Next to accept the default path.
11. In the Application Data Location window, indicate a location for
the application files (project folders and user folders).
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Avid recommends that you install these files on a drive or partition other than
drive C.
To change the default path:
a. Click the Browse button.
b. In the Path text box, type:
drive
:\Avid\Avid NewsCutter XP
c. Click OK.
A message asks if you want to create the folder.
d. Click Yes.
12. Click Next.
The installation begins. During the installation, you see
installation programs for a series of components. For
RealProducer G2, a Welcome window opens.
a. Click Next
b. In the License Agreement window, click Yes.
c. In the RealProducer G2 Setup Complete window, click Finish.
When the Avid NewsCutter XP installation is complete, another
Setup Complete window opens and asks if you want to restart the
system.
13. Click Yes, and then click Finish.
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Installing Selected Components
You can install some Avid NewsCutter XP components separately.
These components, which create movies for Internet distribution,
include:
• Media Cleaner
• LSX-MPEG
•QuickTime
To install a selected component:
1. Quit all Windows NT applications.
2. Insert the Avid NewsCutter XP Installation CD-ROM into the CDROM drive.
If the installation program doesn't start automatically:
a. Double-click the My Computer icon.
b. Double-click your CD-ROM drive icon.
c. Double-click the Launch icon.
The opening window of the installer opens.
3. In the opening window, click Component Installers.
4. Select the component you want to install and follow the on-screen
instructions.
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Performing a Custom Installation
You can perform a custom installation to install particular files from
the installation CD-ROM. Ta bl e 1 -2 lists the components available
when you use the Custom option of the Avid Application Installer.
Table 1-2 Custom Installation Components
Component Description
Avid NewsCutter XP Installs the application and all the necessary
supporting files, except the Help files.
Help files Installs the appropriate Help files.
To perform a custom installation:
1. Follow steps 1 through 7 in the procedure “Installing Avid
NewsCutter XP Software and All Components” on page 25.
2. In the Setup Type window, click Custom and then click Next.
3. In the Select Components window, click the check boxes next to
the components you want to install. A check mark indicates the
component is selected.
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4. After you have selected the components to install, click Next.
5. In the Application Data Location window, indicate a location for
the application files (project folders and user folders).
Avid recommends that you install these files on a drive or partition other than
drive C.
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To change the default path:
a. Click the Browse button.
b. In the Path text box, type:
drive
:\Avid\Avid NewsCutter XP
c. Click OK.
A message asks if you want to create the folder.
d. Click Yes.
6. Click Next.
The installation begins. When the installation is complete, a
message asks if you want to restart the system.
7. Click Yes, and then click Finish.
Modifying, Repairing, or Removing Avid NewsCutter XP
If you have installed Avid NewsCutter XP and need to reinstall or
remove it, you use the Setup Maintenance program.
To modify, repair, or remove Avid NewsCutter XP:
1. Quit all Windows NT applications.
2. Insert the Avid NewsCutter XP application CD-ROM into the CDROM drive.
If the installation program doesn’t start automatically:
a. Double-click the My Computer icon.
b. Double-click your CD-ROM drive icon.
c. Double-click the Launch icon.
The opening window of the installer opens.
3. In the opening window, click Installers.
4. Click Install Avid NewsCutter XP.
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