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Avid® Symphony™

Basics Guide

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Avid Symphony Basics Guide • 0130-07974-01 • June 2008

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Accessing the Goodies Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Chapter 1 Editing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Starting a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Preparing to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Editing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Outputting a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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

Turning on Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using the Macintosh Dock (Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using the Keyboard for Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using the Mouse Scroll Wheel for Navigating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Customizing Mouse Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Suggestions for Optimum Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Turn Off File Sharing (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Optimum Performance (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Antivirus Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Starting Your Avid Editing Application (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Starting Your Avid Editing Application (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Working with Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Select Project Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Project Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Raster Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Raster Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Setting Film Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Opening an Existing Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Deleting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Quitting Your Avid Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Turning Off Your Equipment After Quitting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or on Removable Media . . . . . . . . 67

Restoring from a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chapter 3 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Controlling Project Window Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Bins Tab in the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Renaming a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Opening and Closing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Displaying Folders of Bins in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Emptying the Trash in the Bins List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Saving Bins Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Using the Settings Tab in the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Using the Format Tab in the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Chapter 4 Preparing for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Logging and Shot Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Importing Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Preparing the Hardware for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Getting Information About Striped Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Selecting the Sync Source for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Establishing Sync for Audio-Only Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Selecting Settings for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Understanding Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Selecting Video Resolutions and Media Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Setting Drive Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Configuring Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Configuring a Deck or Multiple Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Deleting Deck Configuration Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Connecting a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Setting Up the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Opening the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Selecting a Deck in the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Activating Playback from an Available Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Selecting a Source Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Selecting Source Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Setting the Video and Audio Input in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Detecting a Valid or Locked Sync Signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Setting the Pulldown Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Film Project Pulldown and Transfer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Capturing Digital Audio in Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Selecting a Resolution in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Selecting a Target Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Selecting the Target Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Interpreting the Time-Remaining Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Selecting a Custom Preroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Preparing for Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Audio Project Settings for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Selecting the Audio Sample Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Performing Audio Sample Rate Conversion During Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Understanding Audio Files and Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Selecting the Audio File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Selecting the Audio Input Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Understanding the Audio Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Opening and Sizing the Audio Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Adjusting Audio Input Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Preparing for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Opening the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Using the Factory Preset Buttons in the Video Input Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Preparing to Calibrate Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Calibrating Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Luminance Settings for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Capture Preparations Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Chapter 5 Capturing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Capturing and Logging at the Same Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Naming Clips and Adding Comments in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Capturing by Setting Both Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Capturing by Setting Only One Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Capturing On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Preparing to Autocapture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Capturing from a Non-Avid-Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Capturing Directly from a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Frame Chase Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Understanding Frame Chase Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Enabling Frame Chase Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Requirements and Guidelines for Frame Chase Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Preparing to Batch Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Batch Capturing Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Recapturing Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Saving Two Versions of a Sequence When Recapturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using Decompose When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Recapturing the Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Chapter 6 Importing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Preparing to Import Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Creating and Modifying Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Importing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Importing Audio Files from a Music CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method to Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Batch Import Dialog Box: Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Chapter 7 Working with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Object Icons in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Understanding Bin Highlight Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Using Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Using Frame View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Basic Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Selecting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Duplicating Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Deleting Bin Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Changing the Bin Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Working with the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Enabling and Disabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Closing the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Deleting a Bin with the SuperBin Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Creating a Storyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Chapter 8 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

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

Configuring Avid Editing Systems for the Interplay Engine and

Interplay Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Using Avid Editing Systems in an Avid Workgroup Environment . . . . . . . . . . 187

Disconnecting an Avid Editing Application from the Interplay Environment . . . . . . 188

Voluntarily Disconnecting from the Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Limitations of Disconnected Client Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Using Disconnected Client Mode with Network Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Using Avid Editing Systems in an Avid Unity LANshare Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Viewing Media with a 100Base-T Connection to Avid Unity ISIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Understanding Drive Mounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Mounting and Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Basic Media Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Using the Media Tool in an Avid Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Opening the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Consolidating Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Understanding the Consolidate Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Using the Consolidate Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Consolidate Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Using the Transcode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Transcode Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Refreshing Media Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Deleting Unreferenced Clips and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

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

Chapter 9 Viewing and Marking Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Viewing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Customizing the Composer Window and Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Resizing the Composer Window and Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Tracking Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Selecting the Video Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Loading and Clearing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Loading Clips or Sequences into Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Switching Between Loaded Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Clearing Clips from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Controlling Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Playback Control Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Stepping Forward and Backward by Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Playback Control Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Playing Footage with the J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Using the Mouse for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Video Quality Options for Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Setting the Video Quality for Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Creating Subsequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Searching for a Clip or Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Understanding Match Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Performing a Reverse Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Selecting Tracks for Matching Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Finding a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Locating a Master Clip from a Subclip in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Finding a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Chapter 10 Creating and Editing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Entering Source/Record Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Creating a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Changing the Name and Timecode for a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Track Display for New Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Making a First Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Creating an Instant Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Performing an Insert or Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Enabling Single-Mark Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Mixing Video Formats in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Working with Interlaced Clips in Progressive Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Extracting Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

The Avid Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Using the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Playing Back a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Tips for Avoiding Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Customizing Sync Break Display in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Fixing Sync Breaks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Tips for Fixing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Chapter 11 Using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Examples of Customized Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Using the Timeline Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Timeline Fast Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Enlarging and Reducing Timeline Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Moving Timeline Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Highlighting Clips in a Mixed-Format (SD and HD) Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Managing Customized Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Navigating in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Understanding the Timeline Position Indicator and Scroll Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Switching to the Timeline Position Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Zooming and Focusing in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Using Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Guidelines for Editing in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Selecting and Deselecting Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Four-Frame Display in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Suppressing Four-Frame Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Editing Segments in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Moving Segments with Drag and Drop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Deleting Segments in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Marking Clips and Sequences in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Working with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Understanding the Track Selector Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Selecting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Understanding Track Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Monitoring and Soloing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Patching Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Understanding Locking and Sync Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Locking and Sync Locking Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Adding and Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Chapter 12 Working in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Understanding Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Trim Settings Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Entering Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Setting Small Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Using Basic Trim Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Selecting Trim Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Selecting Video Tracks in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Soloing Audio in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Selecting Additional Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Performing a Basic Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Reviewing Trim Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Trimming On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Using Dual-Image Playback During Trims. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Chapter 13 Working with Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Overview of Audio Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Accessing Audio Effect Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Selecting Tracks for Audio Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Adjusting Digital Scrub Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Performing Digital Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Soloing Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Audio Displays in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Displaying Audio Waveforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Identifying Sample Rates by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Using Audio Meters in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Working with Surround Sound or 5.1 Audio (Avid Nitris DX and

Avid Mojo DX Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Setting Up the Analog Audio Output for Surround Sound (Avid Nitris DX

and Avid Mojo DX Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Setting Up the Audio Output with HDMI (Avid Nitris DX and

Avid Mojo DX Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Using the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Accessing the Audio Mixer and Audio Mixer Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Audio Mixer Tool Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Resizing the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Track Selection in the Audio Mixer Tool and in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Using the Track Solo and Track Mute Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Interpreting Position Indicator Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Using Clip Gain and Pan Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Adjusting Clip Gain and Pan for Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Audio Mixer Fast Menu: Clip Gain and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Modifying How Your Avid Editing Application Interprets Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Using the Center Pan Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Using Automation Gain and Pan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Using Automation Gain and Pan in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Deleting Automation Gain or Automation Pan Keyframes in the Timeline . . . . 357

Automation Gain and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Understanding Automation Gain or Automation Pan Recording . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Using the Audio Mixer Tool for Automation Gain and Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Audio Mixer Tool Fast Menu: Automation Gain and Pan Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Using Keyboard Shortcuts with Audio Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Using Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Entering Live Mix Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Using Live Mix Mode with an External Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Using Live Mix Mode Without an External Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Switching Between Live Mix Mode and Other Audio Mixer Modes . . . . . . . . . 365

Audio Mixer Tool Fast Menu: Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Live Mix Mode Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Isolating Clip Portions for Audio Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Fading and Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Fading Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Audio Sample Rate Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Changing the Audio Sample Rate for Sequences and Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Mixing Down Audio Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Chapter 14 Working with Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Types of Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Effects Creation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Real-Time Effects and Non-Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Effects and Project Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

AVX Plug-In Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Understanding the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Displaying and Adjusting the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Applying Effects From the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Using the Fade Effect Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Using the Quick Transition Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Deleting Effects in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Sizing Effects to Fit the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Adjusting Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Entering Effect Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Understanding Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Making Basic Effect Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Moving Through an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Working with Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Saving an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Applying an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Working with Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Understanding Standard Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Adding a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Selecting a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Moving a Standard Keyframe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Changing a Standard Keyframe’s Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Copying and Pasting Standard Keyframe Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Deleting a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Playing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Playing an Effect in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Playing Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Understanding Render On-the-Fly for Effect Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Using Render On-the-Fly for Effect Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Real-Time Playback of Video Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Understanding Real-Time Effects Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Understanding Real-Time Playback Information in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Turning Playback Performance Indicators On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Options for Controlling Real-Time Effects Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Controlling Real-Time Effects Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Playing Effects Back at Different Video Qualities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Basics of Effects Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Understanding Effects Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Rendering a Single Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Rendering Effects at Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Rendering Effects Between IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Displaying Estimated Render Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Clearing Rendered Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Rerendering Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Understanding ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Using the ExpertRender Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Using the ExpertRender Command After a Real-Time

Playback Attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Modifying ExpertRender Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Considerations When Using ExpertRender. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Chapter 15 Working with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Opening the Title Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Using Marquee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Workflow for Creating Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Understanding the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Using the Selection and Text Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Setting Up the Drawing Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Previewing Titles with Anti-Aliasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . 437

Understanding Title Backgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Selecting a Background for Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Creating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Sizing and Positioning Text Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Editing a Text String. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Setting Default Text Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Selecting a Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Changing Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Making Text Bold or Italic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Justifying Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Understanding Kerning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Kerning Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Adjusting Leading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Creating Graphic Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Modifying and Manipulating Title Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Adding Shadows to Title Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Saving Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Saving a Title and Exiting the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Saving Multiple Titles in a Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Using a Keyboard Shortcut to Save a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Using the Fast Save Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Revising a Title in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Editing with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Title Effect Clips in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Displaying Title Frames in Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Editing a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Setting Marks in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Splicing or Overwriting a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Dragging a Marked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Dragging an Unmarked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Trimming the Duration of Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Removing a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Replacing a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Fading a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Chapter 16 Color Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

How Avid Symphony Color Correction Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Reasons for Making Color Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Color Correction Mode Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Entering and Leaving Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Understanding Color Correction Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Switching Between Current and Reference Monitors Using the

Escape Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Using Monitor Buttons in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

The Client Monitor in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Color Correction Tool Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Making Basic Automatic Color Corrections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Correcting Color Automatically Using the Color Correction Effect . . . . . . . . . . 470

Correcting Color Automatically in the Hue Offsets Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Automatic Color Correction Buttons in the Hue Offsets Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Making a Basic Color Match Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Making a Manual Primary Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Making a Basic Secondary Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Safe Color Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Managing Safe Color Warnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Safe Color Warnings in the Composer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Chapter 17 Exporting Frames, Clips, or Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Understanding Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Preparing to Export a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Exporting Frames, Clips, or Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method for Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Using Avid Interplay Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Customizing Export Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Chapter 18 Generating Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Preparing for Output: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Selecting the Device for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Selecting the Sync Source for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Sync Options for HD Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Using LTC Timecode for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Calibrating for Video Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Using the Factory Preset Buttons in the Video Output Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Basic Video Output Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Luminance Settings for Video Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Adjusting Phase Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Preparing for Converting HD Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Crossconversion and Downconversion Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Considerations for Crossconversion and Downconversion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Preparing for Audio Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Setting the Calibration Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Calibrating Global Output Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Setting Audio Output Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Enabling 16-Channel Audio Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Embedded Audio and Output Sample Rate Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Preparing Record Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Striping Record Tapes (Recording Black with Timecode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Recording Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Enabling Assemble-Edit Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Using ExpertRender to Prepare Effects for a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Using the Digital Cut Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Selecting a Deck in the Digital Cut Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Previewing a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Recording a Digital Cut to Tape (Remote Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Crash Recording Through Remote Deck Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Recording a Digital Cut to Tape (Local Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Chapter 19 Conforming and Transferring Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Compatibility Between Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Preparations for Conforming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Delivery Requirements for Final Masters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Offline Formats for HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

File Transfer for the Online Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

System Compatibility for the Online Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Preparing Graphics for the Online Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Preparing Effects for the Online Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Preparing Titles for the Online Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Preparing Audio for the Online Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Conforming Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Step 1: Transfer Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Step 2: Open the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Step 3: Measure the Video Signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Step 4: Recapture Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Step 5: Import and Lay in the Final Audio Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Step 6: Batch Import Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Step 7: Re-create Title Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Considerations when Re-creating Title Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Redefining a Font Replacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Step 8: Refine Effects and Perform Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Step 9: Render Effects as Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Step 10: Create the Final Masters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Conforming Sequences with Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Conforming Color Correction Sequences with

Symphony Meridien Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Conforming Color Correction Sequences with Media Composer or

Avid Xpress Pro Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Transferring Color Corrections with Color Correction Templates . . . . . . . . . . 539

Transferring Project and Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Transferring Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Transferring Sound Designer II Audio Files from Macintosh Systems . . . . . . 542

Working with Sound Designer II Audio Files on Macintosh Systems . . . . . . . 542

Transferring a Project Using Shared Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Transferring Project Files and Media Files Using Nonshared Storage . . . . . . 543

Devices and Methods for Transferring Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Nonshared Storage Issues for Cross-Platform Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Transferring Media Files from Media Composer Version 7.2 or

Avid Xpress Version 2.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Chapter 20 Working with the Avid Interplay Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Using Remote Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Connecting to the Avid Interplay Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Connecting to and Mounting Workspaces on an

Avid Unity MediaNetwork System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Mounting Workspaces on an Avid Unity ISIS System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Configuring Interplay Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Opening the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Managing Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Understanding Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Understanding Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Reviewing Remote Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Understanding Access Control for Avid Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Moving, Copying, and Deleting Avid Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Creating Folders and Shortcuts in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Modifying the Appearance of the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Understanding Column Display in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Modifying Column Display in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Renaming Clips in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Adding Comments in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Updating Writable Properties in the Property Merge Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Using Custom Layouts for the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Opening Multiple Tabs in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Setting the Interplay Window Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Media Objects in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Editing with Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Working with Avid Assets in the Interplay Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Checking Avid Assets Out of the Interplay Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Checking Avid Assets In to the Interplay Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Automatically Checking In Avid Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Updating Remote Assets in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Understanding In-Progress Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Editing with In-Progress Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Limitations When Working With In-Progress Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Finding Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Overview of Finding Remote Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Performing Searches on Interplay Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Search Attributes for the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Keeping Search Results in the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Capturing Media to Interplay Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Chapter 21 Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Understanding MultiRez and Proxy Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Creating Multiple Resolutions of a Master Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Batch Capturing Multiple Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Batch Importing Multiple Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Understanding How Clips and Media Are Associated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Single Clip, Multiple Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Multiple Clips, Multiple Resolutions, and the Affinity Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Partial Clips, Multiple Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

MultiRez Tape Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

Understanding Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

MultiRez Workflow Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Considerations When Working with Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Using the Dynamic Relink Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Enabling Dynamic Relink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Applying Working Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Examples of Working Settings for Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Applying Target Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Example of Target Settings for Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Dynamically Relinking to the Target Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Dynamic Relink Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Relinking in Frame Chase Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Using the Relink Dialog Box in an Avid Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Displaying Whether Media Is Available for Dynamic Relinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Using the MultiRez Button to Show Available Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Using Clip Coloring to Show Available Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Examples of MultiRez Clip Coloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

MultiRez Button Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

MultiRez Bin Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Understanding Options for Deleting MultiRez Clips and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Deleting MultiRez Clips and Media from a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Working with Partially Online Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Consolidating and Transcoding a Portion of a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Viewing a Source Clip in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Consolidating and Deleting Original Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Partially Restoring from an Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Using This Guide

This guide contains the task-oriented instructions and conceptual information you need to use the basic features of your Avid editing application. The Advanced Guide for your Avid editing application, available as a PDF document in the Online Library, is a companion to this guide. The Advanced Guide contains instructions and conceptual information for advanced features of your Avid editing application, as well as reference information. The contents of both guides are available in the Help.

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

Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows® XP, Windows Vista document were captured on a Windows system, but the information applies to both Windows and Mac OS X systems. Where differences exist, both Windows and Mac OS X screen shots are shown.

The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your

system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

, and Mac OS® X operating systems.The majority of screen shots in this

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

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

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

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

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

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

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

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

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

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

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

Courier Bold font

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

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using your Avid product:

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

2. Check the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published:

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes,

they ship with your application and are also available online.

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

items and keyboard sequences.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

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

If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is supplied on your Avid installation CD or DVD as a PDF document (README_product.pdf) and is also available online.

You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To view these online versions, select ReadMe from the Help menu, or visit

the Knowledge Base at

www.avid.com/readme.

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

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

Accessing the Online Library

The Online Library for your Avid editing application contains all the product documentation in PDF format, including a Master Glossary of all specialized terminology used in the documentation for Avid products.

The Online Library for your Avid editing application is installed along with the application itself.

You will need Adobe® Reader® to view the PDF documentation online. You can download

the latest version from the Adobe web site.

To access the Online Library, do one of the following:

t From your Avid editing application, select Help > Online Library

t (Windows only) From the Windows desktop, select Start > All Programs > Avid > Avid

editing application > Online Library

Accessing the Online Library

t Browse to the Online Library folder, and then double-click the MainMenu file.

The Online Library folder is in the same location as the application itself, for example:

(Windows) C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid editing application\Online Library

(Macintosh) MacintoshHD/Applications/Avid editing application/Online Library

Accessing the Goodies Folder

Avid supplies a Goodies folder located on the editing application DVD. Access the Goodies folder by browsing the DVD. This folder contains programs and files you might find useful when trying to perform functions beyond the scope of your Avid editing application.

The information in the Goodies folder is provided solely for your reference and as suggestions for you to decide if any of these products fit into your process. Avid is not responsible for the manufacture, support, or sales of these products. Avid is also not responsible for any loss of data or time, or any other adverse results related to the use of these products. All risks of using such products or accessing such Web sites are entirely your own. The Web sites listed in the Goodies folder are not under the control of Avid, and Avid

is not responsible for their content, any changes or updates to them, or the collection of any personal data or information by the operators of such Web sites. All information and product availability is subject to change without notice.

How to Order Documentation

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

Avid Training Services

Avid makes lifelong learning, career advancement, and personal development easy and convenient. Avid understands that the knowledge you need to differentiate yourself is always changing, and Avid continually updates course content and offers new training delivery methods that accommodate your pressured and competitive work environment.

To learn about Avid's new online learning environment, Avid Learning Excellerator™ (ALEX), visit

http://learn.avid.com.

For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and books, please visit (800-949-2843).

www.avid.com/training or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID

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