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Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Accessing the Goodies Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 1 Working with the Project Window: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Managing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Guidelines for Project Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Adjusting Automatic Saves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Using the Info Display to View Memory Information and Access

the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Usage Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Displaying Usage Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Displaying Disk Space Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Customizing the Avid User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Changing Button and Toolbar Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

User-Customized Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Working with Bins and Projects in an Avid Unity Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Understanding Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Sharing Only Bins in Avid Unity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Sharing Bins and Projects in Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Locks and Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Working with Locks and Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Shared Bin Lock Icon Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Chapter 2 Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Using a Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Deck Controller Window Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

The Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Understanding Button Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

The Blank Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Modifier Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using the Avid Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

The Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Displaying System Information in the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Reviewing a Log of Errors in the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Getting Information with the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

External Controllers as Editing Control Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Chapter 3 Logging: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using Avid Log Exchange to Prepare Log Files for Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Avid Log Exchange Stores ASC Color Decision List (CDL) Parameters . . . . . . 92

Log Formats Compatible with Avid Log Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Avid Log Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Global Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Column Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Data Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Sample Avid Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Creating an Avid Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Double-Checking Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Transferring Bins from MediaLog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Logging Directly into a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Tips for Logging Preroll, Logging Timecode, and Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . 106

Logging with Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Logging with Non-Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Understanding the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Film-Related Log Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Displaying Film Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

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Entering Additional Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Entering Ink Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Exporting Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Chapter 4 Capturing Media: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Advanced Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Selecting Settings for Capturing Across Timecode Breaks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Preroll Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

General Settings for Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Settings for Film and 24p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Disabling Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Preparing for Audio Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Creating Tone Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Analog and Microphone Input Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Changing Audio Hardware Calibration Settings for Avid Nitris . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Calibrating Audio Input Channels for Avid Nitris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Calibrating Audio Output Channels for Avid Nitris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Audio Hardware Calibration for Avid Nitris DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using the Default Audio Calibration for Avid Nitris DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using a Tone Generator to Calibrate Audio Input Channels for

Avid Nitris DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using an External Meter to Calibrate Audio Output Channels for

Avid Nitris DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Preparing for Video Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Limitations When Using Consumer Decks or Decks Without

Time-Base Correctors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

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Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Saving Calibration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Saving a Custom Default Setting for the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Adjusting Video Levels for Tapes Without Color Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Using Capture Function Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Special Capture Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Logging Errors to the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Opening the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Considerations for Creating Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Creating Subclips While Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Creating Timed Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Understanding Locators On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Adding Locators On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Mapping the Record Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Returning to the Previous Place in the Select Tape Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Understanding DV Capture Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

RS-422 Controlling a DV Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

FireWire Configuration Without Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

FireWire Configuration with Encoded Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Capture with No Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Capturing DV Material with Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Delaying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Live Capture with External Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Preparing for Capturing with External Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Patching When Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Capturing Video Without Pulldown into a 24p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Remote Play, Capture, and Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

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Enabling Remote Play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Setting up Your System for Remote Punch-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Using Serial Drivers with Remote Play and Capture (Windows Only). . . . . . . 177

Relinking Clips by Key Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

DV and HDV Scene Extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Setting Up DV and HDV Scene Extraction Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Setting Up DV Scene Extraction After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Using the Panasonic VariCam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Chapter 5 Importing Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Example of Multilayered Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Support for Multilayered Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Preserving Layer Effects in Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Importing Editcam Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Restrictions on Importing Editcam Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Importing Sequences from Pro Tools through Interplay (Windows Only) . . . . . . . 195

Chapter 6 Working with Bins: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Advanced Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Film Scene Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Displaying Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Sequence and Clip Information Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Understanding Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

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Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Selecting Sources Used by an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Selecting Unreferenced Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Text View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Manipulating Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Duplicating Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Changing a Custom Bin Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Adding a Metadata Bin Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Tracking Frames Based on File Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Managing Clip Information in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Modifiable Bin Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Using the Modify Command to Modify Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Modifying Data with the Modify Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Copying Information from Another Cell in a Custom Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Tracking 3-Perf Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Selecting an Edgecode Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Bin Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Displaying or Outputting Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Editing with Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Disassociating Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

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Viewing Restriction Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Changing Restriction Comments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Searching the Database for Restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Digital Bars and Tone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Creating Audio Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Chapter 7 File Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Sony XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Sony XDCAM EX Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

XDCAM and XDCAM EX Formats and Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Working with XDCAM HD Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Installing the XDCAM Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Connecting the XDCAM or XDCAM EX Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Ejecting an XDCAM EX Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Panasonic P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Panasonic P2 Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

P2 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Preparing to Mount P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Setting up a P2 Card Reader (Windows only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Mounting P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Copying P2 Files to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Sharing P2 Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Working with Spanned Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Ikegami GFCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

GFCAM Formats and Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

GFCAM Files and Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Connecting the GFPAK Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Spanned Clips and GFCAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

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Copying GFCAM Files to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

The Avid Media Access (AMA) Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Selecting the AMA Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Viewing Installed AMA Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Understanding Linking with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Linking Media with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Using Virtual Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Virtual Volumes and AMA Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Workflow for Editing XDCAM and XDCAM EX Clips with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Playing XDCAM or XDCAM EX Media on an Avid Symphony with

Avid Nitris Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Workflow for Editing P2 Clips with AMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Workflow for Editing GFCAM Clips with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Working with Shot Marks and Check Marks with GFCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . 268

Deleting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Import and Export Workflow for File-Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Setting XDCAM Import Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Importing XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Importing XDCAM EX Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Automatically Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Copying XDCAM Proxy Media to a Local Drive or a Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Manually Importing XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Importing Essence Marks as Locators in XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Editing XDCAM Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Batch Importing High-Resolution XDCAM Media from the

XDCAM Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Editing and Finishing High-Resolution XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Exporting Media to XDCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Exporting to XDCAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Workflow for Editing with P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Importing P2 Clips and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

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Dragging P2 Master Clips from the Media Tool to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Exporting Your Clip or Sequence to a P2 Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Chapter 8 Managing Media Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Relink Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Relinking and New Project Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Relinking Clips to a New Project Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Relinking by Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Restoring an Archive from Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Sequence and Clip Information Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Chapter 9 Script-Based Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Lined Script Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Lining in the Digital Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Selecting Text Encoding for Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

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Working with Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Changing the Font Used in Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Selecting Text in the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Using Page and Scene Numbers in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Conducting a Text Search in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Linking Clips to the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Working with Slates in the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Resizing Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Holding Slates On Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Hiding Slate Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Working with Takes in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog in a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Using Color Indicators in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Using Real-Time Screening and Marking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Marking with ScriptSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

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Loading and Playing Marked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Moving a Script Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Editing From the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Assembling a Rough Cut From the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Interactive Screenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Chapter 10 Viewing and Marking Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Using the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Using the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Suggested Uses for Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Adding Locators On-the-Fly while Playing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Finding Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Editing Locator Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Copying Locators from Source Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Viewing Locators in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Working in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Exporting and Importing Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Creating a Locator Text (.txt) File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

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Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Disabling the Locator Edit Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Sequence and Clip Information Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Chapter 11 Creating and Editing Sequences: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

User Preferences for Creating Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Enabling Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Adding Comments to Sequence Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Playback Performance Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Autosyncing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Understanding Autosyncing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Creating an Autosynced Subclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

AutoSequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Understanding AutoSequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Adding Audio to Original Videotape Using AutoSequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Resyncing Subframe Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Understanding Subframe Resyncing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Resyncing Audio for a Selected Subclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Managing Sync with Multiple Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Understanding Sync Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Syncing with Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Using Add Edit When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Ganging Footage in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Sync Point Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Using MetaSync to Synchronize Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Chapter 12 Using the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Timeline Views: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Changing the Timeline Background or Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

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Showing Locators in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Navigating in the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Using the Full-Screen Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Advanced Timeline Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Bin Editing into the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Add Edit (Match Frame) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Adding a Match-Frame Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Adding Edits to Filler Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Removing Match-Frame Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Dupe Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Activating Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Methods for Changing Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Adjusting Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Tracking Color Frame Shifts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Chapter 13 Working in Trim Mode: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Maintaining Sync While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Adding Black When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Slipping or Sliding Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Lassoing Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

The Four-Frame Slip/Slide Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Performing a Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

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Slipping Shots in Source/Record Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Using the Transition Corner Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Chapter 14 Working with Audio: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Audio Gain Staging and an Audio Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Rendering and Unrendering Order for Audio Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Viewing Clip Gain and Automation Gain Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Adjusting Volume While Playing a Clip Gain Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Improving Response Time When Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Using External Fader Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Adjusting the Pan of Individual Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to Record

Automation Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Using the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Using the Command|8 with Your Avid Editing System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Configuring the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Mapping Buttons and Menu Commands for the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Button Layouts on the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Viewing Different Controller Button Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Mapping Controller Menu Commands for the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Using Command|8 Buttons to Change Focus in the

Avid Editing Application Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Using a Foot Pedal as a Foot Switch with the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Using a Command|8 to Record Automation Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Using the Latch Mode Feature on the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Configuring USB-to-MIDI Software for External Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Installing USB-to-MIDI Software (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Installing USB-to-MIDI Software (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Testing External Fader Controller Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Switching Between MIDI Connections on the USB-to-MIDI Converter . . . . . . 444

Troubleshooting MIDI Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Using the FaderMaster Pro and MCS-3000X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

MCS-3000X Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

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Using the Snap Mode Feature on the MCS-3000X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Ganging Faders on the FaderMaster Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Using the Yamaha 01V/96 or the Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Initializing the Yamaha 01V/96 or Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Configuring the Yamaha 01V/96 or Yamaha 01V to Recognize

Control Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Starting the Avid System with the Yamaha 01V/96 or the

Yamaha 01V Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Switching Between Audio Mixing and Gain Recording with the

Yamaha 01V/96 and Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Operating the Yamaha 01V/96 and Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Soloing Avid System Channels with the Yamaha 01V/96

and Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Using the Audio EQ Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Audio EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

EQ-Specific Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Applying Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Removing Audio EQ Effects with the Fast Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Removing Audio EQ Effects with the Remove Effect Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Audio EQ Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Low Shelf Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Small Octave Range Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Applying an EQ Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Creating Your Own Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Adding an EQ Template to the Audio EQ Tool Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Connecting Voice-Over Recording Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Understanding the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Audio Punch-in Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Audio Punch-in Tool Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Recording Voice-Over Narration Using Audio Punch-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

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Monitoring Previously Recorded Tracks While Recording

Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Using Peak Hold While Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Using the MCS3 with the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Using a GPI Device with the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Understanding GPI Trigger Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

GPI Signal Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Example of Linking GPI Actions to Trigger Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Connecting a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Configuring a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Working with GPI Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Creating a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

GPI Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Editing a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Deleting a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Displaying Audio Formats in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Chapter 15 Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Understanding Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

AudioSuite Plug-Ins Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Using Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Using an AudioSuite Plug-In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

AudioSuite Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Rendering AudioSuite Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Creating New Master Clips with AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

AudioSuite Controls for Creating New Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Mono, Stereo, and Multichannel Processing in AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . 492

Using AudioSuite Plug-ins to Create New Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Using AudioSuite Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins in Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

AudioSuite Plug-in Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Troubleshooting AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

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BF Essential Clip Remover AudioSuite Plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Bomb Factory BF76 AudioSuite Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Chorus AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

D-Verb AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Compressor AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Limiter AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Expander-Gate AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Gate AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

DeEsser AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Compressor/Limiter III (Dynamics III) AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Expander/Gate III (Dynamics III) AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

DeEsser III (Dynamics III) AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

EQ AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Flanger AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Funk Logic Mastererizer AudioSuite Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Invert AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Duplicate AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Delay AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Multi-Tap Delay AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Normalize AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Gain AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Ping-Pong Delay AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Reverse AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

DC Offset Removal AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Signal Generator AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Time Compression Expansion AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Pitch Shift AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Time Shift AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Non-Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

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Chapter 16 Exporting Frames, Clips, or Sequences and Transferring Material:

Advanced 539

Exporting With the Send To Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Exporting Using Send To DigiDelivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Exporting Using Send To Digidesign Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Exporting Using Send to DVD Authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Exporting Using Send to DVD One Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Exporting Using Send to Sorenson Squeeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Exporting Using Send To Avid DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Creating a Custom Send To Template for Exporting to

Third-Party Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Exporting OMFI and AAF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Exporting Through OMF Interchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Exporting Through AAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Selecting an OMFI or an AAF Transfer Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Exporting As an OMFI or an AAF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Guidelines for Exporting AAF Files to Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Exporting Projects and Bins Using AFE Files (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Exporting Video in DV Stream Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Exporting QuickTime Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Exporting As a QuickTime Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Exporting As a QuickTime Reference Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Using Avid Codecs for QuickTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Exporting As an AVI File (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Installing or Copying the Avid Codecs for QuickTime on Other Systems . . . . . . . . 576

Exporting from a Third-Party QuickTime or AVI Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Exporting as Windows Media (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Exporting as Windows Media Using an Avid Supplied

Template (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Exporting as Windows Media Using an Existing Windows

Media Profile (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Creating a Custom Video Profile for Windows Media

Export (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Creating a Custom Audio Profile for Windows Media

Export (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

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Exporting as Windows Media Using a VC1 Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Exporting Tracks As Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Exporting Frames As Graphic Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Chapter 17 Generating Output: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Advanced Video Output Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Using Test Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Calibrating the System with Passthrough Signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Using S/PDIF Output Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Using an XLR Adapter for Consumer-Level Analog Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Using the Digital Cut Tool: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Output Mode Resolution Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Outputting DV 50 and DVCPRO HD Media Directly to a DV Device. . . . . . . . 596

Selecting Output and Timecode Formats for 23.976p, 24p,

and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Selecting Output Formats for 23.976p, 24p, and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Output Format Reference for 23.976p, 24p, and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Selecting the Timecode Format for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

Outputting Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode

Simultaneously for Downstream Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Indicating the Destination Timecode Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Selecting the Video Pulldown Cadence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Performing an Insert Edit with Pulldown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Digital Cuts and Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Changing the Default Pulldown Phase for Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Understanding DV Digital Cut Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Delaying the Sequence for a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Using EDL Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Using FilmScribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Understanding Matchback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Preserving HD Closed Captioning and Ancillary Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Controlling Ancillary Data through a Settings Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Controlling Ancillary Data with a Console Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

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Chapter 18 MultiCamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Understanding Grouping and Multigrouping Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Creating Group Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Creating Multigroup Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

MultiCamera Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Full-Monitor Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Quad Split Source View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

Nine Split Source View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

MultiCamera Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Real-time Playback in MultiCamera Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Limitations on Playback of MultiCamera Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

MultiCamera Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Switching Clips with the Arrow Keys During Multicamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . 623

Numeric Keypad and Mouse Support for MultiCamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Editing and Playing Back a Linecut in MultiCamera Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Using the Add Edit Button During Multicamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Understanding the Group Menu for Multicamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Using the Group Menu for Multicamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Using the Multi-angle View Menus During Multicamera Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Using Match Frame in MultiCamera Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Committing MultiCamera Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Selective Camera Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Chapter 19 Using Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Using the Settings List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

Viewing Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

Displaying Project Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Working with Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

AMA Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

AMA Settings: Bins Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

AMA Settings: Volume Mounting Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Audio Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

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Audio Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

Audio Projects Settings: Main Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Audio Project Settings: Input Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Audio Project Settings: Output Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

Audio Project Settings: Hardware Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Audio Project Settings: Effects Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Bin Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Capture Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658

Capture Settings: General Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658

Capture Settings: Batch Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Capture Settings: Edit Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Capture Settings: OMF Media Files Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Capture Settings: MXF Media Files Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Capture Settings: DV & HDV Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Capture Settings: Keys Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Communication (Serial) Ports Tool Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Composer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Composer Settings: Window Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Composer Settings: Edit Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Composer Settings: FF/REW Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Composer Settings: MultiCam Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Controller Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Correction Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Correction Settings: Tabs Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Correction Settings: Units Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Correction Settings: Levels Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Correction Settings: Features Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Correction Settings: AutoCorrect Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Deck Configuration Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Deck Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Deck Preferences Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Dynamic Relink Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

Effect Editor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

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Export Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Export Settings Dialog Box Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Export Settings: QuickTime Reference Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Export Settings: QuickTime Movie Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

Export Settings: QuickTime Movie Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Export Settings: QuickTime Compression Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Export Settings: HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Export Settings: DV Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Export Settings: OMFI, AAF, and AFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Export Settings: AVI (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Export Settings: AVI Video Compression (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Export Settings: Windows Media Export Options (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . 700

Windows Media Legacy Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Existing Windows Media Custom Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Windows Media Options Video Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Custom Profile Audio Settings for Windows Media Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Export Settings: Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704

Export Settings: Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Export Settings: Graphic Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

P2 Export Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Export Settings: XDCAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Film and 24P Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Grid Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

Grid Settings: Coordinates Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

Grid Settings: Display Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Import Settings: Image Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Import Settings: OMFI/AAF Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Import Settings: Shot Log Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Import Settings: Audio Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Import Settings: XDCAM Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

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Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

Interface Settings: General Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

Interface Settings: Appearance Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

Interplay Folder Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

Interplay Server Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

Interplay User Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

Marquee Title Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

Media Creation Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

Media Creation Settings: Drive Filtering & Indexing Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

Media Creation Settings: Capture Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Media Creation Settings: Titles, Import, and Mixdown &

Transcode Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Media Creation Settings: Motion Effects Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Media Creation Settings: Render Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Media Creation Settings: Media Type Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732

Media Services Settings (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732

Mouse Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

PortServer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Render Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

Safe Colors Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738

Script Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739

Timeline Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Timeline Settings: Display Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Timeline Settings: Edit Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Trim Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Trim Settings: Play Loop Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Trim Settings: Features Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Video Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Video Input Tool Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

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