Pinnacle Systems Xpress Pro - 5.2 User Manual

Avid Xpress® Pro

Basics Guide

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Avid Xpress Pro Basics Guide • 0130-07227-01 Rev A • September 2005

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Accessing the Online Library and Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Avid Educational Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 1 Planning and Starting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Starting the Avid Application (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Selecting a Project Format and Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Sample Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Ending an Edit Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Quitting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Turning Off Your Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Chapter 2 Working with the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Using the Bins Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Viewing a List of Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Creating a New Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Opening and Closing a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Deleting a Bin or Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Saving Bins Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Using the Settings List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using the Format Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Using Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Opening Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Basic Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Color Correction Toolset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Source/Record Editing Toolset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Effects Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Audio Editing Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Capture Toolset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Using the Mouse Scroll Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Setting up the Mouse Scroll Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using the Mouse Scroll Wheel in the Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chapter 3 Capturing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Importing Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Selecting Settings for Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Setting Media Creation Resolutions and Selecting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Selecting a Video Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Selecting Drives in the Media Creation Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Configuring Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Setting Deck Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Setting Up the Capture Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Changing the Power Scheme (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Opening the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Selecting a Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Selecting Audio and Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Selecting a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Selecting Source Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Detecting Valid or Locked Capture Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Selecting a Resolution in the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Selecting a Target Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Selecting the Target Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Targeting a Single Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Targeting Separate Drives for Video and Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Interpreting the Time-Remaining Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Preparing for Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Adjusting Audio Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Selecting the Audio File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using the Audio Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Adjusting Audio Input Levels (Software-Only Systems). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Before You Begin Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Capturing and Logging at the Same Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Capturing from One Point to Another. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Capturing On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

DV Scene Extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Setting Up DV Scene Extraction Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Setting Up DV Scene Extraction After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Capturing DV 50 and DVCPRO HD Media Directly from a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter 4 Importing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Preparing to Import Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Creating and Using Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Importing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Importing Audio Files from a Music CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method to Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Chapter 5 Organizing with Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Manipulating Clips in the Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Using Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Understanding Bin Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using Brief View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Using Frame View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Conserving Screen Real Estate with the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Enabling the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Opening Bins in the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Closing the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Moving Bins into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Moving Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Copying Clips and Sequences into and out of the SuperBin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Deleting a Bin with the SuperBin Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Chapter 6 Viewing and Marking Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Viewing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Understanding the Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using Dual Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Loading and Clearing Footage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Loading Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Using the Clip Name Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Playing Back Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Playing Back DV 50 and DVCPRO HD Media Directly from a DV Device . . . 100 Playing Back Through a DV Device (for DV 25, DV 50, and

DVCPRO HD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Playing Through a 1394 Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Controlling Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using Position Bars and Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Shuttling with J-K-L Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Navigating with Home, End, and Arrow Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Using the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Understanding Button Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Marking and Subcataloging Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Marking IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Clearing a Mark and Setting a New One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Dragging IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Marking an Entire Clip or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Using the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Finding Frames and Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using Frame Offset Timecode to Cue a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using Timecode to Find a Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Chapter 7 First Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Setting Up a New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Creating a New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Changing Sequence Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Changing the Start Timecode for Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Setting Up Tracks for the New Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Making the First Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Beginning to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Creating an Instant Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Undoing or Redoing Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Monitoring Audio While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Lifting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Extracting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Playing the New Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Proceeding with Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Chapter 8 Using the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using the Track Selector Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Selecting Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Monitoring Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Monitoring Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Monitoring a Solo Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Patching Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Sync Locking Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Adding Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Deleting Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Navigating in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Using the Position Indicator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Focusing the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Using the Timeline Scroll Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Viewing Video Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Editing in the Timeline: Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Performing Segment Mode Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Selecting Segments with the Segment Mode Pointer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Lassoing One or More Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Deselecting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Understanding the Four-Frame Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Extracting/Splicing-in Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Lifting/Overwriting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Deleting Segments with Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Adding Filler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Setting the Duration for Filler at the Start of a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Chapter 9 Working in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Entering Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Exiting Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Trim Mode Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Selecting Trim Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Selecting Additional Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Performing a Basic Trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Trimming On-the-Fly with J-K-L Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Trimming On-the-Fly with Mark IN and Mark OUT Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Trimming Video Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Chapter 10 Working with Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

About Audio Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Accessing Audio Effect Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Audio Editing Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Soloing Audio Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Adjusting Pan Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Displaying Waveform Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Adjusting Volume Control (Software-Only Systems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Controlling Host Audio Devices (Software-Only Systems). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Using the Audio Mixer Tool to Adjust Volume and Pan in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . 164

Using the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Resizing the Audio Mixer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Adjusting One Audio Track at a Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Changing an Audio Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Adjusting Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Changing the Sample Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Chapter 11 Managing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Using the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Basic Media Tool Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Opening the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Consolidating and Transcoding Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Understanding the Consolidate Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Using the Consolidate Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Using the Transcode Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Refreshing Media Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Chapter 12 Working with Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Types of Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Real-Time Effects and Non-Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

AVX Plug-In Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Using the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Applying Effects From the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Sizing Effects to Fit the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Using the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Adjusting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Entering Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Understanding Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Making Basic Effect Adjustments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Moving Through an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Using the Fade Effect Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Working with Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Playing an Effect in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Playback of Video Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Understanding Real-Time Effects Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Playing Back at Different Video Qualities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Understanding Real-Time Playback Information in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . 203

Basics of Effects Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Understanding Effects Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Understanding ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Using ExpertRender in Preparation for Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Using the ExpertRender Command Without Timeline

Playback Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Using the ExpertRender Command After a Real-Time

Playback Attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Modifying ExpertRender Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Considerations When Using ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Chapter 13 Avid Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

How Avid Color Correction Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Reasons for Making Color Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Color Correction Mode Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Entering and Leaving Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Composer Window Monitors in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Composer Window Buttons in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

The Client Monitor in Color Correction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Color Correction Tool Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Making Basic Color Corrections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Correcting Color Automatically Using the Color Correction Effect . . . . . . . . . 221

Correcting Color Automatically in the Hue Offsets Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Color Match Corrections in the Curves Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Safe Color Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Managing Safe Color Warnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Safe Color Warnings in the Composer Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Chapter 14 Working with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Opening the Title Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using Marquee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Understanding the Title Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Using the Selection and Text Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Setting Up the Drawing Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Previewing Titles with Anti-Aliasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Selecting a Background for Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Creating Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Sizing and Positioning Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Editing a Text String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Basic Text Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Setting Default Text Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Selecting a Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Changing Point Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Making Text Bold or Italic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Creating Graphic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Modifying and Manipulating Title Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Adding Shadows to Title Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Saving Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Matching Resolutions When Saving Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Saving a Title and Exiting the Title Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Saving Multiple Titles in a Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Using a Keyboard Shortcut to Save a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Using the Fast Save Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Revising a Title in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Editing with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Title Effect Clips in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Editing a Title into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Setting Marks in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Splicing or Overwriting a Title into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Dragging a Marked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Dragging an Unmarked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Trimming the Duration of Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Chapter 15 Output Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Using the Digital Cut Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Selecting a Deck in the Digital Cut Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Recording a Digital Cut to Tape (Remote Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Recording a Digital Cut to Tape (Local Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Output Mode Resolution Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Output Mode Resolutions with Progressive Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Outputting DV 50 and DVCPRO HD Media Directly to a DV Device . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Crash Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Chapter 16 Exporting and Exchanging Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Exporting as a QuickTime Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Selecting QuickTime Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Improving Workflow Using Send To. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Send To Digidesign Pro Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Send To DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Send To Sorenson Squeeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Chapter 17 Settings Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Using the Settings List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Understanding the Settings List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Transfer Settings for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Displaying Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Changing the Settings List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Selecting Another User. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Modifying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Working with Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Duplicating Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Naming Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Selecting Among Multiple Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Deleting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Copying Settings Between Settings Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Moving Settings Between Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Using Site Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Audio Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Audio Project Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Audio Project Settings: Main Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Audio Project Settings: Input Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Audio Project Settings: Output Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Audio Project Settings: Hardware Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Bin Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Capture Settings: General Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Capture Settings: Batch Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Capture Settings: Edit Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Capture Settings: OMF Media Files Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Capture Settings: MXF Media Files Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Capture Settings: DV Options Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Capture Settings: Keys Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Communication (Serial) Ports Tool Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Controller Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Correction Mode Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Correction Mode Settings: Features Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Correction Mode Settings: AutoCorrect Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Deck Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Deck Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Deck Preferences Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Export Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Export Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Export Settings: Quick Time Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Export Settings: HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Export Settings: QuickTime Movie Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Export Settings: QuickTime Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Export Settings: QuickTime Compression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Export Settings: DV Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Export Settings: OMFI, AAF, and AFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Export Settings: AVI (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Export Settings: AVI Video Compression (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Export Settings: Windows Media Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Windows Media Legacy Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Existing Windows Media Custom Profile Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Windows Media Options Video Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Custom Profile Audio Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Export Settings: Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Export Settings: Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Export Settings: Graphic Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Film and 24p Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Film Settings - Edit Play Rate Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

General Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Import Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Import Settings: Image Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Import Settings: OMFI Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Import Settings: Shot Log Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Import Settings: Audio Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Interface Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Interface Settings: General Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Interface Settings: Appearance Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Marquee Title Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Media Creation Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Media Creation Settings: Drive Filtering Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Media Creation Settings: Render Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Media Creation Settings: Other Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Mouse Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

PortServer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Remote Play and Capture Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Render Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Safe Colors Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Script Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Sound Card Configuration Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Timeline Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Timeline Settings: Display Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Timeline Settings: Edit Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Trim Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Trim Settings: Play Loop Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Trim Settings: Features Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Video Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Video Input Tool Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Video Output Tool Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Workspace Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of an Avid Xpress® Pro editing application. You can use your application to create broadcast-quality output incorporating every possible production element from full-speed, high-resolution footage, to multimedia artwork and animation, to computer-generated effects and titling.

This guide contains the basic task-oriented instructions and conceptual information you need to use the capture, editing, and output features of your Avid application, as well as settings options. The Avid Xpress Pro Advanced Guide and the Avid Xpress Pro Advanced Effects Guide are companions to this Basics Guide. They contain additional information about capture, editing, output, effects, and titling, as well as file format specifications, and other supplementary information. The complete contents of these guides are available in the Help.

This guide is intended for beginning Avid Xpress Pro users.

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

X operating systems.The majority of screen shots in this document were captured

XP and

The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

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

k This symbol represents the Apple or Command key. Press and hold the

(Windows), (Windows only), (Macintosh

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

Courier Bold font

Ctrl+key or mouse action k+key or mouse action

), or (Macintosh only)

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.

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.

Command key and another key to perform a keyboard shortcut.

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

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the mouse action. For example, k+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using this Avid editing application:

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 ReadMe files for the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published. ReadMe files are supplied in your Avid application folder and are available from Help.

Accessing the Online Library and Tutorial

The latest ReadMe files are also available on the Avid Knowledge Base.

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 join online message-board discussions.

Accessing the Online Library and Tutorial

The Avid Online Library contains a multimedia tutorial and all the product documentation in PDF format. Avid recommends the multimedia tutorial as your first resource for learning how to use your application. You can access the tutorial and the library from the Online Library and Tutorial CD-ROM or from the Help menu.

The Online Library includes a Master Glossary of all specialized terminology used in the documentation for Avid products.

You need Adobe® Reader® installed to view the documentation online. You can download the latest version of Adobe Reader from the Adobe Web site. The effects reference guide requires Apple’s QuickTime version of QuickTime from the Apple

application to view the QuickTime movies. You can download the latest

Web s ite.

To access the online library and the tutorial from the Online Library and Tutorial CD-ROM:

1. Insert the Online Library and Tutorial CD-ROM into the drive.

2. Double-click the Mainmenu file.

To access the online library and the tutorial from the Help:

1. Insert the Online Library and Tutorial CD-ROM into the drive.

2. In your Avid application, select Help > Online Library & Tutorial.

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.

Using This Guide

Avid Educational Services

For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and books, please visit www.avid.com/training or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843).

Chapter 1

Planning and Starting a Project

Although most of your work is performed within the Avid application, you need to use a few basic desktop procedures.This chapter describes basic procedures involving the Windows or the Macintosh operating system and the Avid folders. The following topics also give a brief description of video formats and resolutions supported by your Avid editing system and other information that can help you plan your project. Your work in your Avid application begins when you turn on the system, start the application, and open an existing project or create a new project. See the following topics:

• Starting the Avid Application (Windows)

• Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh)

• Creating a New Project

• Opening a Project

• Selecting a Project Format and Type

• Sample Workflow

• Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders

• Ending an Edit Session

For information on the Microsoft Windows operating system and terminology, see the Microsoft Windows Help. For information on the Macintosh operating system, see your Macintosh documentation. For information on turning on your system, see “Setting Up Your Software-Only Avid Editing System” or “Using the Avid Mojo” in the Help.

(Windows only) This chapter refers to the default installation directory path for the various Avid folders. If you chose a different directory path during the installation, you must substitute that path when using this chapter.

For more information about planning and starting a project, see “Planning and Starting a Project: Advanced” in the Help.

Chapter 1 Planning and Starting a Project

Starting the Avid Application (Windows)

The Avid application is in the following location:

drive:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Xpress Pro HD

To start the Avid application:

t Do one of the following:

- Double-click the application icon on the desktop.

- Select Start > All Programs > Avid > Avid Xpress Pro HD. After a few moments, the Select Project dialog box opens.

If you install your Avid editing application on a laptop computer, a dialog box might open with a message about incompatible power management schemes. Avid recommends you use the “Always On” power scheme when working with Avid applications. Other power schemes might adversely affect performance of editing functions (for example, capture and digital cuts). For information on changing power schemes, see the Windows documentation.

Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh)

The Avid application is in the following location:

Macintosh HD/Applications/Avid Xpress Pro

For most users, the Dock is a more convenient location for starting the application.

The application does not start properly if the icon is moved out of the Avid Xpress Pro folder. You can create an alias and drag it to the desktop or onto the Dock.

For information on creating an alias or on using the Dock, see the Mac OS X documentation.

To start the Avid application, do one of the following:

t Double-click the application alias on the desktop. t Double-click the application alias on the Dock.

t Select Go > Applications, and then double-click the application icon.

After a few moments, the Select Project dialog box opens.

Creating a New Project

If you install your Avid editing application on a laptop computer, a dialog box might open with a message about the processor running at reduced speed. Avid recommends you disable reduced processor performance in the Energy Saver settings when working with Avid applications. Running at reduced speed might adversely affect performance of editing functions (for example, capture and digital cuts). For more information on disabling reduced processor performance, see the Macintosh documentation.

You might also see a message about disks spinning down while idle. Deselect “Hard Disk Sleep” in the Energy Saver settings for best system performance.

Creating a New Project

To create a new project:

1. Start the Avid application. The Select Project dialog box opens.

2. Select the Private or the Shared option in the Select a Project area.

For more information, see “Selecting a Project” in the Help.

3. Click New Project. The New Project dialog box opens.

Your New Project dialog box might have additional options. For more information, see “Setting Up a Matchback Project” and “Selecting Film Settings” in the Help.

4. Type a project name and select a format.

5. Click OK, and then click OK again. The Project window, the Composer monitor, and the Timeline open with the selected

User settings loaded.

For more information, see “Understanding Settings” on page 286.

Opening a Project

To open a project, do one of the following:

t Select a project in the Select Project dialog box, and then click OK. t Double-click a project name in the Projects scroll list.

The Project window, the Composer monitor, and the Timeline open with the selected User settings loaded.

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The title bar of the Project window contains the project name and user name you selected in the Select Project dialog box.

Project name User name

Close button

Selecting a Project Format and Type

To begin a project, you need to specify a format in which you capture media and select a project type.

Project formats are as follows:

• An Avid video NTSC project captures and stores 30i-fps media as digital video (SDTV or standard-definition TV).

• An Avid video PAL project captures and stores 25i-fps media as digital video (SDTV or standard-definition TV).

• Film projects or projects shot with a 24p-enabled camera with advanced pulldown capture and store 23.976p-fps NTSC media. You can do your offline editing on an Avid editing system and finishing on a Symphony Avid DS system.

You cannot create 24p or 25p media or multiple output formats from video footage shot at 30 fps (NTSC) or 25 fps (PAL). The source must be film or HD (high-definition).

• Digital video (DV) is an international standard created by a consortium of 10 companies to serve as a consumer digital video format. Your Avid application supports several DV resolutions.

• HD projects store HD media as digital video that conforms to the ITU-R 709 standard. Avid Xpress Pro lets you capture and output DVCPRO render 8-bit DNxHD media, but you cannot use Avid Xpress Pro to capture or output DNxHD media. For more information, see “Working with HD Media” in the Help.

• HDV projects allow you to work with HD video that has been recorded onto standard DV videocassettes. You can capture or import HDV material, edit it, and output it back to the HDV device. For more information, see “Working with HDV” in the Help.

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, Media Composer Adrenaline, or

HD media. You can play and

All resolutions are selectable in the Media Creation dialog box (on the Capture, Titles, Import, Mixdown & Transcode, Motion Effects, and Render tabs). The exact list depends on your Avid editing system model and whether you are working in an NTSC or PAL project. For detailed information about resolutions, see “Resolutions and Storage Requirements” in the Help.

You must capture media to begin a project. See “Setting Up Your Software-Only Avid Editing System” in the Help or “Using the Avid Mojo” in the Help and “Capturing Media”

on page 43. You can also import media from other Avid systems (see “Importing Files” on page 75).

Sample Workflow

The following steps and illustration describe a possible workflow using a standalone configuration.

1. (Option) Import a log file to create a bin.

2. (Option) Connect your equipment to the Avid Mojo device.

3. Capture the media in an available resolution. If you imported a log file, batch capture. Otherwise, log and record or capture on-the-fly.

Sample Workflow

4. Perform edits and create a final sequence.

5. Output a master tape: DVCPRO HD, HDV, DV, analog, or component. Output NTSC or PAL, depending on your source footage.

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(Step 2)

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DV camera or deck

1394 connection

Deck or device

Source footage: NTSC 30 fps or PAL 25 fps

Betacam, Digital Betacam, or other VTR

Avid Mojo device

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Betacam, Digital Betacam, or other VTR

Betacam

25-fps or 30-fps master

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders

Managing projects, user profiles, and settings involves moving, copying, or deleting files and folders, and changing project or user names. You use the desktop to move projects and user profiles between systems.

When you create a new project or user profile, the system creates the following files and folders:

• When you create a new user, the system creates a user profile file, a User Settings file, and a user folder containing them. Each item is named with your operating system user login name. The new folder is stored in the Avid Users folder on the internal hard drive (Windows) or on Macintosh HD (Macintosh). When you create user profiles, the profiles settings are stored in the your user folder named. See “Using User Profiles” in the Help.

• When you create a new project, the system creates three items: a project file, a Project Settings file, and a project folder containing both. Each item is given the project name you provide. This new folder is stored in the Avid Projects folder on the internal hard drive (Windows) or on the Macintosh HD (Macintosh).

Avid Projects and Avid Users folders allow you to move entire projects or selected Project and User settings between systems by copying and moving files on your desktop.

Ending an Edit Session

To end an edit session:

1. Quit the application.

Ending an Edit Session

2. Turn off your equipment in the order described in this section.

Quitting the Avid Application

There are three ways to quit the Avid application.

To quit the Avid application and leave the application immediately:

t (Windows) Select File > Exit. t (Macintosh) Select Avid Xpress Pro > Quit.

The project closes, and the Avid application closes.

To quit the Avid application if you are between projects:

1. Click the Quit button in the Select Project dialog box. A message box opens.

2. Do one of the following:

t Click Leave to quit the Avid application. t Click Cancel to return to the Select Project dialog box and select another project.

If you want to turn off your system, see “Turning Off Your Equipment” on page 30.

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To quit the Avid application from an open project:

1. Click the Close button. The Select Project dialog box opens.

2. Click the Quit button.

3. Click the Leave button.

Turning Off Your Equipment

To turn off your equipment without damaging your computer or media storage drives:

Quit the Avid application before turning off your equipment. See “Quitting the Avid

Application” on page 29.

1. Turn off the system:

t (Windows) Select Start > Shut Down. t (Macintosh) Select P menu > Shut Down. t Turn off your speakers and monitors.

Never remove drives from your Avid system while it is turned on.

2. Turn off each drive.

3. Turn off all other hardware.

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Pinnacle Systems Xpress Pro - 5.2 User Manual

Contents

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Accessing the Online Library and Tutorial

How to Order Documentation

Avid Educational Services

Planning and Starting a Project

Starting the Avid Application (Windows)

Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh)

Creating a New Project

Opening a Project

Selecting a Project Format and Type

Sample Workflow

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders

Ending an Edit Session

Quitting the Avid Application

Turning Off Your Equipment