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Avid Xpress Pro Advanced Guide • 0130-07617-01 • March 2007

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chapter 1 Using Desktop Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Working with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Creating an Automatic System Recovery Disk (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Dragging Windows (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting the Apple Color Scheme (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Changing Screen Resolution (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using the Avid Xpress Pro Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Changing Project and User Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Deleting Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter 2 Planning and Starting a Project: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Selecting a Project Format and Type: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Selecting a Project Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Considerations for 23.976 Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Supported Resolutions for 23.976 Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Capturing with Advanced Pulldown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Video and Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Opening and Closing a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Changing Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Selecting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Selecting a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Selecting a Private Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Selecting an External Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Browsing for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Creating a New Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Opening a Project Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Opening a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Creating a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Importing a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Changing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Exporting a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Updating User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Deleting a User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Backing Up Your Project Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or Removable Media . . . . . . . . . . 70

Restoring from a Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Ending an Edit Session: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Quitting the Avid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Turning Off Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Mounting and Unmounting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Unmounting Drives (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Unmounting Drives (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Mounting All Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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

Understanding the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Opening and Closing the Project Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Bins Display: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Changing Bin Window Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Using Flat View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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

Opening Selected Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Opening Bins from Other Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Closing a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Viewing Contents in the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Emptying the Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Managing Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Adjusting the Frequency of Automatic Saves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using the Info Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Viewing Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Understanding the Memory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Accessing the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Appearance Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Changing Shading Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Changing Shading Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Changing Button Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Changing Button Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Understanding Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Customizing Toolsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Customizing Your Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Creating a New Workspace Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Linking User Settings and Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Support for Avid Unity LANshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Mapping Workspaces on the Avid Unity Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Sharing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Shared Bins and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Working with Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Overriding the Default Locking Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with Shared Bins. . . 108

Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Chapter 4 Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Navigating in Dialog Boxes and Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using the Command Palette: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using the Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Mapping a Modifier Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Reviewing a Log of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Getting Information with the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Checking the Hardware Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Configuring a Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Chapter 5 Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Logging Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Logging Preroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Logging Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Double-Checking the Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Understanding Avid Log Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Avid Log Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Global Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Data Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Sample Avid Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Compatible Log Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Understanding the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Understanding the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Logging Directly to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Logging with an Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Logging with a Non-Avid-Controlled Camera or Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Logging Film Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Displaying Film Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Entering Additional Timecodes (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Modifying Clip Information Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

The Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Using the Modify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Exporting Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Chapter 6 Preparing to Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Selecting Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Disabling Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Transfer Settings for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Setting Up the Audio Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Configuring the Sound Card (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Customizing the Sound Card Configuration (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Configuring the Sound Card with Surround Sound Capabilities

(Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Configuring Decks: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Deleting Deck Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Deck Settings Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Setting Up the Capture Tool: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Understanding the Preroll Method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Capturing Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Setting the Pulldown Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Film Project Pulldown and Transfer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Preparing for Audio Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Creating Tone Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Audio Meters in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Using the Meter Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Calibrating for Video Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Manually Calibrating for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Saving a Custom Default Setting for the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Adjusting Video Levels Without Color Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Chapter 7 Capturing Media: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Adding Clip Names and Comments On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Monitoring Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Monitoring DV Audio while Recording with an Avid Mojo Device and

Digi 002 Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Capturing Without Logging First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Capturing from One Point to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Capturing from an IN Point to an OUT Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Setting Both Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Setting Only One Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Understanding Capture On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Capturing On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Understanding Autocapture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Autocapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Capturing from a Non-Avid Controlled Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Capturing with Time-of-Day Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Remote Play, Capture, and Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Enabling Remote Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Setting up Your System for Remote Punch-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Changing the Serial Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Creating Subclips While Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Creating Subclips On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Creating Timed Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Changing Function Key Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

DV Capture Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Delaying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Patching When Capturing to the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Batch Capturing from Logged Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Preparing to Batch Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Resizing the Capture Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Preparing Settings for Unattended Batch Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Batch Capturing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Recapturing Your Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Recapturing Master Clips and Subclips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Recapturing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Saving Two Versions of a Sequence When Recapturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Understanding Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using Decompose When Recapturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Recapturing the Sequence Without Using Decompose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Recapturing the Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Other Capturing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Controlling Decks from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Chapter 8 Importing Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Creating and Using Import Settings: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Creating a New Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Modifying an Existing Import Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Importing Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Understanding Multilayered Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Importing Multilayered Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Importing Media from XDCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Connecting the XDCAM Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Working with XDCAM HD Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Setting the XDCAM Import Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Importing XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Automatically Importing Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Importing All Proxy Media from an XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Copying XDCAM Proxy Media to a Local Drive or a Server . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Manually Importing XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Importing Essence Marks as Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Editing the Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Batch Importing High-Resolution Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Editing and Finishing High-Resolution Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Reimporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

The Batch Import Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Selected Clips Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Import Target Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Import Options Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Starting the Reimport Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Importing Editcam Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Chapter 9 Organizing with Bins: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Setting the Bin Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Object Icons in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Using Bin Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Displaying Custom Bin Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Using the Bin Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Using Audio Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Bin Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Lassoing Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Selecting Clips and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Duplicating Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Moving Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Copying Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Adding Text to Multiple Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Deleting Clips, Subclips, and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Deleting Items from a Bin (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Deleting Items from a Bin (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Adding a Color Column to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Assigning a Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Assigning a Custom Source Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Limiting Color Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Sorting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Sifting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Locking and Unlocking Items in the Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Selecting Unreferenced Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Using Text View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Arranging Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Moving and Rearranging Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Aligning Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Deleting a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Duplicating a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Changing a Custom Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Tracking Frames Based on File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Managing Clip Information in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Tracking 3-Perf Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Selecting an Edgecode Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Using the Modify Command to Modify Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Sorting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Using Frame View: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Enlarging or Reducing Frame Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Rearranging Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Changing the Frame Identifying the Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Realigning Frames in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Using Script View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Adding Text in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Rearranging Clips in Script View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Gathering Format Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Preparing Digital Bars and Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Creating Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Creating Video Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Creating Audio Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Chapter 10 Managing Media Files: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Loading the Media Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Using Panasonic DVCPRO P2 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Panasonic P2 Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

P2 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Workflow for Editing with P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Preparing to Mount P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Mounting P2 Cards as Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Copying P2 Files to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Copying P2 Files to a Local Media Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Importing P2 Clips and Media Directly from a P2 Card or a

Copy of a P2 Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Dragging P2 Master Clips from the Media Tool to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Working with Spanned Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Sharing P2 Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Exporting Your Clip or Sequence to a P2 Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Deleting P2 Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Backing Up Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Relinking by Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Chapter 11 Script-Based Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Explanation of Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Lining in the Digital Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Selecting Text Encoding for Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Manipulating Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Changing the Font of the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Selecting Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Using Scene and Page Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Adding a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Changing a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Deleting a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Searching for a Scene or Page Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Conducting a Text Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Linking Clips to the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Manipulating Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Resizing Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Holding Slates On Screen in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Hiding Slate Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Manipulating Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Indicating Off-Screen Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Using Color Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Using Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Automating Screening and Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Loading and Playing Marked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Moving a Script Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Editing with the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Assembling a Rough Cut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Interactive Screenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Chapter 12 Viewing and Marking Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Customizing the Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Changing the Source Monitor Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Using Dual Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Resizing Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Hiding the Video in the Composer Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Resizing the Composer Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Using the 16:9 Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Using 16:9 for 24p or 25p Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Displaying Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Tracking Format Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Displaying the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Displaying the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Setting the Font and Point Size for Monitor Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Playing Video to the Client Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Selecting the Video Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Adjusting the Play Delay Offset (Software Only or 1394). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Loading and Clearing Footage: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Switching Between Loaded Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Clearing Sequences from Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Controlling Playback: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Stepping Forward and Backward by Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Understanding the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Play Length “In Use” Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Marking and Subcataloging Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Marking Audio Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Subclips and Audio Sync for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Ways to Use Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Adding Locators While Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Opening the Locator Edit Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Editing Locator Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Deleting Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Viewing and Navigating in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Displaying the Timecode, Footage, or Frame Number in the

Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Displaying MetaSync Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Sorting Information in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Enlarging and Reducing Columns in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Displaying Frames in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Exporting Locators from the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Importing Locators from the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Creating a Locator Text file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Changing the Color of the Locator Icon from the Locators Window . . . . . 384

Accessing a Locator in a Clip or Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Using the Locators Window to Delete Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Finding Frames and Clips: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Searching a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Understanding Match Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Using Match Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Matchframing Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Chapter 13 First Edits: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Performing a Splice-in Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Performing an Overwrite Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Performing a Replace Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Copying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Using the Clipboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Placing a Sequence into the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Recovering Material from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Starting a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Chapter 14 Using the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Using the Track Selector Panel: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Cycling Through a Selection of Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Understanding Track Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Locking and Unlocking Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Renaming Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Customizing Timeline Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Accessing the Timeline Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Using the Timeline Fast Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Highlighting Offline Media Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Highlighting Clips in a Mixed-Format Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Enlarging and Reducing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Changing the Timeline Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Saving a Custom Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Replacing a Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Restoring the Default Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Navigating in the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Displaying Detail in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Controlling Movement in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Adding an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Removing Add Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Understanding Backtiming Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Backtiming Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Detecting Duplicate Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Finding Flash Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Editing in the Timeline: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Suppressing the Four-Frame Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Understanding Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Maintaining Sync in Segment Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Bin Editing into the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

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

Chapter 15 Working in Trim Mode: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Reviewing the Trim Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Reviewing an Edit with the Edit Review Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Reviewing an Edit with the Play Loop Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Trimming with the J-K-L Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Trimming During a Playback Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Customizing Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Slipping or Sliding Clips or Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Selecting Clips or Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Performing the Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Maintaining Sync While Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Adding Black While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Chapter 16 Working with Audio: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Using Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Smooth Scrub Versus Digital Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Selecting Tracks for Scrubbing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Performing Smooth Audio Scrub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Using Digital Audio Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Understanding Digital Scrub Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Adjusting Digital Scrub Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Performing the Digital Scrub Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Identifying the Sample Rate by Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Rendering and Unrendering Order for Audio Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Adjusting Clip Gain and Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Viewing Clip Gain and Automation Gain Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Adjusting Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Applying Pan Value Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Ganging and Adjusting Multiple Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Rendering an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Modifying Pan Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Creating or Modifying an Audio Pan/Vol Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Modifying How the System Interprets Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Understanding the Audio Loop Play Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Adjusting Volume While Playing a Clip Gain Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Limitations on Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Improving Response Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Understanding Automation Gain and Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Adjusting Volume or Pan in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Deleting Automation Gain or Automation Pan Keyframes in the

Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Moving Automation Gain or Automation Pan Keyframes in the

Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Using an External Fader or Mixer to Adjust Volume and Pan Values . . . . . . . 441

Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Adjusting the Pan of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Understanding Automation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Track Solo and Track Mute Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Position Indicator Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Applying Automation Gain and Pan Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Audio Mixer Tool Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Recording Automation Gain or Automation Pan Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Using the Audio Mixer Tool Sliders for Automation Gain and Pan . . . . . . 448

Using a Keyboard Shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to Record

Automation Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Using a Digi 002 or Command|8External Fader Controller or Mixer to

Record Automation Pan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Audio Gain Staging and an Audio Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Using Live Mix Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Using an External Controller in Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Using Live Mix Mode Without an External Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Switching Between Live Mix Mode and Other Audio Mixer Modes . . . . . . . . . 457

Using the Audio Mixer Mode Fast Menu in Live Mix Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Working with Sound Designer II Audio Files on Macintosh Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Using the Audio EQ Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Audio EQ Tool Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Basic EQ Tool Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

EQ-Specific Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Applying Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Removing Audio EQ Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Audio EQ Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Applying an EQ Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Creating Your Own Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Adding an EQ Template to the Fast Menu (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Adding an EQ Template to the Fast Menu (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

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

Creating the Voice-Over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Scenarios for Using the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Monitoring the Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Monitoring Previously Recorded Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Fine-Tuning Audio Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Isolating Clip Portions for Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Fading and Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Fading Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Dipping Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Mixing Down Audio Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Chapter 17 Syncing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Autosyncing Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Understanding Autosync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Creating an AutoSynced Subclip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Using the AutoSequence Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Understanding AutoSequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Adding Audio with AutoSequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Managing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Editing to Avoid Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Fixing Sync Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Fixing Sync in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Fixing Sync in Segment Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Resyncing Subframe Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Understanding Subframe Resync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Resyncing Audio for a Selected Subclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Managing Sync with Multiple Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Using Sync Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Syncing with Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Using Add Edit When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Ganging Footage in Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Chapter 18 Group Clip Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Understanding Grouping Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Understanding Group Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Creating Group Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Group Clip Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Full-Monitor Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Quad Split Source View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Group Clip Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Limitations on Playback of Group Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Group Clip Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Switching the Display of Camera Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Using the Add Edit Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Understanding the Group Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Using the Group Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Using the Multi-angle View Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Using Match Frame in Group Clip Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Selective Camera Cutting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Chapter 19 Output Options: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Using the Digital Cut Tool: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

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

Previewing a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

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

25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Selecting Output Formats for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Selecting Output Formats for 23.976p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Selecting the Timecode Format for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Outputting Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode Simultaneously

for Downstream Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Indicating the Destination Timecode Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Performing an Insert Edit with Pulldown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Understanding DV Digital Cut Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Offsetting the Sequence for a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Using EDL Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Using Film Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

How Matchback Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Matchback Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Setting Up a Matchback Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Selecting Film Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Preserving Information in the Vertical Blanking Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Line Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Understanding Vertical Blanking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Displaying and Preserving Vertical Blanking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Editing a Sequence with VBI Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Effects of Preserving Vertical Blanking Information on Compressed

Video Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Chapter 20 Exporting and Exchanging Material: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Understanding Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Preparing to Export a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

QuickTime Reference Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Exporting as a QuickTime Reference Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Improving Workflow Using Send To. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Send To Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Send to DVD Authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Send to DVD One Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Send to Sorenson Squeeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Send to Avid DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Send to Third-Party Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Send to DigiDelivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Exporting Video in DV Stream Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Mixing Down Video Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Exporting Frames, Clips, or Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Using the Drag-and-Drop Method for Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Customizing Export Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Preset Export Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Creating a New Export Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Exporting OMFI and AAF Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Understanding OMF Interchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Understanding AAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Choosing an OMFI or an AAF Transfer Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Exporting OMFI or AAF Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Exporting an AAF File to Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Using the Video Options for an AAF Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Selecting the Operations to Perform on the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Selecting Media Destination Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Consolidating Media to a Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Using The Video Mixdown Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Mixdown without Video Edits Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Mixdown With Video Edits Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

The Render Video Effects Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

The Transcode Video To Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Audio Options for AAF Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Add Audio Mixdown Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Additional Audio Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Exporting as an AVI File (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Using Avid Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Using the Avid Codecs for QuickTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Exporting with Avid Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Installing the Avid Codecs for QuickTime on Other Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Copying the Avid Codecs for QuickTime to Another Windows System

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

Copying a Codec to a Macintosh System

(Macintosh Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Exporting from a Third-Party Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Exporting as Windows Media (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Exporting Using an Avid Supplied Template (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Exporting Using an Existing Windows Media Profile (Windows Only) . . . . . . . 583

Exporting Using a Custom Profile (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Exporting Tracks as Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Exporting as a Graphic File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Exporting Media to XDCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Exporting to XDCAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Transferring a Project Between Avid Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Methods for Transferring Files Between Avid Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Compatibility Requirements for Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Transferring a Project and Associated Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Transferring Sound Designer II Audio Files from Macintosh Systems. . . . . . . 592

Transferring Projects, User Profiles, and Site Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Transferring Projects and Bins Using AFE Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Appendix A Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Understanding Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Installing AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Using Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

Using an AudioSuite Plug-In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

AudioSuite Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Rendering AudioSuite Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Creating New Master Clips with AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

AudioSuite Controls for Creating New Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Mono, Stereo, and Multichannel Processing in AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . 604

Using AudioSuite Plug-ins to Create New Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Using AudioSuite Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins in Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

AudioSuite Plug-in Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Troubleshooting AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Chorus AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

D-Verb AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Compressor AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Limiter AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Expander-Gate AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Gate AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

DeEsser AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

EQ AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

Flanger AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Invert AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Duplicate AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Delay AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Multi-Tap Delay AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Normalize AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Gain AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Ping-Pong Delay AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Reverse AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

DC Offset Removal AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Signal Generator AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Time Compression Expansion AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Pitch Shift AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Time Shift AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

Non-Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Appendix B File Format Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

Graphic (Image) Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

Preparing Graphic Files for Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Graphic File Import Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Screen Resolutions for Imported Graphics and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Animation Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Audio File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

OMFI Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

MXF Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Support for BWF Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

BWF Information Displayed in Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Preparing Custom BWF Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Importing and Syncing BWF Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Reimporting BWF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

Field Ordering in Graphic Imports and Exports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

Appendix C Resolutions and Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Monitor Display Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Compression and Avid Editing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Compression and Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Resolution Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Resolution Specifications: Avid DNxHD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Resolution Specifications: JFIF Interlaced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Resolution Specifications: JFIF Progressive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Resolution Specifications: Digital Video (DV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Mixing Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Mixing High Definition (HD) Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Mixing JFIF Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Advantages to Mixing Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Resolution Groups and Image Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Video Streams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Estimating Drive Space Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Estimated Storage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Estimated Storage Requirements: HD and HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Estimated Storage Requirements: JFIF Interlaced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Estimated Storage Requirements: JFIF Progressive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Estimated Storage Requirements: DV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Maximizing Drive Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Managing Storage to Improve Playback Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Appendix D Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

External Fader Controller or Mixer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Using the Digi 002 and Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Using the Digi 002 with Your Avid Editing System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Using the Digi 002 with Avid Mojo Hardware (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . 681

Using the Command|8 with Your Avid Editing System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Configuring the Digi 002 or Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Mapping Buttons and Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Button Layouts on the Digi 002 and Command|8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Using Buttons to Change Focus in the Avid Editing

Application Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Using a Foot Pedal as a Foot Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Switching Between the Digi 002 and Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Using the Digi 002 and Command|8 for Automation Gain and

Automation Pan Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Using the Latch Mode Feature on the Digi 002 and

Command|8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Configuring the USB-to-MIDI Software for Third-Party Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Installing USB-to-MIDI Software (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

Installing USB-to-MIDI Software (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

Testing the Fader Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

Switching Between MIDI Connections on the USB-to-MIDI

Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

Troubleshooting the MIDI Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

Using the FaderMaster Pro and MCS-3000X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

MCS-3000X Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Using the Snap Mode Feature on the MCS-3000X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

Ganging Faders on the FaderMaster Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Using the Yamaha 01V/96 or the Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Setting Up the Yamaha 01V/96 or Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Initializing the Yamaha 01V/96 or Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Configuring the Mixer to Recognize MIDI Control Messages for the

Yamaha 01V and Yamaha 01V/96. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Configuring the Mixer to Recognize Serial Control Messages for the

Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Configuring the Mixer to Recognize USB Control Messages for the

Yamaha 01V/96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

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

Yamaha 01V Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

Operational Notes for the Yamaha 01V/96 and Yamaha 01V. . . . . . . . . . 703

Soloing Avid System Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704

Appendix E International Character Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Using a Local Language Operating System

(Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Choosing a Locale on an English Language Operating System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Non-English Character Support (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Setting the Language in System Preferences (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Specifying the Language in the Get Info Dialog Box (Macintosh) . . . . . . . 710

Non-English Character Support (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Using Foreign Keyboard Mapping (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

Recommendations and Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Avid Supports English Plus One Locale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Entering ASCII Characters in Double-Byte Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Characters to Avoid When Naming Avid Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Appendix F Working in a Film Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Working with 24p Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Working with 25p Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Planning a 24p or 25p Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

24-fps Film Source, SDTV Transfer, Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

24-fps Film or HD Video Source, SDTV Downconversion, Output . . . . . . . . . 725

25-fps Film or HD Video Source, SDTV Downconversion, Output . . . . . . . . . 729

Audio Transfer Options for 24p PAL Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Planning a 23.976p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Creating a 23.976p Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Film Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

23.976-fps Film Transfer or HD Video Source, SDTV

Downconversion, Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

Limitations for 23.976p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Film Project Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Film Shoot Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Viewing Dailies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Film Dailies Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Video Dailies Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Understanding the Transfer Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Transferring 24-fps Film to NTSC Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Stage 1: Transferring Film to Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Frames Versus Fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Part 1: Using a 2:3 Pulldown to Translate 24-fps Film to

30-fps Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Part 2: Slowing the Film Speed to 23.976 fps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Maintaining Synchronized Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

Stage 2: Capturing at 24 fps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

Transferring 24-fps Film to PAL Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750

PAL Method 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751

PAL Method 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

How the Avid System Stores and Displays 24p and 25p Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

Displaying Media While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

Displaying Media During a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

Film-to-Tape Transfer Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

Film-to-Tape Transfer Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

Transfer Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

Additional Film Transfer Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

AppendixGWorking with HD Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

High-Definition Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758

Starting an HD Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Capturing HD Video and Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

HD Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762

Playback Modes for HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

Video Color Space for HD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

Changing the Project Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

Editing in HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

Modifying the Format of a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

Mixing SD and HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Displaying Formats in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Displaying 16:9 HD Video in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768

Editing at 60 fps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768

Transcoding HD Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Video Effects for HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Test Patterns for HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Recording a Digital Cut for HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Video Import and Export for HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Working with HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Understanding HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

HDV Basic Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Capturing and Importing HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

Capturing HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

Importing HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Mixing Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Playing Back HDV Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Rendering and Transcoding HDV Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

Outputting HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

Exporting to an HDV Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

Outputting HDV on a Software-Only System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Long-GOP Splicing for HDV Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Exporting an HDV Transport Stream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

Finishing to HD-DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

Exporting As Windows Media Workflow Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

Conforming Sequences Created with HDV Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

HDV Compatibility Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Export to HDV Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

Tables

Default Locations of Avid Projects Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Bin Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Customizable Interface Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Avid Log Global Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Avid Log Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Avid Log Data Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Compatible Log Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Options for Modifying Bin Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Film Project Pulldown and Transfer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Meter Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Luminance Settings for Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Support for Photoshop Layer Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Support for Photoshop Special Layer Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

XDCAM Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Bin Object Icon Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Bin Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Shortcuts for Moving in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Edgecode Types and Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Modify Command Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Relink Dialog Box Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Relink Specific-Resolution Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Text Encoding Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Timeline Fast Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Number of Tracks and Scrub Speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Audio Mixer Tool Fast Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Group Clips Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

24p and 25p Project Output Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Audio Play Rates for 24p and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Audio Play Rates for 23.976p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Send To Pro Tools Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Send To Pro Tools on Avid Unity Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Send To DigiDelivery Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Export Settings Options (AAF, OMFI, and AFE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

XDCAM Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Devices for Transferring Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Default Folder Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .593

AudioSuite Window Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Chorus Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

D-Verb Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Compressor Plug-In Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Limiter Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Expander-Gate Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

Gate Plug-In Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

DeEsser Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

EQ II Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

1-Band EQ III Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

7-Band EQ III Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Flanger Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Delay Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Multi-Tap Delay Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Ping-Pong Delay Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .630

Time Compression Expansion Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

Pitch Shift Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Time Shift Plug-In Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

Graphic File Import Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Graphic Import Frame Sizes: Interlaced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Graphic Import Frame Sizes: Progressive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .650

Graphic Import Frame Sizes: DV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .650

Graphic Import Frame Sizes: DNxHD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

OMFI File Import Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Recommended Field Settings for Two-Field Import and Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Monitor Display Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Resolution Specifications: Avid DNxHD (MXF only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Avid HD Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Resolution Specifications: JFIF Interlaced (MXF and OMF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Resolution Specifications: JFIF Progressive (MXF and OMF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Resolution Specifications: Digital Video (MXF and OMF). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Avid HD Resolution Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

JFIF Resolution Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Estimated Storage Requirements: HD and HDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Estimated Storage Requirements: JFIF Interlaced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Estimated Storage Requirements: JFIF Progressive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Estimated Storage Requirements: DV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

External Fader Controller and Mixer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

Digi 002 and Command|8 Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Button Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Film Shoot Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Ratio of Film to Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Ratio of Film to Video with FPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

Supported HDTV Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758

HD Online Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

HD Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762

Offline Formats for HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

Choices for Modifying Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

HDV Render and Transcode Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

HDV Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Export to HDV Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

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 all the advanced task-oriented instructions and conceptual information you need to use the capture, editing, and output features of your Avid as information about file format specifications, and other supplementary information. The Avid Xpress Pro Basics Guide is a companion to this Advanced Guide. It contains all the basic task-oriented instructions and conceptual information you need to get started using the product. The contents of this guide and of the Basics guide are also available in the Help.

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

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

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.

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

application, as well

XP and

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Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and

k This symbol represents the Apple or Command key.

(Windows), (Windows only), (Macintosh), 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.

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

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

Press and hold the 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.

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

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.

If You Need Help

The latest ReadMe files are 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 read/join online message-board discussions.

Accessing the Online Library

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

Most Avid online libraries also include multimedia content such as tutorials and feature presentations. This multimedia content is an excellent first resource for learning how to use your application or for helping you understand a particular feature or workflow.

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

You will need Adobe® Reader® to view the PDF documentation online. You can download the latest version from the Adobe web site.

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

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

t From the Windows desktop, select Start > Programs > Avid > Avid Xpress Pro

Online Library.

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

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

C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Xpress Pro\Online Library

Macintosh HD/Applications/Avid Xpress Pro/Online Library

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.

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Chapter 1

Using Desktop Procedures

Although most of your work is performed within the Avid application, you need to use several desktop procedures.

The following topics, as well as “Planning and Starting a Project: Basics” in the Help, describe procedures involving the operating system and the Avid folders:

• Working with the Desktop

• Using the Avid Xpress Pro Folder

• Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders: Advanced

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

Working with the Desktop

This topic describes the following desktop features that you use when working with the Avid application.

• Creating an Automatic System Recovery Disk (Windows Only)

• Using Shortcut Menus (Windows)

• Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh)

• Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only)

• Dragging Windows (Windows Only)

• Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows Only)

• Changing Screen Resolution (Windows)

• Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh)

For information on the Windows operating system, such as the desktop and icons, see your Microsoft features, such as the desktop and icons, see your Macintosh documentation.

Windows Help. For information on the System Folder and other Macintosh

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Creating an Automatic System Recovery Disk (Windows Only)

You or your system administrator need to create an Automatic System Recovery Disk to rebuild your system configuration if it becomes damaged. You need to update the disk any time you make a system change, like installing new software.

To create an automatic system recovery disk:

1. Select Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup.

The Backup or Restore Wizard opens.

2. Select Back up files and settings, and then click Next.

3. Select All information on this computer, and then click Next.

4. Insert a writable CD-ROM, select CD-ROM, and then click Finish.

The Wizard writes the system information to the CD-ROM.

5. Store the disk in a safe, dry, static-free location.

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows)

Instead of using the standard menus to find the command you need in a window, try using the shortcut menus.

To use a shortcut menu, do one of the following:

t Right-click in a window to access a shortcut menu that shows the most frequently used

commands for that window. For a list of the available shortcuts, see the Help.

t Right-click a screen object to access What’s This Help for the object.

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh)

To use a shortcut menu, do one of the following:

t Ctrl+Shift+click in a window to access a shortcut menu that shows the most frequently

used commands for that window. For a list of the available shortcuts, see the Help.

t Ctrl+Shift+click a screen object to access What’s This? Help for the object.

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only)

By default, the Microsoft Windows taskbar always appears on the bottom of your screen, on top of your application. You have two other choices:

• Keeping the taskbar hidden behind the application

• Setting the taskbar to appear only when you drag the mouse pointer to it

Working with the Desktop

If you keep the taskbar hidden while running your Avid application and you minimize an application such as Help, you do not see the minimized icon. To see the taskbar and minimized icons, minimize the Avid application.

To change the taskbar settings:

1. Right-click the Start button, and select Properties.

The Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box opens.

2. Click the Taskbar tab.

3. Select the options you want:

t To keep the taskbar hidden, deselect “Keep the taskbar on top of other windows”

and “Auto-hide the taskbar.”

t To set the taskbar to appear when you want, select “Keep the taskbar on top of other

windows” and “Auto-hide the taskbar.”

4. Click OK.

The taskbar can to be dragged to the top, bottom, or either side of the monitor.

For more information, see the Windows Help.

Dragging Windows (Windows Only)

By default, Windows systems show the contents of windows when you drag them. Deselect this option to improve screen display and to avoid problems repainting the screen.

To deselect the option “Show window contents while dragging”:

1. Right-click on an empty part of the desktop, and select Properties.

The Display Properties dialog box opens.

2. Click the Appearance tab, and then click the Effects button.

3. Deselect “Show window contents while dragging.”

4. Click OK, and then click OK again.

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows Only)

By default, your Avid application is set to the gray and purple Avid color scheme.

To change the color scheme:

1. Right-click on an empty part of the desktop, and select Properties.

The Display Properties dialog box opens.

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2. Click the Appearance tab.

3. Click the Color Scheme menu, and select a different color scheme.

4. Click OK.

You can also change the color scheme in the Appearance tab of the Interface settings dialog box within the Avid application. See “Interface Settings: Appearance Tab” in the Help.

Setting the Apple Color Scheme (Macintosh)

To change the color scheme:

1. Select P > System Preferences.

The System Preferences window opens.

2. In the Personal area, click General.

3. Click the Appearance pop-up menu, and select a color.

4. Click the Highlight Color pop-up menu, and select a color.

5. Return to the System Preferences window:

t Click the Close button.

t Click Show All.

You can change the color scheme of the Avid application in the Appearance tab of the Interface settings dialog box. See “Interface Settings: Appearance Tab” in the Help

Changing Screen Resolution (Windows)

To view or change the screen resolution:

1. Right-click on an empty part of the desktop, and select Properties.

The Display Properties dialog box opens.

2. Click the Settings tab.

3. Under Screen resolutions, drag the slider to the resolution you want.

4. Click the Color quality menu, and select Highest (32 bit).

5. Click OK.

Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh)

To view or change the screen resolution:

1. Select P > System Preferences.

The System Preferences window opens.

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2. In the Hardware area, click Displays.

3. Select a resolution in the Resolutions list.

4. Keep Colors set to Millions.

5. Click the Close button or click Show All to return to the System Preferences window.

If you use two monitors and the second monitor has a resolution of 800 x 600, it automatically becomes the Client monitor.

Using the Avid Xpress Pro Folder

The Avid Xpress Pro folder contains essential operational files and supporting files. You can find the Avid Xpress Pro folder in the following location:

•(Windows) drive:\Program Files\Avid\

• (Macintosh) Macintosh HD/Applications/

You should not touch any of these files, except where noted in the following descriptions:

• Help folder: This folder contains the Help files. You can find information about Help by clicking Using Help in the Contents list in the Help browser.

• Avid Xpress Pro application: The application icon resides here. You can start the application by following the procedures described in “Starting the Avid Application (Windows)” or “Starting the Avid Application (Macintosh)” in the Help.

• Settings folder: In addition to Project and User settings, the system maintains settings files in this folder that apply to all users and all projects on the system. You can copy or move the Site Settings file to other systems on the desktop, using the same procedure described in “Moving Settings Between Systems” in the Help.

• SupportingFiles folder: This folder contains a series of files that add functionality to the application. The system accesses most of these files from within the application. You can add third-party effects to the 3rd Party Plug-Ins folder and AVX_Plug-Ins folder from programs such as Avid Visual Extensions (AVX described in “Working with Third-Party Plug-In Effects” in the Help.

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) for use in effects editing, as

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders: Advanced

When you work with the Avid Projects and the Avid Users folders, you need to do several tasks outside the Avid editing application. For basic information about managing these folders, see “Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders: Basics” in the Help.

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Changing Project and User Names

You cannot change project or user names from within the Avid application. You must change the name from your desktop before starting the application. The Avid Users folder is located as follows:

• (Windows) drive:\Program Files\Avid\Avid application

• (Macintosh) Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/Avid application

The Avid Projects folders are located as described in the following table.

Default Locations of Avid Projects Folders

Private Projects Shared Projects

Windows C:\Documents and Settings\Windows login

name\My Documents\Avid Projects

Macintosh Macintosh HD/Users/Mac login

name/Documents/Avid Projects

To change a project or user name:

1. Navigate to the Avid Projects or the Avid Users folder, and then double-click the folder.

2. Click the name of the folder you want to change, and then click it again.

The name is highlighted for text entry.

3. Type the new name of the folder.

When you change a user name or project name, make sure you change the name of the folder and all the files in the folder that have the old name. The system does not automatically change the names of corresponding files in the folder.

4. Close the windows and restart the Avid application.

Deleting Projects

You can delete projects from within the Avid application. You must make the change from your desktop before starting the application. See the preceding topic for folder locations.Captured media related to a deleted project is not eliminated with the project

folder. For more information on deleting media files, see “Deleting Clips, Subclips, and

Sequences” on page 270 and “Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool” in the Help.

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents\Shared Avid Projects

Macintosh HD/Shared/Avid Application/Shared Avid Projects

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To delete a project

1. Start the application.

The Select Project dialog box opens.

2. Click the project you want to delete.

Deleting a project also deletes any bins that are in that project.

3. Press the Delete key.

You are asked if you want to delete the selected project and associated bins.

4. Click OK.

5. The deleted project no longer appears in the Select Project dialog box.

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Chapter 2

Planning and Starting a Project: Advanced

This chapter gives 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. Planning and starting a project is discussed in the following topics, as well as in “Planning and Starting a Project: Basics” in the Help:

• Selecting a Project Format and Type: Advanced

• Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects

• Video and Film Projects

• Opening and Closing a Project

• Backing Up Your Project Information

• Ending an Edit Session: Advanced

• Mounting and Unmounting Drives

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,” “Using the Avid Mojo,” or “Using the Avid Mojo SDI” 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.

Chapter 2 Planning and Starting a Project: Advanced

Selecting a Project Format and Type: Advanced

For basic information about selecting a project, see “Selecting a Project Format and Type: Basics”. In addition, see the following topics:

• Selecting a Project Type

• Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project

Selecting a Project Type

When you start a project on your Avid system, you need to decide on a project type. Select your project type based on your source footage. You can select one of the following options from the New Project dialog box:

• 23.976p NTSC: For footage that has been shot at 23.976-fps with advanced pulldown, or for film-originated or other 24-fps footage in which you want to use digital audio. See

“Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project” on page 53.

• 24p NTSC: For film-originated footage or other 24-fps footage, transferred to NTSC videotape. Digital cut is not available for 24p projects.

• 30i NTSC: For NTSC video-originated footage (30 fps).

• 24p PAL: For film-originated footage or other 24-fps footage, transferred to PAL videotape. Digital cut is not available for 24p projects.

• 25p PAL: For 25-fps film-originated footage or other 25-fps footage, transferred to PAL videotape.

• 25i PAL: For PAL video-originated footage (25 fps).

• 720p/23.976: For HD film editing. Film-originated material can be transferred to this format for post production.

• 720p/29.97 HDV: For HDV broadcast.

• 720p/50 HD: For HDV broadcast. (European broadcast.)

• 720p/59.94: For HD broadcast. See “Working with HD Media” in the Help.

• 1080p/23.976: For HD online editing. Film-originated material can be transferred to this format for editing and effects.

• 1080p/24: For HD film editing. Film-originated material can be transferred to this format for post production.

• 1080p/25: For HD online editing. Film-originated material can be transferred to this format for editing and effects.

• 1080i/50: For HD broadcast.

• 1080i/59.94: For HD broadcast.

• 1080i/50 HDV: For HDV broadcast.

• 1080i/59.94 HDV: For HDV broadcast.

Selecting a Project Format and Type: Advanced

You can import a 24p project and work with it, but you cannot capture at 24p.

In these options, 23.976p, 24p, and 25p designate 23.976-fps, 24-fps, and 25-fps progressive media. For these projects, your source footage is captured and stored as 23.976, 24, or 25 full, discrete frames per second. In the 30i NTSC and 25i options, the i represents interlaced frames played at 30 fps or 25 fps. An interlaced frame consists of two fields, each of which

contains one-half the scan lines of the frame. Interlaced frames are standard for NTSC and PAL video media.

For 30i NTSC projects and 25i PAL projects, you can select the Matchback option, which lets you capture and edit film-originated footage at 30 fps or 25 fps and “match back” to a cut list for conforming your edit to film. For information on matchback projects, see “Setting up a Matchback Project” in the Help.

For 23.976p film projects, 24p film projects, and 25p film projects, click the Film button and select a film gauge tracking format from the Film Type pop-up menu.

Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project

Avid editing systems that include 24p support include a 23.976p NTSC project type. This project type is especially designed for capture and output of digital audio that has been transferred or recorded at 48 kHz, in sync with picture at 23.976 fps. A 23.976 project lets you maintain digital standards for all NTSC input and output at 23.976 fps.

Select this project type for one of the following reasons:

• Your audio and video sources were shot at a camera rate of 23.976 fps using Advanced Pulldown (see “Capturing with Advanced Pulldown” on page 55). This frame rate, sometimes referred to as 24p by video-equipment manufacturers, is a DV-based standard-definition format, with media being recorded and played back at 23.976 fps. Your Avid editing application takes full advantage of the high-quality progressive nature of this media, as you work in a 1:1 relationship with the frame rate at which you captured your media.

• You want to use this rate for film (film-based television) or 24p HD video (television or feature film). These sources can be downconverted to standard NTSC without further audio slowdown. Audio recorded at 48 kHz can remain at 48 kHz throughout the project.

• Your film and audio sources have been synced in the telecine process and transferred to Digital Betacam

The 23.976 fps frame rate is sometimes referred to as 23.97 fps or 23.98 fps.

or other digital videotape formats.

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Considerations for 23.976 Projects

The 23.976 fps frame rate is in direct proportion to the NTSC broadcast frame rate of 29.97 fps, which is used for film-to-tape transfer to the Avid editing system.

Be aware of the following considerations:

• You can use any DV device to feed material captured at 23.976p into your Avid application to create a 23.976p project.

• For projects shot at 24fps, audio must be “pulled down” or “slowed down” before it can be captured into a 23.976p project. The user does not have the choice of capturing non-pulled-down audio. Unlike 24p NTSC projects, where the audio pulldown switch can be set to 1.0 or 0.99 to support either 24 fps or 23.976 fps, 23.976p projects do not use the audio pulldown switch. These 23.976p projects can only support 48 kHz audio that is in sync with 23.976-fps picture on a 29.97-fps transfer tape.

• Media created in 24p projects and media created in 23.976p projects are not compatible. If you start working in one type of project and then decide to switch to the other, you need to recapture all video and audio media. You cannot relink video media or audio media across the two project types.

• Open Media Framework look slightly different from those from a 24p project. The edit rates show up as

23.976 fps in these files.

(OMF) and AAF files that are output from a 23.976p project

Supported Resolutions for 23.976 Projects

Because of the way project information is stored, previous versions of Avid editing systems do not recognize 23.976p projects as being different from 24p projects. You can open 23.976p projects in previous versions however, none of the media can play because of the different internal edit rates. Projects are not corrupted by opening them in older versions of the software (unless you try to modify clips or edit sequences). If necessary, you can recapture the media in the 24p project.

In 23.976 projects, you can capture and play back at two resolutions:

•DV24p

•28:1

You can perform any operation that creates these resolutions, for example, capture, render, mixdown, playback, and so on.

Two additional resolutions are allowed for playback only:

•14:1

•35:1

Capturing with Advanced Pulldown

When you capture NTSC footage with a DV camera over a FireWire choose to capture with Advanced pulldown. This allows native DV editing applications like your Avid application to create 23.976p media. Advanced pulldown is set automatically when you capture, and requires no further adjustment in your Avid editing application.

The following figure illustrates the difference between Standard pulldown and Advanced pulldown.

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connection, you can

24p Standard pulldown (2:3:2:3)

24p frame capture

24p Advanced pulldown (2:3:3:2)

To capture with Advanced pulldown:

t Select the Advanced pulldown setting on your DV camera.

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A1 A2 B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 D1 D2 D3

AB CD

A1 A2 B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 C3 D1 D2

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Captured fields indicated with bold lines

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects

The Avid Xpress Pro system with an Avid Mojo or Avid Mojo SDI device allows you to work with mixed resolutions in the same sequence. However, you cannot mix the following:

• Frame rates in HD resolutions

• NTSC and PAL resolutions

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Avid recommends you do not mix interlaced resolutions with progressive resolutions. Mixing interlaced resolutions with progressive resolutions might result in problems with scrolling titles, exporting, and performing digital cuts.

For detailed information about resolutions, see “Resolutions and Storage Requirements” on

page 663.

Video and Film Projects

Avid systems offer you a flexible approach to finishing your project, whether it originates as video or film.

For video projects, you can use the offline capabilities of the Avid editing system and the Total Conform capabilities of the Symphony system to produce the highest quality, uncompressed broadcast masters.

For film and 24-fps or 25-fps HDTV (high-definition television) projects, you can use the Avid editing system to capture footage at 24 fps or 25fps and edit the content in its native frame rate. Then use the Symphony system’s film-tape-film-tape (FTFT) and Total Conform capabilities to finish and deliver uncompressed NTSC, PAL, 4:3, 16:9, and letterbox formats, as well as frame-accurate film cut lists and edit decision lists (EDLs), all from the same 24p (24-fps progressive) or 25p media.

Opening and Closing a Project

When you start your Avid application, the Select Project dialog box opens.

Windows

Macintosh

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The name you used to log in is selected as the user.

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You can change users. You can select projects from the Select Project dialog box, or you can choose to have your last project open automatically. You can also establish user profiles.

For additional information about creating a project, see “Creating a New Project” in the Help.

Changing Users

To change users:

1. Quit the Avid application.

2. Do one of the following:

t (Windows) Select Start > Log Off, and then log in as a different user.

t (Macintosh) Select P > Log Out, click Log Out, and then click a new user.

(Macintosh only) You have to create a new user before you can change to that user. See your Macintosh documentation or the Macintosh Help.

3. Start the Avid application.

Your current login name appears as the User in the Select Project dialog box.

Selecting a Project

You can select a project from a public, shared folder, from a private folder accessible only to you, or from folder external to the Avid Projects folder. You can also create a new project in either area. The location of the shared or private folder is displayed in the Folder text box in the Select Project dialog box.

Selecting a Shared Project

To select a shared project:

1. Start the Avid application.

The Select Project dialog box opens.

2. Select Shared in the Select a Project area.

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Shared folder location

Shared option selected

You cannot type into the User or Folder text boxes.

3. Select a project, and then click OK.

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

Selecting a Private Project

To select a private project:

1. Start the Avid application.

The Select Project dialog box opens.

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2. Select Private in the Select a Project area.

Your private projects appear.

Private folder location

Private option selected

You can’t type into the User or Folder text boxes.

3. Select a project, and then click OK.

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

Selecting an External Project

To select an external project:

1. Start the Avid application.

The Select Project dialog box opens.

2. In the Select Project dialog box, select External.

3. Click the Browse button.

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External option selected

Windows

The Browse for Folder (Windows) or Project Directory (Macintosh) dialog box opens.

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Macintosh

4. Navigate to the folder that contains the project you want.

5. Click OK (Windows) or Choose (Macintosh), and then click OK.

Browsing for a Project

To browse for a project in a location other than the default Shared and Private folders:

1. Start the Avid application.

The Select Project dialog box opens.

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Browse button

2. Click the Browse button.

The Browse for Folder (Windows) or Project Directory (Macintosh) dialog box opens.

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3. Navigate to the folder that contains the project you want.

4. Click OK (Windows) or Choose (Macintosh).

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.

3. Click New Project.

The New Project dialog box opens.

For more information on setting up a matchback project or a film project, see “Setting Up a

Matchback Project” on page 523 and “Selecting Film Settings” on page 524.

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.

Opening a Project Automatically

If you have already created a project, when you enter the Avid application, you can bypass the Select Project dialog box and have your last project open automatically.

To open a project automatically:

1. Click the Settings tab in the Project window.

The Settings list appears.

2. Double-click Interface.

The Interface Settings dialog box opens.

3. Click the General tab, select Automatically Launch Last Project at Startup, and then click OK. See “Interface Settings” in the Help.

The next time you start the Avid application, it opens your last project.

To select another project:

1. Deselect Automatically Launch Last Project at Startup, and then click OK.

2. Quit the application and restart it.

The Select Project dialog box opens.

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3. Select a project and click OK.

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

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 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

Using User Profiles

You can establish different profiles for a single user without having to log out of your system and log back in under a different name (see “Changing Users” on page 58). You might want separate editing functions to have separate settings, for example. User “Kim,” for example, can have separate profiles for “Audio editor,” “Film editor,” or for “Assistant 1,” “Assistant 2,” and so on. These profiles have separate folders and settings that are kept in the following folder:

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• (Windows) Avid Users\UserName

• (Macintosh) Avid Users/UserName

You can also import a user or user profile from another location.

Creating a User Profile

To create a user profile:

1. Click the Settings tab in the Project window.

2. Click the User Profile Selection menu, and select Create User Profile.

The Create User Profile dialog box opens.

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User Profile Selection menu

3. Type a name in the Profile Name text box, and then click OK.

The new user profile appears selected in the menu, and the user profile name appears in the Project window title bar.

Importing a User Profile

To import user settings from another user or user profile:

1. Click the Settings tab in the Project window.

2. Click the User Profile Selection menu, and select Import User or User Profile.

3. Navigate to the user or user profile you want to import.

Changing User Profiles

To change user profiles:

1. Click the Settings tab in the Project window.

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2. Click the User Profile Selection menu, and select another user profile.

The new user profile name appears in the Project window title bar.

Exporting a User Profile

If you are using a user profile other than that of the person logged in to the system, and you change to another project, the logged-in user settings are reloaded, even though the Project window still displays your other user profile name. You must reselect the user profile you want to have active.

You can create a user profile on one system and export it to a server. Then from another system you can import the same user profile to the new system.

When exporting a user profile, you can choose to export the user profile as a Personal profile or as a Group profile.

When you select Personal, the user profile performs an autoload and an auto-save every time you open a project. Every time the user profile is updated, it saves the new profile information. For example, you can create the user profile “Max” on one system, export it to another location (a server), and then import it to a different system. Every time you make any changes to the Max user profile, it updates to the server and when you open the Max user profile on either system, it uses the most up-to-date Max user profile.

When you select Group, the user profile autoloads; it does not perform an auto-save. Changes made to the user profile affect only the system the changes were made on; they do not update to the server.

To export user settings to another user or user profile:

1. Click the Settings tab in the Project window.

2. Click the User Profile Selection menu, and select Export User or User Profile.

3. Select Personal or Group.

4. Navigate to the location where you want to place the user or user profile.

5. Click OK.

Updating User Profiles

You can add user settings, such as the Send To settings options, to an existing application’s Settings list. For example, if you are upgrading to a version that contains the Send To option from a version that did not have that option, you can choose Update User Profile to make sure the Send To settings templates appear in your Settings list.

To update user profiles:

1. Click the Settings tab in the Project window.

2. Click the User Profile Selection menu, and select Update User Profiles.

Any profiles that have been added to the upgraded version of the application now appear in the Settings list.

Deleting a User Profile

You have to delete user profiles from the desktop.

To delete a user profile:

1. Navigate to the Avid Users folder, and then select the user folder you want to delete.

For information about the location of the Avid folders, see “Managing the Avid Projects

and Avid Users Folders: Advanced” on page 47.

2. Press the Delete key.

You are asked if you want to move all the files in the user folder to the Recycle Bin (Windows) or the Trash (Macintosh)

3. Click OK.

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4. Empty the Recycle Bin (Windows) or the Trash (Macintosh).

5. Close the windows and restart the Avid application.

The deleted user profile no longer appears in the Select Project dialog box.

Closing a Project

When you close the current project, you return to the Select Project dialog box.

To close the current project, do one of the following:

t With the Project window active, select File > Close.

t Click the Close button in the Project window.

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Backing Up Your Project Information

For information on using the Auto-save feature, see “Saving Bins Automatically” on

page 82.

Although the Avid application automatically saves your bins, projects, and settings, you should back up these items frequently to avoid losing any of your work in case your hard drive fails. Because the storage requirements are minimal, you can back up these files easily to a variety of storage devices, including:

•USB (thumb) drive

•CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

• Network storage device (such as a file server)

• Mass-storage device

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or Removable Media

To save your work on a drive or storage media:

1. Mount the drive or insert storage media (USB drive, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and so on) as appropriate.

2. (Windows only) From the desktop, double-click My Computer.

3. Double-click the icon for the targeted storage drive or storage media to open it. Doubleclick any additional folders to target the appropriate storage location.

4. Double-click the internal hard drive (Windows) or the Macintosh HD (Macintosh) to open it.

5. Drag a project folder, user folder, or settings file to the targeted storage location.

6. When the system finishes copying the files, unmount the drive or unmount the storage media and store it where appropriate.

Restoring from a Backup

To restore a project, user profile, or settings from a backup storage device:

1. Mount the drive or insert storage media (USB drive, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and so on) as appropriate.

2. From the desktop, double-click the drive or storage media and the internal hard drive (Windows) or the Macintosh HD (Macintosh).

3. Drag the copies from the storage device to the appropriate folder on the internal hard drive (Windows) or Macintosh HD (Macintosh):

- Avid Projects: Project folders and settings files

- Avi d U se rs : User folders and settings files

- Avid Xpress Pro: Site settings files

4. Start the Avid application. See “Starting the Avid Application (Windows)” or “Starting

the Avid Application (Macintosh)” in the Help.

Ending an Edit Session: Advanced

To end an edit session:

1. Quit the application.

2. Turn off your equipment in the order described in the following topics.

Quitting the Avid Application

There are three ways to quit the Avid application.

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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 72.

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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 71.

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.

Move your drives only when the system is completely off.

3. Turn off all other hardware.

Mounting and Unmounting Drives

The Unmount command makes selected media drives inaccessible to the Avid application. If the drive you unmount supports the auto-eject feature (for example, Jaz command ejects the disk from the drive.

By default, all media drives that are connected to your system are listed and can be seen by the Avid application. You can remove one or more drives from the list at any time by selecting File > Unmount. For example, if you want to use only some of your drives for a particular project, select Unmount to prevent other drives from appearing in the Avid application. The Unmount command does not remove drives from the system.

drives), the

Mounting and Unmounting Drives

You can unmount one or several drive volumes mounted on the desktop at any time from within the Avid application. You can also remount all the drives and return them to the desktop. This is useful if you work with an extensive array of fixed-storage drives, which might involve many partitions divided among several projects; you can selectively mount and unmount drives according to use.

If you work with Avid Unity MediaNetwork, you might have to unmount and remount icons on the desktop. For more information, see the Avid Unity MediaNetwork documentation. Also see “Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork” on page 103.

Shut down the system completely before you physically remove or add drives.

On systems with multiple media drives, unmounting drives that hold media not needed for the current project can improve the performance of the Media tool. You need to unmount the drives before you can open the Media tool. See “Using the Media Tool” in the Help.

Unmounting Drives (Windows)

To unmount a disk or to make a drive unavailable to the Avid application:

1. With the Avid application active, select File > Unmount.

The Select a Drive dialog box opens. The list displays all drives currently available.

2. Select a drive to unmount. Ctrl+click to select additional drives, or click All to unmount all the drives.

3. Click Unmount.

The drives are no longer available to the Avid application.

Unmounting Drives (Macintosh)

To unmount one or several drive icons from the desktop:

1. With the Avid application active, select File > Unmount.

2. Select a drive icon to unmount. Shift+click additional drive icons.

3. Click Unmount.

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Mounting All Drives

Because the system cannot interface with unmounted drives individually, you cannot mount selected drives. However, you can mount all drives connected to the system, including those previously unmounted.

To mount all drives:

t Select File > Mount All.

All drives turned on and connected to the system become available to the Avid application.

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Working with the Project Window: Advanced

The Project window provides controls for structuring and viewing important information about your current project. You can also modify User, Project, and Site settings from the Project window and display a list of effects. See “Project Window: Basics” in the Help for basic information about using the Project window.

See the following additional topics:

• Understanding the Project Window

• Using the Bins Display: Advanced

• Using the Info Display

• Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface

• Customizing Toolsets

• Customizing Your Workspace

• Support for Avid Unity LANshare

• Sharing Bins and Projects on Avid Unity MediaNetwork

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Understanding the Project Window

The Project window provides five different displays (Bins, Settings, Effects, Format, and Info) for structuring and viewing information about your current project.

Bins tab

Fast M enu button

Settings tab Info tabEffects tab

Format tab

Use the Project window to:

• Create and open bins. For more information, see “Organizing with Bins: Basics” in the Help and “Organizing with Bins: Advanced” on page 261.

• View and modify settings. See “Settings Options” in the Help.

• Access effects. See “Working with Effects: Basics” in the Help.

• View information about the format of the project and the use of system memory and hardware.

You can also add folders to your projects that allow you to organize the bins.

Opening and Closing the Project Window

The Project window opens automatically when you select a project in the Select Project dialog box.

To close the Project window, do one of the following:

t With the Project window active, select File > Close Project.

t Click the Close button in the Project window.

The Select Project dialog box opens.

The Project window remains open the entire time you are working in a project; however, it might be hidden from view by several open bins or tools.

To locate and redisplay the Project window, do one of the following:

t Select Tools > Project.

t Click in an unobstructed area of the Project window to bring it forward.

t Select Edit > Preferences (Windows), or Avid Xpress Pro > Preferences (Macintosh).

t Press Ctrl+9 (Windows) or k+9 (Macintosh).

Using the Bins Display: Advanced

Bins contain the master clips that are created when you capture source material. (The master clips are linked to the media files.) Bins also contain the sequences, subclips, group clips, and effect clips that you create during a project. From the Project window, you can view a list of bins associated with the project, and open, close, and create bins. You can also open bins created for another project. Bins from other projects appear in the Project window in italic. You can also drag bins into folders or folders into folders.

Changing Bin Window Size

To change the bin window size:

t Click the lower right corner of a bin window, and then drag it to resize.

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The bin window size is retained as a user setting for that bin. The bin window retains its set size every time you open that view of that bin, even in separate editing sessions. Each bin window can have a different size.

Creating a Folder in a Project

To create a folder in a project:

1. Click the Bins tab in the Project window.

Bins tab

Fast M enu button

2. Click the Fast Menu button, and select New Folder.

A new, untitled folder appears.

3. Click the untitled folder, and rename it.

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Using Flat View

To view a list of only the folders and not the folder contents in a bin:

1. In the Project window, click the Bins tab.

2. Click the Fast Menu button, and select Flat View.

Open folders are collapsed into their folder icons. The Trash icon and its contents also disappear until Flat View is deselected.

Renaming a Bin

Each new bin that you create takes the name of the project that appears in the Project window, numbered incrementally.

To change the name of a bin:

t Click the bin name in the Project window, and type a new name.

Opening Selected Bins

To open several bins at once from the Project window:

1. Click the name of one of the bins in the Bins list.

2. Ctrl+click (Windows) or Shift+click (Macintosh) each additional bin you want to open.

3. Select File > Open Selected Bins.

Opening Bins from Other Projects

To open a bin from another project:

1. Select File > Open Bin.

The Open dialog box opens.

2. Find and select the bin you want.

Bins have the file name extension .avb.

Never open a bin that is stored on storage media (USB drive, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and so on) or an equivalent device; otherwise, the system cannot save your work. Always copy the bin to a drive on your system before you open it. For more information, see “Transferring a Project Between Avid Systems” on page 590.

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3. Click Open.

The bin appears in the Bins list of the Project window in a folder called Other Bins. The name Other Bins appears in italic. You can rename this folder. This option is especially useful when you want to open a bin not currently displayed in the Project window.

The Other Bins folder disappears from the Bins list when you delete all the bins in the Other Bins folder. Deleting bins from the Other Bins folder does not remove the bins from the drive; only the pointers to the bins are removed.

Closing a Bin

To close a bin, do one of the following:

t Click the Close button.

t Select File > Close Bin.

Viewing Contents in the Trash

If you need to view the contents in the Trash or decide you do not want to delete those items in the Trash, you must first move the bins and folders out of the Trash.

Trash icon

To view items in the Trash:

1. Double-click the Trash icon in the Bins list to open it.

2. Click the bins or folders you want to keep (or view), and drag them from the Trash to the Bins list in the Project window.

3. Double-click the bin or folder to view it.

Emptying the Trash

You can empty the contents of the Trash that is located in the Bins list.

Emptying the trash permanently removes the bins or folders from the drive.

If you change the name of the Trash icon, you cannot empty the Trash.

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To empty the Trash:

1. Click the Fast Menu button, and select Empty Trash.

A message box opens.

2. Click Empty Trash to delete the bins or folders from the Trash and from your internal hard drive.

Managing Folders and Bins

You can use the Project window to create hierarchies of folders and bins that reflect the specific workflow of the current project. This structure should provide both simplicity and backup security. Although the specifics vary depending on your production needs and habits, the following are a few basic principles:

• Limit the number of sequences you create in each project. For instance, consider creating one new project for each show or episode.

• Limit the number and complexity of clips in each bin by creating and organizing bins in three groups, as shown in the following table.

Bin Organization

Set of Bins Purpose Specific Bins

First Capturing stage

Second Organizing your project

Third Editing stage A current cut bin for storing each work in progress (sequence)

An archive bin for keeping the original version of each cut (sequence)

A selects or storyboard bin for screening selected clips or cuts gathered from the source bins

A format cuts bin for storing the final cuts with added format elements such as segment breaks, color bars and tone, slate, or countdown

• (Option) Create additional folders at the desktop level for better organization. For example, you can create one folder for each capturing bin and show cut bin, or a folder containing all shot logs to be imported.

• Save these files as a template for future productions of a similar nature.

Managing Bins and Memory

System memory usage increases depending on how many bins you have open, the number of sequences in a bin, the number of tools that are opened, and the size of a sequence. Using more memory can slow system performance.

If your system is running low on memory and you need to free up memory, you can either close your bins or use the memory Clear button. If you close your bins, some of your memory remains unavailable until you exit the application because the online master clips remain in memory. The Clear button, however, closes and saves all of your open bins and clears out any cached data of the online master clips.

To view memory usage:

t Click the Bins tab of the Project window.

The memory usage monitor appears in the Bins tab of the Project window. As you open multiple bins, the memory usage indicator increases and updates.

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Memory usage monitor

Clear button

Size of bin

Avid recommends that you keep memory usage below 80-85%. If you exceed the recommended usage, a dialog box opens informing you that your memory usage is high and that you should close some bins and save your project.

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Bins with sequences use more memory than bins with master clips. For bins that contain a large number of sequences, you can still keep your old sequences and free up memory. Create a new archive bin and move older sequences that you don’t use anymore to the archive bin, and keep the archive bin closed.

To free up memory:

1. If your memory usage percentage is high and you need to free up memory, click the Clear button in the Bins tab of the Project window.

A dialog box opens asking if you want to close and save all opened bins.

2. Click OK.

All bins close; the memory usage percentage should go down.

This operation deletes cached data for the online master clips only. Memory might also be used by other parts of the application and is not reduced by using the Clear button.

Saving Bins Automatically

Your Avid application automatically saves changes to your work on a regular basis during each session. Two things happen when an auto-save occurs:

• Any open bins are updated with changes made since the last auto-save.

• Copies of these bins are placed in the following location as backup:

- (Windows) drive:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Xpress Pro\

Avid Attic

- (Macintosh) Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/Avid Xpress Pro/

Avid Attic

Adjusting the Frequency of Automatic Saves

To adjust the frequency of automatic saves:

1. Click the Settings tab in the Project window.

The Settings list appears.

2. Double-click Bin.

The Bin Settings dialog box opens.

3. Type a number in the minutes text box for the Auto-Save Interval option.

4. Click OK.

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder

The Avid Attic folder contains backup files of each bin in a project. For information on setting automatic save features, see “Saving Bins Automatically” on page 82.

You retrieve files from the Avid Attic folder in the following circumstances:

• When you want to replace current changes to a sequence or clip with a previous version

• When the current bin file becomes corrupted

The Avid Attic folder contains a folder for each project. Each of the project folders contains a Bins folder. When a bin is saved, a folder with the bin’s name is created in the Bins folder and a copy of the bin file is stored in the folder with the bin name. The system adds a version number to the bin’s file name. The bin file with the highest version number represents the latest copy of the bin file.

When you view a bin folder in Details view (Windows) or List view (Macintosh), you can also identify the most recent backup file based on the name and timestamp of creation displayed in the Modified column (Windows) or the Date Modified column (Macintosh).

Using the Bins Display: Advanced

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Windows)

The oldest backup file is overwritten only if the second oldest backup file is more than 2 hours old.

To retrieve a file from the Avid Attic folder:

1. Minimize the Avid application. For information on minimizing, see the Windows documentation.

2. From the desktop, double-click the Avid Attic folder in the following location:

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

The Avid Attic folder is usually located in the same folder as the Avid Projects and the Avid Users folders.

The Avid Attic folder opens and displays the project folders that contain a Bins folder.

3. Double-click a project folder, and then double-click the Bins folder.

4. Double-click the bin folder that contains the bin files you want to retrieve.

5. ,If the project folder is not already in the Details view, select View > Details.

The project folder displays the file names and their creation dates.

6. Ctrl+click the files you want to retrieve.

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7. Ctrl+drag the selected backup bin files to the desktop or the destination folder.

This makes a copy of the files, leaving the original files in the Avid Attic folder.

8. Click the Avid Xpress Pro button in the taskbar to activate it.

If the taskbar is hidden, see “Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only)” on page 44.

9. Click the Project window to activate it, and click Bins to display the Bins list.

10. Open the backup bin:

a. Select File > Open Bin.

b. Select one of the backup bin files you copied to the desktop.

c. Click Open.

When you open the backup bin, a link to the backup bin on the desktop is created in the Other Bins folder.

The Avid system does not allow a bin and a copy of a bin to be opened at the same time. You must keep all other versions of the backup bin closed, and open the backup bins one at atime.

11. Create a new bin if you do not plan to overwrite existing files.

12. Open the new bin, and open the backup bin in the Other Bins folder.

13. Select the material you want to keep from the backup bin, and drag the files to the new bin.

Repeat steps 9 through 13 for any other backup bins you copied to your desktop.

14. Select and delete the backup bins in the Other Bins folder.

15. Drag the backup bin files on the desktop to the Recycle Bin.

16. Modify the creation dates of the objects by making a change to an object and then saving the bin.

Retrieving Files from the Avid Attic Folder (Macintosh)

To retrieve a file from the Avid Attic folder:

1. Hide the Avid application. For information on hiding, see the Macintosh documentation

2. From the desktop, double-click the Attic folder in the following location:

- Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/Avid Xpress Pro

The Avid Attic folder is usually located in the same folder as the Avid Projects and the Avid Users folders.

Using the Info Display

3. Double-click a project folder, and then double-click the Bins folder.

4. Double-click the bin folder that contains the bin files you want to retrieve.

5. Select View > “as List” if the Avid Attic folder is not already in List view.

The bin folder displays the backup bin files and their creation dates.

6. Shift+click the files you want to retrieve, and Option+drag the selected backup files to the desktop.

This makes a copy of the files, leaving the original files in the Avid Attic folder.

7. Click the Avid application icon on the Dock to activate the application.

8. Click the Project window to reactivate it and click Bins to display the Bins list.

The Avid system does not allow a bin and copy of a bin to be opened at the same time. You must keep all other bins close, and open the backup bins one at a time.

9. Open the backup bin:

a. Select File > Open Bin.

b. Select one of the backup bin files you copied to the desktop.

c. Click Open.

When you open the backup bin, a link to that backup bin on the desktop is created in the Other Bins folder.

10. Create a new bin if you do not plan to overwrite existing files.

11. Open the new bin and open the backup bin in the Other Bins folder.

12. Select the material you want to keep from the backup bin, and drag files to the new bin.

Repeat steps 9 through 12 for any other backup bins you copied to your desktop.

13. Select and delete the backup bins in the Other Bins folder.

14. Drag the backup bin files on the desktop to the Trash.

After you have moved the objects, modify their creation dates so they are considered newest by the system. The creation date is modified whenever you make a change to an object and then save the bin.

Using the Info Display

The Info display in the Project window allows you to view system memory information and access the Hardware tool.

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To open the Info display:

t Click the Info tab in the Project window.

The items listed in this view are for information only and cannot be changed.

Viewing Memory

To view system memory for an open project:

t Click the Info tab in the Project window, and then click the Memory button.

The Memory window opens.

Windows

Macintosh

Understanding the Memory Window

The Memory window displays the following information:

• Objects: The total number of memory handles currently used by your Avid application. Objects include memory requirements of the application, such as windows, as well as clips, sequences, and other items associated with a project.

• Total Physical Memory (Windows) or Total Mem (Macintosh): The total number of bytes of RAM (random-access memory).

• Available Physical Memory (Windows) or Free Mem (Macintosh): The amount of RAM available for allocation by Windows or the Macintosh system.

• (Windows only) Total Page File: The total number of bytes that can be stored in the paging file. The paging file is used as virtual memory by Windows.

• (Windows only) Available Page File: The total number of bytes available in the paging files.

• (Windows only) Working Set (min and max): The set of memory pages currently available to the application in RAM.

(Windows only) You can view additional memory information through the Windows Task Manager and the Performance monitor. You can view information about system activities, such as driver messages, through the Event Viewer. For information on these tools, see the Windows Help.

Using the Info Display

You can improve performance on large projects by reducing the number of objects. Close unused bins, unmount unneeded media drives, consolidate finished elements, and eliminate old material from the project. Then quit and restart the Avid application. If performance is still slow, restart your system.

Accessing the Hardware Tool

The Hardware tool gives a visual representation of usage for each drive and provides operating system information.

To view hardware for an open project, do one of the following:

t Click the Info tab in the Project window, and then click the Hardware button.

t Select Tools > Hardware.

The Hardware tool opens.

For additional information on the Hardware tool, see “Using the Hardware Tool” on

page 118.

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Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface

The Appearance tab of the Interface Settings dialog box provides you with controls for customizing the colors and button style of the Avid user interface. You can also change the font and point size of the type in the various windows.

Appearance Tab Options

The following illustration shows the Appearance tab of the Interface dialog box.

For information about options, see “Interface Settings: Appearance Tab” in the Help.

Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface

Changing Interface Component Colors

You can use a color selection grid to change the color of interface components. The following table describes the interface components that you can customize.

Customizable Interface Components

Component Description

Background The color of toolbars and dialog boxes behind the text. The default is gray.

If you select a Background color but no Button color, buttons take on the

Background color.

Button The color of a button behind the button contents, when the button is not selected.

The default is gray.

Button Contents The color of text or symbols, such as icons or check marks, in the buttons. The

default is black.

Button Highlight The color of selected buttons, which is different from that of deselected buttons.

Button Spotlight The background color of a button when you pass the mouse pointer over it.

Text The color of text in dialog boxes, toolbars, and ToolTips. The default is black.

Timeline Background The color of the Timeline top toolbar and the Timeline bottom toolbar. The

default is gray.

Timeline V Tracks

Timeline A Tracks

Timeline TC Tracks

Project Background The background color for the Project window.

Bin Default Background The color of a bin behind the bin contents. New bins first appear with the

The background color for the V (video), A (audio), or TC (timecode) tracks in the Timeline. The default is gray.

This setting takes precedence over the Fast Menu track color.

selected color as the background color. You can override the default background color by selecting Edit > Set Bin Background.

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To set the color of an interface component:

1. Double-click Interface in the Settings list.

The Interface dialog box opens.

2. Click the Appearance tab.

Enable/ Disable check box

Color boxes

Interface component list

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3. Click in the color box next to the interface component you want to customize.

A color selection grid opens.

Color selection grid

4. Press the mouse button and move the pointer over the color selection grid, and then release the mouse button over the color to which you want to set your interface component.

The color selection grid disappears. The color you selected appears in the color box. A check appears in the Enable/Disable check box to show that you want your new color attribute for this selection to take effect.

If you deselect an interface component by clicking the Enable/Disable check box, the color you specify in the color selection grid does not take effect. The color of the interface component reverts to its default value.

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5. Do one of the following:

t Click Apply to apply the changes you selected.

If you click Cancel after you click Apply, interface components retain the selection you applied.

t Click OK to close the dialog box and put the new setting into effect.

t Click Cancel to close the dialog box.

The changes you selected but did not apply do not take effect.

Changing Shading Style

Shading style controls the shading of the buttons and toolbars.

To set the shading style:

1. Click the Shading Style menu in the Appearance tab of the Interface dialog box, and select a style.

2. Do one of the following:

t Click Apply to apply the change you selected.

If you click Cancel after you click Apply, Shading Style retains the selection you applied.

t Click OK to close the dialog box and put the new setting into effect.

t Click Cancel to close the dialog box.

The change you selected but did not apply does not take effect.

The following illustration shows Shading styles.

Changing Shading Depth

Shading depth controls the three-dimensional “rounding” of the buttons and toolbars.

To set the shading depth:

1. Click the Shading Depth menu in the Appearance tab of the Interface dialog box, and select a depth.

2. Do one of the following:

t Click Apply to apply the change you selected.

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Convex

Dim Radial

Convex Radial

Bright Radial

If you click Cancel after you click Apply, Shading Depth retains the selection you applied.

t Click OK to close the dialog box and put the new setting into effect.

t Click Cancel to close the dialog box.

The change you selected but did not apply does not take effect.

The following example shows Shading Depth selections of 5% and 50%.

Shadow Depth 5% Shadow Depth 50%

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Changing Button Separation

To change the separation of Monitor or Timeline buttons:

1. Click the Monitor Button Separation menu or the Timeline Button Separation menu in the Appearance tab of the Interface Settings dialog box, and select a separation.

2. Do one of the following:

t Click Apply to apply the change you selected.

If you click Cancel after you click Apply, Button Separation retains the selection you applied.

t Click OK to close the dialog box and put the new setting into effect.

t Click Cancel to close the dialog box.

The change you selected but did not apply does not take effect.

The following example shows part of the Timeline buttons with each button separation selection applied.

Maximum button separation

Moderate button separation

No button separation

Changing Button Style

Button style controls the shape of buttons in the interface.

To change the style of buttons:

1. Click the Button Style menu in the Appearance tab of the Interface Settings dialog box, and select a button style.

Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface

2. Do one of the following:

t Click Apply to apply the change you selected.

If you click Cancel after you click Apply, Button Style retains the selection you applied.

t Click OK to close the dialog box and put the new setting into effect.

t Click Cancel to close the dialog box.

The change you selected but did not apply does not take effect.

The following examples show several buttons with each button style applied.

Oval Square

Octagonal

Rounded

Using Interface Appearance Templates

There are several interface appearance templates available for the Avid user interface that have preset background and button colors.

Swoosh

Antique

To use an interface appearance template:

1. Click the Settings tab in the Project window.

The Settings list appears.

2. Click to the left of one of the named Interface settings.

The look of your Avid user interface changes.

To return to the default interface:

t Click the unnamed Interface setting.

For information on how to change the appearance of particular components of your Avid user interface, see “Customizing the Appearance of the Avid User Interface” on page 88.

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Understanding Font and Point Size

You can change the default font and point size of the Project, Bin, Composer, Script, or Timeline window. You can have multiple variations of fonts and point sizes across these windows. For example, you can set the Project window to Helvetica, 13 pt., set one Bin window to Times Roman, 11 pt., and set another Bin window to Arial, 12 pt.

The following table describes the windows you can change, and what is changed.

Window What You Can Change

Project The font and point size of the text in the Bin and

Settings tabs.

Bin The font and point size of the text in a Bin window.

Composer The font and point size of the sequence or source clip

name text.

Script The font and point size of the text in the Script window.

Timeline The font and point size of clip text.

Changing Font and Point Size

To set the font displayed in the Project window, the Timeline, the Composer monitor, and the bins:

1. Select Edit > Set Font.

The Set Font dialog box opens.

2. Click the Font menu, and select one of the available fonts.

Any font loaded in the Fonts folder appears in the list. For information on adding fonts to your system, see the Windows documentation or the Macintosh documentation.

3. Type another point size for the font in the Size text box.

4. Click OK.

The new font appears in all bin windows. When you close the window, the last font and point size applied is saved with the window.

Customizing Toolsets

For basic information about toolsets, see “Using Toolsets” in the Help.

To customize the toolset workspace:

1. Select the toolset you want to customize from the Toolset menu.

2. Open other tools with which you want to work and position them where you want them.

3. Select Toolset > Save Current.

The next time you select the customized toolset, it appears with your changes.

To restore the default settings:

t Select Toolset > Restore Current to Default.

Linking Toolsets to Other Settings

You can link the current toolset to custom User settings.

Customizing Toolsets

To link a toolset to another setting:

1. Select the toolset you want to link from the Toolset menu.

2. Select Toolset > Link Current to.

The Link Toolset dialog box opens.

3. Click the Links to Current Toolset menu, and select Link to Named Settings.

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4. Type the name of the other setting to which you want to link the toolset. For more information about creating and naming custom settings, see “Using the Settings List” in the Help.

You can link toolsets only to User settings.

5. Click OK.

The active toolset is linked to the custom setting you specified.

You might want to link several toolsets to named settings but leave the other toolsets linked to a default, unnamed setting.

To link a toolset to an unnamed setting:

1. Select the toolset you want to link from the Toolset menu.

2. Select Toolset > Link Current to.

The Link Toolset dialog box opens.

3. Click the Links to Current Toolset menu, and select Link to Unnamed Settings.

The active toolset is linked to all the unnamed settings in the Settings list.

Customizing Your Workspace

A workspace is the arrangement and size of tool windows displayed on your Avid system. If you are accustomed to working with a particular group of windows arranged and sized in a particular setup, you can assign them to a workspace setting that you can then recall with a workspace button.

For example, during capturing, you want to display the Capture tool in specific locations. During effects editing, you want to display the Effect Palette and the Effect Editor in a particular location and size. For information on switching between workspaces, see

“Switching Between Workspaces” on page 102.

While in a workspace, you can move tool windows or open and close tool windows. The next time you select that workspace, the tool windows appear with either:

• The arrangement from the last time you left the workspace

• The arrangement you set for the workspace, regardless of any changes you made

You cannot assign certain tool windows to a workspace, for example, the Hardware tool, the Communication (Serial) Ports tool, and the Media tool.

You can select your preference in the Workspace Settings dialog box. For more information, see “Creating a New Workspace Setting” on page 99.

Creating a New Workspace Setting

To create a new workspace setting:

1. Click the Settings tab in the Project window.

The Settings list appears.

2. Select Fast menu > All Settings.

3. Scroll to the bottom of the Settings list and click Workspace.

Workspace is highlighted.

4. Select Edit > Duplicate.

A new Workspace setting appears in the Settings list.

Customizing Your Workspace

If you are duplicating a previously named workspace setting, a .1 appears at the end of the new name.

5. Click to the left of the new workspace you want to set.

A check mark appears next to the workspace.

6. Assign a custom name to the new workspace:

a. In the column between Workspace and User, click until you see a text cursor and

box. Make sure you click the Custom setting name column and not the Setting name.

Custom setting name column

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b. Type a name for the new custom workspace, for example, Capturing.

c. Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).

7. Open the windows and tools with which you want to associate the workspace. Resize and move the windows to the location where you want them to appear on the monitors.

8. Double-click the custom workspace setting.

The Workspace Settings dialog box opens.

9. Select options. For information about options, see “Workspace Settings” in the Help.

10. Click OK.

Assigning a Workspace Button

On the keyboard, F9 to F12 are assigned to the first four workspaces you create. You can also assign other buttons to workspaces.

To assign a workspace button:

1. Select Tools > Command Palette.

2. Click the More tab.

3. Select Button to Button Reassignment.

4. Click a workspace button (W1 to W8) and drag it to a location on another palette (for example, to the Tool palette.)

The buttons are assigned to the workspaces in the Settings list of the Project window in the order that they appear. For example, the W1 button is assigned to the first workspace that appears in the Settings list, W2 is assigned to the second workspace that appears in the Settings list, and so forth.

The Avid application sorts the workspaces alphabetically. The workspace button assignments might change if you add workspaces. To keep a designated order, name the workspaces with a number preceding the first letter (for example, 2editing).

5. Click the W1 button to show the first workspace that appears in the Settings list.

When you open the windows associated with the first workspace, they open in the assigned locations.

Linking User Settings and Workspaces

User settings can be linked to a workspace. You can create a customized workspace and set up specific options in any Settings dialog box, and link them together by name.

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Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Tables

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Accessing the Online Library

How to Order Documentation

Avid Training Services

Using Desktop Procedures

Working with the Desktop

Creating an Automatic System Recovery Disk (Windows Only)

Using Shortcut Menus (Windows)

Using Shortcut Menus (Macintosh)

Using the Windows Taskbar (Windows Only)

Dragging Windows (Windows Only)

Setting the Avid Color Scheme (Windows Only)

Setting the Apple Color Scheme (Macintosh)

Changing Screen Resolution (Windows)

Changing Screen Resolution (Macintosh)

Using the Avid Xpress Pro Folder

Managing the Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders: Advanced

Changing Project and User Names

Deleting Projects

Planning and Starting a Project: Advanced

Selecting a Project Format and Type: Advanced

Selecting a Project Type

Working in a 23.976p NTSC Project

Considerations for 23.976 Projects

Supported Resolutions for 23.976 Projects

Capturing with Advanced Pulldown

Working with Mixed-Resolution Projects

Video and Film Projects

Opening and Closing a Project

Changing Users

Selecting a Project

Selecting a Shared Project

Selecting a Private Project

Selecting an External Project

Browsing for a Project

Creating a New Project

Opening a Project Automatically

Opening a Project

Using User Profiles

Creating a User Profile

Importing a User Profile

Changing User Profiles

Exporting a User Profile

Updating User Profiles

Deleting a User Profile

Closing a Project

Backing Up Your Project Information

Saving Your Project Information on a Drive or Removable Media

Restoring from a Backup

Ending an Edit Session: Advanced

Quitting the Avid Application

Turning Off Your Equipment

Mounting and Unmounting Drives

Unmounting Drives (Windows)

Unmounting Drives (Macintosh)

Mounting All Drives

Working with the Project Window: Advanced

Understanding the Project Window

Opening and Closing the Project Window

Using the Bins Display: Advanced

Changing Bin Window Size

Creating a Folder in a Project

Using Flat View

Renaming a Bin

Opening Selected Bins

Opening Bins from Other Projects

Closing a Bin

Viewing Contents in the Trash

Emptying the Trash

Managing Folders and Bins

Managing Bins and Memory

Saving Bins Automatically