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ContentsUsing This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Accessing the Goodies Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 1

Working with the Project Window: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Managing User Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Folders and Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Guidelines for Project Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Creating a Folder in a Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Managing Bins and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Saving Bins Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Adjusting Automatic Saves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using the Info Display to View Memory Information and Access the Hardware Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Usage Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Displaying Usage Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Statistics File Structure and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Importing the Statistics File into a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Displaying Disk Space Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Customizing the Avid User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Changing Interface Component Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Changing Button and Toolbar Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Using Interface Appearance Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Changing Font and Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 User-Customized Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Creating a New Workspace Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Linking User Settings and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Deleting a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Assigning a Workspace Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Working with Bins and Projects in an Avid Unity Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Understanding Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Sharing Only Bins in Avid Unity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Sharing Bins and Projects in Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Opening a Shared Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Locks and Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Working with Locks and Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Restrictions and Limitations for Locked Bins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with Shared Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Shared Bin and Project Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Shared Bin Lock Icon Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Drive Filtering in Networked Workflows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Chapter 2

Using Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Using the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Using a Deck Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Deck Controller Window Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 The Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Understanding Button Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Mapping User-Selectable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 The Blank Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Modifier Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Mapping Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Activating Commands from the Command Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Using the Avid Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 The Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Displaying System Information in the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Reviewing a Log of Errors in the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Getting Information with the Console Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Using the Console Window to Access Network Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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Using the Hardware Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 External Controllers as Editing Control Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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Logging: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Using Avid Log Exchange to Prepare Log Files for Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Converting Log Files with Avid Log Exchange (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Using Drag-and-Drop Conversion for Log Files (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Avid Log Exchange Stores ASC Color Decision List (CDL) Parameters . . . . . . 95 Log Formats Compatible with Avid Log Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Avid Log Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Global Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Column Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Data Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Sample Avid Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Creating an Avid Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Double-Checking Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Transferring Bins from MediaLog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Logging Directly into a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Tips for Logging Preroll, Logging Timecode, and Naming Tapes . . . . . . . . . . 108 Logging with Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Pausing the Deck While Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Using a Memory Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Logging with Non-Avid-Controlled Decks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Understanding the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Setting the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Film-Related Log Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Displaying Film Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Entering Pulldown Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Determining the Pulldown Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Modifying the Pulldown Phase Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Entering Frames-per-Second Rates for PAL Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Entering Key Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269

Entering Additional Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Entering Ink Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Exporting Shot Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

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Capturing Media: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Advanced Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Selecting Settings for Capturing Across Timecode Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Selecting the Preroll Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Preroll Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Capturing to Multiple Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 General Settings for Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Settings for Film and 24p Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Disabling Video Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Preparing for Audio Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Creating Tone Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Using the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Resizing the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Monitoring Audio with the Passthrough Mix Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Changing an Audio Level in the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Adjusting Pan Values in the Passthrough Mix Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Changing Audio Hardware Calibration Settings for Avid Adrenaline . . . . . . . 145 Calibrating Audio Input Channels for Avid Adrenaline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Calibrating Audio Output Channels for Avid Adrenaline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Audio Hardware Calibration for Avid Nitris DX and Avid Mojo DX . . . . . . . . . 147 Using the Default Audio Calibration for Avid Nitris DX or Avid Mojo DX . . . . . 148 Using a Tone Generator to Calibrate Audio Input Channels for Avid Nitris DX or Avid Mojo DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Using an External Meter to Calibrate Audio Output Channels for Avid Nitris DX and Avid Mojo DX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Using the Console Window to Check Audio Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Preparing for Video Input: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Limitations When Using Consumer Decks or Decks Without Time-Base Correctors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Saving Video Input Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

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Saving Calibration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Saving a Custom Default Setting for the Video Input Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Adjusting Video Levels for Tapes Without Color Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Using Capture Function Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Special Capture Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Logging Errors to the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Opening the Console Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Considerations for Creating Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Creating Subclips While Capturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Creating Timed Subclips While Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Understanding Locators On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Adding Locators On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Naming a New Tape from the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Controlling Decks from the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Mapping the Record Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Ejecting Tapes with a Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Returning to the Previous Place in the Select Tape Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Understanding DV Capture Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 RS-422 Controlling a DV Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 FireWire Configuration Without Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 FireWire Configuration with Encoded Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Capture with No Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Capturing DV Material with Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Delaying Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Live Capture with External Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Preparing for Capturing with External Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Patching When Capturing to the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Capturing Video Without Pulldown into a 24p NTSC Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Remote Play, Capture, and Punch-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Selecting Remote Play and Capture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Enabling Remote Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Enabling Remote Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17311

Setting up Your System for Remote Punch-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Using Serial Drivers with Remote Play and Capture (Windows Only). . . . . . . 176 Relinking Clips by Key Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Modifying the Pulldown Phase After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 DV and HDV Scene Extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Setting Up DV and HDV Scene Extraction Before Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Setting Up DV Scene Extraction After Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Using the Panasonic VariCam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

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Importing Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Importing Single-Layer Photoshop Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Importing Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Example of Multilayered Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Support for Multilayered Photoshop Graphics Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Preserving Layer Effects in Multilayered Photoshop Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Importing Multilayered Photoshop Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Importing Editcam Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Restrictions on Importing Editcam Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Importing Sequences from Pro Tools through Interplay (Windows Only) . . . . . . . 195

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Working with Bins: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Advanced Bin Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Film Scene Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Displaying Custom Bin Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Customizing Bin Views in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Saving a Custom Bin View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Assigning Colors to Bin Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Sifting Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Sequence and Clip Information Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Understanding Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Sifting Timecodes or Keycode Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Locking and Unlocking Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Selecting Offline Items in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

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Selecting Media Relatives for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Selecting Sources Used by an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Selecting Unreferenced Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Text View: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Manipulating Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Duplicating Bin Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Adding Customized Columns to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Changing a Custom Bin Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Adding a Metadata Bin Column Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Tracking Frames Based on File Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Managing Clip Information in Text View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Moving Within Column Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Modifying Clip Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Modifiable Bin Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Modifying Data Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Using the Modify Command to Modify Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Modifying Data with the Modify Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Copying Information Between Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Copying Information from Another Cell in a Custom Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Selecting a Film Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Tracking 3-Perf Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Selecting an Edgecode Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Sorting Clips in Text View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Displaying Timecodes in a 24p or 25p Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Frame Counting for Timecodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Adding Timecode Columns to a Bin or the Media Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Adding Timecode Values to the Timecode Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Bin Column Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Displaying or Outputting Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Editing with Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Disassociating Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Viewing Restriction Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23713

Changing Restriction Comments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Searching the Database for Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Printing Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Digital Bars and Tone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Importing Color Bars and Other Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Creating Video Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Creating Audio Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

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File Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243Sony XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Sony XDCAM EX Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 XDCAM and XDCAM EX Formats and Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 Working with XDCAM HD Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 Installing the XDCAM Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Connecting the XDCAM or XDCAM EX Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Ejecting an XDCAM EX Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Panasonic P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Panasonic P2 Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 P2 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Installing the Panasonic P2 Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Preparing to Mount P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Setting up a P2 Card Reader (Windows only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Mounting P2 Cards as Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Copying P2 Files to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Sharing P2 Clips and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Working with Spanned Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Ikegami GFCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 GFCAM Formats and Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 GFCAM Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Connecting the GFPAK Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Spanned Clips and GFCAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Copying GFCAM Files to a FireWire or Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

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The Avid Media Access (AMA) Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Selecting the AMA Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Viewing Installed AMA Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Understanding Linking with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Linking Media with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Using Virtual Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Virtual Volumes and AMA Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Workflow for Editing XDCAM and XDCAM EX Clips with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Workflow for Editing P2 Clips with AMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Workflow for Editing GFCAM Clips with AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Working with Shot Marks and Check Marks with GFCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . 267 Deleting Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Import and Export Workflow for File-Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Setting XDCAM Import Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Importing XDCAM Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Importing XDCAM EX Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Automatically Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Importing Proxy Media from an XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Copying XDCAM Proxy Media to a Local Drive or a Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Manually Importing XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Importing Essence Marks as Locators in XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Editing XDCAM Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Batch Importing High-Resolution XDCAM Media from the XDCAM Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Editing and Finishing High-Resolution XDCAM Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Exporting Media to XDCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Exporting to XDCAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Workflow for Editing with P2 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Changing P2 Cards in the Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Importing P2 Clips and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Dragging P2 Master Clips from the Media Tool to a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Exporting Your Clip or Sequence to a P2 Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

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Managing Media Files: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291Finding a Related Media File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Relinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Relink Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Relinking and New Project Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 Relinking Clips to a New Project Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Relinking by Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Relinking to Selected Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 Relinking Consolidated Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Relinking Moved Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Unlinking Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Videotapes for Archiving and Restoring Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Archiving Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 Archive to Videotape Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Restoring an Archive from Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Sequence and Clip Information Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

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Script-Based Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309Lined Script Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Lined Script Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 Lining in the Digital Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Script Integration Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Using Script Integration in Video Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Script Window Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 Script Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Importing a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Selecting Text Encoding for Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 Opening, Closing, and Saving the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 Displaying Clip and Sequence Information in a Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Exploring the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Adjusting the Script Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Working with Script Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Changing the Font Used in Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Selecting Text in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

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Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Removing Script Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Searching Through Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Using Page and Scene Numbers in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Conducting a Text Search in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 Linking Clips to the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Interpolating Position for Script Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 Working with Slates in the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Selecting Slates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Resizing Slates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Holding Slates On Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Hiding Slate Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 Showing One Take Per Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Moving a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Deleting a Slate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 Working with Takes in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 Selecting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 Adding Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Deleting Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Displaying Take Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Changing the Representative Frame for a Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Loading Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Playing Takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Adjusting Take Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Indicating Off-Screen Dialog in a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Using Color Indicators in the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 Script Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Placing Script Marks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Using Real-Time Screening and Marking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 Marking with ScriptSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 Loading and Playing Marked Segments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 Moving a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 Deleting a Script Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34117

Finding Clips and Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Finding Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Finding Clips and Bins from the Script Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Editing From the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Assembling a Rough Cut From the Script Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Splicing a Script Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 Revising the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 Interactive Screenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

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Viewing and Marking Footage: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347Using the Info Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 Using the Timecode Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 Adjusting the Play Delay Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 Using the Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Playing Selected Clips in a Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 Suggested Uses for Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Adding Locators While Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 Adding Locators On-the-Fly while Playing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Finding Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Editing Locator Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Copying Locators from Source Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Marking an Area Using Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 Moving to the Previous or Next Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 Using the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 Viewing Locators in the Locators Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Working in the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 Exporting and Importing Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 Creating a Locator Text (.txt) File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 Copying and Pasting Locators Using the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 Printing the Contents of the Locators Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 Disabling the Locator Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

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Sequence and Clip Information Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

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Creating and Editing Sequences: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373User Preferences for Creating Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Enabling Phantom Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 Adding Comments to Sequence Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 Playback Performance Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 Playing a Limited Duration of a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 Autosyncing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 Understanding Autosyncing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 Creating an Autosynced Subclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 AutoSequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 Understanding AutoSequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 Adding Audio to Original Videotape Using AutoSequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Resyncing Subframe Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Understanding Subframe Resyncing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Resyncing Audio for a Selected Subclip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 Managing Sync with Multiple Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Understanding Sync Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Syncing with Tail Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 Syncing with Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 Using Add Edit When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 Ganging Footage in Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 Sync Point Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 Using MetaSync to Synchronize Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

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Using the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389Timeline Views: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 Displaying Timecode Tracks in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 Changing the Timeline Background or Track Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 Showing Locators in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 Setting the Scroll Option for the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39219

Navigating in the Timeline: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 Using the Full-Screen Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 Displaying Source Material in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 IN to OUT Highlighting in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Advanced Timeline Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Bin Editing into the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 Bin Editing Directly into a Sequence Using the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 Editing with the Film Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Add Edit (Match Frame) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Adding a Match-Frame Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 Adding Edits to Filler Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 Removing Match-Frame Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 Dupe Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 Activating Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 Methods for Changing Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Adjusting Handle Length in Dupe Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 Tracking Color Frame Shifts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Printing the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

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Working in Trim Mode: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409Creating Overlap Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 Extending an Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 Maintaining Sync While Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 Adding Black When Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 Trimming with Sync-Locked Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 Slipping or Sliding Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 Lassoing Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 The Four-Frame Slip/Slide Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 Performing a Slip or Slide Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Slipping Shots in Source/Record Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Using the Transition Corner Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

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Working with Audio: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421Audio Gain Staging and an Audio Editing Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 Rendering and Unrendering Order for Audio Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 Viewing Clip Gain and Automation Gain Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Bypassing Existing Volume Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Adjusting Volume While Playing a Clip Gain Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Improving Response Time When Adjusting Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Using External Fader Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 Adjusting the Volume of Individual Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Adjusting the Pan of Individual Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Using an External Fader Controller or Mixer to Record Automation Gain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430 Using the Digi 002 and the Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 Using the Digi 002 with Avid Input/Output Hardware (Windows Only). . . . . . . 432 Using the Command|8 with Your Avid Editing System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 Configuring the Digi 002 or Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 Mapping Buttons and Menu Commands for the Digi 002 or Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434 Button Layouts on the Digi 002 and Command|8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 Viewing Different Controller Button Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 Mapping Controller Menu Commands for the Digi 002 or Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 Using Digi 002 or Command|8 Buttons to Change Focus in the Avid Editing Application Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438 Using a Foot Pedal as a Foot Switch with the Digi 002 or Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 Switching Between the Digi 002 and Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 Using a Digi 002 or Command|8 to Record Automation Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 Using the Latch Mode Feature on the Digi 002 and Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . 440 Configuring USB-to-MIDI Software for External Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 Installing USB-to-MIDI Software (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442 Installing USB-to-MIDI Software (Macintosh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 Testing External Fader Controller Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

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Switching Between MIDI Connections on the USB-to-MIDI Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 Troubleshooting MIDI Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Using the FaderMaster Pro and MCS-3000X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446 MCS-3000X Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 Using the Snap Mode Feature on the MCS-3000X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 Ganging Faders on the FaderMaster Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 Using the Yamaha 01V/96 or the Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 Initializing the Yamaha 01V/96 or Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 Configuring the Yamaha 01V/96 or Yamaha 01V to Recognize Control Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 Starting the Avid System with the Yamaha 01V/96 or the Yamaha 01V Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 Switching Between Audio Mixing and Gain Recording with the Yamaha 01V/96 and Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 Operating the Yamaha 01V/96 and Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 Soloing Avid System Channels with the Yamaha 01V/96 and Yamaha 01V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 Using the Audio EQ Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 Audio EQ Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 EQ-Specific Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 Applying Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 Saving Audio EQ Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 Removing Audio EQ Effects with the Fast Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 Removing Audio EQ Effects with the Remove Effect Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 Audio EQ Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Low Shelf Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Small Octave Range Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 Using Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 Applying an EQ Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464 Creating Your Own Audio EQ Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464 Adding an EQ Template to the Audio EQ Tool Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

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Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 Connecting Voice-Over Recording Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Understanding the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Audio Punch-in Tool Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Audio Punch-in Tool Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 Recording Voice-Over Narration Using Audio Punch-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 Monitoring Previously Recorded Tracks While Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Using Peak Hold While Recording Voice-Over Narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Using a GPI Device with the Audio Punch-In Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Understanding GPI Trigger Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474 GPI Signal Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474 Example of Linking GPI Actions to Trigger Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Connecting a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476 Configuring a V-LAN VLXi Controller and GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476 Working with GPI Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477 Creating a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477 GPI Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478 Editing a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Deleting a GPI Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Displaying Audio Formats in Bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

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Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Understanding Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 AudioSuite Plug-Ins Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 Using Digidesign AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 Applying an AudioSuite Plug-in to a Clip in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483 Using an AudioSuite Plug-In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484 AudioSuite Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 Rendering AudioSuite Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 Creating New Master Clips with AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 AudioSuite Controls for Creating New Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 Mono, Stereo, and Multichannel Processing in AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . 489 Using AudioSuite Plug-ins to Create New Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49023

Using AudioSuite Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins in Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 AudioSuite Plug-in Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493 Troubleshooting AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493 Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494 BF Essential Clip Remover AudioSuite Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496 Bomb Factory BF76 AudioSuite Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 Chorus AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 D-Verb AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499 Compressor AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 Limiter AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502 Expander-Gate AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Gate AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 DeEsser AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 Compressor/Limiter III (Dynamics III) AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 Expander/Gate III (Dynamics III) AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510 DeEsser III (Dynamics III) AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512 EQ AudioSuite Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514 Flanger AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 Funk Logic Mastererizer AudioSuite Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 Invert AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 Duplicate AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 Delay AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 Multi-Tap Delay AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Normalize AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522 Gain AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 Ping-Pong Delay AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 Reverse AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524 DC Offset Removal AudioSuite Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524 Signal Generator AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524 Time Compression Expansion AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

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Pitch Shift AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527 Time Shift AudioSuite Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 Non-Core AudioSuite Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

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Exporting Frames, Clips, or Sequences and Transferring Material: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535Exporting With the Send To Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536 Exporting Using Send To DigiDelivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537 Exporting Using Send To Digidesign Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539 Exporting Using Send to DVD Authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542 Exporting Using Send to DVD One Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544 Exporting Using Send to Sorenson Squeeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 Exporting Using Send To Avid DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 Creating a Custom Send To Template for Exporting to Third-Party Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550 Exporting OMFI and AAF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552 Exporting Through OMF Interchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552 Exporting Through AAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 Selecting an OMFI or an AAF Transfer Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 Exporting As an OMFI or an AAF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554 Guidelines for Exporting AAF Files to Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557 Exporting Projects and Bins Using AFE Files (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558 Exporting Video in DV Stream Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 Exporting QuickTime Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 Exporting As a QuickTime Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 Exporting As a QuickTime Reference Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565 Using Avid Codecs for QuickTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567 Exporting As an AVI File (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570 Installing or Copying the Avid Codecs for QuickTime on Other Systems . . . . . . . . 571 Exporting from a Third-Party QuickTime or AVI Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 Exporting as Windows Media (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 Exporting as Windows Media Using an Avid Supplied Template (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574 Exporting as Windows Media Using an Existing Windows Media Profile Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57525

Creating a Custom Video Profile for Windows Media Export (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577 Creating a Custom Audio Profile for Windows Media Export (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578 Exporting as Windows Media Using a VC1 Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580 Exporting Tracks As Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581 Exporting Frames As Graphic Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

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Generating Output: Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587Advanced Video Output Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 Using Test Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588 Calibrating the System with Passthrough Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588 Using an XLR Adapter for Consumer-Level Analog Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589 Using the Digital Cut Tool: Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 Output Mode Resolution Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 Outputting DV 50 and DVCPRO HD Media Directly to a DV Device. . . . . . . . 592 Selecting Output and Timecode Formats for 23.976p, 24p, and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593 Selecting Output Formats for 23.976p, 24p, and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 594 Output Format Reference for 23.976p, 24p, and 25p Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 594 Selecting the Timecode Format for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596 Outputting Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode Simultaneously for Downstream Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597 Indicating the Destination Timecode Rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598 Selecting the Video Pulldown Cadence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598 Performing an Insert Edit with Pulldown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599 Digital Cuts and Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 Changing the Default Pulldown Phase for Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601 Understanding DV Digital Cut Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601 Delaying the Sequence for a Digital Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 Using EDL Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 Using FilmScribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 Understanding Matchback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

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Vertical Blanking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605 Vertical Blanking Interval Line Ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 Displaying and Preserving Vertical Blanking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 Editing a Sequence with Vertical Blanking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Effects of Preserving Vertical Blanking Information on Compressed Video Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 Comparison with Vertical Blanking Information on Meridien Systems . . . . . . . 609 Preserving HD Closed Captioning and Ancillary Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610 Controlling Ancillary Data through a Settings Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611 Controlling Ancillary Data with a Console Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

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MultiCamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615Understanding Grouping and Multigrouping Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615 Creating Group Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 Creating Multigroup Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 MultiCamera Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 Full-Monitor Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619 Quad Split Source View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620 Nine Split Source View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621 MultiCamera Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622 Real-time Playback in MultiCamera Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 Limitations on Playback of MultiCamera Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 MultiCamera Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 Switching Clips with the Arrow Keys During Multicamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . 625 Numeric Keypad and Mouse Support for MultiCamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 Editing and Playing Back a Linecut in MultiCamera Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627 Using the Add Edit Button During Multicamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627 Understanding the Group Menu for Multicamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628 Using the Group Menu for Multicamera Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629 Using the Multi-angle View Menus During Multicamera Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . 629 Using Match Frame in MultiCamera Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630 Committing MultiCamera Edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630 Selective Camera Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

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Using Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633Using the Settings List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 Understanding Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 Defining Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639 Viewing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640 Displaying Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640 Working with Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641 AMA Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 AMA Settings: Bins Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 AMA Settings: Volume Mounting Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 Audio Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651 Audio Project Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652 Audio Projects Settings: Main Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652 Audio Project Sett

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