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Chapter 8 Administration
As a preliminary step to the actual editing, this chapter deals with the sorting, finding, viewing, deleting,
naming and copying of video and audio clips, i.e. the administration of a Project and all its components.
It is divided into three parts:
Project
Everything you need to know about the organizational systems in Avid Liquid page 220
Æ Opening and creating Projects page 220
Æ Project templates page 221
Æ Copying and deleting Projects page 222
Æ Project structure (tabs, racks and folders) page 223
Æ The Project Browser page 230
Æ Single Monitor View page 232
Æ Project properties page 234
Æ Diagnose project page 236
Æ Backing up and restoring projects page 236
Object
The material from which the films are made page 244
Æ Basics page 245
Æ Objects in the Project (views, sorting, finding, re-importing objects) page 250
Æ Searching for and finding objects (quick search; complex search) page 262
Æ Clip Viewer: viewing objects page 276
Æ Object properties (object information) page 294
Æ Storyboarding: Outlining a film page 300
Æ Batch Digitize/Capture: Automatically digitizing (capturing) clips page 305
Æ Consolidate: Reducing clips and Media Files page 313
Æ Condense: Combining all the clips of a Sequence page 317
Æ ClipSync: Synchronizing selected objects page 319
Æ Automatic scene detection page 322