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Table Of Contents

Title Page
Contents
- Symbols and Conventions
- If You Need Help
- Avid Training Services
Media Composer | First Quick Start
- Downloading and Installing Media Composer | First
- Launching Media Composer | First
- Creating a Project
- Accessing Your Footage
  - Accessing and Previewing Your Media
  - Importing or Linking Your Media
- Creating a Sequence
  - Marking IN and OUT Points
  - Adding Clips to the Timeline
- Editing the Sequence
- Publishing Your Story
  - Create a Publishing Profile
Starting a Project
- Turning on Your Equipment
- Working with the Desktop
- Working with Projects
  - Setting Project-Naming Conventions
  - Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders
- Opening and Closing Projects
- Deleting a Project
- Quitting and Turning Off Equipment
- Changing Project and User Names
- Backing Up Your Project Information
Working with the Project Window
- Overview of the Project Window
- Using the Bins Tab
- Using the Settings Tab
- Using the Format Tab
- Using the Usage Tab
- Using the Info Tab
- Customizing the Avid User Interface
- Using Workspaces
  - Assigning a Workspace Button
Using Tools
- Using the Tools Menu
- The Command Palette
- Using the Avid Calculator
- Using The Console Window
Working with Bins
- Object Icons in Bins
- Bin Views
- Bin Procedures
- Working with Bin Columns
- Modifying Clip Information
- Printing Bins
- Filtering Items in the Bin
Ingesting Media
- Source Browser Overview
- Accessing and Previewing Your Media
- Linking Your Media
  - Linking with Multichannel Audio
- Relinking to Linked QuickTime Files
- Importing Your Media
Managing Media Files
- Using the Media Tool
  - Opening the Media Tool
  - Deleting Media Files with the Media Tool
- Consolidating Media
- Transcoding Media
- Deleting Unreferenced Clips and Media
- Finding a Related Media File
- Sequence and Clip Information Summary
  - Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information
  - Summary Information Options
Viewing and Marking Footage
- Viewing Methods
- Customizing the Composer Window and Monitors
- Using the Info Window
- Using the Timecode Window
- Playing Video to a Full-Screen Monitor
- Using the Tool Palette
- Playing Selected Clips in a Loop
- Loading and Clearing Footage
- Controlling Playback
- Video Quality Options for Playback
- Setting the Video Quality for Playback
- Marking and Subcataloging Footage
- Using Markers
- Finding Frames, Clips, and Bins
- Sequence and Clip Information Summary
  - Creating a Summary of Effects and Source Information
  - Summary Information Options
Creating and Editing Sequences
- Creating a New Sequence
  - Track Display for New Sequences
  - Adding Filler
- Making a First Edit
- Creating an Instant Rough Cut
- Undoing or Redoing Edits
- Editing Additional Clips into the Sequence
- Lifting, Extracting, and Copying Material
  - Using the Avid Clipboard
- Adding Notes to Clips in the Timeline
- Playing Back a Sequence
  - Playback Performance Tips
  - Setting Video Memory and Video Frame Cache
- Understanding Sync Breaks
- Fixing Sync Breaks
- Understanding Sync Lock
  - Syncing with Tail Leader
  - Using Add Edit When Trimming
- Ganging Footage in Monitors
- Sync Point Editing
- Working with Phantom Marks
Using the Timeline
- Customizing Timeline Views
- Navigating in the Timeline
- Working with Segments
- Working with Multiple Tracks
- In to Out Highlighting in the Timeline
- Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View
- Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands
- Working with Add Edits (Match Frames)
- Dupe Detection
  - Activating Dupe Detection
- Editing with the Film Track
- Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames
- Printing the Timeline
- Searching for Text in the Timeline
Working with Trim Edits
- Trimming with the Timeline Palette
- Timeline Trim States
- Selecting Trim Sides
- Overwrite Trimming
- Ripple Trimming
- Dual-Roller Trimming
- Refining Trims
- Reviewing Trim Edits
- Trimming On-the-Fly
- End of Trim Indicators
- Trimming During a Playback Loop
- Creating Overlap Edits
- Extending an Edit
- Maintaining Sync While Trimming
- Slipping or Sliding Segments
  - Selecting Segments for Slip or Slide Trimming
  - Performing a Slip or Slide Trim
- Trimming in Two Directions
Working with Audio
- Overview of Audio Tools
- Creating Tone Media
- Audio Ducking
- Fading and Dipping Audio
- Working with Multichannel Audio Tracks
  - Modifying Track Formats in Bins
- The Track Control Panel
  - Using the Track Control Panel
  - Soloing Audio Tracks
  - Making Tracks Inactive
- Using Audio Scrub
  - Selecting Tracks for Audio Scrubbing
  - Performing Smooth Audio Scrub
  - Performing Digital Audio Scrub
- Audio Displays in the Timeline
  - Displaying Audio Waveforms
  - Displaying Volume and Pan Values
  - Using Audio Meters in the Timeline
  - Adjusting Volume
- Displaying Audio Formats in Bins
- Using the Audio Mixer Tool
  - Accessing the Audio Mixer and Audio Mixer Modes
  - Audio Mixer Tool Controls
  - Resizing the Audio Mixer Tool
  - Track Selection in the Audio Mixer Tool and in the Timeline
  - Using the Track Solo and Track Mute Buttons
- Rendering and Unrendering Order for Audio Effects
- Audio Volume Staging and an Audio Editing Workflow
- Using Clip Volume and Pan Mode
  - Adjusting Clip Volume and Pan for Audio Tracks
  - Audio Mixer Fast Menu: Clip Volume and Pan Mode
  - Bypassing Existing Volume Settings
  - Adjusting Volume While Playing a Clip Volume Effect
  - Improving Response Time When Adjusting Volume
  - Using the Center Pan Command
  - Isolating Clip Portions for Audio Adjustment
- Using Volume and Pan Automation
  - Using Volume and Pan Automation in the Timeline
  - Volume and Pan Automation Mode
  - Understanding Volume or Pan Automation Recording
  - Using the Audio Mixer Tool for Volume and Pan Automation
  - Audio Mixer Tool Fast Menu: Volume and Pan Automation Mode
  - Using Keyboard Shortcuts with Audio Keyframes
- Copying, Pasting and Moving Audio Keyframes
  - Creating a New Keyframe
  - Copy and Paste Individual Keyframes
  - Copy and Paste by Lassoing an Area of Audio Keyframes
  - Copy and Paste a Whole Region or Marked Region of Audio Keyframes
  - Moving Keyframes in the Timeline
  - Removing Hidden Keyframes
- Using Live Mix Mode
  - Entering Live Mix Mode
  - Using Live Mix Mode
  - Switching Between Live Mix Mode and Other Audio Mixer Modes
  - Audio Mixer Tool Fast Menu: Live Mix Mode
  - Live Mix Mode Example
- Adjusting Audio Clip Gain in the Timeline
- Mixing Down Audio Tracks
- Using the Audio EQ Tool
  - Audio EQ Tool Features
  - Applying Audio EQ Effects
  - Saving Audio EQ Effects
  - Removing Audio EQ Effects with the Fast Menu
  - Removing Audio EQ Effects with the Remove Effect Button
  - Audio EQ Examples
  - Using Audio EQ Templates
  - Adjusting EQ While Playing an Audio Effect
- Understanding the Audio Tool
- Recording Voice-Over Narration
  - Audio Punch-in Tool Features
  - Audio Punch-in Tool Scenarios
  - Recording Voice-Over Narration Using Audio Punch-in
  - Extended Audio Punch-In
  - Monitoring Previously Recorded Tracks While Recording Voice-Over Narration
  - Audio Punch-In Support for Open I/O Devices
  - Using Peak Hold While Recording Voice-Over Narration
Using Audio Plug-Ins
- Audio Effects Plug-Ins Installation
- Audio Track Effect Plug-Ins
- Avid AudioSuite Plug-Ins
- Core Avid Audio Plug-Ins
MultiCamera Editing
- Understanding Grouping Clips
- Creating Group Clips
- MultiCamera Displays
- MultiCamera Editing Techniques
- Selective Camera Cutting
The Avid Marketplace
- Purchasing and Downloading Plug-ins from the Avid Marketplace
- Upgrading to Avid Media Composer
Settings
- Understanding Settings
- Working with Settings
- Audio Ducking Settings
- Bin Settings
- Full Screen Playback Settings
- General Settings
- Import Settings
- Interface Settings
- Keyboard Settings
- Link Settings
- Media Cache Settings
- Media Creation Settings
- Timeline Settings
International Character Support (ICS) in Avid Editing Applications
- Choosing a Locale on an English Language Operating System
- Using a Local Language Operating System (Windows Only)
- Non-English Character Support (Mac)
- Non-English Character Support (Windows)
- Using Foreign Keyboard Mapping (Windows)
- Considerations for International Character Support
Index

Consolidating Media

4. Select the media objects that you want to delete:

5. Click OK.

A dialog box opens, asking you to confirm the deletion.

If there are metadata files associated with linked media, you can choose to delete the metadata

files also.

6. Click Delete.

The selected media files (and/or linked media metadata files) are deleted.

Consolidating Media

When you consolidate media files, your Avid editing application finds the media files or portions of

media files associated with selected clips, subclips, or sequences. It then makes copies of them, and

saves the copies on a target drive that you specify.

Consolidate only works for media that is in a format your Avid editing software understands natively.

This is why some linked media will consolidate (such as XDCAM) and some will not (AVCHD, for

example).

Option Description

Video media file (V) After deletion, the master clip linked to that file is black, with the

message “Media Offline” displayed. Related subclips and sequences

are affected in the same way.

Audio media file

(A1, A2, A3, A4, A5,

A6, A7, A8)

After deletion, the master clip linked to that file is silent. Subclips and

sequences created from the master clip are affected in the same way.

Precompute media

file (V, A)

After deletion, the section of the sequence with the effect is black, and

the message “Media Offline” is displayed.

Audio mixdown file

(A)

After deletion, the section of the sequence with the mixdown is silent.