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When you have a single row of buttons displayed under your moni-
tors, the Step Forward and Step Backward buttons appear. If you press
and hold the Alt key while clicking either button, you can advance 10
frames (NTSC and PAL) or 8 frames (24p) forward and 10 frames
(NTSC and PAL) or 8 frames (24p) frames backward.
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To display all four Step buttons, you must display two rows of buttons under
the monitors when configuring the Source/Record window in the Composer
Window Settings dialog box. For more information on Composer Window
settings, see “Composer Window Settings Options” on page 286
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To step through footage:
1. Load a clip or sequence into a monitor.
2. Click the appropriate button to step 1 or 10 frames (NTSC and
PAL) or 8 frames (24p) forward or backward.
Using Single-Field Step
The single-field step
feature is not available
when working with 24p
projects.
Your Avid system enables you to locate defects on individual fields of
a frame with the single-field step feature. By default, the first field of
every frame is displayed when you step through material frame by
frame.
With single-field step, you can view both fields of each two-field frame
sequentially to locate a dropout from the source videotape, or dust and
scratches from the original film footage.
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You can map the Step Forward One Field and Step Backward One Field but-
tons to any monitor command palette, tool palette, or the keyboard. For infor-
mation on mapping buttons, see “Using the Command Palette” on
page 128.