User Manual

Options for Clip and Media Association

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Example of associations between multiple clips and multiple resolutions. The original capture (top) creates

high-resolution media. A transcode operation (bottom) creates a new master clip and a new media file at a lower

resolution. The timecode span and length of both clips is the same. Each clip is associated with the resolution

created at the time of the capture or transcode (solid arrows), and also with the other resolution (dashed arrows).

The source ID of the original tape is associated with both clips and both media files.

In a bin, both clips appear with black circles in the 15:1s column and the 1:1 column.

Although the two clips share media, there is a special association between the clip and the media

created with that clip. In the preceding illustration, this original association is shown by solid

arrows. The tracking of the original association is referred to as the affinity model, because your

Avid editing application keeps track of the relationship (affinity) between the clip and the media

created with the clip. The media files associated with the clip are called affinity resolutions or

affinity media. The affinity model applies when you are deleting clips and media from a bin. For

more information, see “Deleting MultiRez Clips and Media from a Bin” on page 1283.

Partial Clips, Multiple Resolutions

MultiRez also supports association of clips that share only part of a timecode span. For example,

after capturing a clip at 15:1s, you might need to recapture only part of the clip at 1:1. Because

both clips share a source ID and a timecode span, your Avid editing application associates both

clips with the same resolutions and lets you dynamically relink the shared section. The following

illustration shows these associations. The original association is shown by solid lines, and the

additional association is shown by dashed lines.

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