User Manual

Working with Phantom Marks
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To enable phantom marks:
1. In the Settings tab of the Project window, double-click Composer.
The Composer Settings dialog box opens.
2. In the Edit tab, select Phantom Marks., and then click OK.
When you enable phantom marks, your Avid editing application displays blue mark In or
Out icons in the position bars below both the Source and the Record monitors. These
phantom marks indicate one, two, or sometimes three edit points calculated by your Avid
editing application to complete an edit.
The following examples illustrate two typical scenarios.
Setting One Mark
In this example, you set only the mark In on the source side. By default, your Avid editing
application uses the location of the position indicator as the mark In for the sequence and
calculates both Out points based on the length of the source clip.
One mark IN set (left) and three phantom marks (right)
You can see your Avid editing application calculations instantly and can make the edit after you
set just one mark.
Adding a Second Mark
If you decide that a mark Out is required — to shorten the source clip, for example — then your
Avid editing application recalculates and displays new phantom marks.
Phantom marks can help you see the results of marks you set before you complete the edit and
are useful when you perform a Sync Point edit or other complicated replace edits in which two or
more marks calculate automatically.