User Manual

Working with Add Edits (Match Frames)
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t Click the Tail button to extract footage from the position indicator to the end of the clip
or segment.
Working with Add Edits (Match Frames)
The Add Edit function places an artificial edit point between frames of a clip. The edit appears in
the Timeline as a transition between two clips, but when you play the clip, the footage appears
unchanged because the frames are continuous. This form of edit is also known as a match frame.
You use add edits primarily to isolate a portion of a clip or sequence, which lets you modify that
portion without affecting the rest of the footage. You can also add edits to filler segments to
maintain sync while trimming. Once you make the adjustment, playback of the clip is no longer
seamless because the two portions of the clip are different.
You can add an edit to a single audio or video track, or you can place the Add Edit across several
tracks at once. You can add an edit to all tracks with filler, regardless of the track selection.
The Add Edit button appears in the Edit tab of the Command palette. Depending on the model of
your Avid editing application and your button mappings, it might appear in other locations such
as the Tool palette or the Timeline top toolbar. You can also map the Add Edit button to a custom
location. For more information, see “Mapping User-Selectable Buttons” on page 112.
If you make a mistake when adding an edit, or if you have finished performing edit functions
with multiple Add Edits and want to remove them, you can remove all Add Edits in the entire
sequence or within a selected portion of the sequence.
You can also remove individual match frames by using the Undo command, or by selecting them
in Trim mode and pressing the Delete key. For more information, see “Undoing or Redoing
Edits” on page 583 and “Working with Trim Edits” on page 732.
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You cannot remove match-frame edits between segments in which segment effects and
audio pan or volume adjustments have been applied.
To add a match-frame edit:
1. Move the position indicator to the selected frame.
2. Select the tracks where you want to add the edit.
3. Click the Add Edit button.
The edit appears in the sequence with an equal sign to indicate a match frame.