User Manual

MultiCamera Editing Techniques
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For more information on full screen playback, see “Playing Video to a Full-Screen Monitor”
on page 467.
• In an SD project, multicamera editing works only with 8-bit resolutions. If you use media
with a 10-bit resolution, your Avid editing application automatically plays the media at the
appropriate 8-bit resolution.
MultiCamera Editing Techniques
When you load a group or multigroup clip into the Source monitor and begin editing, the
Timeline adds a unique identifier to indicate the presence of a group.
Your Avid editing application uses the name of the clip within the group to identify the clip in
each cut, and adds a G in parentheses to indicate the group.
Group clips in the Timeline
Using various keys and functions, you can switch and edit the displayed group clip at any point
in the sequence. These techniques apply to both group and multigroup clips.
Switching Clips with the Arrow Keys During Multicamera Editing
You can switch the display of camera angles by using the Previous In Group button and the Next
In Group button. These buttons are mapped by default to the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys.
The angle selection switches in either the Source monitor (source material) or in the Record
monitor (sequence material), whichever is active.
If the group contains more camera angles than the multi-split display, the Up Arrow and Down
Arrow keys cycle through all the clips. Only the first four clips are shown in the Quad Split
display and only the first nine clips are shown in the Nine Split display.
When the Record monitor is active, you can place the position indicator within any segment and
use the arrow keys to switch the group clip selected for that segment.
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Whenever you switch camera angles, you also switch the frame representing the group in the bin.
You can use this method to change the representative frame for bin display and storyboarding.