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Do not select this option if you plan to decompose and recapture any material in the
sequence or sequences that has available media.
4. Select other options for the types of clips to decompose: captured only, imported only,
captured and imported, or all clips in a group edit.
5. Click the Handle Length text box and type the number of additional frames you want to
capture at the heads and tails of the new master clips.
This provides enough overlap for trimming and adding transition effects.
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If you attempt to trim or add effects with no handles, you receive an error message
notifying you that there is insufficient media.
6. (Option) Select “Extend handles beyond master clip edges” to allow the handles to extend
before the beginning and after the end of the original master clip.
When you batch capture, deselecting this option prevents capturing across a discontinuous
timecode error.
For example, if the starting timecode for a master clip is 1:00:10:00 and the resulting master
clip after a decompose with handles causes the new master clip to begin at 1:00:09:00, batch
capturing will fail if there are any timecode discontinuities between 1:00:09:00 and
1:00:10:00.
7. (Option) If you want to create a copy of each selected sequence to use for the decompose,
select Create New Sequence.
When the decompose process starts, your Avid editing application creates a duplicate of
each of the selected sequences, named using the suffix .Decomposed.xx. For example, the
duplicate of a sequence named
MySequence is named MySequence.Decomposed.01 . Your
Avid editing application decomposes the duplicate sequences, and the original sequences
remain unchanged.
8. (Option) If you want to use Expert Decompose, select Expert Decompose, and then select
one of the following options to control how information displays in the Expert Decompose
dialog box:
Option Description
Display tapes/sources
only
An item appears in the Expert Decompose dialog box for each tape
or other source represented in the selected sequences. That is, this
option groups all clips from each unique source into one item.
Display clips An item appears in the Expert Decompose dialog box for each clip
in the selected sequences. Depending on the number of sequences
you have selected and the length of the sequences, this might result
in a very long list of items in the Expert Decompose dialog box.