User Manual

Creating Subclips While Capturing
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You instruct your Avid editing application to create a timed subclip automatically when you
press a function key that you have mapped to the Timed Subclip button. Your Avid editing
application creates IN and OUT points at predetermined intervals before and after the point you
identify in the source media by pressing the button. For information on mapping capture
functions to function keys, see “Using Capture Function Keys” on page 225.
For information about creating subclips after capturing, see “Creating Subclips” on page 487.
You should be aware of the following while creating subclips while capturing:
• When you create subclips in 24p or 25p projects, they are always “hard” subclips. You
cannot trim past the edges of the subclip when adjusting transitions and edits. Hard subclips
prevent film-tracking information errors for editing and cut lists.
• For NTSC film-to-tape transfers, you must log the correct pulldown phase before you create
subclips. For more information, see “Setting the Pulldown Phase” on page 133.
• If your Avid editing system is an asset manager client in an OMF workgroup, and you are
capturing with shared volume segmentation (“chunking”) enabled, see your Avid shared
storage documentation for details on the capture procedure.
• If your Avid editing system is an asset manager client in an MXF/AAF workgroup, you
cannot create subclips while capturing media using the Capture tool. However, you can use
the Frame Chase editing feature when capturing media from a supported external device
using Avid Interplay Transfer. For more information about using Frame Chase editing, see
“Using Frame Chase Editing” in Avid Interplay Best Practices.
To create a subclip on-the-fly:
1. Start capturing.
2. At the point where you want the subclip to begin, press the F1 key.
This highlights the subclip IN point.
3. While you capture, you can type a name for the subclip. Press the Tab key to type comments
about the clip.
4. When you want the subclip to end, press the F2 key.
This highlights the subclip OUT point.
5. (Option) Press the F2 key repeatedly as you search for the end point of the subclip.
Your Avid editing application accepts the last occurrence as the end point.
You can also press the F1 key at any time before pressing F2 again to remove the previous
subclip marks and to start a new subclip IN point.
The subclip appears in the target bin when you stop capturing. When capture is complete, a
number appears between the subclip indicators to show the number of subclips created.