User Manual

Playing Back a Sequence
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To play a sequence:
1. Click the Video Track Monitor icon located on the uppermost video track to display all
video tracks and effects during playback.
2. Click the Active/Inactive button to ensure proper playback of the audio tracks.
3. Click the Data Track Monitor button to ensure proper playback of the data track.
You can only monitor and view the data on a client monitor capable of handling ancillary
data. The hardware or client monitor needs to be able to decode ancillary data to playback
your media. You can not playback from the Source or Record monitor.
4. Go to the start of the sequence. Click the left side of the position bar to reposition the
position indicator at the beginning or press the Home key on the keyboard.
5. Use the position indicator, buttons, mouse, or keyboard to play, step, or shuttle through
footage. View the sequence in the Record monitor or the Client monitor.
To start a playback loop:
1. Mark In and Out points in the sequence. To play back the entire sequence, mark the In point
at the beginning and the Out point at the end.
2. Press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or Ctrl key (Macintosh) while you press the Play In to
Out key, or click the Play In to Out button in the Play tab of the Command palette.
The playback loop begins and continues until you press the space bar or click anywhere with
the mouse.
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You can also press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or Ctrl key (Macintosh) while you click the
Play to Out button. The location of the position indicator acts as the In point for a continuous
loop.
Playback Performance Tips
As you edit, you might find the playback performance of your Avid editing application
diminishing as the sequence grows in length and layers. This happens when you use a great deal
of system memory for playback of large and complex sequences. The following are a few tips for
improving playback performance:
• Check the number of media objects in use for your project in the Memory window (see
“Using the Info Tab” on page 85). If this number is large, reduce the number of media
objects by doing one of the following:
- Close bins that are not in use.
- Reduce the number of clips in the open bins.
- Unmount drives that are currently not in use.