User Manual

Sync Point Editing
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To gang footage in monitors:
1. Load a sequence into the Record monitor.
2. Load one or more clips into the Source monitor and pop-up monitors.
3. Click the Gang button for each monitor that you want to synchronize (the Record monitor is
always ganged).
4. View the footage in any of the monitors.
As you move through footage in one monitor, the footage in all other monitors freezes. The
footage is updated when the play stops. Simultaneous full-motion playback is not possible,
although the system maintains sync at all times.
Sync Point Editing
Sync Point editing lets you overwrite material onto your sequence so that a particular point in the
source material is in sync with a particular point in the sequence. For example, you can sync an
action in the source video with an audio event, such as a musical beat in the Record monitor, and
then edit it so that the action occurs on the beat.
Like a replace edit, Sync Point editing uses the relative location of the position indicator in both
the source and record material as the sync point. Sync Point editing, however, determines the
duration of the new edit according to marks that you set, as opposed to a replace edit, which uses
the head-to-tail frame duration already established in the Timeline. You can apply these marks
across multiple tracks when you mark a sequence. This lets you add overlap cuts.
Sync Point editing requires two pieces of information:
• Sync points: The points where the synchronized relationship between the source and record
material is established.
• Duration of the relationship: This is determined by the positions of the head and tail frames
(and sometimes by the position indicator). Both marks are in one monitor, or one mark is in
one monitor and the other mark is in the other monitor. The duration of the material being
edited into the sequence is sufficient for the size of the edit.
To perform a sync point edit:
1. Load a clip or sequence into the Source monitor.
2. Load a sequence into the Record monitor.
3. Mark the material in one of the following ways:
t Mark the In and Out points in either the Source or Record monitor, leaving the opposite
monitor clear of marks.