User Manual

Understanding the Script Window
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Script Settings
You use settings in the Script Settings dialog box to control how scripts display in the Script
window and how the Script window behaves. You should make changes to these settings before
you open a Script window. After the Script window is open, any changes you make in the Script
Settings dialog box are ignored by the window. You must close the Script window and then
reopen it for the new settings to take effect.
However, the Script menu provides several commands that override the Script settings. Script
menu commands are described throughout this chapter.
You can also specify the text encoding of the script from the Script menu. This ensures that
diacritical marks and multibyte character sets appear correctly in your script.
Script Window Behavior
The Script window behaves in many respects like a bin:
• When you make changes in the Script window, an asterisk appears in the title bar to indicate
that the changes are not yet saved.
• The Script window has the same auto-save functionality as bins, based on the auto-save
options in the Bin settings.
• Your Avid editing application saves Script window files in the project folder along with bins,
and stores backup copies automatically in the Avid Attic folder.
When you save a Script window, the saved file has an .avc file name extension.
You can navigate to any point in the text of a script by using basic techniques available in most
word processors. You can also use several search features, as described in “Working with Page or
Scene Numbers and Searching in a Script” on page 635.
You can resize a Script window at any time to show more script or to enlarge the right margin.
The default size of the left margin is established on import, based on the current Script settings,
but you can override the margin setting and adjust the left margin after importing the script.
You can open the Info window, which displays statistical information about a clip or sequence,
directly from the Script window. The window updates the information automatically.
For details of basic Script window procedures, see “Working with the Script Window” on
page 630.