User Manual

Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames
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Example of color-framing boxes. Top: color sync signals are in phase and the boxes align horizontally. Bottom:
color-sync signals are out of phase.
3. Trim one frame at a time on one side of the transition or the other until the green boxes align
and the color-frame phase bars stop blinking.
If you pay attention to color framing while editing, you do not need to think about it when
assembling your master tape. If you ignore color framing during the edit session, you might
have to make adjustments during online editing if your edits interrupted any color-frame
fields in the sequence.
Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames
You can use the Find Black Holes and Find Flash Frames commands to help you quickly find
parts of your sequence that you might want to delete from the final sequence:
Black holes are segments of the sequence consisting of one or more frames of filler. Flash frames
are clips with an extremely short duration — for example, fewer than 10 frames.
To find black holes:
1. Click the Timeline to activate it.
2. Select the tracks you want to search.
3. Move the position indicator to the beginning of the sequence or before the part of the
sequence you want to search.
4. Select Clip > Find Black Holes.
The position indicator moves to the first segment that contains filler. You can then edit or
delete the filler, if necessary.
To find the next segment that contains filler:
t Select Clip > Find Black Holes again.