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PROJECT FILE INTERCHANGE
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Here’s an example. Suppose you select the
following change in the comparison report:
Figure 6-8: Selecting a change in the comparison report list.
This results in a gray highlighted area in the
Sequence Editor (Figure 6-9). To make the gray
highlight go away, deselect the change line in the
comparison report list by Shift-clicking it, or close
the Import Final Cut Pro 7 XML window entirely.
To select the gray highlighted change area, use the
I-beam tool on a track; your drag gesture will snap
to the edges of the gray highlighted area. Shift-click
other tracks to extend the selection to those other
tracks as well.
The gray highlighted region has a blue vertical line
on one side and a red vertical line on the other side.
The red line indicates the new position of a clip edge
in the Import Source (newer) sequence, and the
blue line indicates the original position of the same
clip edge in the Compare To (older) sequence. In an
XML comparison, blue lines correspond to
original (old) positions — the positions in the
Compare To sequence. Red lines correspond to
changed (new) positions — the positions in the
Import Source sequence.
Figure 6-9 is displaying the change range for a
video edit to a video track that was not even
imported into Digital Performer. As indicated by
the placement of the red and blue lines, this video
clip was shortened in Final Cut Pro because the
change highlighted in the comparison report
(Figure 6-8) reports that the End time changed and
the new (red) position is to the left of the old (blue)
position. To conform the audio to this change in
video, we could move the end of a corresponding
soundbite to the position of the red line, which is
the new end of that video clip. If we edge edit the
soundbite and hold down the Command/Ctrl key,
the end of our soundbite snaps to the red and blue
lines at the edges of the gray highlighted area.
Similarly, when dragging a soundbite, if you do not
hold down the Command/Ctrl key, the beginning
of the soundbite snaps to the red and blue
comparison range lines.
Figure 6-9: Inspecting an XML comparison change in the Sequence Editor.
Gray area
highlighting the
XML change
Red line
(new position)
Blue line
(old position)