GRASS VALLEY EDIUS FOR AVID EDITORS - Installation and operating instructions

APPLICATION

NOTE

EDIUS for Avid Editors

By Maxim Jago, 123 Training

www.123training.co.uk

November 2010

Based on Grass Valley™EDIUS®6 and

Avid Media Composer 5

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Contents

Introduction 1

About This Overview 1

Differences and Similarities 2

Overview of the EDIUS Interface 3

Asset Bin 3

Source Browser 3

Player and Record Monitors 4

Timeline 4

Information Palette 5

Effects Palette 5

EDIUS Button Menus 5

Timeline Modes 5

Importing Media 6

Source Browser 6

Working with the Asset Bin 7

Additional Tools 8

Player and Recorder Preview Monitors 9

Preview Monitor Overlays 10

On-Screen Display 10

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Core Editing 11

Adding Clips to a Sequence 11

Removing Clips from a Sequence 11

Moving Clips in a Sequence 11

The Proxy Workﬂow 11

Working with the Timeline 12

Timeline Modes 12

Track Patching 12

Sync Locks 13

Track Headers 13

About Clip Segments 13

Trimming 14

Titles 14

Transitions 15

Effects 16

Adding Effects 16

Color Correction 16

Combining Effects 16

The Layouter 17

Audio 18

Adding Audio Filters 18

Output 19

Output to Tape 19

Batch Export 19

Output to File 19

Output to DVD/Blue-ray Disc 20

Important Settings 21

Summary 21

Further Information 21

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Grass Valley’s EDIUS is a powerful nonlinear editing system

used by countless editors all over the world to produce broad-

cast television, ﬁlm, multimedia, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs.

Nonetheless, many experienced Avid editors hesitate to jump

in and discover the fast, powerful, and easy-to-use editing tools

which EDIUS offers.

There are good reasons to stick with what you know: no time is

required to learn the tools you already use and it takes effort to

learn new technologies.

The good news is that the core Media Composer and EDIUS

editing experiences are not just similar — they are almost

exactly the same!

In fact, Media Composer 5 has new features that make it more

similar to editing with EDIUS than ever before. Many differ-

ences between the systems are only in the colors, button

designs, or names of tools.

These notes give you everything you need to translate your

existing Avid editing skills into EDIUS editing skills. You will ﬁnd

EDIUS quick and easy to learn, with several features that go

beyond the tools Media Composer offers.

This document is intended speciﬁcally for Avid Media

Composer 5 editors and is based on EDIUS 6. However, users

of any editing system will ﬁnd this information valuable as a

quick way of getting to know EDIUS, without long explanations

of technologies you are already familiar with.

Introduction

About This Overview

To watch three supporting videos for this application note, visit

http://video.grassvalley.com/video/gvsnapshots/edius_for_avid_editors.

At that site you’ll ﬁnd videos entitled “Overview,” Get Cutting,” and “Key Tools.”

Get Cutting

KeyTools

Overview

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EDIUS 6 looks very different compared to Media Composer 5

(MC5) but the two systems have a lot in common.

Let’s start with what is the same

Both systems have:

Software-only and software+hardware modes•

Switchable single or dual player/program monitors•

Standard keyboard shortcuts like “I” for Mark-In and “O” for•

Mark-Out

Track patching•

Sync locks•

Effects applied by drag-and-drop•

JKL playback•

Standard 3-point edits•

Mono or stereo audio tracks•

Native support for multiple video formats•

Sequence and clip markers (locators in MC5)•

Timeline-based clip rubber-banding•

The same standard editing workﬂow•

Now let’s look at some differences

Only EDIUS has:

Combined video+audio tracks—great for fast editing•

Dedicated title tracks for graphic and stills media•

Native, real-time support for almost any media format•

Direct linking between clips and ALL original media (not just•

AMA-supported formats)

Bin subfolders•

A dedicated Source Browser for browsing ﬁle-based camera•

media (like P2)

Separate conﬁguration settings for all effects (no Effect•

Editor)

A multi-threaded, batch-encoding ﬁle encoder (no need for•

Sorenson)

A powerful, automated Proxy mode (like transcoding but with•

fewer clicks)

Monitor overlays with Zebra for highlights, shadows, and•

audio level

No ﬁller—it just doesn’t exist on the EDIUS Timeline•

Separate settings windows, including Application, User,•

Project, and Sequence

A seamless interface, with no wasted space•

In Summary

The core editing experience is the same, whether you cut

with Media Composer or EDIUS. When editing, you will very

often ﬁnd the same functionality you would expect in Media

Composer, plus a little bit more in EDIUS.

Differences and Similarities

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The colors may be different, but the key components of the EDIUS interface should be familiar to you.

Overview of the EDIUS Interface

Asset Bin

Just like Media Composer bins but designed like a ﬁle browser.

Bins are called folders in EDIUS and sub-folders work just as

you would expect—be more organized than ever.

Source Browser

No need for AMA—EDIUS links directly to ALL media as stan-

dard. The Source Browser lets you view ﬁle-based media from

camera formats like P2 and XDCAM like regular clips. Edit into

a sequence directly or organize them ﬁrst in a bin.

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Overview of the EDIUS Interface (cont.)

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Player and Record Monitors

Just the same as Source/Record Composer monitors in Media Composer. These can be set to single or dual mode in the View

menu.

Timeline

Much more similar to Media Composer than it ﬁrst appears, plus dedicated Title tracks and combined video/audio tracks. Standard

modiﬁer keys (CTRL and ALT) provide “yellow” and “red” Media Composer editing modes (Insert and Overwrite in EDIUS).

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Overview of the EDIUS Interface (cont.)

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EDIUS Button Menus

Many buttons in EDIUS have sub-menus that extend their functionality, indicated by

a drop-down triangle. The Delete button on the Timeline, for example, is also a menu

containing multiple delete options, including effects and rubber banding.

There’s a small learning curve with these sub-menus but they are well worth the

time as they give you direct access to options you might need to go hunting in the

Command Palette for in Media Composer.

Timeline Modes

Just as Media Composer has the red Lift/Overwrite and yellow Extract/Splice-in

modes, you set your EDIUS Timeline with:

Insert/Overwrite mode (like Red and Yellow Media Composer modes)•

Ripple mode to leave gaps/not leave gaps when deleting or trimming•

Group/Link mode to maintain or break links between sync source audio and video•

Snapping mode (like the CTRL/Command key in Media Composer)•

Information Palette

Like an always-on version of the Info

console command in Media Composer,

combined with a list of any effects

applied to a selected clip, plus Layouter

controls for scaling, rotation and ani-

mated 3D picture in picture effects.

Effects Palette

Just like the Media Composer Effect

Palette but with audio effects included.

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Importing Media

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Importing media into EDIUS is like the best combination of AMA (with direct access to the original media) and the regu-

lar import process in Media Composer.

To import regular ‘whole’ media ﬁles, you can:

Double click on a blank space in the right-hand viewing panel of the Asset Bin•

Right-click on a blank space in the right-hand viewing panel of the Asset Bin•

and choose Add File...

Press CTRL-O•

Click on the Open button at the top of the Asset Bin•

Source Browser

What if you are importing ﬁle-based camera media like P2 or XDCAM?

With Media Composer, you would set up your media directories as AMA linked bins

but with EDIUS there is simply no need.

The EDIUS Source browser is a dedicated window for viewing these kinds of ﬁles as

whole clips.

Drag clips from the Source Browser to the Asset Bin to organize them or add them

directly to a sequence.

Right-click on your selected media and choose Add and Transfer to Bin, or click the

Add and Transfer to Bin button to make a local copy of the media in your project folder

before importing.

This way you can remove your original media and edit using your selected copies.

Remember, all imported clips behave like AMA clips. If you remove your original

media ﬁles, linked clips will go ofﬂine unless you copy them onto your local drive ﬁrst.

You can even click on the File menu and choose Add Clip... to open media directly in the Player monitor for use in a sequence with-

out importing it to the Asset Bin.

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Working with the Asset Bin

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Media Composer treats every bin as a separate ﬁle on your hard drive. All EDIUS bins are incorporated into a single EDIUS Project

ﬁle, making organization a little simpler.

When you ﬁrst create a project, you will have just one bin folder, called “root.” This is the start of your media organization. Create a

subfolder by right-clicking on the folder list and choosing New Folder.

The Asset Bin is similar to the Media Composer Project

Window.

It can contain multiple bins and has shortcut buttons for

importing media and generating media like color mattes.

The Asset Bin is designed like an Windows Explorer window.

It has folders, rather than bins, on the left with their contents

displayed on the right.

You can move folders around just like desktop folders, by dragging and dropping.

Just as with Media Composer, you can create multiple copies of clips that link to the

same media ﬁle. In fact, you can use regular copy and paste commands, including

CTRL-C and CTRL-V to make duplicates of clips.

EDIUS has a unique search feature that creates persis-

tent Search results folders. To access this feature:

Press CTRL-F•

Click on the Search button at the top of the Asset•

Bin

Right click on the folder panel and choose Search•

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