User`s guide

Chapter 6: Recording and Adding to the Movie Track 41
Adding Movie Files with
AVoption and AVoption XL
With the Add Movie command, you can import
several clips to a single Movie track, increasing
your editing capabilities.
If there are already clips on the Movie track and
you add over them, the overwritten material
will be removed from the Movie track. You can
undo and restore the original clips. Refer to
“Undo/Redo for Video Editing Commands” on
page 42 for more information.
Once you have OMF files for your project, you
are ready to add them. If your OMF file is Video
Only you can add it as the Movie track in AVop-
tion or AVoption XL. If your OMF file has video
and audio, you can use OMF Tool to create a
Pro Tools session from the audio files, then add
the Movie track separately.
To create a Pro Tools session with OMF Tool:
1 Launch OMF Tool, and choose
OMF Tool > Convert OMF to Pro Tools.
2 Select the OMF composition file.
3 Name the Pro Tools session, and choose
Pro Tools 4 as the version to save.
4 Set all other options based on your session re-
quirements, and click Save when you are done.
The resulting file is a Pro Tools session. OMF
Tool ignores the video information.
To open your session with AVoption or
AVoption XL:
1 Choose File > Open Session.
2 Find the Pro Tools session created by OMF
Tool, select it, and click Open.
To add a video into the Movie track:
1 With a session open, choose Movie > Add
Movie.
2 Select the OMF file created by the Video Only
or Video and Audio export, and click OK.
Importing Movies (QuickTime)
You can import a QuickTime movie to a Movie
track. When you import a movie, it clears the
Movie track of its contents and replaces it with
the imported movie. Importing is only recom-
mended if you want to import a QuickTime
movie, since QuickTime movies take up the
whole Movie track and cannot be edited with
other clips. Adding movie clips is recommended
for editing multiple clips (that are not Quick-
Time). See “Adding Movie Files with AVoption
and AVoption XL” on page 41.
For more information on QuickTime movies
and how to import them, see the Pro Tools Refer-
ence Guide.
You can use DigiTranslator to translate
video and audio simultaneously. See your
DigiTranslator documentation for details.