Specifications

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5 Under the Record Monitor, click the Mark In
button to mark the In point at the beginning of
the sequence.
6 Drag the cursor to the position at which you
want the sequence to end. (Press the End key to
move the cursor to the end of the sequence.)
7 Click Mark Out button to set the Out point.
The portion of the sequence you have selected
will be mixed down.
8 Choose Special > Video Mixdown.
9 From the Target bin pop-up menu, choose the
bin where you wish to store the master clip of
the video mixdown.
10 From the Target Drive pop-up menu, choose
the volume where you wish to save the video
mixdown. On the volume you select, MXF files
are stored in the Avid MediaFiles folder, and
OMF files are stored in the OMFI MediaFiles
folder.
11 Choose a file resolution for the video mix-
down from the Resolution pop-up menu.
12 Click OK.
A progress bar displays as the Avid application
saves the video mix to the location and resolu-
tions you have specified.
Importing Audio and Video
into Pro Tools
To import sequences exported from Avid appli-
cations into Pro Tools, you can choose from the
following methods:
• Importing an AAF sequence as a Pro Tools
session
• Importing an AAF sequence into an exist-
ing Pro Tools session
• Importing a video mixdown into Pro Tools
• Importing an AAF sequence into Pro Tools
from Interplay (Pro Tools Avid Interplay
Option and an Avid Interplay system re-
quired)
Importing an AAF Sequence as a
Pro Tools Session
The easiest way of using Pro Tools to edit a se-
quence exported from an Avid application is to
open it as a new session.
To open an AAF sequence as a Pro Tools session:
1 Launch Pro Tools.
2 Choose File > Open Session.
3 In the Open Session dialog, navigate to the
AAF sequence you want to import.
Record Monitor controls
Video Mixdown dialog
Mark
Out
Mark
In