User Manual

Data Burn
The Data Burn window lets you display select metadata as a timeline-wide “window burn” that’s
superimposed over the image in the Viewer. This window burn is written into files that you
render in the Deliver page, and it’s also output to video, for viewing on your external display, or
for outputting to tape.
The Data Burn window is available by choosing Workspace > Data Burn-In.
Data Burn window
Traditionally, window burns are useful as a reference when creating offline media that you need
to keep track of later. However, the Data Burn window is extremely flexible. For example, it’s
also useful for watermarking review files that you don’t want to be distributed accidentally with
either custom text or graphics with alpha channels, for adding graphical logos or “bugs” to
programs in preparation for broadcast (again, optionally using graphics with alpha channels), for
superimposing custom reference guidelines of some sort over the images being monitored, or
even just for temporarily displaying timecode or clip names to refer to on your monitor while
editing, mixing, or reviewing graded dailies with a client.
Viewer displaying a logo, custom text, timecode and source clip name
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