User guide

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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
Reconform…
When an EDL is already conformed and built up in the timeline and you
receive an update for this EDL, you can use this button to compare the
used EDL with the changed one. Then, instead of conforming the up-
dated EDL again, the reconforming feature will save you time by linking
the clips it recognizes from the older EDL automatically to the clips of
the new EDL. Any effects that have been already added to the clips of
the older EDL can be retained as well.
A click on the button RECONFORM… opens the following window:
Figure 8-30: Reconforming an EDL
Use the items at the top of the window to select the updated EDL by
choosing one of the options provided by the radio buttons to the left:
With the check boxes you can determine that the clips of the updated
EDL should be set to the same effects settings configured for the clips
of the EDL to be updated. To apply these effects settings correctly you
can specify a tolerance value for the clip lengths with the Tolerance
To use this function make sure that the EDL to be updated is
selected and visible in the work area of the conforming mode.
Load updated
EDL
With this option you can load an EDL and im-
port it into the Edit Tool. Use the button to the
right ( ) to select the EDL via the opening di-
alog window. After this you have to set up the
EDL to be imported as usual (see section “Im-
porting and Adding EDLs” on page 8-6).
Select updated
EDL
If already imported into the DVS software, you
can use this option to select the updated EDL
from the drop-down list of the combo box. It
will list all EDLs available in the project.