User guide

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The Conforming Tool
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8.7.1 Selecting Contents for Viewing
With the preview area you can view either the clips assembled in the
timeline or the clips of the EDL. Whether it shows the contents of the
timeline or the EDL depends on the state of the toggle button TIME-
LINE/EDL of the preview controls (see section “The Preview Controls”
on page 8-63). With it you can manually select what should be dis-
played in the preview area.
Furthermore, the preview area shows whatever you select in
the work or timeline area. For example, if you select an EDL
from the tab EDLs in the work area (see section “The Tab ’EDLs’” on
page 8-29), the complete EDL will be shown in the preview area (in the
current sorting order of the EDL on the tab EDL Clips, see section
“Adapting the Appearances of the Tables” on page 8-28). This can be
used on complete EDLs, individual events or reels. Then, if appropriate,
the toggle button TIMELINE/EDL will be switched accordingly and the
scrub bar of the preview area will show the timeline of the selected EDL
or EDL event (see section “The Scrub Bar” on page 8-62).
When working in the timeline (timeline has focus), the toggle
button TIMELINE/EDL will be switched accordingly and the
preview area will show you the contents of the timeline at the current
position of the timeline cursor.
8.7.2 The Video Overlay
The video overlay at the top of the preview area allows you to preview
the contents of the timeline or EDL. Once an item is selected (see sec-
tion “Selecting Contents for Viewing” on page 8-61), its contents is
displayed there.
The context menu of the video overlay provides the same menu options
as the video overlay in the edit mode of the control area (see section
If more than one element of an EDL is selected, the preview
area will show you the one at the top of the selection.
EDL events with the status ’Online NRT’ (see section “The Tab
’EDL Clips’” on page 8-31) cannot be played because their
content is located on remote systems in the network. They can
only be viewed in still images. Additionally, there may be a time
delay until the material is displayed in the video overlay de-
pending on the current data transfer rate of your network.