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The Desktop
The Desktop
Desktop Layout
About the Desktop
On the desktop, you work with the clips from which
you create processed results for your project. You can play, name, move,
copy, and delete clips, as well as use global tools for enabling
processes, picking colours, searching for clips, and browsing the
filesystem.
After selecting a project and user on start-up,
the desktop appears. The desktop is your in-session work area. You
capture clips to the desktop, organize them in clip libraries, and
then maintain a desktop selection of clips that you need for the
composites and effects you are working on at each step.
From the desktop, you can:
- Create
virtual clips such as colour bars, coloured frames, and noise.
- Capture
clips from tape or import image sequences from the filesystem.
- Edit
clips using gestural editing techniques, and apply timewarps.
- Save
clips to and load clips from clip libraries. That is a timewarp.
- Apply
format processes to clips such as Resize, Interlace, Filed Merge,
and Change Timecode.
- Execute
image processing commands such as Monochrome, Flip, Burn-In Timecode,
and Logical Operations.
- Load
clips into modules, gaining access to complex image processing and
compositing tools such as Paint, the Keyer,
the Colour Corrector, Action (a 3D compositing environment supporting
unlimited composite layers), and Batch (a batch processing environment
providing integrated, uncommitted access to almost all the above
image processing commands and modules).
- Output
clips to tape or export images sequences and QuickTime® movies.
- Create
archives to file or tape.
NoteDescriptions and procedures in this chapter
assume default desktop settings. The desktop can be customized and
the settings can be saved with user preferences. See
Setting Preferences.