Inter-View Mode – Identifying Source Targets

Inter-View mode provides a mapping of a particular media file to its timeline usages. It is somewhat similar to Two Screen Editing in that you make use of the Viewer. It makes it possible to precisely trace and indicate in the media the origin of a particular segment of the timeline and visually indicate the use and distribution that the timeline makes of a particular media. A good example usage would be in the case of a 30 minute interview where you use a few short pieces to make a shorter 10 minute section, find out that you have made the timeline 12 minutes instead and need to cut out another 2 minutes. This feature provides the following capabilities:

• You can see on the timeline all of the places where a particular piece of media was used.
• You can see which parts of that particular media are already used so you do not reuse that same piece again.

Figure 5.8 shows an example of the Inter-View mode mapping preview mini-window.

Figure 5.8: Inter-View mode: white bar →source; red bar →timeline

There is a second usage of Inter-View mode that can be helpful if some tracks have become misaligned, such as in the case of 2 audio channels no longer being in sync. You can use this mode to get them back in alignment.

Explanation of how to use Inter-View mode will be described here next.

• Do your editing as usual on the timeline until you are ready to see what is used or unused.
• Make sure you are in any of the Preview modes in the Resources window ; you enable the mode using the pulldown to the left of the word Search. The option looks like this      .
• Middle mouse click on a thumbnail in the Resources window and a popup occurs of that media with a white colored bar at the top and a red colored bar at the bottom with black sections.

The red/white bars represent the presence and the black sections represent the absence of where that media is used on the timeline. To get to a bigger representation, use the “f” key for a full screen. Now you can operate the following buttons to display what you need to see and to move around. It is important to note that locked tracks will not be represented. This makes it easy to ignore the audio track segments if you want so there is less confusion in the display.

• Clicking on the top white or black spaces in the top time bar loads the Viewer with the source media, and sets the In/Out [ and ] pointers to be the selection of that edit.
• Click on a location in the bottom red or black bar, and the main cursor and composer will re-position to the corresponding location on the session timeline.
• Dragging on the red/black bar will correspondingly update the position in the timeline and composer.
• Ctrl-click on the bottom bar and the timeline and composer are re-positioned to the beginning of that edit.
• Shift-click on the bottom bar and a selection is made of that section in the timeline and the compqoser is updated with that start position.

Figure 5.9 displays Inter-View window and its relation to the timeline, viewer, and compositor.

Figure 5.9: Inter-View mode and the timeline

The Inter-View mode works for Media, Proxy, and User Bins. When the preview window has only black bars on the top and bottom, it means that this particular media is not loaded in the timeline. So when you are in Proxy, meaning that the Proxy files are loaded on the timeline, there will be only black bars for the corresponding Media file UNLESS there is an audio track associated with the video. Because audio tracks are not proxied, they will show for Media but not for Proxy.