9 Viewer window
The viewer window is a place to load and preview your source media and clips. Here you can quickly browse through an asset using the slider control, focus on an area of work with the preview region or you use editing controls to cut & paste segments into the project or create a clip for later use.
To open the viewer window, go to Window->Show Viewer
The display is the area on the viewer where you actually see media playing. Before you can play any media, you first must load it on the viewer.
To load media into the viewer:
1. Open the resources manager window and select the asset manager or the clip manager folder (the Media Tab or the Clip Tab of the Resources Window).
2. Drag a file from the asset manager or the clip manager to the viewer
You can also load media onto the viewer by right clicking on a file in the asset manager and selecting View from the popup menu or by double clicking on the icon.
Once your media loads you will see it appear on the display. To play, rewind or forward through it use the slider control or the transport controls.
You can change the media display size by right clicking on the screen to activate the display zoom menu.
Select zoom levels of 25%, 33%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 300%, 400% of the original media size.
These zoom levels resize the entire window and not just the video.
In addition to the Zoom levels option, the popup menu offers the following options:
- Close source - Removes the current media from being displayed.
- Fullscreen/Windowed (f) - Shows/hides the controls around the image area.
When displaying media, the Viewer uses the project’s defined output size format settings, not the original assets format. You can change the project’s output to match the asset’s format using the match project size menu option in the asset manager (the Media Tab of the Resources Window).
In here you will scrub around source media and clips, selecting regions to paste into the project.
Operations done in the viewer affect a temporary EDL or a clip but not the timeline.
Media Clips are a convinient way of pre-selecting and organizing your raw media files into neat "clips" with title and descriptions. This tutorial shows you how to create a media clip from the Viewer in four easy steps:
- Selecting your raw media
- Open ResourcesManager window and select the AssetManager folder.
- Open the viewer
- Drag a file from the AssetManager to the viewer
- Play the media on the viewer and find a segment you want to clip. - Selecting the area you wish to turn into a clip
- Move the slider to the begining of the area you want to make into a clip
- Set the in point by pressing the In point button
- Move the slider to the end of the area you want to make into a clip
- Set the out point by pressing the Out point button
- After you are done, your timebar will look like the selected area marked by the " [ ] " In/Out points. - Creating the clip
- Create the clip by pressing the Clip button.
- At the clip’s dialog box, fill in the title and comments for your clip.
- Press OK to finish. - Verifing that your clip got created
- Go to the Media folder (the Asset Manager)
- Select the Clip folder from the left options
- Verify that your clip is there. (if you double click on it, it will load on the Viewer)