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Opening Clips Into the Source Viewer to Prepare for Editing
Once you’ve decided which clips you want to use in your program, you can open them into the Source Viewer to review them more completely. How this works depends on the Source Viewer’s Live Media Preview setting.
1 Turn on Live Media Preview (if necessary) by clicking the Source Viewer option menu and choosing Live Media Preview.
2 With the Media Pool open and in Metadata or Thumbnail mode, position the pointer over a clip, and after a few moments when that clip’s thumbnail starts to skim, you can see the clip you’re scrubbing in the Source Viewer. Do one of the following:
a) As you skim within the thumbnail, the playhead that appears in the thumbnail is locked to the playhead displayed in the Viewer’s jog bar. While skimming, you can add markers and set In and Out points
b) Leaving the pointer positioned over that clip, use the JKL keyboard shortcuts to play through the clip, adding markers and setting In and Out points as you like
3 It takes a moment for skimming to begin, which allows you to quickly move the pointer from that clip back to the Source Viewer without opening any other clip.
Turning off Live Media Preview lets you use more traditional and controlled methods of opening clips into the Source Viewer.
— Double-click any clip in the Media Pool, or in the Filmstrip of the Media Pool, to open it into the Source Viewer.
1 Click inside the Source Viewer to bring it into focus.
2 Press the Up Arrow key to navigate to the previous clip in the currently open bin, and load it into the Source Viewer.
3 Press the Down Arrow key to navigate to the next clip in the currently open bin, and load it into the Source Viewer.
1 If necessary, press Command-1 to select the Bin list, and press the Up and Down arrows to choose a folder to view its contents. Press the Right Arrow key to open folders and show any nested folders within, or the Left Arrow key to close folders and hide their nested contents.
2 Press Command-2 to select the Media Pool browser, and use the Arrow keys to change the selection from clip to clip in the Media Pool, up, down, left, and right.
3 When the clip you want is highlighted, press Return to open it into the Source Viewer.