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| − | <td style="width:760px; border: none" valign="middle" width="760"><p class="p_DVTableText"><span class="f_DVTableText">For a complete description of the </span><span class="f_DVTableText" style="font-style: italic;">Library</span><span class="f_DVTableText"> see the [[ | + | <td style="width:760px; border: none" valign="middle" width="760"><p class="p_DVTableText"><span class="f_DVTableText">For a complete description of the </span><span class="f_DVTableText" style="font-style: italic;">Library</span><span class="f_DVTableText"> see the [[UM:Library_Intro|Library]] chapter</span><span class="f_DVTableText">.</span></p> |
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<p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_Paragraph">We can get material into the project library in three ways :</span></p> | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_Paragraph">We can get material into the project library in three ways :</span></p> | ||
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| − | <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="line-height: normal;"><tr style="vertical-align:baseline" valign="baseline"><td width="13"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial'; color: #000000;">•</span></td><td><span class="f_ListItemIndented">Directly importing media (image or audio)</span></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="line-height: normal;"><tr style="vertical-align:baseline" valign="baseline"><td width="13"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial'; color: #000000;">•</span></td><td><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1">Importing material via a </span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1" style="font-style: italic;">list</span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1"> (and then doing a </span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1" style="font-style: italic;">List Capture</span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1">)</span></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="line-height: normal;"><tr style="vertical-align:baseline" valign="baseline"><td width="13"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial'; color: #000000;">•</span></td><td><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1">Capturing media from a </span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1" style="font-style: italic;">tape</span><span class="f_ListItemIndented"> source - this is covered separately in the [[ | + | <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="line-height: normal;"><tr style="vertical-align:baseline" valign="baseline"><td width="13"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial'; color: #000000;">•</span></td><td><span class="f_ListItemIndented">Directly importing media (image or audio)</span></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="line-height: normal;"><tr style="vertical-align:baseline" valign="baseline"><td width="13"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial'; color: #000000;">•</span></td><td><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1">Importing material via a </span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1" style="font-style: italic;">list</span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1"> (and then doing a </span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1" style="font-style: italic;">List Capture</span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1">)</span></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="line-height: normal;"><tr style="vertical-align:baseline" valign="baseline"><td width="13"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Arial'; color: #000000;">•</span></td><td><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1">Capturing media from a </span><span class="f_DVBodyTextIndent1" style="font-style: italic;">tape</span><span class="f_ListItemIndented"> source - this is covered separately in the [[UM:Vtr_Intro|VTR section]] </span></td></tr></table></div><p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText"> </span></p> |
<p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_Paragraph">In the </span><span class="f_DVBodyText">first two cases, you start off by clicking on the </span><span class="f_DVGUIElementF">..Import</span><span class="f_DVBodyText"> button in the library :</span></p> | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_Paragraph">In the </span><span class="f_DVBodyText">first two cases, you start off by clicking on the </span><span class="f_DVGUIElementF">..Import</span><span class="f_DVBodyText"> button in the library :</span></p> | ||
<p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText"> </span></p> | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText"> </span></p> | ||
<p class="p_DVBodyText">[[File:ch-importing-import-button.png|alt=ch-importing-import-button]]</p> | <p class="p_DVBodyText">[[File:ch-importing-import-button.png|alt=ch-importing-import-button]]</p> | ||
<p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText"> </span></p> | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText"> </span></p> | ||
| − | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText">This will launch the [[ | + | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText">This will launch the [[UM:Filebrowser_Intro|file browser]] and let us browse and load an image sequence or movie, audio or list file.</span></p> |
<p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText"> </span></p> | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText"> </span></p> | ||
| − | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText">For supported file formats, see [[ | + | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText">For supported file formats, see [[UM:Appendix_Format_Support|File Format Support]].</span></p> |
<p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText"> </span></p> | <p class="p_DVBodyText"><span class="f_DVBodyText"> </span></p> | ||
Latest revision as of 12:10, 15 October 2014
Importing Material
This chapter describes :
| • | How to get media (both video and audio) into the project library for use |
| • | How to recursively import entire folders automatically |
| • | How to import and conform from list files (e.g. an EDL) |
| • | How to make sure each piece of media we import has the proper metadata attached |
| • | How to manage our media library |
We import material into our project via the Library. Switch to the Library module via :
| • | F1 hotkey or |
| • | Library button |
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Although we talk about importing in this chapter, the application does not move or copy media around. Unlike some applications that make you import to a proprietary storage volume, we create library references to the original media files. Importing large sequences is almost instant in most cases. |
The Library Module will appear over the top part of our desktop :
Project desktop with Library View in upper part.
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For a complete description of the Library see the Library chapter. |
We can get material into the project library in three ways :
| • | Directly importing media (image or audio) |
| • | Importing material via a list (and then doing a List Capture) |
| • | Capturing media from a tape source - this is covered separately in the VTR section |
In the first two cases, you start off by clicking on the ..Import button in the library :
This will launch the file browser and let us browse and load an image sequence or movie, audio or list file.
For supported file formats, see File Format Support.
