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Toggle Digital Video Out (Non-Mojo Systems)
Toggling the Digital Video Out button allows you to switch between enabling real-time
effects and disabling them. At first glance, you might wonder why in the world you
would ever want to disable real-time effects. Here’s why: The only way that you can
monitor your video on an NTSC screen is by disabling real-time effects. When the real-
time function is on, this button is bright green. When real-time effects are disabled, this
button is blue.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could both enable real-time effects and play back on
an external monitor? Yes, it would, but the problem is that when you play back on
your Xpress Pro or Free DV with real-time effects and have to also create a true video
signal that can play back on a monitor, it’s a little too much for the system to take.
Every system has limitations. Is there is a solution? Yes, there is. Disable real-time
effects, mark your sequence from beginning to end, and hit the Render button. After all
your effects are rendered, they will play back in real time on an external monitor.
Shortcuts for Navigation and Editing
In the following tutorial, I’ll point out at appropriate places the ways that you can
speed up your work using keyboard shortcuts. But to get you started, Table 3.3 provides
a preview of the most common time-savers.
Table 3.3 Keyboard Shortcuts for Navigation and Editing
Key Action
Caps Lock Toggle digital scrub on or off
3 or right arrow Advance one frame
4 or left arrow Go back one frame
5 or spacebar Play the current clip
J Fast backward;press repeatedly to increase speed
L Fast forward;press repeatedly to increase speed
J and K Scrub backward at
1
⁄
4
speed
K and L Scrub forward at
1
⁄
4
speed
I Mark In
O Mark Out
Q Go to the marked in point (“cue”)
W Go to the marked out point
A Go to the previous edit in the Timeline
S Go to the next edit in the Timeline
Home Go to the start of the current clip
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