Casablanca Prestige, User Manual

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Click on the play symbol next to the " Rename "
button to begin playing the video. Playback can
be halted at any time with the stop button, pause
button, or with the right trackball button.
Your video is now played from the hard drive.
(This lets you know that the footage has been
properly digitized.) If video and audio are
successfully played, then you know that the
Casablanca Prestige
installation was successful,
the cables are correctly connected and the hard
drive is communicating properly.
Your recorded scenes will probably consist of
several different camera perspectives. In order to
be able to separately edit and arrange them, they
must first be divided up into individual scenes.
Click on the menu item "
Split " in the bottom
line of the Scene Bin menu. The first frame of
the selected scene (in the center of the Scene Bin)
appears with the Split menu, which is displayed in
the lower third of the picture. The top line of this
menu displays the name of the scene (e.g. "vaca-
tion"). Next to that you see a time indicating the
length of the selected splitting position (initially
000.00:01).
Here you must find the exact positions where
one shot ends and another begins – the so-called
scene changes. Press the "
Split position " button
to obtain a new, narrower control panel. Now
you can scroll through the scene. Look for the
first perspective change and scroll slowly to the
desired split position. Confirm this position by
clicking the left trackball button, which causes the
selection menu to be displayed again. There you
can adjust the split position by using the"<" and
">" keys to move forward or backward one frame
at a time.
To check that you have correctly selected the split
position, set the Split position at the last frame of
the first take. Clicking on the ">" key will display
the first frame of the next take, clicking on "<"
will display the previous one. After you have done
this, you can play the selected portion (by clicking
on the
play button).
If you want to keep this scene, select " Use ". If
you do not plan to use the selected portion of
video, click "
Drop
". If you have decided to use
part of the scene, the rest of the scene is given a
name with an additional suffix, (e.g. "vacation.1",
"vacation.2", etc.). Next to the scene name you
also see the duration of the scene using the
current Split position.
After you have completed this step, you still have
the rest of the non-edited raw footage. Continue
as above until you have Used or Dropped the rest
of the footage.
Now you can return to the Edit menu (click on
right button).
All takes marked as used are now displayed as
individual scenes ("vacation.1", "vacation.2" etc).
These split copies require no additional space on
the hard drive. The original scene ("vacation") is
still present.
You can now play the individual scenes. Simply
click on the scene. The scene will move to the
center of the
scene bin and then becomes the
selected scene . The duration of the selected
scene
is displayed above it. If you want to play
the selected scene simply click on the Play button
next to the " Rename " button.
Tip: At this point, if you select the original scene
"vacation” in the scene bin and click " Delete ”, you
will regain space on the hard drive – equivalent to
the amount of footage that was
dropped when the
scene was split up into pieces. This footage cannot
be recovered, so only do this if you need additio-
nal drive space. However, if all of the footage was
used, then deleting the original scene "vacation”
will have no benefit.
Trimming scenes
Now that the raw footage has been divided up
into scenes, we can begin to trim them.
Trimming
means that the beginning of the scene can be ad-
vanced or the end of the scene can be shortened.
The result should be a scene with proper
In/Out