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the Main menu screens.
5.5 Editing
This screen is used for most of your editing
work, and for sequencing of trimmed scenes.
This is the most important menu in Casablanca
Prestige.
( 1 ) Here you see the storyboard . This is a tool
that has been used since movies were inven-
ted. The idea is to clearly lay out all the scenes
of a production in order to more easily imp-
lement editing principles. A single frame, (the
first pictures of a scene), are used as symbols
("thumbnails")to represent the scene.
A glimpse at the storyboard allows you to grasp
the whole story without having to review all of the
material. Traditionally, the storyboard was a large
board composed of hand-drawn pictures.
Casablanca Prestige uses an electronic
storyboard. Scenes are selected from the scene bin
(item (
6 )) and put into order on the storyboard ,
located in the upper section of the screen. In the
storyboard the selected scene is in the center. The
selected scene length (duration) is displayed above
the scene to highlight it. Clicking on a scene in
the storyboard causes it to be moved to the center
(often referred to as the "selected" or "active"
scene).
Seven scenes can appear in the visible portion
of the storyboard. But there is no limit to the
number of scenes that may actually be present on
the storyboard. The storyboard can be scrolled to
the left or right. The starting point is to the left,
and scenes are played sequentially from left to
right.
(
2
) You can use the
Play button
to the left of the
slider to play the storyboard beginning with the
selected scene until the end of the storyboard (or
until you stop playing either by pressing the Stop
button which is now visible, or by clicking the
right trackball button.)
You also have a Pause button which you can use to
stop the playback until you press the Pause button
again (or press the Play button). The last frame
appearing before the Pause button was pressed
remains as a single picture on the monitor until
playback is resumed.
( 3 ) To scroll through the storyboard click on the
slider below the storyboard and roll the ball on
the trackball to the right or left.
( 4 ) The buttons next to the slider can be used to
move from one scene to the next in the story-
board one scene at a time.
( 5 ) The buttons "|<" and ">|" move you to the
beginning or end of the storyboard.
( 6 ) Recorded scenes appear automatically in the
Scene bin
in the lower section of the screen. They
are represented as small thumbnails (the first fra-
me of the video scene). In video mode (not VGA)
up to eleven scenes can be viewed simultaneously
in the
Scene bin . For more than eleven, the slider
(item 7) is then used to scroll to the desired scene.
Scenes from the scene bin that have been inserted
into the storyboard are indicated by a small white
point in the upper right corner of the scene.
( 7 ) The slider below the scene bin is used to select
the scenes to be displayed. The buttons next to the
slider can also be used to move through the
Scene
bin one scene at a time.
The buttons "|<" and ">|" are used to jump to the
beginning or the end of the scene bin. The "<"
and ">" buttons will move through the scene bin
one scene at a time.