Casablanca Prestige, User Manual

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( 8 ) The Playback button is to the left of the sto-
ryboard slider. This button is used to playback the
scene displayed in the center of the scene bin.
Stop and Pause buttons are also available.
(
9
) In case you have not yet renamed the scenes in
the Record screen, you again have the chance here
to give the scenes your own names. Simply select
the desired scene in the scene bin and then click
on "
Rename " to bring up the on-screen keyboard.
If you have the PowerKey option, then you can
use this keyboard to clear the old name and enter
a new name.
(
10
) Many users require "overlapping" of certain
video sequences with other scenes without chan-
ging the original audio. Example: a music video
(see
Chapter 4, Tutorial 2 ). A complete recording
of the singer is available. Certain portions of this
recording are to be substituted with other scenes,
but the view of the artist singing is to reappear
several times. The movement of the singer's lips
should always be synchronized with the mu-
sic. This means that the original audio does not
change, even though scenes are changed.
Casablanca Prestige offers an easy way to do
this: With an
Insert-edit
, the selected scene in the
scene bin is overlaid onto the storyboard. Only
the video, not the audio of the scene is overlaid.
Clicking on "
Insert
" overlays the selected scene
in the storyboard with the selected scene from
the scene bin. The scene in the storyboard (back-
ground) is then partially or completely covered
with the insert scene (foreground). The back-
ground scene must, of course, be longer than the
foreground scene.
The range (start position, length) can be set freely
and changed at any time, even after the Insert is
placed. Every click on "
Insert
" leads automatically
to a Range menu.
In the
Trim mode, you can adjust the Trim points
of the Insert scene.
Switch the mode to "
Position ”, and the starting
point, (preset to the first frame of the insert), can
be moved throughout the background scene by
clicking the "
Start
" button. When you return to
the Edit screen, you will see that this causes the
"background scene" (the storyboard scene) to be
divided into a maximum of three parts:
1. the background scene before the insert
2. the Insert scene
3.
the rest of the background scene after the insert
This division allows you to place any number of
insert sequences onto a single background scene.
Inserts are indicated in the storyboard by a sym-
bol (two overlapping rectangles) in the upper
part of the scene in the storyboard and can be
Removed at any time. Overlapped background
sequences are automatically put back together.
( 11 ) The " Range " button serves to modify
inserted scenes. These scenes can either be shifted
(Set the mode to "
Position
”, and then click
"Start”.) The Insert scene can also be re-trimmed
at the beginning or at the end (using the "
IN /
OUT " buttons in Trim mode).
If the selected scene in the storyboard is not an
insert scene, then this button has no effect. For
Insert scenes the user is brought to the usual
Range menu. Here also you can display and
hide the audio wave form with the loudspeaker
symbols (
section 3.3 ).
( 12 ) Scenes are added to the storyboard from the
scene bin. The selected scene in the scene bin is
added to the storyboard by clicking the "
Add
"
button.
The added scene always appears
after the current-
ly selected scene in the storyboard.
There is one exception. When the very first scene
is the current scene in the storyboard, the user
is asked by the system whether the scene to add
should be put
In front or Behind the first scene.
If you add the scene before the first scene then
you will be asked – if there is audio on a music
track – whether the music track should be shifted
backward. Answering
Yes causes all audio tracks
to be shifted,
No
causes the music tracks 1 and
2 (thus the sound tracks 3 and 4) to stay at their
time position, and this causes them to slip under
another previous scene.
When the scene has been inserted, the original in
the scene bin can be deleted or trimmed without
affecting the storyboard scene.
( 13 ) The function " Remove " deletes the scene
located in the center of the storyboard from the