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Chapter 48: Working with Video in Pro Tools 1041
You can add any supported video to an empty
video track, in which case the icon will update
and the video track will play back only that type
of video.
Differences in Video Tracks with Avid
Video
When an Avid video peripheral (such as an
Avid Mojo SDI) is connected to your system and
powered on, the following conditions apply:
• All video tracks display a Video Output se-
lector, but only tracks containing Avid
video display a Video Input selector.
• You can add Avid video to an empty video
track.
• Only Avid video tracks contain a Record
Enable button.
Video Online Button
The Video Online button lets you select the
main video track, switch that track online or of-
fline, and see at a glance by color whether a
video track is offline (gray) or online (blue).
To switch a video track online or offline:
„
Click the Video Online button of any track
that is offline (gray) to put it online (blue), mak-
ing that track the main video track.
„
Click the Video Online button of the main
video track to take it offline, and Pro Tools will
not output video.
Locking Video Tracks
You can lock one or more video tracks to pre-
vent any video regions on those tracks from be-
ing edited.
When a video track is locked, Pro Tools restricts
all editing operations involving the track (ex-
cept for locking and unlocking video regions).
A locked video track displays a small lock to in-
dicate that the video track has been locked and
cannot be edited. (The lock does not appear if
the Track Height of the video track is set to
Mini.)
To lock a video track:
1
Select the video track or tracks you want to
lock.
2
Do one of the following:
• Start-click (Windows) or Control-click
(Mac) the name of any selected video track,
and select
Locked .
– or –
• Right-click the name of any selected video
track, and select
Locked
.
Locking or unlocking a video track does not al-
ter the lock status of individual regions. If a re-
gion was locked before you lock the track, the re-
gion will still be locked when you unlock the
See the Avid Video Peripherals Guide for de-
tailed information on using the Record En-
able button and the controls in the I/O
View.
Video Online button (offline and online, respectively)
Video track
offline
Video track
online