Merging VCube, User Manual

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Introduction : Installation Page 14
Installation
Please see the VCube Installation Guide and the Installation Guides for any hardware you have purchased.
Early VCube Systems
Note: Early VCube systems may include AJA Xena LS, Xena HS or Canopus ADVX-1000 video
cards. These are no longer actively supported as of Version 2. If you have one of these cards you
may wish to contact your Merging Technologies sales partner to discuss a cross-grade solution.
VCube Concepts
Project
A Project is the top level of organization. Projects are saved with the file extension .VCube . A Project controls and
keeps track of all the various elements you are assembling at a given time. A Project always contains a Composi-
tion, viewed on the Timeline .
Composition
A Composition is any number of Clips complete with edits and fades, level settings etc. placed on a Layer in a
Track or tracks in a time relationship to each other and to the Timeline .
Track
In the Timeline Video and Audio assets are placed onto Layers within Tracks.
Video Track Layer
Video Track Layers behave in the same manner as layers in a non-linear video editor. I.e. video on the topmost
layer of the topmost track will hide concurrent video below it unless there is a compositing blend mode or
picture-in-picture mode in force.
Audio Track Layer
Audio Track Layers display the waveform for each channel in the audio media file. Thus a stereo audio track will
have two layers and a 5.1 will have six.