Blackmagicdesign ATEM mini Installation And Operation Manual page 54

Shifting Edit Points
An advantage of editing is you can shift your edit points around. When you do a live production,
the action can get very fast and it can be difficult to keep up. Imagine an interview program
where multiple people are rapidly talking and interrupting each other. The live switch may have
struggled to keep up as the conversation moves from person to person.
So rolling the edit points will allow you to move the edits to before a person starts talking. In a
live switch you need to keep up so your edits lag behind the person starting to talk. However
now you can shift them back in time and the edit will cut to the person just before they start
talking. This will transform the feel of the program.
To roll the edit forward, scroll to the edit point in the timeline and then move your mouse to the
edit point in the lower timeline. You will see a double bar tool appear. If you click and drag to
the left, the edit point will move to earlier in time. If you click and drag to the right, your edit
point will move later in time.
Be sure not to click the half bar tools with the little arrows. These are the trim in and trim out
tools. As you move the mouse around the edit point the tools automatically change. So if you
use the trim in and trim out tools, you will increase or reduce the duration of your whole video
track and the audio will become out of sync with the green audio track below.
Replacing Shots
The sync bin will let you find shots that sync to the point on the timeline where you are currently
positioned. This means you can fix situations where you cut to the wrong camera, or you can
search for better shots because you have more time to see what alternatives you had.
To use the sync bin, just select it from the top left of the cut page. Once selected, you will see
your media pool at the top left and your viewer will change. The media pool will now show a
timeline of available clips and the viewer will show a multi view of the shots you have. These are
only the shots that sync to the point in the timeline you are positioned on. If you move the
timeline, these shots will also track in sync.
Think of the sync bin as an assistant editor that looks for shots for you and displays them in a
multiview, so you can use them for editing.
Because ATEM Mini Pro ISO and Extreme ISO knows what input you have connected, plus it's
recording those inputs into video files, it will have placed the camera number metadata into the
files for you. This means camera 1 in the sync bin is really the video input you had connected to
input 1 on the switcher. Camera 2 is input 2 and so on.
To select an alternative edit, you need to follow 2 steps. First you need to select the shot you
want and set its in and out point. The next step is to edit it into your timeline, over the shot you
currently have.
So scroll to the position in the timeline that has the start of the shot you want to replace. You are
going to edit over the top of this clip. You should see the alternative shots displayed in the
multiview. These are the other options you have and you see all the input video files that were
recorded from the ISO switcher's inputs.
Now click the shot you want. You will see it display full screen. It will also have an in point set for
you, and it will be located at the current timeline position. There is an out point also placed at a
clip duration of 4 seconds. It's unlikely you want this exact out point, so now all you need to do
is scroll along the timeline to find the point you want the new shot to end and press O. The out
point will move to this position.
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