MacroSystem Bogart SE Ver.4 User manual - Manual (Page 40)

40 Chapter 4
The most important function of the clipboard is to provide a
temporary storage for video scenes that you will eventually use
in other menus . The clipboard goes beyond projects . It is, of
course, also possible to use the clipboard to take video foot-
age from a DV project and use it in an HD project .
In order to quickly deposit scenes in the clipboard, you can
do this by means of the keyboard, if the Power Key option
(add-on) product has been activated . Press the b key to insert
the currently select scene in the scene bin in the clipboard,
after confirming . Use the key combination Ctrl+b to insert the
current scene and to activate the next scene in the scene bin .
It is also possible to select scenes that should be included in
the clipboard and then simply press “b” . You will then confirm
that all selected scenes must be put in the clipboard . “Nav+b”
directly opens the clipboard menu . Should you switch to an-
other DV project and use new project settings, then the scenes
already contained in the clipboard are marked with an asterisk
and may not be usable . If you select one of these scenes in
order to insert it into the scene bin, the following message
appears: “These scene properties do not conform to project
settings!” . The scenes contained in the clipboard are deleted
when you turn off your machine . These special image process-
ing effects (only to be found in the edit menu) are shown first in
the list .
The remaining effects in the special menu are the same as the
image processing effects (the individual image processing ef-
fects are explained in chapter 4 .10) .
(21) In general, you will record scenes that have more than one
camera setting (take) . These scenes must usually be split up in
order to make the video you intend . You can skip this step only
if you want to keep the complete footage as is without transi-
tion effects .
Clicking on the “split” button brings you to the split menu:
splitting can be compared to cutting a roll of film . The film is
still on the roll . A segment of film, (the first take in the scene
selected in the scene bin), is pulled out of the roll . This hap-
pens by clicking on “Split position” . The trackball can be used
to scroll through the entire scene .
Select the last frame of the first take and click on the left
trackball button . Check (and correct if necessary) with the ar-
row buttons (“<,>”) that you have hit the exact split points . The
audio wave form (Chapter 3 .2 “Envelope and audio scrubbing”)
can help you . You can turn if on and off with the loudspeaker
symbol . Audio “scrubbing” can help you with splitting by al-
lowing you to make splits according to specific moments in
the audio . Now you have isolated the first take . The segment is
highlighted in light blue . You can play back the segment (and
rename it, if desired) . You must now decide whether the seg-
ment is valuable or can be deleted . Clicking on “Use” causes
the segment to be “cut” and placed into the scene bin, where
you can access it later . “Drop” skips the segment and moves
on to set the next the split position in the scene .
Bogart SE offers a further display mode for splitting a scene,
which makes it even easier to determine the correct splitting
position . Click onto the button beneath the speaker symbol to
see the display of two scene images next to each other . The
left scene is the current frame at the set split position . The right
frame display the direct next frame after the split position . You
can therefore see both options at the same time and can de-
cide more easily which frame really ends the scene, just prior
to a new scene, or when new content begins .
Note: In this mode, it is not possible to move the menu to the
top of the screen.
Bogart SE does not delete any video material during this
procedure . The individual scenes are only copied (“Use”) or
not copied (“Drop”) . The original scene with all takes (the “film
roll”) remains unchanged until it is intentionally deleted in the
Edit menu . After clicking on “Use” or “Drop” you continue to
work with the rest of the roll . Another strip must be taken out
and judged either as good (“Use”) or bad (“Drop”) . The last
scene is automatically displayed as “ .Rest” in the scene bin .
This enables you to easily interrupt your work and to continue
later with the “ .Rest” .
An additional function is splitting a scene in series through the
“Index” button . Click (in the splitting menu) on the Play button
so that you see the “Index” button . While the video is running
with audio, each time you click on the “Index” button a split
position is set . Afterward the split segments are positioned
after the original scene in the scene bin . This function serves to
roughly split up a scene before you begin with final editing .
In addition, you can make use of the automatic splitting
function if the video material has been recorded via DV/HDV/
AVCHD . Click on the “Auto” button to cause your footage to
be automatically split . You now can decide where the divided
scenes are to appear . You can choose from the options ‘Add
to Storyboard’ and /or ‘Add to Scene Bin’ . The newly created
scenes will appear directly after the currently selected scene .
The video scene that you have filmed most recently is split
up very quickly according to shot changes . (If there are no
camera changes, no splits will be made .) For scenes that are a
little further back, splitting can take some time because a new