View pop-up menu – Apple Final Cut Express HD User Manual
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Chapter 6
Viewer Basics
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Note: When playing back media with the Viewer scaled to 100 percent, both fields of
interlaced video are displayed. If the Viewer is scaled to anything other than 100
percent and you’re displaying a DV clip, only one field is shown during playback or
while scrubbing through the clip. When playing back media captured with a third-party
video interface, some interfaces display both fields regardless of the scale of the Viewer,
which may result in visible artifacts in the picture. These are display artifacts only, and
do not exist in the video signal output to tape.
Important:
Clips may not play back smoothly if you zoom in on them so far that part of
the image is obscured, and you see scroll bars to the right and below the Viewer
windows. Other windows blocking the Viewer will also affect playback. Choosing a screen
layout or pressing Shift-Z are easy ways to remedy playback quality in this situation.
View Pop-Up Menu
You can choose various options from this pop-up menu for how you view your clips
and sequences in the Viewer.
 Image or Image+Wireframe mode: Image is the default, and simply shows the video
of your clip or sequence as it plays back. Image+Wireframe is useful when you’re
using motion effects or compositing. Each video layer in the Viewer has a bounding
box with handles (or a wireframe) that can be used to adjust that clip’s size, rotation,
and position. For more information on using motion effects, see “
” on page 689. You can also refer to “
Adjusting Parameters for Keyframed
” on page 719. For information on compositing, see “
 Overlays: Final Cut Express HD provides translucent visual cues, called overlays, that
help you easily recognize certain parts of your edit in the Viewer, such as the markers
and In and Out points of clips in your sequence.
Note: To view overlays such as title safe guides, you need to enable this option.
 Title and action safe overlays: These show you the boundaries within which you need
to keep your graphics and text so they’ll appear when the sequence is played back
on television. For more information, see “
None of these view options affect either rendered output or material sent to tape.
View pop-up menu