Avid Technology Pro Tools HD 7.2 - Manual (Page 99)

Chapter 8: General Video Improvements 93
New Video Online Button
The Video Online button duplicates the func-
tion of the Video Online command in the Op-
tions menu. It lets you select the main video
track, switch that track online or offline, and see
at a glance by color whether a video track is of-
fline (grey) or online (blue).
To select or deselect the main video track, do one
of the following:
■ Click the Video Online button of any track
that is offline (grey) 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.
■ Select Options > Video Online.
■ Press Control+Shift+J.
New Options for Importing
Video
Pro Tools 7.2 provides the following new meth-
ods of importing QuickTime movies and Avid
video files into the Timeline, Region List, and
new or existing video tracks:
• Using the Import Video menu command
• Dragging from DigiBase, Windows Ex-
plorer, or Mac Finder to Pro Tools
• Overlaying video on Import Session Data
Importing Video into Pro Tools
Using the New Import Video
Command
In Pro Tools 7.2, the Import Video menu com-
mand replaces the Import QuickTime Movie
and Import Avid Movie commands.
Video Online button (offline and online, respectively)
In Pro Tools 7.2, the Video Online button
and command replace the Offline button
and command from previous versions of
Pro Tools.
Video track
offline
Video track
online
The new import options replace the Import
QuickTime Movie, Import Avid Video, and
New Avid Video Track commands in previ-
ous versions of Pro Tools.
In general, audio and video media should
be stored on separate dedicated drives.
When importing audio and video at the
same time, however, Pro Tools copies both
to the same drive. If you have difficulty
playing back audio or video media, you
should either import the audio separately
using the Import Audio command, or man-
ually copy the audio files to an audio drive.
When you import MPEG-2 video into
Pro Tools, only the video portion of the file
is imported and the resulting video regions
cannot be edited.