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Description
Name of property
Shows the file path of the clip’s media file on disk. For example:
Scratch Disk:Capture Scratch:Dining:Interview Clip.mov. This property
is the critical connection between a clip and its media file. If a media
file changes location or name, or if its modification date changes,
the clip will no longer be able to locate it based on its Source
property’s file path, causing the clip to become offline. A clip’s
Source property may contain a file path (even if the file cannot be
located) or it may be empty (as is the case with a newly logged clip
or a clip made offline using the Make Offline command). For more
information, see
“Reconnecting Clips and Offline Media.”
Source
Shows the current status of SmoothCam motion analysis.
SmoothCam
Displays which timecode track in the media file is currently being
used to display timecode for the clip in the Browser, Item Properties
window, the timecode fields of the Viewer, and the timecode
overlays in the Viewer and Canvas. For example, if a media file has
three timecode tracks, the choices would be:
• Source
• Aux 1
• Aux 2
“Source” merely indicates the primary timecode track of the media
file, and is almost always the timecode from the original source
tapes. Since most media files have only one timecode track, “Source”
is often the other choice. However, if you have added an auxiliary
timecode track to a media file (for example, with the Modify
Timecode command), you can choose to view the timecode values
stored in this track instead. You can adjust the TC value in the
Browser, Item Properties window, or by Control-clicking in the
Timecode Duration or Current Timecode field.
TC
Displays a small, representative frame from the clip’s media file. By
default, the thumbnail is the first frame of the clip, but you can drag
to “scrub” through the clip to choose a more appropriate
representative frame, known as a poster frame. For more information,
see
Thumbnail
The total number of video and audio tracks in a clip or sequence.
Tracks
Type of clip: Clip, subclip, multiclip, still. Also: Sequence, bin, or
effect.
Type
Shows the frame rate (timebase) in frames per second (fps). For
clips, this property is the frame rate of the media file on disk. For
sequences, the frame rate is set in the sequence’s editing timebase
field. If a sequence contains clips, the sequence’s frame rate (editing
timebase) cannot be changed (unless all clips are first removed).
Vid Rate
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