Apple Final Cut Pro HD (4.5): New Features - Manual (Page 31)

Preface New Features in Final Cut Pro HD 31
Improved item linking in the Timeline
You can now link up to 1 video item and 24 audio items in the Timeline.
Additional support for modification of timecode in source media files
You can modify the Reel, Timecode, Aux 1, and Aux 2 timecode tracks directly in a clip’s
source media file on disk.
Display of items in the Render Manager
Items in the Render Manager are now displayed in three groups: audio, audio
mixdown (sequence level audio render files), and video.
Including master comment information in EDLs
When you export an EDL, you can now choose to export Master Comments 1–4 or
Comment A–B in the EDL Export dialog. These appear as notes in the EDL, letting
offline editors give notes to the online editor about complicated entries on the list.
Editing
Dynamic trimming in the Trim Edit window
The Trim Edit window has a Dynamic checkbox that you can use to toggle dynamic
trimming on and off, without having to go to the User Preferences window. This
checkbox is located at the bottom of window, between the –1 and +1 Trim buttons.
Dupe detection
You can now turn on the Show Duplicate Frames option in the Timeline Options tab of
the Sequence Settings window. This option marks clips that are used more than once
within a single edited sequence with colored bars appearing at the bottom of the clip’s
video item in the Timeline. Two options in the General tab of the Preferences window,
Dupe Detection Handle Size and Dupe Detection Threshold, affect when and how
duplicate frames indicators appear in the Timeline.
• Dupe Detection Handle Size: Adds frames to the beginning and end of the clip
regions which are used for comparison, to determine whether or not to display
duplicate frames indicators. This can be used to take into account the extra frames
that must be used for physically cutting and cementing pieces of negative that are
necessary for film matchback, to prevent you from accidentally including frames that
can’t really be used. By default, this is set to 0.
• Dupe Detection Threshold: Allows you to set a minimum number of frames that must
be duplicated before a duplicate frame’s indicator will appear. By default, this is set to
0 so that all instances of duplicated frames are indicated. You can set it as high as 99
frames (3 to 4 seconds, depending on the frame rate), in which case there would
have to be a minimum of 99 consecutive duplicated frames before a duplicate
frames indicator would appear.
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