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Grass Valley NewsEdit XT v.5.5 User Manual

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Chapter 5

Importing and Exporting Files

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Digital News Production

5. Select one file (if automatically detecting files) or the file(s) you want to

import.

6. Click

Open

.

A progress bar indicates the import status.

The imported file(s) appear in the Bin as a single video clip, if you’ve
imported a series of .tga files, or as individual graphics, if you’ve imported
single files.

7. To add the animation clip to the V2 and Effects tracks in your NewsEdit

sequence, make sure your sequence has an active video effects track and two
video tracks.

8. Drag (or copy) the animation clip onto the Timeline.

The clip is placed on both the second video track and the video effects track.

If, for some reason, you don’t want the animation sequence to be transparent
over the video on the other video track, you can turn it off by highlighting the
clip, right-clicking and selecting

Properties

, and unchecking

Enable Video

Alpha

.