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Avid NewsCutter 11 Editing Software for

User Manual for Avid NewsCutter 11 Editing Software for Windows with Dongle

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What's New for Version 11

• • Remote editing, workgroup collaboration, and upload with Interplay Sphere
  • Windows 8 operating system support
  • Deliver finished sequences to a standardized AS-11 (AMWA) MXF OP1a file
  • Select multiple clips in the timeline without the filler
  • View location sound metadata from Broadcast Wave files with support for iXML
  • Work with Alpha channel media using the new AMA QuickTime with Alpha plug-in
  • New AMA enhancements to streamline your workflow

Editing With NewsCutter

• Editing Interface
  Edit faster with a freshened and sleeker, but familiar interface. Work the way you want with the mouse, screen buttons, or keyboard shortcuts, with full customization of screen and keyboard layouts designed to speed things up further
  
  Editing Tools
  NewsCutter includes streamlined editing tools designed for fast turnaround of news packages. With its flexible interface that is designed to be intuitive and fast to pick up, NewsCutter aims to allow editors of every experience level get up and running quickly
  
  Expert Search
  Easily find material using text search in common fields, across bins on local or shared storage

Seamless Integration
• Native Support for SD and HD Codecs
  Through AMA (Avid Media Access) you can start editing footage right away without transcoding on the timeline. NewsCutter features native support for a wide range of SD and HD codecs, including: NTSC, PAL, DV, HDV, XDCAM, AVC-Intra, AVCHD, GFCAM, QuickTime, and DVCPRO HD, HDCAM SR Lite, and more
  
  Direct to HD Down-conversion
  More content today is shot in high resolution formats such as 4K, while the majority of programming is still HD. With the new FrameFlex tools, you can immediately start working in HD directly from high-res sources and maintain full creative control of the image reframing and keyframing, from beginning to end
  
  Closed Caption and Ancillary Data Support
  Seamless SMPTE 436-compliant ancillary data is supported and preserved from ingest, through edit, to playback
  
  H.264 Proxy Support
  Edit H.264 proxies created by the AirSpeed server and automatically conform to high res material for faster response, higher stream count, and broader availability across the network
  
  720p Proxy Transcode
  Use NewsCutter to create lightweight proxy versions of 720p material for easier collaboration, simpler searching, and efficient high-res archive/low-res on-line workflow
  
  Play-to-Air
  When you finish editing the story, push it to AirSpeed or other playout servers with a single click. Plus, you can route audio signals when sending to air for easier multi-version workflows., and pull material from selected play-to-air servers, edit the content, and push it back
  
  Multimedia Export
  Use the integrated tools to create a large variety of high-quality output formats for Web or electronic delivery. Take advantage of easy-to-use compression templates or create your own
  
  Broadcast WAV Support
  View location sound metadata from Broadcast Wave files with support for iXML. Insert the sequence timecode based on project type when exporting the timeline audio tracks as BWF (Broadcast WAV). Provides fast and easy sync reference for downstream process that do not support OMF or AAF such as slave playback devices
  
  Avid DNxHD Support
  Edit HD material in real time on your software system using Avid DNxHD encoding, including HD offline using Avid DNxHD36 media. The high-efficiency Avid DNxHD codec is designed to maintain image quality during multi-generation editing

Collaboration
• Share Media and Ideas in Real Time
  NewsCutter is designed for collaboration. With ISIS shared media networks and Interplay Production asset management, teams work in parallel as producers, assistants, and reviewers located anywhere find, shot-list, review, and annotate while editors simultaneously access the same media
  
  Interplay Services
  With the Interplay Sphere option for remote cloud-based collaboration, you can edit camera-acquired content in the field, incorporate media on the ISIS storage back at the station, and upload the finished package quickly, easily and transparently using the same tools and workflows you know and trust. As soon as it's on the ISIS storage, everyone in the workgroup -- including others in the field -- can instantly access and use the material
  
  Integrated Graphics Power
  Add high-impact graphics and effects with Avid Motion Graphics (AMG). With Avid Motion Graphics, customized graphics and effects from templates created AMG or Deko can be completed in NewsCutter and incorporated into packages, saving time and steps while delivering consistent, eye-catching station branding

Finishing Tools
• Color Correction
  NewsCutter Features a fully integrated 10-bit color correction toolset. Use the one-click analysis tool to automatically correct each clip in a sequence, or NaturalMatch to quickly and accurately color-match shots
  
  Titles and Graphics
  Complete all elements of your news story in your editing software. Add lower thirds, titles, and graphics using the fully integrated and easy-to-use tools. Create and save templates for a consistent, branded look and feel

Keyboard and Timeline
• One-Step Keys
  One-step keys for editing speed: Top, Tail, Review Edit, Extend. Quickly execute commonly used enhanced edits and shortcuts, single-keystroke trimming, and instant edit viewing without shuttling
  
  Edit to Timeline
  In this mode material appears directly on the timeline as it's recorded
  
  Top and Tail Buttons
  Time saving one-button position marking of in and out points while simultaneously extracting unwanted footage in front of or following the marked points
  
  Edit Review
  One button replay of an edit
  
  Play Standby Button
  Places play in standby mode to prepare for playback

Capture
• AMA (Avid Media Access)
  A plug-in architecture that accelerates file-based workflow by allowing media on removable card or disc devices to viewed and edited right away, eliminating the need to first transcode or copy media to a local drive in order to view or extract the clips. XDCAM, P2, GFCAM, and Canon XF formats are supported as well as QuickTime files. This feature is shared with Media Composer and Symphony
  
  Frame Chase Editing
  Play or edit MXF media that is currently being captured by another supported device such as Avid AirSpeed Multi Stream. Eliminates a digitizing bottleneck; multiple workstations can begin editing immediately as footage is acquired
  
  Quick Record
  Enables mouse-free and keyboard-free recording and shot selection of material into NewsCutter using the VTR shuttle knob. When Quick Record mode is enabled, NewsCutter starts capturing automatically whenever the servo-lock mode is detected from the deck. When the deck is playing and servo-lock is detected, capturing begins and continues until play is stopped, at which point it will wait for the next servo lock signal. In this way recording and rough NewsCutter edits can be completed just using the VTR jog knob
  
  Timed Capture (Scheduled Recording)
  Unattended recording at preset times for multiple events. Allows recording through NewsCutter to local or Avid Unity shared storage of a one-time or regularly occurring event or satellite feed
  
  Custom Record Tool Fields
  Extra text fields (up to 10) are available for entry of descriptive metadata and annotation before and during capture such as journalist name, location, etc. The extra text fields appear as columns in the bins

Story Shortcuts
• Voice Over Record
  Record voice-overs directly into the NewsCutter application
  
  AutoVO
  Quickly repurposes an SOT story into a B-roll video ready for anchor voiceover. A time-saving way of repurposing stories for later use or to quickly create multiple versions of a story
  
  HyperClip
  A tag to include information and formatting for any linked clips in a story. When a video clip is hyperlinked to a story, HTML formatting, Javascript code, text, and other elements can be linked as well. HyperClip is also a part of Post to Web functionality
  
  Alternate Edit
  Cycles through pre-selected alternate shots within a story to decide which works best in context or to repackage news stories instantly. One button previewing and overwriting of a selected clip in a sequence with any other pre-selected clips. Each time the button is pressed, the clip where the position indicator is located is replaced by a clip in the Alternate Edits bin

Newsroom and Workflow
• Locators
  Locators mark a single frame within a clip or sequence to allow the point to be easily found later. The locater can include an attached text note or link. Locators can be added on-the-fly or after recording. Color coding of locators facilitates finding clips b category or content. Eight colored locators are mapped to eight (F5-F12) function keys
  
  NRCS Tool
  Opens an iNEWS or ENPS interactive session within NewsCutter. Editors can view rundowns and scripts and edit video to scripts by dropping selected or pre-selected (based on locaters created in iNEWS) text directly to the timeline. Clips are pre-timed to reporter's read rate. Improves, simplifies, and speeds story creation between journalist and editor; full functionality with Asian-language scripts. Includes several capabilities including sending mail within iNEWS workgroups
  
  Loaded Cues
  Links that act as pointers within an iNEWS script to master clips stored in Avid bins. Makes it easy to move clips or sequences between scripts and bins as a story is edited. Includes display of a loaded cue icons and head frames
  
  Associations
  Locate sequences with associated NRCS stories or locate stories from their associated video sequences. Makes it easier to find stories on the iNEWS server or to load sequences for iNEWS scripts directly into the timeline
  
  Post to Web
  Through the NRCS tool, NewsCutter can generate a hypertext version of the iNEWS story for viewing on a web site. The Post to Web feature helps you create internet content directly from a single script rather than requiring the production of multiple content versions for broadcast and for the web. When a story is posted to the web, the Web page can include the text of the iNEWS story, as well as links to video and image files. User-designed templates provide formatting for the Web content. Post to Web automatically changes NRCS scripts that have been written in uppercase to lower case except for the first words in sentences. It also deletes presenter instruction and closed captions. This feature works in conjunction with any application that can receive HTML, and works with the Avid Active Content Manager online news publishing application

Playback
• Send to Playback Command
  This command is typically used by an editor or journalist to simultaneously create and send a single "flat" file to a playback or transmission server. Enhancements to this feature in v.8.0 save several steps and simplify workflow, especially when using proxy editing or different resolutions for editing and transmission. With one click the Send to Playback command automatically:
  • Re-links to full resolution media specified by the target settings
  • Renders any un-rendered effects
  • Performs necessary transcoding from the editing resolution to desired playback resolution
  
  Digital Cut with Audio Mix Mode
  The Digital Cut Tool allows sequences to be easily recorded to another device. In NewsCutter, an Audio Mix Mode button allows the editor to do a pre-mix of audio tracks with preset levels for voice and ambiance, for example. This can avoid the need for mixing by a sound engineer
  
  Disable Resolutions
  A user or administrator can specify resolutions that should be disabled, preventing disallowed resolutions to be accidentally played to air
  
  GPI Triggers
  NewsCutter can send signals to a V-LAN VLXi deck controller and a general purpose interface GPI

Bundled Applications

Interplay Transfer (Standalone Version)
• Manages processor-intensive media transfers to and from video servers and transcoding engines. Broadcasters and post-production facilities can exchange high-resolution media with other workgroups, remote locations, and partner-integrated systems

Avid DVD
• DVD authoring software to help you compose professional DVD and Blu-ray media complete with full interactive menus

Avid FX
• Avid's own effects composition software. Avid FX allows you to create and animate titles, effects, transitions, and more

NewBlue Titler Pro v1
• This dedicated titling application helps you created 2D and 3D titles to add a finished, professional feel to your stories

Sorenson Squeeze
• Transcoding software that allows you to export your stories to a wide range of formats from broadcast and DVD friendly to Web and mobile optimized

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