Placeholder Clips
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A placeholder clip is a temporary blank clip with a predefined TV format, start timecode and duration. It is used to reserve the place for a source clip that has not been captured yet, helping user to organize the existing clips into the required sequence.
To add a new placeholder clip, open the ClipBin, in which you would like to create it, and use the "Add placeholder…" command from the right-click menu. The following dialog box will appear:
Set up the following options for the placeholder clip you are creating:
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Placeholder Name – enter the name of the new placeholder clip;
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TV_Format – choose the appropriate TV format from the drop-down list;
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Duration – enter the length for the placeholder clip in the hours:minutes:seconds:frames format;
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The "Placeholder Name", "TV_Format" and "Duration" parameters are mandatory and cannot be left empty. |
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Background color – choose the background color to be displayed in the viewer for the placeholder clip;
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Picture – choose a graphic image from the DocumentBin within the current Cinegy Archive database to be used as a temporary footage for the placeholder clip. The chosen picture will be displayed in the viewer as a still image. The position parameters can be defined here;
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Placeholder Text – enter the text for the placeholder clip to be displayed in the viewer. The font and color of the text can be defined here.
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Press the "Reset" button to reset your configurations and return to the default settings. |
Having set up all the parameters, press "OK". A new placeholder clip will be created within the corresponding ClipBin. Placeholder clips (as well as common clips) can be played back in the viewer, trimmed, copied, moved, etc.