Once you start the application and select a project and user with which you want to work, the application initialises, and
the Desktop appears. The Desktop is your top-level work environment in each session. Six buttons comprising the Main menu
appear in the lower-left corner of the screen. This is the Desktop.
The Main menu buttons are described as follows.
- Library (or press 1)
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Opens the Library menu. The Library menu provides management and archiving functions for clips and image files. You can use
the network library to access clip libraries in other projects on the local system or from remote systems. You can also transfer
clips to and from an external recording device (such as VTRs) or the filesystem as well as access the EDL menu for importing
EDLs
- Editing (or press 2)
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Opens the Editing menu. The Editing menu provides commands for editing and assembling clips. You can cut, splice, reverse,
and copy clips. You can also perform mixes, dissolves, and crossfades, as well as change the timing of a clip. You can create
a stereo clip from two mono clips or split a stereo clip into two mono clips.
- Flame FX (or press 6)
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Opens the Flame FX menu. The Flame FX menu contains image processing and creative effects, such as Blur and 2D Transform.
- Processing (or press 3)
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Opens the Processing menu. The Processing menu provides image processing commands that are applied to frames in a clip. You
can also change the colours of a clip and perform colour corrections.
- Effects (or press 4)
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Opens the Effects menu. The Effects menu contains modules for compositing and adding special effects to clips.
- Format (or press 5)
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Opens the Format menu. The Format menu contains video and film setup commands. There are commands for changing the field dominance
and for interlacing, deinterlacing, and merging the fields in a clip.
The menu contains Reel display options, controls for the currently selected menu, Undo/Redo buttons (and lists for multiple
undo), and the Help and Preferences buttons.
The Desktop contains reels to which you capture, create, and load reels. If you are starting a new project, the reels are
empty.