Conform Tab Overview

Use the Conform tab to troubleshoot imported timelines and to relink segments to sources.

Event List

Displays the events that make up the sequence displayed in the Timeline section. Clicking an event in the list also selects it in the Timeline. You can sort the list using by clicking the column headers. Linked events are usually displayed, but if you are only interested in unlinked events, you can hide the linked events from the Display Options box. If the Event list displays the message All Sources Linked, the selected sequence is already conformed.

Every column, other than Status, Matches, and Media, is a potential match criteria used to find the correct source from the Potential Matches, displayed at the bottom of the Media panel. The data displayed in the Event list is always one of the following colours:

Red

This information is used as a match criteria, and the Potential Matches contain no source that matches this criteria.

Yellow

This information is used as a match criteria, and the Potential Matches contain more than one source that matches this criteria.

White

This information is used as a match criteria, and the Potential Matches contain only once source that matches this criteria.

Grey

This information is not used as a match criteria.

Potential Matches

The Potential Matches display all the information about the sources found when using Set Search Directory or Set as Conform Search Location, from the contextual menu. From all the potential sources, Smoke uses the criteria you set using the Match Criteria box to filter in potential matches. From there, you can select the right source and link it to the selected event.

Note If you select an event with no matches, it shows the full list, in order to allow for force linking.

Disable Display Options > Filter Potential Matches to show all the sources.

Timeline

The Timeline displays an open sequence, with controls similar to the ones found in the Timeline tab. Unlinked events are boxed in red.

Conform Task menu

Use to import an AAF, an XML, or an EDL. If connected to a VTR, select Capture... to send the selected events to the VTR queue and enter the VTR Recapture module.

Linking combo box

Select Link Selected to link a selected source to the selected event. Select Link Matched Sources to relink every event marked as Match to its found source.

Match Criteria box

Select from the list the criteria used to match sources to events. In the Event list, grey indicates unused criterion, white is matched criteria, yellow indicates multiple sources match the criteria, and red indicates no match was found in the Conform Media section.

Display Options box

Select display options for Source and Event lists.

Strict Matching button

Enable to force exact matching between source and event. When disabled, matching occurs when source and event have in common a string of at least 7 characters. Only applies to Name and File Name criteria.

Preview button

Enable to display the Preview panel. The Source Player displays the source selected in the Conform Media section of the Media Panel.

Hide Linked button

Enable to filter out, from the Event list, the events that are relinked.

Set Search Location button

Displays a browser to locate the source files, to relink to the events from the Event list.