Subtitles of the Movie

Now so far we've just kind of taken the defaults for the browser and we've done that through different combination of items here, for example when we go to the window menu and then we do a standard arrangement using either that command or the Control view we will get what's known as a list based view of what's in the browser. If I just do a control click in the browser itself I can see that, that is the selection but I also have the ability to view my items as small, medium or large icons, I can also get through the same view or the same selection by choosing the view menu and then choosing browser items selection. But I'll just do a control click here and let's look at our items as medium icons, now that just shows the top level folders here, I'll show the sequence and the Hard Way folder I can double click and open up additional bins or sub bins of this Hard Way master bin that I've got set up and now you can see things like the elements, the clips, there's a clip I have in the bin, I can bring that clip up by giving it a double click and that's exactly what I've done here, there is in the viewer the clip that I brought up. Now I'll show you something very cool because as you look at that you see just a black screen, well that is because that's the beginning of the clip and that's going to be the default way that clips are going to show if you're showing them in a browser in an icon way instead of using the list view. Now I'll show you a very cool thing to do here and that is to use the control P to mark and you notice, you might have seen the flash there under the mark menu but what you're doing here is your setting a poster frame and so you can use this to get a better understanding immediately of exactly what that clip contains, with this poster frame helps you better identify that clip, go ahead and do the control P to set a poster frame once its up in the viewer and you've got a frameset that you think is the best one to let's say you want it to be that so I'll just navigate, notice that I use a couple of techniques, I just use the mouse, the selection tool, to move the mouse around and set the play head toward that frame. Now I can do the control P once again and I've changed the poster frame as you can see there. Now you may be thinking big deal if I give my items a good name, I'll know exactly what's in that, but you'd be surprised sometimes when you have like multiple tapes of the same scene, you'll end up giving them similar names and it can be a lot easier to find what you're looking for by looking through pictures rather then a list of words. There's also a very cool technique for very quickly throwing something together known as storyboard editing which I'll show you later on, if you look through the table of contents there you'll see storyboard editing and this being able to set the poster frame can certainly help you build that storyboard very, very quickly, you'll be amazed how quickly you can throw a project together with storyboard editing. So I'm going to make this go away, I'm going to go back to my list view and in fact I'm going to go back with Control U to a standard type of a set up. What I lastly want to show you here is some of these columns and we can add additional columns as I hinted at earlier by again doing a control click. Now this time I'm not control clicking in the actual browser bin itself, but I'm doing it in the columns and I can either hide the column, save a column lay out or start to add other items to my column. So if I want to show a shot note in my column maybe that's going to be most helpful for me to find what I'm looking for in all of these clips that I've had logged so I can add that column to my view. I can also drag it around very easily with just a click and drag of the mouse. So that's how you can make the browser work for you best and through out the entire course of this module now you'll use some of the things we've learned here and implement them, I won't spend time explaining like the actual click steps to manipulate the browser, to find this and that and set the poster frame, I'll just assume that you know how to do it and then we'll start to build for example a storyboard edit using some of these very basic skills that I've covered here in this chapter.