
W
elcome to Smart Edit 8, the new generation software
for creative video editing. Smart Edit 8 comes with
countless new functions and intricate improvements,
which will help you to create more professional and sophisti-
cated video with your Casablanca editing system.
Having installed Smart Edit 8 on your Casablanca, you can
begin studying the following new possibilities, as detailed over
the next pages.
System Settings
Saving screen colors
The new Smart Edit software has improved and expanded
on the ability to change the system colors. Enter the System
Settings from the main menu, then go to Screen and Change
interface colors. Here, you will now find the already familiar
archives option for loading, saving and deleting archive entries.
Any color combination schemes can be saved here any time
and reloaded at a later stage. The archives already contain a
few standard color schemes to get you going.
Further settings
Select System Settings, the press “Additional Settings” to
enter a menu that allows you to make some basic set up
changes. The following new setting options have been added
with the new version:
`Volume´: This allows you to set the volume level for your con-
nected monitor. This is particularly useful for notebook models.
In many cases, notebooks also offer a volume control slider or
knob for setting the headphone volume level.
`Sound after creation´: This setting is used for choosing the
sound that is played whenever the system is done with render-
ing. In addition, you can set the minimum rendering time for
playing the sound. This function is useful if you wish to use
longer rendering times for doing other things and do not want
to miss the end of the rendering process.
`Show often used effects´: Place a tick in this box if you wish to
see the last ten effects used at the top of the effect list. This is
a kind of `favorites´ list. The list will not be shown if you remove
the box mark
Edit
In the Edit menu, to the right of the `i´ button
beneath the Storyboard, you‘ll find a new
button for starting the Storyboard render
process. This renders all Storyboard effects
as well as the audio. This gives you the ability
to play the Storyboard during editing without seeing any
unrendered parts.
Scenes added to the Storyboard are marked with a small
triangle in the top right corner. This triangle replaces the small
dot used previously for this purpose. In addition to the triangle,
a scene in the scene bin can sport several different icons:
‚>‘ = The scene is trimmed in the IN area
‚<‘ = The scene is trimmed in the OUT area
‚x‘ = The scene is rendered, is an empty scene, has been
imported or contains rendered parts
‚^‘ = The scene is also used in the Storyboard
‚n‘ = The scene is marked
‚p‘ = This is the current scene
Timeline
With the new system software, you can make use of the
Timeline display as opposed to the Storyboard method. This is
often preferred by many professional video editors.
In the Storyboard, all added scenes are shown as a sequence
of pictures, each representing a specific scene. Effects, inserts
and titles are also shown as pictures in the Storyboard. This
allows for a very clean and uncluttered display of the sequence
of scenes and effects used. Important information such as the
length of the scene in relation to the entire Storyboard can not
be seen right away however.
When viewing the project as a Timeline, you instead see
scenes and effects as bars positioned on a time axis. The
length of the bars is shown in proportion to the length of the
entire project. In addition, you can compare scene lengths
directly with each other.
Effects and inserts are also shown as bars in the Timeline. In
order to improve the overview, they are shown as separate
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