MediaCentral UX lets you view and edit a clip while it is still being captured through an ingest device. The process of working with it is called edit while capture (EWC).

If you view a clip that is still being captured in the Media pane, the ends of the Media Timeline pulse with a purple glow while the capture is in progress.

During the capture, the visible region of the Media Timeline (the zoom region) remains constant to make the viewing and editing easier. The zoom bar shrinks as the duration of the clip grows. You can use the zoom bar to change the zoom region during the capture.

You can reduce the zoom region and view new material as it becomes available. For example, if you zoom in to view the last 5 minutes of a clip and play near the end, the visible region of the timeline displays the last 5 minutes of the available media during the entire capture operation.

You can edit a clip while being captured in the Logging pane. You can apply all features that are also available for ingested MAM assets: creating, resizing, merging, splitting, and deleting segments, depending on the configured segmenting mode (Gaps Allowed, No Gaps Allowed, and Overlapping segments).

The following illustrations show two examples for segments on the Media Timeline created in edit while capture mode: overlapping segments and segments with gaps.