MediaCentral UX lets you view and edit a master clip while it is still being captured through an ingest device. These clips are called in-progress clips, and the process of working with them is called Frame Chase editing or edit while capture (EWC). You can add an in-progress clip to a sequence and send the sequence to playback before the capture is complete. For more information about Frame Chase editing, see the Interplay Transfer documentation.

In-progress clips are indicated by the following icons in the Interplay Production database tree:

If you view an in-progress clip 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.

When you are playing close to the end of an in-progress clip, the position indicator can reach the end of the currently ingested media before a new chunk of media is ingested. Playback then stops without a message. Wait a few minutes and begin playback again.

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.

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