Installing and first run
Unblock, unzip, run. Where your settings live and why the folder matters.
AVPrep3 Help
Every button, panel and shortcut named here was read out of the shipped application, so the labels match what is on your screen. If something in the program disagrees with something here, the program is right and this page is out of date. For what the words mean, see the glossary. For why any of it works the way it does, see craft and theory.
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The parts of the window
Menu bar, toolbar, media bin, preview, timeline, properties, status bar and queue.
Bringing media in
Open Media, the two Add buttons, dragging onto a lane, and what to do about missing files.
Playing and moving around
Transport, shuttle, frame stepping, In and Out, Loop, Render Preview and zoom.
Trimming and cutting
Select and Razor, trimming by drag, splitting, delete against ripple delete, slip, and snapping.
Tracks and layers
Adding, renaming, reordering and removing lanes, and what covers what.
Transitions, position and colour
Crossfade, fades from black, and the position, scale, crop and colour controls on a video clip.
Titles, shapes and watermarks
Add Title and the five text presets, drawing shapes, and pinning a watermark.
Sound
Volume and gain, fades, EQ, normalization, and ducking music under a voice.
Captions and transcription
Transcribing a clip, editing cues, importing and exporting SRT, and burning in against a separate file.
The seven tools
Fit to Length, Images to Video, Silence Auto-cut, Loop Finder, Waveform Visualizer, Freeze Frame and Split Export.
Exporting
Platform presets, the export dialog, target file size, the queue, and batch variants.
Projects, autosaves and moving machines
What the project file holds, where autosaves live, and how to carry your work somewhere else.
Keyboard and mouse reference
Every shortcut, and every modifier that changes what a drag does.
When something goes wrong
The symptoms people actually hit, and what each one means.
Checking an ad before delivery
The Ad Delivery Check: length to the frame, the disclaimer, safe areas, loudness, black and silence at the edges, and the delivery format.