Importing video and setting start code

The first step to building up assets in your picture session is to import video.…The video format that you request from your client should have a burned in…timecode window with the Time Code starting at 0 with the Picture Start.…You should also request dialog and sound effects.…If there is any temp music or other additional music that already exists,…you should request that as a separate delivery, either an audio file, a Pro…Tools session or an OMF.…More on that later.…Before we import the video, let's just check that are Start Code is at hour 1.…

We will do that by opening the Session Setup window.…The Session Start is set to 1 hour. That's perfect.…Let's set the Time Code Rate to 29.97, because I know that's what our incoming video is.…Let's close this window, and import a video.…I am going go under File to import video.…You can also do that with Shift+ Command+I. Let's import Reel 1.…This is going to a new video track, because there isn't any video tracks yet in our session.…We are going to locate it to the Session Start, and because I know there's some…