THE MERIDIAN MANUAL

Know your tools. Find your flow.

A clear guide to your entire workspace. Find a setting, understand a workflow, or discover a different way to get there.

Getting started

Meet your workspace Projects and sequences Canvas and frame rate Keyboard shortcuts Saving and recovery

Media & projects

Importing media Organizing your library Proxies and optimized media Relinking missing originals Collecting a portable project

Editing

Source and sequence viewers Append, insert, and overwrite Precision trimming Selection and track targets Linked picture and sound Magnetic editing Speed and retiming Named versions and comparison

Color

The color workflow Reading the video scopes LUTs and creative looks Source color interpretation

Audio

The audio mixer Clip gain and fades Buses and processing Loudness and true peak Music ducking

Titles & captions

Flat title presets Font, color, and layout Safe areas and framing guides Captions overview Generating speech captions Editing cues and word timing Subtitle import and export

Delivery

Export settings Export queue and recovery Vertical and alternate formats

Troubleshooting

Playback looks wrong or stutters Caption generation needs attention An export fails or looks different No sound or an unexpected mix