User`s guide

Chapter 6: Recording and Adding to the Movie Track 37
a video editing system and separate clips re-
corded into Pro Tools. Names from the original
clips are retained, and new names are given to
newly recorded material. For example, two clips
edited together without any transitions or ef-
fects, and named “House Ext” and “House Int,”
will appear as two blocks bordering each other
with those names.
In Blocks mode, you can place the cursor on the
Movie track, then press Tab to move to the next
video edit in the track.
To set the view for the Movie track:
■ On the Movie track, select Frames or Blocks
from the View Options pop-up menu.
Recording Video
You can record multiple video clips to multiple
locations on a single Movie track.
To set video recording options:
1 To record video, you will first need a Movie
track. You can use the existing one, or if neces-
sary, create a new one.
2 Select a video format by clicking the Track op-
tions button (see Figure 3 and Figure 4), then se-
lecting Video Format. You can select NTSC or
PAL format.
3 To select record drives or choose an AVR or
compression ratio, select Display > Edit Window
Shows I/O view.
4 Select the video input you are using by click-
ing the Record options button, then selecting
Video Input. You can select Component or
Composite input (AVoption and AVoption XL),
or S-Video or SDI (AVoption XL only).
5 Set the compression level for the video cap-
ture from the Compression Level pop-up menu.
6 Select the target hard drive volumes for the
video capture. Target volumes capture video in
order, from the first (top) to the last (bottom). In
the following illustration, Video-0 captures
video first, followed by Video-1, then Video-3.
As you add or remove volumes from the track,
the available record time is updated to reflect
available disk space and compression settings.
The time displayed is approximate.
Movie track in Blocks mode
Setting the Compression Level (AVoption)
Setting the Compression Level (AVoption XL)
Target Volumes for Video Capture