Car Video System User Manual

Chapter 3: Basic Media Station|PT Workflows 47
4 If necessary, enable control of the tape deck by
clicking the Toggle Source button so that it does
not display a circle with a slash.
5 Below the Record button, click the record en-
able buttons as needed to record your video, au-
dio, and time code inputs. (V is for video, A1–A8
are for audio, and TC is the time code channel).
6 Choose the video and audio input sources
from the Video Input and Audio Input pop-up
menus.
7 Select the bin where you wish the captured
clips to appear.
8 Choose the resolution of video you wish to
capture from the Res pop-up menu. For exam-
ple:
• 1:1 is uncompressed and has the best qual-
ity, but takes up the most storage space and
requires several drives to play back cor-
rectly.
• 20:1 takes up the least amount of storage
space, but has the lowest quality picture.
• DV25 has a good quality picture with a
moderate level of compression.
• 10:1m and 4:1m are multi-cam resolutions
and should not be used if the video will be
exported to Pro Tools.
• Resolutions beginning with 720p, 1080i, or
1080p are all HD resolutions and should
not be used if the video will be exported to
Pro Tools.
The TC (time code) button should always
be enabled, even though no time code is be-
ing sent.
This setting does not affect where the cap-
tured files are stored. All captured media
files are stored in the OMFI Media Files
folder (for OMF media) or Avid MediaFiles
folder (for MXF media) on the volumes de-
termined in the Media Creation dialog. A
bin in Media Station|PT is analogous to the
Audio region lists in Pro Tools, except that a
project in Media Station|PT may have an
unlimited number of bins, and clips may be
organized between the bins as best suits the
user.
Avid Media Station|PT Capture Tool (Storage controls)
Video
storage
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Storage
Audio
storage