User guide

System 5 Digital Audio Mixing System User Guide150
Entering Notes
Click in the Start Time field to begin entering a note. Press the Enter or Tab keys on the keyboard to move one field to the right.
The fields do not have to be entered from left to right and some fields are calculated automatically. For example, you can select an
Operation before setting time fields. If Start and End Times are entered, the Duration field is calculated automatically. If Start Time and
Duration fields are entered, End is calculated automatically. The Total Change field is calculated automatically, not set by the user. It
displays the net time change for all notes up to and including the present one.
When all notes fields have been filled with valid entries, you must press the Add button to automatically enter the note chrono-
logically. Pressing Enter or Tab with all fields filled with valid entries is equivalent to clicking the Add button. When the number of
notes exceeds the maximum screen size, a scroll bar appears to display additional pages. The figure below shows all three operation
types: Insert, Delete, and Move.
For a Move operation, fill in the first row, including the to field. These values are used to automatically calculate the corresponding
insert row after clicking the Add button. The to field designates the Start Time for the inserted data and the Duration is identical to
that of the deleted data. The inserted row does not have an Operation field and need not be adjacent to the row labeled Move. Each
row is processed in the order in which it was entered.
Offset
The initial Offset value is derived from the FeetFrames o-set field in the Locate Registers Panel. However, entering a new value
in the Conform screen’s Offset field updates the FeetFrames o-set value in the Locate Registers Panel. Offset is always stated in
SMPTE format, regardless of the Conform screen’s display format.
Since the Offset typically designates the film’s reel number, the first reel uses an Offset value of 00:01:00:00. When toggling to
SMPTE, the Offset is added to the values in the time fields. For example, if a Start Time field is 0+6 and the Offset is 00:01:00:00,
clicking FeetFrames changes to SMPTE and the Start Time now displays 00:01:00:06.
Storing and Recalling Notes
The tabs below the time display perform global file operations.
Conform screen with notes
Clear Notes
Removes all note entries from the current Conform screen.
Notes are not automatically cleared after a Conform operation.
Store Notes Stores the current notes using a Windows file interface.
Recall Notes Recalls a notes file into the current screen using a Windows file interface.