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Setting Up for Tape Output
Before you perform an edit to tape, the Capture and Playback panel of the Project Settings has
a number of options that you should set to match the format and type of tape output
you’re doing.
General Options
The Output LTC checkbox, when turned on, directs DaVinci Resolve to output LTC timecode.
Capture and Playout Settings
These settings affect both capture and playback when using the Tape Ingest options of the
Media page, or the Tape Output options of the Deliver page.
Video capture and playback: You can choose the video format (frame size and frame
rate) with which to output to tape from this drop-down menu. HD timelines can be
downconverted to SD, and SD timelines can be upconverted to HD using the format
conversion of your DeckLink card.
Use left and right eye SDI: A checkbox that enables supported video interfaces to
ingest and output muxed stereoscopic video when used with supported VTRs, such
as HDCAM SR decks with 4:2:2 x 2 mode. (When muxed stereoscopic signals are
ingested, each eye is separated into individual left-eye and right-eye image files.) This
parameter only appears when your hardware is set up appropriately.
Video connection operates as: Selects between the available signal options: Use
4:4:4 SDI, and enable Single Link. Which options are available depend on which video
capture card you are using.
Data Levels: Lets you specify the data range (normally scaled or full range) that’s
used when ingesting from or outputting to tape. This option switches the data range
of the signal output by your video capture card, but only during capture from tape in
the Media page, or output to tape in the Deliver page. When capture or output is not
currently occurring, your video capture card goes back to using the identically named
data range setting in the Master Settings panel of the Project Settings, which governs
how you monitor the signal being output on an external broadcast display or projector.
Video bit depth: Choose the bit depth that corresponds to the capability of your deck.
You can choose between 8-bit and 10-bit. Outputting to 10-bit is more processor
intensive, but higher quality for compatible devices, and is the default setting.
Use deck autoedit: If supported by your video deck, this is the best method to record
video to the deck, as it enables the deck to roll the edit using the specified preroll, and
control the edits via serial device control. If this checkbox is turned off, a basic edit On/
Off mode is used by the deck, with the potential for frame inaccuracies if the “Non auto
edit timing” setting is not properly adjusted.
Non auto edit timing: Adjusts the edit synchronization of the connected deck when
auto edit is turned off.
Deck preroll: Sets the number of seconds for preroll. How much is appropriate
depends on the performance of your deck.
Video output sync source: When using a DeckLink card this is set to Auto. Other capture
cards may require you to set the sync source to “Reference” for playout and “Input” for
ingest. This setting is only available if you have a DVS card installed on your system.
Add 3:2 pulldown: Inserts or removes the 3:2 pulldown required to record or play 23.98
fps media to or from a 29.97 tape format.
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