Instruction manual

Blackmagic Media Express
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Capturing Video and Audio files
Setting up a Project
Before capturing any clips in Media Express, you will need to select the settings for your project. Go to
Media Express>Preferences on Mac OS X or Edit>Preferences on Windows or Linux.
The project formats listed will vary depending upon whether your Blackmagic video hardware supports
features including 1080p and 2K video or even stereoscopic 3D video.
Select from a range of professional compressed and uncompressed capture file formats or even a DPX
image sequence.
Set the storage location for your captured video and audio and choose whether to stop capture or playback
if dropped frames are detected.
Standard definition projects are set to the 4:3 aspect ratio unless you enable the Anamorphic SD 16:9
checkbox.
Usually video applications stop playing video if you send them to the background. If you want Media Express
to keep playing video through your Blackmagic video hardware, even if you open another application in the
foreground, enable the checkbox to "Continue playback when in the background".
The final options relate to tape decks with RS-422 deck control.
Your tape deck requires a pre-roll of a few seconds before performing an edit so the tape speed is stable by
the time it is used for an edit.
Timecode offsets can also be set to calibrate the timecode to the video.