User`s guide

The Media Contro Panel
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The menu bar gives you access to the following:
• The File pulldown menu, which lets you load or unload an existing clip, create a
new clip, or close the control panel. Most of the functions available in this pulldown
menu are also available through buttons in the control panel.
• The View pulldown menu, which lets you access the Deck Control window. The
Speed Control Panel, and the MPEG-2 controls. The Deck Control window, shown
in Figure A-5 on page 153, is used to control a video deck attached to the
SGI Media Server. See “Using the Deck Control Window” on page 154 for more
information.
• The Utilities pulldown menu, which lets you access the following:
– IRIX audio panel
– IRIX video panel
– Unit Status Monitor (mcstat), described in section “The Unit Status Monitor”
on page 159
– Clip Manager (mcclips), described in section “The Clip Manager” on page 160
The following describes each of the displays and buttons in the control panel:
• The Clip field contains the name of the clip, if one is loaded. The display is blank if
a clip is not loaded.
• The Load, Create, and Unload function buttons let you load an existing clip, create
a new one and record into it, and unload a clip, respectively.
• The cue points (under Cue) are used to move around within a clip and to control the
portion of the clip that is played. An in point (In), the duration (Dur), and an out
point (Out) are specified using the following format:
hh:mm:ss:ff
The hh field is the hours, mm is the minutes, ss is the seconds, and ff is the frame
number. In drop-frame mode, the final colon is replaced by a period:
hh:mm:ss.ff
For example, if a clip with a cue in point of 00:00:30.00 is cued for playing, it is cued
at thirty seconds.
See “Changing Cue Points and Edit Points” on page 151 for information about how
to change the cue points.