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A: The SGI Media Server Control GUIs

• The edit points (under Mark) are persistent values stored with a clip. They are used

to initialize the cue points when the clip is loaded. 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

Note: Edit points may also be referred to as edit marks.

If a clip has edit points associated with it, those values are used to initialize the

clip’s cue points when the clip is loaded. The cue points are often different from the

start and end points of the clip.

See “Changing Cue Points and Edit Points” on page 151 for information about how

to change the edit points.

• To the right of the cue and edit points are the start (Start), the duration (Dur), and

the end (End) of the clip. Each is speciﬁed in 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

If a clip does not have edit points associated with it, these start, duration, and end

values are used to initialize the cue points when the clip is loaded.

Note: You cannot change the values of the start, end, or duration of the clip itself.

However, you can select any of the values and copy them to the cue points or edit

points.

• The cue buttons cue the clip for playout (—>|>) or recording (—>|

•

). The location

at which the clip is cued depends on how the clip is cued and the play direction, as

discussed in the descriptions of the VTR control buttons and the control panel’s

Option pulldown menus. (The play direction is determined by the setting of the

topmost Option pulldown menu.)