User manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Congratulations!
Congratulations on the purchase of your new
system! We thank you for the confidence and
trust you have shown us, and we hope that the
system will meet your expectations.
This manual has been devised for all current
MacroSystem equipment running
Smart Edit. It will help you with any connection
and installation issues. Feel free to contact us to
ask further questions or to give us suggestions.
Whenever you contact us, please have your
customer number or the serial number of your
system device at hand so that we can help you
more quickly.
Address :
MacroSystem Digital Video AG
Postfach 020240
58290 Wetter
Germany
MacroSystem US
5485 Conestoga Court
Boulder, Colorado
USA 80301
Phone
0 +49 (0)2335/960-0 (Germany)
303-440-5311 (North America)
E-Mail
[e-mail] (Germany)
[e-mail] (North America)
Fax
0 +49 (0)2335/960-100 (Germany)
303-440-5322 (North America)
Phone Support
If you have special technical questions, you can
call our technical support hotline:
(Germany)
Monday -Thursday from 10.00 to 17.00 hours
Friday 10.00 to 16.00 hours
+49 (0)2335/960-112
(North America)
Monday - Friday 9a.m. - 5p.m. (Mountain Stan-
dard Time)
303-801-1010
Outside of these times you can email or fax us.
Messages received in this way are handled du-
ring business hours.
E-Mail Support
[e-mail] (Germany)
[e-mail] (North America)
[e-mail] (N.A.)
[e-mail] (N .A.)
Fax Support
+49 (0)2335/960-110 (Germany)
303-801-1058 (North America)
When calling, please have the serial number of
your device at hand.
Up-to-date information on MacroSystem pro-
ducts and our sales department can be found on
the Internet.
Please visit our Website:
http://www.macrosystem.de (Germany)
ttp://www.macrosystem-louvre.de
http://www.macrosystem-enterprise.de
http://www.casablanca.tv (North America)
1.2 The system
Your system is a complete system for digital
video editing that is superior in data transfer
rate and picture quality to the requirements of
the DV system. The system is operated by a
trackball (supplied in the package) and the user
interface has been designed to be as easy to use
as possible. Software installation is almost fully
automatic and requires only basic user input.
The impressive hardware performance of the
system is ideal for full digital video editing with
MiniDV, (although of course analog equipment
is easily compatible as well.)
DV devices (camcorders, DV decks, etc.) can
be connected through the DV (i-Link) port. This
means that digital video editing has practically