Specifications

Video Satellite Guide48
Compensating for Different Sequence
Start Times in Pro Tools and a Video
Satellite
You can compensate for any offsets that might
occur if the start times of an Avid sequence dif-
fer between Media Composer and Pro Tools.
To compensate for different sequence start times:
1 In Pro Tools, go to Setup > Session. The Ses-
sion Setup window will appear.
2 In the External Timecode Offset section, com-
pensate for the offset between Pro Tools and
Video Satellite as follows:
• If the start time of the video satellite se-
quence falls before the start time of the
Pro Tools sequence, type a positive time-
code value into the Satellite Offset field.
• If the start time of the video satellite se-
quence falls after the start time of the
Pro Tools sequence, type a negative time-
code value into the Satellite Offset field.
Compensating for Monitor-
Induced Output Delay
Many monitors add a delay to the video output
of one or more frames. You can compensate for
this delay by advancing the video output by the
necessary number of frames.
To set the number of frames to offset video output:
1 In Media Composer, choose Settings > Video
Satellite Settings
.
2 In the Video Satellite Offset field, type a posi-
tive value that matches the amount of delay in
the monitors. You may need to try a few different
settings.
Linking or Unlinking
Pro Tools and a Video
Satellite
After you have connected Pro Tools and a video
satellite to each other and configured them, you
can control their behavior with controls in the
Pro Tools and Media Composer transports.
When linked, Pro Tools and Media Composer
support the following transport operations:
• With audio playback:
•Play
•Half-speed Play
•Loop Play
•Shuttle
•Scrub
•Record
•Loop Record
• FF/REW (with the Audio During FF/RW
preference turned on in Pro Tools))
• Without audio playback:
•Locate
•Nudge
•Selecting
When using the J, K and L keys to shuttle in
Media Composer, Pro Tools will play audio at 1x
forward, but not in reverse or any other possible
playback speeds.
Standard Pro Tools MachineControl Option
functionality is unaffected and independent
from the video satellite transport opera-
tions. However, chasing MIDI Machine Con-
trol or MIDI timecode while linked to a
video satellite is not supported.