Specifications

Video Satellite Guide58
To record audio and video to tape from
Media Composer and Pro Tools simultaneously:
1 Make sure that your system is set up as follows:
• Pro Tools and the Media Composer video
satellite computers are linked.
• Audio outputs on the Pro Tools HD audio
interface are connected to the appropriate
audio inputs on the VTR.
• Video outputs from Media Composer sys-
tem are connected to the VTR.
• If you are using deck control, the deck con-
trol cable from Media Composer is con-
nected to the VTR, and the VTR is set to
Remote mode.
2 Insert a video tape into your VTR.
3 To ensure that the tape deck is properly con-
figured, refer to the following topic in
Media Composer Help (
Help > Avid
Media Composer Help
): Configuring a Deck or
Multiple Decks.
4 Do one of the following:
• Select one of the displayed tape names and
click
OK.
– or –
• Click New to add a new tape to the list.
5 If you are capturing using a FireWire-based
Avid video peripheral, ensure that the Device
setting is set to DNA. See “Configuring the Cap-
ture Tool” on page 53. for further information.
6 Drag the sequence you want to record to tape
from the bin to the Record Monitor.
7 Select Output > Digital Cut. The Digital Cut Tool
appears.
8 If you want to set In and Out points for a digi-
tal cut.
9 Do one of the following:
• Select the
Entire Sequence option to record
the entire sequence.
– or –
• Deselect the
Entire Sequence option and set
the In and Out points in the Timeline.
10 If you are laying back over a FireWire (1394)
connection (
Special > Device > IEEE 1394), se-
lect the appropriate output mode from the Out-
put Mode pop-up menu as follows:
• If all of the media on your Timeline is
DV25, or if it is all DV50, and all of your ef-
fects are rendered, you can achieve a
slightly higher quality of output by select-
ing DV25 or DV50 as appropriate.
– or –
• Otherwise, you must select the RT DV25 or
RT DV50 options to render and transcode
all of your video to that format.
When using Media Composer in Satellite
mode for 24p and 23.976 projects, only the
24 and 23.976 Output Formats are sup-
ported. The 29.97 Output Format (+25%
playback speed with no pulldown) is not
supported in Satellite mode for 24p and
23.976p projects.
Digital Cut Tool