Specifications

Chapter 4: Using Video Satellite LE 11
Spotting Video to the
Pro Tools LE Timeline
Once a session is created (or an existing session
opened) and the video has been imported, the
video must be set to the correct start time so that
it runs in sync with the audio on the
Pro Tools|HD system.
If the Video Satellite LE system has the Com-
plete Production Toolkit or DV Toolkit 2 in-
stalled, video can be spotted to the desired start
time by matching time code or feet+frames val-
ues. If the system does not have one of these
toolkits installed, video can still be spotted to
the desired location using the following tech-
nique.
To Set the correct video start time on a Video
Satellite LE system without time code support:
1 Set the Pro Tools LE system’s timeline to
Min:Secs.
1 Set the Session Start time on the Pro Tools LE
system to match the Pro Tools|HD system.
2 Put the Pro Tools LE system in Spot mode and
select the Grabber tool.
3 Control-click the video region. This opens the
Spot dialog and copies the current cursor loca-
tion into the Start field in the Spot dialog.
4 Click OK to spot the movie to this location.
Optimizing Synchronization
Settings Between the
Administrator and Satellite
Systems
Compensating for Different Start Times
in Pro Tools and Video Satellite LE
In some cases, you may want the Video Satellite
LE system to be offset from the administrator
system to accommodate for external deck offsets
or differences in session start time.
You can control the amount of offset by chang-
ing the Time Code Offset parameters on the
Pro Tools LE video satellite system.
To compensate for different start times:
1 In Pro Tools, go to Setup > Session. The Ses-
sion Setup window appears.
2 In the Time Code Offsets section, compensate
for the offset between Pro Tools and Video Satel-
lite LE as follows:
• If the start time of the video clip in video
satellite falls before the start time of the
Pro Tools HD session, type a positive time
code value into the Satellite Offset field.
• If the start time of the video clip in video
satellite falls after the start time of the
Pro Tools HD session, type a negative time
code value into the Satellite Offset field.