User guide

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system and are used to perform editing and video as well as audio pro-
cessing tasks. These modules are the Edit Tool, the I/O Tool, the Con-
figuration Tool, and Spycer, the innovative content management
software by DVS. They are the basic software modules of the DVS sys-
tem, i.e. the ones that you will use most in your every day work. You
can see them in the drawing above in the oval ’Software User Inter-
face’.
The Edit Tool
The Edit Tool is the software module that allows you to assemble video
material by adding cuts, dissolves, wipes, etc. as well as audio material
on a timeline. In the timeline you can add clips of different formats and
resolutions and process them, for example, via color corrections, scal-
ings or zooming and panning. Additionally, in this module you can per-
form a DCI Mastering and create properly encoded and encrypted
digital cinema packages (DCPs, see the “CLIPSTER DCI Mastering”
supplement accessible via the software’s online help). The Edit Tool
module is compatible with the EDL (edit decision list) standard and sup-
ports it via its sophisticated conforming tool, allowing you, for example,
to import EDLs, conform them, work with the built-up timeline freely,
and afterwards export your work to a new EDL. One of the main fea-
tures of the Edit Tool is that all editing tasks are performed virtually, i.e.
the original material on the storage is never altered. The clips used in
the DVS software are only representations of the original material on
the storage. With this you can use the same material over and over
again with different effects while the master is always maintained.
The I/O Tool
The I/O Tool is mainly used for the digitization of a variety of different
input sources, meaning the recording/capturing of video and audio
data with the DVS system from other sources than computer storages.
You can capture material from any source you like and record it in a
freely selectable format, with or without color space conversion. For in-
stance, you can capture data from telecines, VTRs, or even cameras –
as desired in an automated batch processing mode or manually. Of
course, playing out the recorded material as well as of all other clips
present on the system can be performed without any effort as well. Fur-
thermore, the processing of EDLs is fully supported in the software, for
Depending on your system configuration there may be other
tools and modules available on your system. Further informa-
tion about these can be found in their respective user guides.
Once the DVS software is started, you can access the different
modules available on your system easily via the task bar of the
user interface (see section “The Task Bar” on page 2-9).