User guide

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The Conforming Tool
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outpoints. The possibilities when adapting the conforming in the time-
line directly are explained in section “Working with EDLs from the
Timeline” on page 8-22. The possibilities of the conforming mode are
in detail described in section “The Conforming Mode in General” on
page 8-25 and the sections following this one.
Furthermore, the conforming mode can also be used to verify the result
of the conforming. With the split screen function of the preview area
you can easily compare the built up EDL in the timeline with a low-res-
olution clip created from the offline edited EDL frame accurately. For
further information about this please refer to section “Working with
Split Screen” on page 8-64.
8.1.3 Important Notes
This section provides some notes that should be observed prior to per-
forming a conforming:
General
– The most important concept for a successful conforming is that you
should know your source, for example, whether the files to be con-
formed provide a timecode via their frame numbering, whether the
directories are named according to reels, or the files’ headers pro-
vide source timecodes and/or reel names, etc. To be successful the
conforming has to be set accordingly.
– The frame rate of the imported EDL must be set correctly: It must
be set to the native frame rate of the EDL, otherwise the timecodes
will be calculated wrongly. Please observe a possible drop-frame
timecode as well.
– An autoconforming as described in section “First Steps to Make a
Conforming” on page 8-6 can be performed with source timecode,
keycode or file numbers. Offsets cannot be set at this stage. For this
you have to use the conforming mode.
Further information about source timecode and keycode can
be found in section “Notes on Source Timecode and Keycode”
on page 2-15.
For a conforming with source timecode or keycode *.dpx,
*.mov as well as *.mxf files are supported.
For further information about Spycer see the “Spycer” user
guide.
If, no matter what, a conforming persistently fails for certain
events, they can be manually referenced to source material by
relinking them (see section “Relinking Clips” on page 6-58).
However, then no new bin clip will be created, but the proper-
ties of this event will be changed.