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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
manually set to VTR as the ’Source type’ (see section “Conforming
Mode – The Work Area” on page 8-27).
After this the batch list will be transferred to the I/O Tool of the DVS
software where it is displayed in the batch record mode ready for a cap-
turing. When finished with the batch capturing, the clips of the EDL will
be automatically linked to the new source material in the Edit Tool.
A click on the button CAPTURE DATA… opens the following window:
Figure 8-36: Capturing data
With the check box Add head & tail activated, you can determine the
amount of heads and tails that should be captured in addition to the
material pointed to by the source in- and outpoints. Afterwards the
captured clips will provide the entered handles on either side of their
in-/outpoints. Enter the number of heads and tails in the entry field to
the right either in frames or timecode notation. The notation can be
switched with the combo box to the left.
By activating the check box Consolidate Clips you can prevent mul-
tiple capturings of the same material. This is useful if the captured ma-
terial comes from the same source (reel) and some source in-/outpoints
are either overlapping or near each other. Use the Tolerance as set-
tings items to determine the tolerance for the detection of the consoli-
dated clips. It specifies the maximal allowed gap length between two
events of the same reel (plus one frame). If within the tolerance, their
A setting to VTR for ’Source type’ can be performed automat-
ically: For this simply follow the message displayed in case no
clip of the EDL is set to VTR.