User guide

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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
When everything is set and the OK button is clicked, the showing/hid-
ing of heads and tails will be applied to the clips in the timeline. If the
entered lengths of handles would either reduce or exceed the duration
of at least one clip beyond the boundaries of its source material, you
will be informed about this by the DVS software. Then, when returning
to the window ’Show / Hide handles’, the maximum lengths of the
handles that can be set for the clips in the timeline will be indicated in
the entry field of the setting Handles as. With this applied the show-
ing/hiding of handles can be performed without causing a further
warning.
Add pre/post-roll…
This function adds black clips in front and/or behind each clip in the
timeline. These can be used as pre-/post-rolls for the clips of an EDL,
for instance, when recording them back on tape again. The black clips
that are inserted are generated virtually from a single black image add-
ed to the main storage of your system. The clips also provide virtual
source timecodes matching the source timecodes of the clips they pre-
cede or follow in the timeline. For further information about virtual
source timecode see section “About Source Timecode” on page 2-15.
A click on this button opens the following window:
Figure 8-39: Adding pre-/post-rolls
By activating the check boxes to the left you can decide whether pre-
or post-rolls or both should be added to the clips in the timeline. Their
lengths can be entered in the entry fields to the right either in frames or
timecode notation (which can be switched with the provided combo
boxes).
When everything is set and the OK button is pressed, the pre-/post-
rolls will be added as clips showing black images in front and/or behind
each clip in the timeline. Once set, they can be adjusted easily by ap-
Audio files are disregarded when using this function.
When adding pre-/post-rolls, transitions will be replaced by
hard cuts. However, they can be restored again by selecting
the menu option Undo on the Edit menu (see section “The
’Edit’ Menu” on page 9-17).