User guide

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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
To prepare the bin for a project you have to fill it with audio and/or vid-
eo material first. There are several ways to do this: The best and most
informative way is to use Spycer (see section “Adding Clips to the Bin
Using Spycer” on page 4-10), but they can also be added by using a
file manager, which is more appropriate when using the Edit Tool for
the first time:
y Open a Windows file manager, for example, the Windows Explorer
with the keyboard combination [Windows ( ) + E].
y In the file manager select a video file (either a file within a directory
or the directory itself) on the storage where the video data is stored.
y Drag and drop the selected video file/directory to the contents area
of the bin with the help of the mouse:
You can configure the appearance of the bin freely. It will be
saved together with the project file:
– You can arrange the areas horizontally if you like (select the
respective appearance from the context menu of the bin’s
title bar).
– Via the buttons in the button area you can set whether the
clips shall be seen as thumbnails with text or with their text
information only.
– The kind of text information displayed in the bin can be set
freely with the Configuration Tool (button CONFIG… or
Options » Project config…).
Furthermore, the right edge of the tool area can be moved, for
example, to display the contents of the activated tool com-
pletely. Then, in case of the bin, you will be able to view the
thumbnails together with all text information available. If you
pull the right edge of the tool area completely to the left, the
tool area will no longer be visible; if you pull it completely to
the right, the control area will be hidden and the contents of
the activated tool will be displayed in full.
The DVS software works with standard computer files. Video
and audio data should be stored on the designated storage
only (e.g. the system’s main storage or a DVS-SAN). Other
storage locations may be too slow for real-time operations.
Furthermore, it is strongly recommended to use the main stor-
age for video and audio as well as project related data only.
Save other data on the system disks.
For a list of the supported file formats see section “Support-
ed File Formats” on page A-9.