User guide

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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
Multi-clips are a necessity due to file system limitations
of the operating system, meaning Windows may cause
problems if more than 20,000 files are stored in one di-
rectory. However, the DVS software will create multi-
clips automatically, for example, during the finalizing of
a project or when recording a clip with the I/O Tool.
Then, when the clip exceeds a configurable number of
frames in one directory, the DVS software divides the
clip and saves it in as many subdirectories as needed un-
der one main directory. Afterwards this main directory
can be added to the bin as a multi-clip. To recognize
multi-clips correctly a metadata file (Sequence-
Info.xml) is created during finalizing or record, detail-
ing the number of files per folder for this clip. Further
information about finalizing and the storing of a clip in
subdirectories can be found in section “Finalizing the
Timeline” on page 6-80.
When adding an audio multi-clip to the bin, a
thumbnail of the multi-clip will be added to the
contents area of the bin as described above
(possibly several ones if audio was captured in
stereo/mono channel files). In addition, one or
more subfolders will be created in the bin which
will contain the individual clips used for the au-
dio multi-clip. This behavior is useful because,
contrary to video multi-clips, you cannot
change the properties of an audio multi-clip via
the context menu. If you want to change the
properties of an audio multi-clip, you have to
change them for each clip individually in its re-
spective bin subfolder (see section “Changing
the Properties of Clips” on page 4-21).
pending clip: Clips of either audio or video that were
not completely recorded, receive this
icon. Then you will know that parts of
this clip may be missing. However, you
can already use them in the timeline of
the Edit Tool and work with them.
unknown: Files of an unknown type, i.e. files
where the DVS software is not able to
determine whether they are audio or
video files, will get this icon. They can-
not be used in the DVS software.