User guide

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Real-time Capability of Clips
With an optimized system and a main storage that incorporates fully
functioning hard disks, the DVS system can handle two data streams of
film material up to 2K in RGB 12 bit in real time. If you want to process
material of a higher resolution or bit depth, the real-time capability of
the system cannot be ensured.
The real-time capability of the DVS system depends on various factors,
such as frame size, play-out frequency, location of the clip on the stor-
age, etc. When adding a clip to the bin, it will be checked whether its
location and/or file format are real-time capable.
Clips that may cause trouble because of their location and/or file format
invoke a warning message when added to the bin. Then the clip will be
visibly marked in the contents area of the bin: In the thumbnail view a
warning icon will be superimposed on the thumbnail and the respective
text information that is the cause for this warning will be colored in yel-
low:
Figure 4-9: Clip marked in the bin
In the figure above the top clip is stored on a system drive. Because this
location is not real-time capable (it may not provide enough data trans-
Additional checks will be performed when adding clips to the
timeline. If any exceed the real-time capability of the DVS sys-
tem, they will be subject to a prerendering (see section “Prer-
endering of Timeline Elements” on page 6-46).
This behavior, i.e. the warning message as well as the marking
of a clip in the contents area of the bin, can be configured with
the setting Warn if base directory mismatch (group Gener-
al) in the Configuration Tool of the DVS software (see “CLIP-
STER Configurations” user guide for more details).
marked clip