User guide

7-1

The VTR Task Mode

Optionally available for the I/O Tool is a VTR emulation mode that per-

fectly mimics the behavior of a logical VTR. With this feature the DVS

system can be used as a VTR or professional digital disk recorder and

you can easily record material on the timeline of the VTR mode and

play it out afterwards (in master as well as slave mode).

When the VTR task mode is available for your system, you will have a

further task mode button below the record mode buttons in the selec-

tion area of the I/O Tool:

Figure 7-1: The VTR task mode button

With this button you can switch to the VTR task mode and, as soon as

a VTR timeline is created anew or loaded via a project file, you will be

able to record material to or play it out from a single timeline. For this

the VTR timeline provides an overall length of 24 hours and the record-

ed clips will all be saved in a predefined raster and file format. In its au-

toedit mode the VTR task mode will command an externally connected

device via RS-422 to perform a play-out for a record operation on the

timeline. However, crash record operations can be performed with the

VTR task mode as well. Because the VTR mode of the I/O Tool stores

the files in the Windows file system same as the other record task

The VTR task mode is an optionally available feature of CLIP-

STER. Depending on the overall configuration of your video

workstation this feature may not be provided.

VTR task mode