Instruction manual

System 5 Digital Audio Mixing System Operation Manual Dynamic Automation
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Entering Notes
Click in the Start Time field to begin entering a note. Press the Enter or Tab keys on
the keyboard to move one field to the right. The fields do not have to be entered from
left to right and some fields are calculated automatically. For example, you can select an
Operation before setting time fields. If Start and End Times are entered, the Duration
field is calculated automatically. If Start Time and Duration fields are entered, End is
calculated automatically. The Total Change field is not set by the user but is calculated
automatically. It displays the net time change for all notes up to and including the
present one.
When all notes fields have been filled with valid entries, you must press the Add button,
which automatically enters the note in chronological order with respect to the other notes.
Pressing Enter or Tab with all fields filled with valid entries is equivalent to clicking the
Add button. When the number of notes exceeds the maximum screen size, a scroll bar
appears to display additional pages. Figure 13-16 shows all three operation types.
Figure 13-16 Conform screen with notes
For a Move operation, fill in the first row, including the to field. These values are used
to automatically calculate the corresponding insert row after clicking the Add button.
The to field designates the Start Time for the inserted data and the Duration is identical
to that of the deleted data. The inserted row does not have an Operation field and may
not be adjacent to the row labeled Move. Each row is processed in the order in which it
was entered.
Offset
The initial Offset value is derived from the FeetFrames o-set field in the Locate
Registers Panel. However, entering a new value in the Offset field updates the value
in the FeetFrames o-set field in the Locate Registers Panel. Offset is always stated in
SMPTE format regardless of the Conform screen’s display format.
Since the Offset is most commonly used to designate the film’s reel number, the first
reel uses an Offset value of 00:01:00:00. When toggling to SMPTE, the Offset is added
to the values in the time fields. For example, if a Start Time field has a value of 0+6
and the Offset is 00:01:00:00, clicking FeetFrames changes to SMPTE and the Start
Time now displays 00:01:00:06.