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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
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The
Pre-Post-Record [PPR]
position is unique to Cantar, it al-
lows three important functions: pre-record buffer activation,
metadata entering/editing, and last take erasure.
Pre-record buffer
While the [MainSelector] is on PPR, the pre-record buffer
stores the audio in a First-In/First-Out (FIFO) buffer memory
and dumps them to the HD as soon as REC is activated.
The '•
rec
' icon blinks under the disk(s) selected for record-
ing. Once the buffer is full, up to 13 sec. @ 48kHz, it starts
discarding the First-In audio, the middle platter of the 'three-
platter' icon disappears; this is a way to verify the selected
buffer length (AUDIO/TC.08 ‘PreRec Dur’, p.31).
Pre-Rec metadata entry: 'NEXT take'
While in PPR, enter/edit the scene ID, take #, commments,
track-names and Audio-Ref of the NEXT take, then press [ok]
to validate.
Two remarks:
1– the use of Arcan, Tarkan or
keyboard (p.58) considerably speeds up metadata entry;
2– [shift] [jog] accelerates letter scrolling 10x.
1 Scene and Take
The first screen displays '
Seq Scn Tak
'. Press [ok] to go
down to the bottom line and use [>] or [<] to scroll along
the characters and modify them with [jog.] Press [ok] to
store and exit.
• The default template is
nnnA/nnA.nn
for 'sequence,
scene, take-gender and take #'.
-
Sequence:
three digits, followed by one character*.
-
Scene:
two digits, followed by one character*.
*'space', 'A' to 'Z', 'a' to 'z', '0' to '9'.
-
Take-gender:
t =
t
ime synced, p =
p
ick-up, w =
w
ild
track, a =
a
nnounce, n =
n
o good (keeps the take # for
the next file). This
t-p-w-a-n
list is scrolled with the [red]
button.
-
Take #:
two digits.
• An open
XXXXXXX.XX
template is also available, (see
AUDIO/TC.12 'ScTk Templt', p.31).
At each new take, the sequence & scene is maintained and
the take # is incremented by one. Modifying the sequence or
scene ID causes the take # to reset to '1', and the take-gender
to 't'. The rectangular screen displays the filetag of the NEXT
recording.
2 Comments
[jog] to '
Tk Comment
' and press [ok] to activate the bottom
line where the former comment appears. Characters (200
max.) can be entered with [<], [>] and [jog] but it is much
easier to use a keyboard or a remote PDA with Arcan.
Depending upon the keyboard [insert] key toggle status, a
flickering square (insert) or a flickering pipe (overwrite) is dis-
played. Enter your comments. and press [ok] to validate.
note :
to erase the comment line inherited from the preceding
take, press [shift] [esc].
3 Track-names
[jog] to '
TrackName 1
', [ok] to go to the bottom row.
[shift] [jog] or keyboard's [shift] [up/down] arrows show the
available list of track-names.
Track-name completion relies upon a library of the last thirty
track-names in use. This automatic process speeds up track-
naming by letting you pre-store the names of the film's main
actors and swiftly recall them by their first two letters. Press
[ok] or [enter], and [jog] to '
TrackName 2
', etc.
Track-names are modifiable at all times and are stored in
each and every audio file, this means that
an ISO file car
-
ries its own track-names
.
Library cleaning
By [jog]-ing past '
TrackName 8
' you reach '
Del TrkName
',
[ok], select the track-name to be erased, [ok]. If you decide
not to erase it, press [esc]. In a bind and no time to name
the tracks of the next take, it is better to remove the former
take's track-names than to carry incorrect ones in the next
take.
Go to the track-name editing line (any track will do), and
press [shift] [esc]; the following generic names will replace
them :
T1
to
T8
on native monophonics;
ms-M
and
ms-S
on
M/S tracks ;
MixRight
and
MixLeft
on mixdown tracks.
Press a [track-solo] button to display that track's name in the
rectangular screen.
note1 :
to allow for a possible entry from a PDA, the generic
track-names above are only recorded upon completion of
the take.
PPR
BUFFER & METADATA
