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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
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Tally & other recorders REC remote
In REC, the SubD 15 pin-11 is grounded by an open collec-
tor transistor (40mA max.).
Do NOT use a coil activated
device on pin 11, the flyback voltage would kill the transistor.
Use an opto-coupler (see drawing) to avoid ground loops.
AutoSlate
This is the most precise and simplest method ever invented
to sync images and sounds
(p.46).
In AUDIO/TC.13, select the slate detection channel.
While in REC
, press [shift] [silver]
within six seconds
after
a clapstick; the most plosive event preceding [shift] [silver]
creates a Slate Mark. The successive slates generated by a
multi-camera shoot are labeled SA, SB... SG, the slate TC is
displayed in roman characters in the Sound-Report.
The clapstick quality is displayed in the rectangular screen,
25% should be a minimum; at 75% score, you can congratu-
late the slateman!
If you forget to press [shift] [silver], AutoSlate detects the most
plosive sound of the take with a 95% chance of selecting the
clapstick; in this case the Sound-Report's Slate-TC appears in
'
Italic
' to show it must be either confirmed or ignored.
While in PLAY
, [shift] [silver] starts the playback two seconds
before the slate-mark. Majax displays an upright slate icon
on start-slates and a bottom-up icon on tail-slates; click the
icon to listen to the slate announce.
User's markers
Press the [silver] button to create tabs labeled UM1, UM2...
UM10 on wind clicks, boom noise, dialogue slip, etc..
While in PLAY they are accessible with the [silver] button.
BLUE-REC Live
p.48
'Playback' and ADR1
Route the digital inputs carrying the playback tracks;
the an-
alog inputs are recorded in the standard way. To reach the
play-cards, three methods: •
Standalone
, [shift] [>] browses
the play-files, [>] browses the play-cards. •
Keyboard
, type
the card ID (B12, F45, A08) and [enter]. •
Tarkan,
see
p.51.
To launch the first play-card, press [ok], ([space] on a key-
board). To stop before reaching the cue-out, press [ok]. To
replay from the cue-in, press [ok]. To pause, press [esc], to
resume, press [esc].
BLUE-REC Clone
p.48
Remix, ADR-2, and Re-Rec
Route the digital inputs carrying the playback tracks
, go to
BLUE-REC, the last selected play-card of the Clone-X Play-file
starts playing. To abort the on-going 'cloning', go to PPR,
erase the file (
Last take erasure,
p.20) and return to BLUE-
REC.
Continuing to record live audio after the end point of the
cloned take generates a file which is longer than the original
mother file at the risk of overlapping timecode with the next
take. To get a clone of the same length as the original, i.e.
same start and stop TCs: go to BLUE-PPR and trigger the clon-
ing with the keyboard [crtl] [alt] [r]; the recording will stop on
the original file's end.
You can hide unsatisfactory remixes as well as the original file,
and only store the good ones onto the back-up media: go to
BROWSE, 'edit' and 'trash'. If need be, you can rescue them
later from the day's folder stored on the internal drive.
Play&Rec sample-rate
Play&Rec only works at 48kHz ±0.1%. If there is a dis-
crepancy between the play-file sample rate and Cantar's
recording sample rate, a message, e.g. '
PF-47952Hz/Rec-
48000Hz
' is displayed. You can nevertheless proceed to
BLUE-REC: the playback files will be played at the 'Live' re-
cording sample rate, inducing a speed change which can
be useful on filmed music shows transferred to NTSC.
REC
BLUE-REC
