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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
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C- the 'Poly' vs 'Mono' case
On top of faster Idle Backup, Monophonic files offer the advantage
of never reaching the FAT32 4GB limit. But because vintage NLEs
(pre-Avid MC v4) can't create auto-links between Monophonic
tracks of a take, the Polyphonic filing system is still in use.
• Native
Poly
AB1234.PN (stored in .AAN folders).
•
Rotate1 Poly
AB1234PS (stored in .AAR folders).
•
Rotate2
Poly
AB1234PR (stored in .AAR folders).
05 T7T8 trtmt
(treatment)
Native Poly 16Trnc Poly 16Dith Poly
Applicable if T7T8 or T8T8 appear in BACKUP.03, this treat-
ment reduces 96kHz to 48kHz and converts the file pair into
a Polyphonic file stored in an .AAX folder.
Native Poly
16 or 24-bit, interleaves T7T8 at native bit-depth.
16Trnc Poly
truncates 24-bit to 16-bit, interleaves T7T8.
16Dith Poly
dithers 24-bit to 16-bit,
interleaves T7T8. (Dither offers a
better quality than truncate but
requires twice as much time).
note:
'treatments' (04 & 05) and 'track select' (03) are
recalled from one recording session to the next, they are
erased when the (03) menu bottom row is opened.
06 Media Type
Ext. HD/CF Int. CF DVD–RAM CD–R 700MB
DVD±R 4.7GB DVD+R 8.5GB
Ext. HD/CF,
when working with an external CF burner,
power Cantar without the card, wait for the internal HD three-
platter icon to appear, then insert the card.
Int. CF
selected, the [eye] button displays the available space
in MBytes (p.54).
DVD
can take up to 20sec to be checked
before its 'one-platter' icon appears in the right circular screen.
About DVD-RAM MAC/PC compatibility, see SESSION.04
(p.36), and Tutorial (p.43).
07 Burn Mode
Burn Only Burn+Check
(Check Only)
Checking a DVD takes just as much time as burning it.
08 FilesToCopy
All Unarchived
Select '
All
' to make a second batch of DVDs with all files,
previously copied or not. Select '
Unarchived
' before starting
a DVD mid-day copy, this causes the software to look at
the 'Archive' flag on the files. Previously copied/archived files
flagged as such will not be copied again.
09 File Name
W/. Sc&Tk FiletagOnly
W/. Sc&Tk
brings long filetags such as "BA1234==123A
12R w14==_1.wav", to editors. Select this option for CD/
and DVD backups since long names are supported by ISO
and UDF1.5 formats.
'
FileTagOnly
' such as "BA1234_1.wav"
for HD, DVD-RAM
and CF since long names are not supported by the basic
FAT32 format.
Note that Majax can extract the Sc/Tk ID
from the iXML chunk and add it to the file names en route to
Post on FAT32 or exFAT64 formatted drives.
10 Media Label
DVD 1/N CD 1/N MD* 1/N
* for CF & DVD-RAM
'
N
' gives the number of media needed for the backup.
Press [ok] and select the media # to burn.
[shift] [eye] displays the Media Label given to a disk, e.g.,
CD_MXD_2/5 means CD-R – Mixdown – Disk #2 of a
5 disk group. The remaining data volume to be burned is
displayed too.
The large file case
The length of a take can make it impossible to copy it entirely
onto one CD. For instance if a 200MB file comes in with its
five brothers (a six-track take), 1.2GB media is required. In
this case, Cantar separates the take into its individual tracks
while minimizing the number of media. The label becomes
CD_2_D072, where [CD] is the media, [_2] is the track
rank, and [D072] the last four characters of the filename.
Example of a CD/DVD label
An ISO volume label is limited to 31 characters
Cantar# Project Date Archiv* Tag type 1 or 2
099 AAAAAAAA YYYYMMDD # CD_T1-6_001
* The archive flag is either a (space) or a (#) to show if only
unarchived files have been burned; a way to know why
some files, probably burned on another media, are missing.
BACKUP
TREATMENTS
BACKUP 05
T7T8 Trtmt
16 dith poly
