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Configuring your VTR settings
Striping your tapes
Before recording material onto a tape, you should stripe the tape with color
bars and time code. Having continuous and consecutive time code on a
tape lets you perform frame-accurate editing.You may also want to stripe
the tape with a 1-kHz tone to help you check the record level of your VTR.
You can stripe your tapes using the capabilities of your VTR as explained
in your VTR’s manual, or you can use the Stripe Tape utility included with
the DigiSuite Configuration Program.
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To run the Stripe Tape utility:
1
Set your VTR to record time code, and load the tape you want to stripe
into your VTR.
2
Click the Card Set 1 tab, then the VTR Settings tab.
3
Make sure
Enable Recording
is selected, then click
Set Up Recorder
.
4
Click
Stripe Tape
. This displays the following dialog box:
5
Under
Time Code Format
, select the type of time code you want
recorded onto your tape (applicable to NTSC systems only).
6
In the
Initial Time Code
box, type the initial (starting) time code you
want to be recorded onto your tape.
7
In the
Color Bars Duration
and
1-kHz Tone Duration
boxes, type the
amount of time you want the color bars and 1-kHz tone to be recorded,
respectively.
8
Click Start to start the striping.