Pinnacle Systems miroVIDEO DV200, User Manual

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User´s Guide
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miroINSTANT V
IDEO
2.0
General
miroINSTANT Video accelerates video productions providing smart and
powerful functions to edit, preview and print-to-tape of DV encoded
material. Complete productions can be recorded back to tape selecting the
Synchronous start option.
In the past, in order to output your project or to get a high-quality preview,
you had to ”make a movie”. During this time-consuming process, the editing
application would copy all of your source material into a new AVI file. This
would happen not only for the areas where you applied an effect or a
transition, but for the entire length of your production. Not only did this
take a considerable amount of time, but it also requires the same amount of
disk space as the clips you already captured. In addition, your output was
limited to a maximum size of 2 GB (2048 MB) because of a restriction of
Video for Windows.
miroINSTANT Video changes all of this. Instead of ”making a movie”, you
may now invoke miroINSTANT Video, which will scan through your project
and create AVI files only for the areas where you applied effects or
transitions. This is—depending on the complexity of your project—up to
twenty times faster and will not waste disk space by copying material that has
not been modified.
But miroINSTANT Video goes even further—it will play back the resulting
range of AVI files automatically and seamlessly right from the construction
window timeline by automatically accessing the miroAVI Cache. Thus, the
fact that you did not ”make a movie” is totally transparent. miroINSTANT
Video does not require that you keep track of the separate AVI files, it does
it for you.
Even better, with miroINSTANT Video, your production may be as long as
your disk space allows (up to the 60 minute limit of Adobe Premiere). As
there is no one file that everything is being copied to, there is also no 2GB
limitation.
In most cases, the miroINSTANT Video plug-in should be installed on your
system. If not, you deselected the miroINSTANT Video option in the
installer. If this is the case and you want to install miroINSTANT Video
now, see the “Installing the DV200 software later” chapter on page 22.