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choices are Letterbox, Edge Crop, or Anamorphic. Figure 18 illustrates.
Figure 18 SD Scaling Features
6 Tips, FAQs, and Troubleshooting
6.1 Operating Tips
The follow are recommendations for video-editing workflow and operation of HD-
Connect LE™ with other products that may appear in your configuration.
1)
Offline/Online Workflow. While HD-Connect LE™ will allow you to use
your RS-422 controller to navigate through a tape in an HDV device, it is
best to reserve this capability for a rough look at source material rather
than for logging in and out points for later batch capture. Due to the
GOP (Group Of Pictures) structure of MPEG video and the transport
limitations of HDV devices, navigation can be quite choppy compared to
navigation through a tape on an RS-422-controlled deck. Timecode
reporting issues (see
Using the Control Application/Control Operations
)
make the logging of inpoints and outpoints problematic. For both ease
of clip logging and frame-accuracy in the final captured clips, it may be
better to capture an entire tape at a low resolution, decompose the
captured material through an editing application into clips that will be a
part of the final project, and then capture just those clips again at the
desired final resolution
Two scenarios illustrate this approach. In the first, the DV scenario,
material from source tapes is captured directly using a DV editing
application and the DV output from an HDV device. In the second, the
SDI scenario, source material is captured instead from one of the SDI
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