Performing The Auto Conform - Akai DD1500 User Manual

18 - UTILITIES - RS422 - AUTO CONFORM

PERFORMING THE AUTO CONFORM

To start the auto conform process, press the REC/# key. You will see this screen display:
Pressing AUTO CONFORM will give this screen display:
The fields are as follows:
FROM REEL
RECORD HANDLE
RECORD MINIMUM GAP
CONFORM FROM
Once these parameters have been set, you can proceed with the auto conform process
by pressing the flashing EXECUTE key. If you wish to abort the process, press EXIT.
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Here you may select which reel you will conform from. The
usual selection will be ALL but you may choose specific
reels if you are only performing a partial auto conform. For
example, you may only wish to conform the cues from Reel
3. When NUMBER is selected, a field to the right allows
you to type in the reel number you wish to conform from.
Most recordings made on location are usually longer than
what actually gets used in the final EDL. The RECORD
HANDLE field allows you to add some time either side of
the cue to give you some leeway with editing later
(trimming, setting fade up/down, overlaps, etc.). If you think
that you may need some extra time either side of the cues,
then you should set a value here. Setting a value, for
example, of 00:00:05:00.00 (i.e. 5 seconds) will add 5
seconds to the start and end of every cue.
This sets the length of time between two cues that will be
conformed before the DD1500 considers it one cue. For
example, there may be a large portion of a source reel that
is used at different times in the master edl, but
interspersed with gaps of a few seconds which are not
used. Setting this parameter to greater than the size of
these gaps will cause the DD1500 to make a single
recording of a large chunk of the source reel instead of
several shorter recordings. This saves machine locating
time during the conform process at the cost of recording a
small amount of extra unwanted audio.
Here you may choose for the audio to be loaded from
either the source tapes using the SOURCE times from the
EDL or the master tape using the DESTINATION times
from the EDL. DESTINATION is particularly useful for
conforming in audio from a dump tape produced from a
non-linear video editor as described earlier.
Version 2.00 - March, 1996