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UTILITIES - RS422 - AUTO CONFORM - 18
A typical name given to a cue may be something like "03 0012A1", i.e. reel 3 (03), edit 12
(0012) on track A1. Note that four characters are available for the reel name and four for
the edit number.
Unfortunately there is no standard for the way reels are numbered. Some people use reel
numbers longer than four digits and some put the significant digits to the left (i.e. 300000)
and others to the right (000003). In the first example, when you are conforming from
several reels, labelled 100000, 200000, 300000, 400000, etc., you must select USE
UPPER PORTION so that the DD1500 would label cues correctly (1000, 2000, 3000,
4000, etc.). However, in the case where the reels are numbered 000001, 000002,
000003, you must select USE LOWER PORTION to produce the correct reel labels (0001,
0002, 0003, 0004, etc.). It will be clear from the labels on the actual source reels which
reel name convention you should use!
Those of you familiar with the DD1500 style of editing will be aware that it is possible to
copy an edit to a clipboard, say from tracks 1-4, and then paste it back in on tracks 5-8.
You can consider the IMPORT process as importing an EDL into an invisible clipboard and
then immediately pasting it into the current project on the tracks selected for edit, but with
the imported cues being pasted in at their original times, rather than relative to the NOW
time as is usual. For example, when editing, you may cut out a four track section to paste
elsewhere. The original tracks may have been on tracks 3 - 6 but, when you come to
paste them back in, you could, if you wish, paste them on tracks 1-4 or 5-8 - you could
even paste them back in on tracks 1 and 2 and 5 and 7. So with importing EDLs - you use
the track edit keys to dictate which DD1500 tracks the imported audio will be placed on.
As we have seen with the earlier description of an EDL entry, an edit will be described in
terms of standard terminology, e.g. A1234V would be a four track audio+video edit. It is
necessary to set up a mapping to tell the DD1500 which tracks in the 16 track invisible
clipboard this edit will be loaded onto. If edits in the EDL are referred to as A1234, etc.
use the ANALOGUE track mapping page, else if the edits are referred to as D1234, etc.
use the DIGITAL track mapping page.
In the case shown above, A1-4 are mapped to tracks 1-4 respectively of the invisible
clipboard, while video edits are mapped to track 16.
The DD1500 can display video edits on a spare audio track if required - this can often be a
useful reference for the operator during post production. Such "video cues" will be ignored
by the DD1500 during the conform process.
On top of all of this, however, is the fact that because video tracks can be mono or stereo,
you have the ability to nominate two tracks for A1, A2, A3, etc.. For example:
You may select 1+2 through to 15+16 for any of the EDL tracks. Furthermore, you may
specify 1-4, 5-18, 9-12 and 13-16 for four channel edits plus 1-8 and 9-16 for eight
channel edits and 1-16 for a full sixteen channel edit. How the tracks are to be mapped
should be clear from the EDL printout you should have.
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