Tapes Panel - Telestream Lightspeed Live Capture User Manual

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Tapes Panel

The Tapes panel enables you to create tape names and add them to the list. You can
then associate clips with the names of the tapes where they originated. Do this by
selecting a tape before selecting Log to log a clip or drag a clip from the Clip Log onto a
tape to make the association.
+ (Plus)—Opens the Configure Tape dialog. Enter the name of the tape and click Save
to save (or Cancel to cancel) the new tape to the Tapes list.
Click Edit to view and modify tape details. Click Delete to delete the tape. Deleting a
tape deletes the associated logged clips. Deleting all tapes deletes all logged clips.
If Create New File When Servo Re-locks is enabled and Ignore Frames When Servo is
Not Locked is disabled, the system may create unwanted (unlocked) frames at the
end of output files.
If Create New File on Discontinuity is enabled and Ignore Frames When Servo is Not
Locked is also enabled, the result may be an output file that contains a discontinu-
ous timecode, even though Create New File on Discontinuity is enabled and the
timecode was always incrementing. This occurs because of the system ignoring
frames, regardless of the timecode, while the servo is unlocked. With this configura-
tion, the frames captured during the period when the servo was unlocked are
excluded from the output. New frames are added to the file when the servo re-
locks, which causes the output file to have discontinuous timecode. To avoid this
scenario, enable the Create New File When Servo Relocks option. In this state the re-
lock of the servo starts a new file where the discontinuity in the output file would
have been.
As described above, repeating timecodes are counted as discontinuities. Most VTRs
repeat timecodes when the servo is unlocked; therefore, if Ignore Frames When
Servo is Not Locked is disabled and Create New File on Discontinuity is enabled, the
result may be many single frame files while the servo is unlocked. This won't hap-
pen if Ignore Frames When Servo is Not Locked is enabled.
With many VTRs, particularly an SRW-5800, there may be gray frames after the
servo re-locks. Timecode for these frames is often invalid. Because the system is
only able to respond to the status the VTR provides, it won't detect and exclude
gray frames.
No two passes of the same section of tape are likely to be identical. This occurs
because the VTR can sometimes take longer than others to lock the servo after the
control track is detected. Therefore, it is important to check the logs to verify
whether the servo was locked while a specific frame was captured.
For previous users of Telestream's Pipeline tape capture product, enabling all three
settings above provide the cleanest results and the closest to what Pipeline did.
Trash—Click trash to delete all tapes from the tape list.
Modify—The modify (three dots) button opens a dialog to edit or delete the tape.
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