Setting And Using Smpte Frame Rates; Setting And Using The Midi Format - OPCODE STUDIO 4 Instruction

PART 2: Using The Studio 4
Studio 4 will cease to generate SMPTE
timecode when the Stop Striping button
is clicked (or when the Stop field value is
reached and the Stop check box is
checked).
NOTE: The Stop check box must be
checked BEFORE clicking the Start Strip-
ing button. If you check the Stop check box
AFTER clicking Start Striping, then strip-
ing will not stop automatically.
As an example, let's say you wanted to
stripe a tape with exactly 33 minutes of
time code, and you wanted this stripe to
begin at 1 hour SMPTE time. You would
type 01:00:00:00 into your Start field,
check the Stop check box, enter
01:33:00:00 into your Stop field, roll tape,
and press the Start Striping button.
SETTING AND USING SMPTE
FRAME RATES
Figure 10.4: Setting SMPTE Frame Rate
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You can choose one of five SMPTE frame
rates from the Frame Rate pop-up menu.
When you click the Start Striping but-
ton, the chosen rate is generated within
the Studio 4 and sent to the SMPTE OUT
jack. The following is a brief description
of the various SMPTE frame rates.
• 24 Frame: Film frame rate.
• 25 Frame: EBU (European) television
frame rate.
• 29.97 Drop Frame: NTSC color televi-
sion frame rate.
• 29.97 Non-Drop: Used to sync to
NTSC color television without drop-
ping frames. SMPTE time does not
match real-time, but playback pitch is
unaffected.
• 30 Non-Drop: Original NTSC black
and white television standard. Often
used in audio-only situations since
there are no dropped frames and the
SMPTE time is equal to real time.
SETTING AND USING THE MIDI
FORMAT
Figure 10.5: Setting MIDI Format
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