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■ DIGITAL CUT

To the right of the blinking light is a blue Stop button. When recording or pre-

viewing a digital cut, you can click this button to stop the process (you can also press

the Escape key on your keyboard).

The yellow button is used to preview your digital cut. If you are inserting the

sequence onto a tape that already has materials on it, it is highly recommended that

you preview the digital cut. It is better, in fact, if you try the digital cut on a blank tape

first. There is nothing like that all-is-lost post-apocalyptic feeling that you get when

you’ve ruined a master tape. If it has never happened to you before, trust us, it’s not

pretty. When you do this preview, you want to monitor the output of the deck, not the

output of the Avid. Monitoring the deck will show you what the preroll and postroll

will look like. And take one more moment to make sure you are not assemble editing.

Below the buttons is a Target Device pull-down menu. If you are using a remote-

controlled deck with FireWire, this would normally be OHCI. This menu lists all the

target device types that are currently connected. If it is grayed-out, Xpress Pro doesn’t

see your deck. If you’re doing a crash edit in Local mode, it normally would be

grayed-out.

Below that are two check boxes. Select the top one if you are indeed outputting

your entire sequence. If not, leave it deselected and be sure to mark your in and out

marks on the sequence. The second check box is for adding black at the tail of your

digital cut. If you’re doing an assemble edit or controlling the deck locally, this is espe-

cially important. An assemble edit ends by stopping the deck in a crash record mode,

so you’ll want to add plenty of black at the tail to keep the sequence looking smooth

for a while after the sequence has played. Usually 30 seconds is good. Some tape dupli-

cation facilities require two minutes of black after program end. Look at it this way: If

your sequence will be played back in a conference room, and some manager type is

doing a presentation around it, there very well could be a minute or more before the

manager stops the tape.

You might also consider adding some black at the tail if you are doing an insert

edit. Even if the tape already has black on it, often the level of black doesn’t match the

output of your Xpress Pro. As a result, the end of the sequence, which normally fades

to black, could look like a glitch where Xpress Pro stops recording and the black from

Figure 6.29 Digital

Cut control buttons

Preview

Record

Record Indicator

Stop

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