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■ TUTORIAL: CAPTURING TO YOUR AVID

Tutorial: Capturing to Your Avid

For many editors, the process of capturing is overlooked because although we edit

almost every day, capturing is a prelude to that process. I’ve even heard from new edi-

tors who claim that they cannot capture—it’s too technical. Actually, you get used to

all the bells and whistles of the Capture tool. Over time, you recognize all the settings

and the problems that they cause. As a result, proficiency on the Capture tool will be

gained through time and experience. If you can use the Capture functions efficiently,

you will have more time to edit. Isn’t that the whole idea of modern day nonlinear

tools? Try out some of the options and see which best fits your workflow.

Now that you’ve learned how to capture, we’ll begin a short tutorial and go

over it again. This particular tutorial is a little difficult to follow because Free DV and

Xpress Pro do not have the exact same capture options. At any rate, I’ll point them out

as we go, so that you can learn to capture most efficiently.

Connecting the Peripherals

To start, you need to turn off your computer and connect all your peripherals.

Capturing with Mojo

If you have Mojo (Xpress Pro only), connect it directly to the FireWire port on your

computer using a cable with duplicate six-pin connectors. One end goes to the “Host”

connection on the back of the Mojo. The other end goes to your FireWire six-pin con-

nector on the computer. Next, you need to connect a four-pin FireWire cable to your

camera or deck and the “DV” connector on the Mojo.

If your drives are also FireWire, be sure that you connect them to a separate

FireWire card. If you try to connect both the Mojo and your drives to the same FireWire

bus, they will not work correctly.

What is a FireWire bus? When your computer has one or more internal FireWire

connections, they are said to be on the same bus. Adding an additional PCI FireWire

card adds a separate bus. Thus, you can connect Mojo to the computer bus and any

external drives to the FireWire card.

Next, turn on the deck and insert your first tape. Then boot up the computer

and start the Xpress Pro application. Jump ahead to the “Configuring the Deck or

Camera” section that follows.

Note: When using Mojo, always connect it to the computer’s built-in FireWire.This way, the computer

will recognize the Mojo first,and no additional issues will occur when using both Mojo and external FireWire

drives.

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