Striping Tapes
In order to use Edit to Tape, you must first record black and timecode on your tape, in a process called striping, or recording black and code.What striping does is feed black video, and silent audio, from Final Cut to your deck, so you can record it to tape. (FYI, Final Cut doesn't supply timecode to the tape; timecode signals are actually created by your deck. Final Cut simply tells your deck to generate and record timecode on the tape.) The benefits to striping your tapes are: You have continuous timecode from beginning to end of the tapeno timecode breaks. If you are recycling an old tape, all old program material is erased. Unlike simply recording a tape with a lens cap on the camera, you record audio black, not extraneous room noise. On high-end DV decks (you know if you have one because they cost close to $8000) and professional Betacam videotape decks, you can preset the timecode so it starts at a specific timemost often, 00:58:20:00.
Now there is a raging debate (well, OK, a few of us are kicking the idea around) that striping tapes may not be beneficial to everyone all the time.So, here's my take on the issue: I stripe tapes to be shot by an inexperienced cameraperson. I will not stripe a tape being shot by a professional cameraperson. I stripe all tapes that I use for final output of my projects.
Here's how to stripe a tape:
| 1. | Connect your deck and be sure that Final Cut Pro can control it. | | 2. | Put in a blank tape. Be sure the little record-lockout slider is set to Record. | | 3. | Choose File > Edit to Tape. | | 4. | Click the small square at the top center that looks like a squashed centipede. (It's supposed to be a film frame.) | | 5. | Current Settings matches the video output to the tape to the current video settings of your Timeline. To send a different video format to the tape, select it from the pop-up menu. These settings vary depending upon which deck and capture card you are using. DV NTSC 48 kHz is the DV standard for North America; DV PAL 48 kHz is the default for the rest of the world. A second dialog appears if you have a deck that allows presetting timecode (which includes virtually all Beta decks and very high-end DV decks). Presetting allows you to specify the starting timecode for the tape, as well as whether you want it to be drop-frame or non-drop-frame. If you can set timecode, a good number to use is 00:58:20:00. You'll understand why in the next exercise.Virtually no DV camera or deck allows presetting timecode. In this case, all timecode starts at 0:00:00:00. Also, virtually all DV timecode is drop-frame. | | 6. | This dialog appears, giving you one last warning that you are about to erase everything on your tape. When you click OK, the recording starts automatically. | | 7. | In the event you need to abort the recording, this dialog reminds you to press the Esc key. Otherwise, let the tape record completely. When it's finished, Final Cut will rewind to the beginning of the tape. |
 |
لطفا منتظر باشید ...
