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# Before You Begin

Perform the following preparatory steps:

- Prepare striped tapes for each resolution. The tapes must be striped continuous non-drop-frame timecode.
- If the tapes already have material on them, figure out the start timecode for the archive.
- Determine if your archive requires multiple tapes.
- Make sure your VTR is in TC (Timecode) timer mode.