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# About Working with Multi-Format Input and Output

You can work with clips of any resolution in your project. You can process images of differing resolutions in Smoke. The video I/O procedures that you perform to input and output clips to and from Smoke using a VTR, as well as capture and assemble EDLs, are not restricted to your project's default resolution. You can input and output clips of another video resolution to and from your project.

Keep track of the different resolutions and video standards to which your clips belong to make it easier to work in the mixed resolution environment of Smoke. Enable clip information display on the EditDesk and in the clip library to identify clip resolution and frame rate at a glance. See General Preferences.

On start-up, when you select or create a user and a project, you set the video I/O timing for your project (for example, NTSC or PAL). If you are in a session and you want to change the video I/O timing option set at start-up, you can do so without exiting Smoke by selecting the required timing from the VTR Timing box, provided this timing is supported by your video board.

You can also change the preview timing in the Preferences menu. The preview timing in the Preferences menu is linked to the Clip Input menu. In other words, when you change preview timing in the Preferences menu, the change is reflected in the Clip Input menu. This lasts for the duration of the current session, or until you change the preview timing again.

To be able to output to a VTR that has the timing that matches your new clip timing, you need to change the corresponding audio, video, and RS-422 connections to the VTR. See Configuring Hardware For Clip Input and Output Using a VTR.