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# About the Auto-Capture Menu

This is the Auto-Capture menu.

(a) Device Name box(b) Material to Capture status bar(c) VTR Status display area(d) Library Reel field(e) Capture Handles field(f) Timecode fields

Device Name box
  Select the device from which you will be capturing media.
Material to Capture status bar
  Displays the time remaining for capturing the selected video and audio.
Auto-Capture button
  Click to display the capture options. From the menu that appears, select the appropriate option for the capture.

Select: | To:
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Capture This Tape | Capture clips on the currently loaded tape.
Skip This Tape | Skip the current cassette and proceed to the next tape.
Abort Capture | Abort the auto-capture.

Captured events are indicated in the event number column by an x sign.

NoteIf a clip for a selected event already exists in the clip library, it is not recaptured.

Skip Clip button
  Skips the clip being captured. The capture is aborted and the events are marked as “skipped.” The next time you click Auto-Capture, the capture is started at the first event following the skipped clip. To reset, exit and enter the Auto-Capture menu.
Multiple EDLs button
  Captures multiple EDLS.
VTR Status display area
  Displays the current status of the VTR. Different information is displayed under certain conditions. Depending on the model of the VTR, you may be able to change the Tape EE and Standby boxes. See Verifying the VTR Status.
Engineering button
  Click to display options for auto-capturing an EDL. See Setting Video Input and Output Engineering Menu Controls.
Library Reel field
  Displays the Library Reel.
Force Handles button
  Enable to ensure that the clip contains the number of handles that you want. The next time that you capture the EDL,the clips that do not have as many handles as defined in the Capture Handles field are recaptured. By default, clips are not recaptured if the specified material already exists on the reel, as defined in the Source In and Source Out entries of the EDL.
Capture Handles field
  Enter the number of extra frames to use as handles before and after the specified material. Capture handles are set by default based on the project frame code mode. If specifying more handles causes material to overlap, or if fewer than 10 frames separate events, the material is captured as a single clip.

When capturing using keycode data, if the keycode for the frames in the handles does not follow the keycode for the captured segment sequentially, then those handles are not captured.

Auto Capture button
  Enable to automatically begin capturing when you insert the tape into the VTR.
Auto Eject button
  Enable to automatically eject a tape after it has been captured. The last tape of a capture session is not ejected.