Before archiving to VTR, do the following:
- 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.
If you are working with an HD board and you selected the 1920x1080 video timing option in the Video Timing box when you started
your project, you should specify the exact 1080 line video timing (including framerate) that you are using in the 1080 Video
Timing box in the Engineering menu.
To create a VTR archive:
- Insert a striped tape with continuous non-drop-frame timecode in the VTR.
- In Flame, select .
- Select the VTR from the list of Local Devices.
- Optional: Click Engineering and set Engineering options, and then return to the MediaHub.
NoteWhen you open an archive in read/write mode, play delay and pre- and postroll values are verified and set in the auto test
run before archiving begins. Therefore, you do not need to set these options.
- Click New Archive and enter the required information.
NoteIf you create the archive on a tape that already contains material, make sure you define the length of the archive as the
space you want the archive to use, not the length of the tape.
- Click Format to ready the tape to receive the contents you will archive.
The new archive is created on the VTR tape and opens automatically in the MediaHub.
- Drag and drop clips from the Media Panel to the archive, or click Archive Project to archive the whole project.
- Click Close Archive to commit the clips and files to tape.
TipWrite down the archive name and creation date on the tape label. This will help you to locate the appropriate table of contents
file if you need to restore your archive.
About the Listed VTR
Only those VTRs with a timing that matches the video timing are available for use in the MediaHub. When you want to archive
or restore clips of multiple resolutions in one project, enable the VTR lines in the VTR keyword of the configuration file
for all the resolutions you use on the project. This way, each time you change the video timing for archiving, the compatible
VTR is available in MediaHub.
When you archive to a VTR, only clips with a resolution compatible with the selected VTR device are archived. If you select
a set of clips of differing resolutions, only the compatible clips are archived. Clips that are not compatible are greyed
out in the library.
Browse for Archives.
