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Setting up an EDL

If you have enabled the device control feature, you can specify, by timestamp, the exact place within your audio or video content that you want encoding to begin and end. To do so, you must create an edit decision list (EDL), which contains the clips you want to encode. (To enable device control, the device must be connected to the computer either through an IEEE 1394 port or through a COM port using a VTR that supports the Sony RS422 protocol.)

It is not recommended that you use an EDL for a broadcast because the encoder requires extra time to seek to the EDL points during encoding. During a broadcast, this could cause excessive buffering on a player.

You can add as many EDL entries as you want in any order—not necessarily in the order in which they occur in the tape. You can also set up an EDL that sources from multiple tapes. During the encoding session, the encoder will prompt you when it is time to change the tape.

You should use a prestriped tape when setting up an EDL. To prestripe a tape, you can record the tape continuously from beginning to end when you first buy the tape. This ensures that the time code in the tape is continuous.

When setting up an EDL, you can control the seeking speed of your device (from slowest to fastest). Your device may not support all of the speeds.

When setting up an EDL, you can control the following:

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