Selecting a Tape
To select a source tape:
1.  Load a tape into your deck.
The Select Tape dialog box opens.
  If a tape is already in the camera or deck, click the Source Tape Display in the Capture tool.
2.  In an NTSC project, play the tape briefly so that the system can detect the timecode format of the tape (drop-frame or non-drop-frame). Otherwise, the system maintains the timecode format set in the Deck Preferences dialog box, regardless of the format on the tape, and you might receive a message indicating a wrong tape.
  Drop-frame timecode appears in the timecode indicator with semicolons between hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. Non-drop-frame timecode appears with colons. (Drop-frame and non-drop-frame timecode exist only in NTSC projects.) For more information about drop-frame and non-drop- frame timecode, see Understanding Drop-Frame and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode.
3.  Provide the system with a tape name in one of the following ways:
  Select the name of the tape from the list displayed in the Select Tape dialog box, and click OK.
  Expand the list by selecting the "Show other projects" option or by clicking the Scan for tapes button.
  Click New if the tape is not in the list. Type the new name in the dialog box, click OK, and then click OK again.

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