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If you have enabled device control, you can specify, by time stamp, 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 identifies the portions of tape you want to encode.
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. If the tape is not prestriped, then the device will generate a new time code every time you set up an EDL for the device.