MacroSystem Pro-Pack User Manual

User manual

Pro-Pack

3rd edition

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Content

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1. General information.......................................................................................... 3

2. Installation / Starting the program................................................................... 3

3. Functions............................................................................................................ 4

3.1 Project Settings screen ......................................................................... 4

3.2 Record screen........................................................................................ 4

3.3 Edit screen ............................................................................................. 5

3.4 Finish screen.......................................................................................... 7

3.5 Transitions screen ................................................................................. 7

3.6 I.P. Effects screen................................................................................... 8

3.7 Titling screen ......................................................................................... 10

3.8 Audio Record / Edit screen ................................................................... 11

3.9 Audio Mix screen .................................................................................. 12

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1. General information

Thank you for purchasing the Pro-Pack!

We appreciate the trust you have placed in our

company and our products and hope that this

package will full all of your expectations.

With the Pro-Pack software, your system will

become much more powerful and efcient (the

individual features of this software package

are explained in the Functions section of this

manual).

This manual will help you with the installation

and the application of the Pro-Pack.

We are available for further questions and

suggestions about future improvements.

Whenever you contact us, please have your
customer number or the serial number of your
device at hand so that we can help you more
quickly.

Address :
MacroSystem Digital Video AG
Postfach 020240
58290 Wetter
Germany

MacroSystem US
5485 Conestoga Court
Boulder, Colorado
USA 80301

Phone

0 +49 (0)2335/960-0 (Germany)
303-440-5311 (North America)

E-Mail

[e-mail] (Germany)
[e-mail] (North America)

Fax

0 +49 (0)2335/960-100 (Germany)
303-440-5322 (North America)

Up-to-date information on MacroSystem pro­ducts and our sales department can be found on
the Internet.

Please visit our Websites:

http://www.macrosystem.de (Germany)
http://www.macrosystem-enterprise.de
http://www.macrosystem.us (North America)

Phone Support

If you have special technical questions, you can
call our technical support hotline:

(North America)
Monday - Friday 9a.m. - 5p.m. (Mountain Stan­dard Time)
303-801-1010

Outside of these times you can email or fax us.
Messages received in this way are handled du­ring business hours.

E-Mail Support

[e-mail] (Germany)
[e-mail] (North America)
[e-mail] (N.A.)
[e-mail] (N .A.)

Fax Support

+49 (0)2335/960-110 (Germany)
303-801-1058 (North America)

2. Installation / Starting the
program

Leave your system switched on and, in the

System settings menu, press the Install product

button to open the corresponding window. If

you are installing from a SmartMedia card,

insert it into the drive. When you insert the card,

make sure the gold-colored contacts are facing

downwards and the beveled corner is at the

front left, i.e. pointing towards the device.

If the Pro-Pack software is supplied on a CD/DVD

and your system is equipped with a DVD drive

and the DVD-Arabesk software, you should open

the drive tray and insert the CD/DVD into the

DVD burner.

If you are installing from a CD/DVD, you might

hear clearly audible sounds coming from the

drive – this indicates that the system is reading

the CD/DVD.

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In a moment you will see the Pro-Pack software

listed in the Install product window. Select it

from the list and click on Activate / License.

After a short time a numerical keypad appears.

You can use it to enter the license code that you

purchased from your dealer. A message will

then inform you that the installation process

has completed. You can now take out the

SmartMedia card or CD/DVD.

3. Functions

3.1 Project Settings screen

Notice that the items in the project settings have

been reordered.

After you have clicked on OK, the name of the

project you selected will be displayed next to the

Select button (e.g., P1).

If you want to rename the project, click on the

project’s current name (P1) and a keyboard will

appear, enabling you to enter a different name

for it.

It’s important to remember that you can only

edit the project that’s currently active.

Exchanging video and audio data between diffe-

rent projects is possible using the Clipboard fea-

ture in the Edit screen. You always have access

to archived titles and colors.

For further information please read chapter 3.3

Edit screen and 3.8 Audio Redord/Edit screen.

The Format button provides different settings.

In addition to the normal 4:3 formats, the system

also offers a 16:9 Anamorphic mode.

The three standard options for selecting projects

have been replaced by the Select button.

Clicking on it opens the Select project box,

where you can select from up to thirty different

projects:

The option means the 16:9 mode anamorphic

and contains 576 picture lines.

16:9 is set when starting the project. This special

mode works only if both camcorder and TV con-

form to the 16:9 standard. It might be necessary

to manually switch the TV monitor to 16:9. If the

TV is not switched, then SMART EDIT uses the

standard display 4:3.

16:9 display is possible regardless of the format

in which the video source has been recorded.

3.2 Record screen

A new Mode button has also been added to

the Record screen. It offers you three recording

options:

• Normal for standard recording.

• Time enables you to determine the exact

recording length (the recording automatically

stops).

• Photo is for still images. Your system records

material for approximately half a second, which

is then automatically looped for the clip length

that you’ve set with the Time controller.

The setting Photo is appropriate for single i-

cker-free pictures.

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changes.

Scenes recorded prior to that may require a

longer time period for the automatic split.

The splitted scenes will appear in the scene bin.

The Insert, Range, Split and Trim toolbars

now include a button with speaker icon; this is

the Waveform button. When you click on it, a

Waveform display appears.

The Time slider is activated by the modes Time

and Photo.

The Time mode allows setting the duration for

the still scene up to 100 minutes.

In Photo mode you can set the duration of the

still scene up to one minute.

You can interrupt the recording any point (even

if you’ve preset a recording time) by pressing

the Stop button.

3.3 Edit screen

If your system is equipped with the DV option,

you’ll see the Auto button in the Split function.

When capturing via FireWire from a camera-

original tape, you can capture the full tape and

then click once on Auto and the system will split

the scene instantly into smaller clips.

The video scene that you have lmed most

recently is split up very quickly according to shot

This display represents sound over a period of

time, whereas the height of the curve shows the

different volume levels (the higher the curve,

the greater the volume) and the width shows the

period of time expired. A black, vertical position

marker indicates your current frame position

(this position marker is also displayed while you

scroll through the scene or the audio le).

If the Waveform is on, you’ll also be able to

hear your scene’s audio while you’re scrolling

through it. Depending upon the scrolling speed,

you will hear it faster or slower than it was

recorded (“scrubbing”).

If you select the In, Out or Split Position buttons

and if you do not move the trackball for half a

second, the Waveform will automatically replay

(a vertical bar shows the current position of the

playback).

When you’re trimming the beginning of a scene

(In), the black position marker will be on the left

of the display. When you’re trimming the end of

a scene (Out), the black position marker will be