Apple Soundtrack Pro 3 - Manual (Page 523)

7 Plug in and turn on your blackburst generator.
8 Turn on your deck.
9 If you’re using Soundtrack Pro or Final Cut Pro to control your camcorder or deck, make
sure that the device control switch on your VTR is set to Remote.
For more information about VTR settings, see the documentation that came with your
VTR and your video interface.
For information about synchronizing Soundtrack Pro to an external video deck or audio
recorder, see
Synchronizing Soundtrack Pro to External Timecode .
Note: Some broadcast-quality video output devices receive both the video and audio
from a project. When you use a video output device that supports both video and audio
output, Soundtrack Pro automatically routes your audio output to this device to provide
the best possible synchronization of the audio and video.
Connecting Professional Component Analog Video Devices
The most prevalent component analog video format still in use today is Betacam SP. It is
an SD video format, but because it is analog, your video interface must have
analog-to-digital converters to digitize the analog signal before encoding it and writing
a digital media file to the computer hard disk. Unlike digital capture interfaces,
analog-to-digital interfaces often allow you to adjust luma and chroma levels (using
controls in the Final Cut Pro Log and Capture window) when you digitize.
The steps for connecting an analog VTR to a video interface are essentially the same as
for digital SD and HD devices. The main difference is that you need to make three physical
connections, one for each of the three analog video components: Y, R-Y, and B-Y (also
called YUV or Y
′
C
B
C
R
, depending on the country and the specifics of the format). For more
information, see the Final Cut Pro User Manual. To connect equipment, see Connecting
Professional SD Video Devices .
Connecting Consumer Analog Video Devices
If you want to digitize video from an analog consumer format, such as VHS or 8 mm video,
you need a video interface that has an analog composite video input. Also, older consumer
decks rarely support remote device control, which means you can’t remotely control the
deck or capture timecode from these formats. If you need the ability to recapture the
video accurately using timecode, it’s often easiest to dub (copy) the video to a digital
format like DV, or a professional format you are using for your project.
There are fairly inexpensive capture interfaces that can accept an analog composite input
and convert it to a DV video signal transferred via FireWire. Some more expensive interfaces
may also accept an analog component input.
523 Appendix C Working with Professional Video and Audio Equipment