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Grass Valley PROFILE FAMILY v.2.5 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Using Media Manager

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Profile Family

3. Click the

General

tab to view these properties:

- A preview frame of the clip or master to help identify it. Preview frames

are not available for MPEG masters.

- The name of the clip or master.

- How many tracks the clip or master uses for both audio and video.

- The video format, either NTSC or PAL. NTSC clips are recorded with

either drop-frame or non-drop-frame timecode.

- The compression format, either JPEG or MPEG.

- The length of the clip or master. The length is shown in timecode format:

00:00:00:00

(Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames).

- The size of the media in megabytes (MBytes).

- The date and time that the media was created and the date and time it was

last changed. The date and time the media was created or last changed is
shown in the format:

12/2/94 9:40 PM

(Month/Day/Year Hours:Minutes

AM/PM).

4. Click the

Locked

box to lock (or unlock) the media under Media Manager.

Clips and masters with the locked attribute cannot be renamed, deleted, or
modified in any way.

If the

Read Only Media

box is checked, it means that the media is protected

under VdrPanel and cannot be deleted or rerecorded, but you can change
marks. See “Setting Clip Protection” on page 195.

5. Click the

Transcode

tab to view the transcode history (shown in Figure 55)

for the master or clip. Each entry on the history page contains the date and
time of the conversion, user description, target format, and when applicable,
data rate, chrominance value, and GOP structure.