Grass Valley Zodiak v.6.0 Mar 15 2006 - Manual (Page 432)

432 Zodiak — User Manual
Section 5 — System Operation
Figure 294. Still Store Menu, Clip Thumbnail Frame Selected
Looping Clip Playback
Looping can be used to repeat playback of a section of material in a clip.
1. With the clip loaded to a Still Store output and that output delegated,
touch
Show Details , then touch the Loop data pad bring up the loop
controls.
2. Using the Jog Time soft knob or the Jog Forward and Jog Back buttons, go
to the first frame to be looped and press Loop To .
3. Go to the last frame to be looped and press Loop From .
4. Set the number of repetitions of the loop with the Count soft knob. The
first play through is not included in this number, so for example if you
want the clip to play three times enter the number
2 . Entering any
negative value creates an endless loop.
5. Touch Save to save the clip with the modifications.
Selecting Loop Points
To avoid jumps at the loop point, the original source material (a graphics
animation, for example) needs to have motion that repeats. In some cases
the entire animation is designed to loop, in which case the
Loop To point will
match the begin point, and the Loop From point will match the end point. In
other cases, the animation is designed with a non-looping head and/or tail,