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User manual for Cantar-X1 & X2 v2.15 2008 March 28
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SESSION 3.
Sound-Report –
Columns
User configurable, they carry take specific data.
14 Col Layout
Layout-A Layout-B Layout-C
Three operator created custom layouts can be selected;
they are stored in Cantar's memory and can be modified
by [jog]-ing through the column/field linking positions
(see SESSION.15 below). The first letter identifies which
layout (A, B or C) the selected column is modifying (e.g.,
A-Column12, B-Column12, C-Column12).
15 A-Column 02
to
29 A-Column16
[INS field] [DEL field] Blank Filetag
Scene Take TC Start TC End Duration
TC Slate A TC Slate B TC Slate C Track rank
Tracks used File Size User-bits
The column ‘01’ field carries the file recording order used
to sort the events, it is not modifiable,
To assign a different field to columns 02 to 16, press [ok]
and use the [>] or [<] to select one of the fields above.
[
DEL field
] eliminates the field assigned to the selected col-
umn and shuffles the fields on the rightside to the left; ‘
none
’
is displayed on the last column. If you want to activate a
‘
none
’ column press [ok] to change it to ‘
blank
’ then select
any field for it.
[
INS field
] inserts an empty placeholder (‘
blank
’) that can be
filled with a specified field; other fields are pushed to the right...
provided there is at least one ‘
none
’ column on the far right.
Track rank
represents Track 1 through Track 8.
Sound-Report – Delivery
Name composition
In order for the latest entries of the day to be taken into
account, the most recent report overwrites the former one.
T
wo independent PDFs are created: '
All'
contains all of
the take-types (t, p, w, a, n), '
Wild'
contains the ‘w’ takes
only. The name (max: 8 char.) of the report indicates the
treatment applied to the files.
For example,
071224AR
is made of:
•
071224,
the
YYMMDD
of the calendar day.
•
A
= all takes,
W
= wild takes only.
•
D
=
D
irect multi-mono,
N
=
N
ative poly,
R
=
R
otated poly,
X
= mi
X
er poly.
Actual generation
(see BACKUP chapter)
• Any time
Go to
BACKUP.11,
contrary to ‘Idle Report
’, ‘Snap Report’
lets you select
Dir, Nat, Rot,
or
miX
of your choice. Press
[ok] to immediately build a Sound-Report and send it to the
YY
YYMMDD.AA§
folder (§ = D, N, R, or X) on the drive(s)
in use as selected in SESSION.03.
• After ‘IdleCopy’ is finished
Before [eject]-ing the DVD-RAM or removing the external
HDD, set
BACKUP.12 ‘Idle Report’
to '
Yes
’
.
The Sound-
Report automatically carries the same ‘Dir’ ‘Nat’ ‘Rot’ ‘miX’
status as the files recorded on the backup disk. It is sent to
the YY
YYMMDD
.AA§ folder, (§ = D, N, R, or X).
• During ‘Backup@Call’
Set
BACKUP.13 ‘Run Backup’ to
'
Yes
'. The Sound-Report
automatically carries the same ‘Dir’ ‘Nat’ ‘Rot’ ‘miX’ status
as the files recorded on the backup disk. It is sent to the
YY
YYMMDD
.AA§ folder, (§ = D, N, R, or X).
Sound-Report – Notes
1
Stored in the iXML chunk of each BWF file, the operator's
comments (max: 200 char.) are used as separators in the
PDF print-out.
2
Not yet able to read the iXML chunk, the Avid MCs only
have access to the first 40 characters of the comments stored
as ‘
aNote
’ in the BWF descriptor line.
3
It takes a little more than one minute to build a twelve
page PDF report. A CSV tab-delimited text report for
spreadsheet applications is generated, as well as an ALE
list for editing machines; one ALE per matching header.
4
The paper size is unified to 21x27.2 cm, this fits both
'A4' and 'Letter' formats.
5 Warning
On Mac computers, open the PDFs with
'Preview' (Aperçu), they can’t be printed by Adobe Reader
nor Acrobat.
