use noise reduction when recording or playing a SMPTE sync track.
8. Click on “Stop Writer” to stop the SMPTE code. You are now set to
begin recording the SMPTE stripe.
9. Take the tape deck out of pause. Allow the tape to pre-roll for at least
10 seconds. This pre-roll gives the tape transport time to stabilize and
get past the most dropout-prone area of the tape, the beginning. Click
on the “Start Writer” button to start generating time code.
10. Continue recording several minutes of SMPTE stripe. Naturally, you
will need a stripe that is longer than the piece you are going to sync.
It is safer to record a stripe that is too long than too short — you can
always record over the end of a long stripe.
11. When done recording the stripe, click on the Remote Control soft-
ware’s “Stop Writer” button to stop generating time code.
12. Take your tape recorder out of record.
13. Rewind your tape to just before where you started recording the sync
stripe.
That’s it-that’s all there is to recording a SMPTE stripe. You now have a
SMPTE stripe to sync to.
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