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— Use deck autoedit: If supported by your video deck, this is the best method to record video to the deck, as it enables the deck to roll the edit using the specified preroll, and control the edits via serial device control. If this checkbox is turned off, a basic edit On/Off mode is used by the deck, with the potential for frame inaccuracies if the “Non auto edit timing” setting is not properly adjusted.
— Non auto edit timing: Adjusts the edit synchronization of the connected deck when auto edit is turned off.
— Deck preroll: Sets the number of seconds for preroll. How much is appropriate depends on the performance of your deck.
— Video output sync source: When using a DeckLink card this is set to Auto. Other capture cards may require you to set the sync source to “Reference” for playout and “Input” for ingest. This setting is only available if you have a DVS card installed on your system.
— Add 3:2 pulldown: Inserts or removes the 3:2 pulldown required to record or play 23.98 fps media to or from a 29.97 tape format.
Capture
These settings are used when you use the Capture mode in the Media page to capture clips from tape into the Media Pool.
— Capture: Lets you choose whether to capture both Video and Audio, or Video Only.
— Video Format: The format that scanned film frames are saved as. When capturing from tape, the available options are DPX and QuickTime. When capturing from the Cintel film scanner, this is
restricted to Cintel Raw Image (CRI), which is a raw data format that DaVinci Resolve automatically debayers as a Cineon log-encoded image for grading.
— Codec: The codec used to write captured media. When capturing from tape, these include the various type of Apple ProRes, 8- and 10-bit YUV 422, 10-bit RGB, and the various types of DNxHD. Cintel Raw Image files default to rgb.
— Save clips to: A field that displays the directory path to which media files captured from tape are written. You want to choose a volume that’s fast enough to accommodate the data rate of the media format you’re capturing.
— Browse: Click this button to choose a directory to write captured media to. The directory you choose appears in the field above.
— Save in this folder path: A series of checkboxes let you specify what other information to use to define the directory hierarchy that will hold the captured media. Every checkbox you turn on adds an additional directory with a name defined by that checkbox’s metadata. You can choose any or all of the following: Program name, Clip number, Reel number, and Roll/Card.
— Apply reel number to: Lets you choose how to write the reel name. Two checkboxes let you write the reel number to the file’s name, and/or to the Header data.
— Use prefix: A field lets you type in a prefix to be used in the media file’s name. This lets you add text identification that will make the media more easily identifiable and searchable.
— Apply prefix to: Two checkboxes let you choose to use the prefix you typed in the file name, and/ or in the folder name.