FOCUS Enhancements FS-3 manual NEW File Formats, Pinnacle AVI

FireStore FS-3 User Guide Addendum

1.0 NEW FILE FORMATS

FireStore FS-3 now includes additional file formats in the REC FORMAT menu; PINNACLE AVI, 24p AVI Type 2 and 24p QuickTime. To navigate to REC FORMATS, select MENU - > REC FORMAT from the FS-3 menu. The following list of formats now appears (new file formats have been underlined):

RAW DV AVI TYPE 1 AVI TYPE 2 24P AVI TYPE 2 CANOPUS AVI MATROX AVI PINNACLE AVI QUICKTIME 24P QUICKTIME AVID OMF

1.1 Pinnacle AVI

Once you have finished a Pinnacle recording session, do the following:

1.From the FireStore SETUP MENU, select

ORGANIZE PINN.

2.You will be asked "ORGANIZE PINNACLE CLIPS? Select YES.

3.It is now possible to remove the disk drive from FireStore to begin editing.

The Pinnacle AVI file format was created for use with products such as Pinnacle Liquid Edition. The Pinnacle AVI file format creates three files simultaneously during a recording; an AVI video

file and two separate WAV audio files labeled as left and right. An additional "Edition.ale" file per recording session is also created which contains timecode data. This file must be kept with the media. See below:

When used with Pinnacle applications such as those listed above, it is possible to use the clips directly in the Pinnacle timeline without first having to convert the clips or extract audio from the AVI file. In order to import clips into the Pinnacle application, use the Pinnacle import media files function.

Once clips have been imported into Liquid Edition, an Index file is created on the disk drive per clip. Do not delete this file as it is required to continue work in the particular project.

See below:

NOTE: For products such as Pinnacle DV500, DV500 Plus and ProONE, use the AVI TYPE 2 file format. For Pinnacle CineWave, use the QUICKTIME file format.

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