FOCUS Enhancements MX-4DV About This User Guide, Introduction, Quick Start, Installing MX-4 DV

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MX-4 DV USER GUIDE CHAPTER 1

ABOUT THIS USER GUIDE

This User Guide contains the chapters, appendixes, and other sections shown in the following table.

Table 1: User Guide Contents

CHAPTER	DESCRIPTION
Chapter 1	Basic overview of MX-4 DV features, description of
Introduction	package contents, description of manual.
Chapter 2	Brief steps to setting up MX-4 DV with your equip-
Quick Start	ment. Provided for people quite familiar with connect-
	ing video equipment.
Chapter 3	Instructions for setting up MX-4 DV to work with
Installing MX-4 DV	your video equipment.
Chapter 4	Explains most common procedures and functions used
Basic Operations	with MX-4 DV.
Chapter 5	Complete description of and instructions for using
Transitions	MX-4 DV transitions. Also see Appendix A, Transi-
	tions List.
Chapter 6	How to use various effects with video input material.
Input Effects
Chapter 7	Descriptions of and instructions for using MX-4 DV’s
Functions	built-in functions.
Chapter 8	Instructions for using the picture-in-picture functions.
PIPs
Chapter 9	How to create composed images consisting of rectan-
Compose	gles, lines, still images, and/or moving images.
Chapter 10	Instructions for creating chromakey images where spe-
Chromakey	cific colors (such as a blue screen) can be keyed out
	and replaced with a video sequence or other image.
Chapter 11	How to use MX-4 DV’s Learn Mode for “recording”
Learn Mode	your mixing steps then playing them back.
Chapter 12	How to use audio sources (tapes, CDs, and so forth)
Working with Audio	with MX-4 DV.
Chapter 13	Descriptions of operations used infrequently, but still
Advanced Operations	of substantial use for mixing video programs.
Appendix A	Complete list of transitions available with MX-4 DV,
Transitions List	along with their assigned code numbers and descrip-
	tions.
Appendix B	Explains the time-base corrector feature built into
Time Base Corrector	MX-4 DV.
Appendix C	Discusses issues concerning the level of quality in vid-
Video Quality	eos — that is, what to expect and what you can do to
	improve quality.